Gateway 980 User Manual page 95

Chapter 6: Troubleshooting
You receive a "Non-system disk" or "disk error" error message
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Eject the diskette from the diskette drive, then press E
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Make sure that your hard drive has an active partition. For more
information, see
Your server does not recognize an IDE drive
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Make sure that the IDE connectors are enabled in the BIOS Setup utility.
For more information, see
■ Reinstall the device driver. For more information, see
Companion
■ Use GWScan to test the hard drive. For more information, see
to troubleshoot an IDE hard drive" on page
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Open your server and make sure that the IDE cable is connected to both
the system board IDE connector and the hard drive connector. For more
information, see
Your server does not recognize a SCSI drive
■ Make sure that the SCSI controller is enabled in the BIOS Setup utility.
■ Reinstall the device driver. For more information, see
Companion
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Change the drive's SCSI address to one that is not being used by your server.
For more information about SCSI device configurations, see your drive's
documentation.
■ Run SCSI Verify in the SCSI BIOS. For more information about the SCSI
BIOS, see the SCSI controller's documentation.
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Reseat the drive.
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Open your server and reseat the drive controller card. Also make sure that
the controller card and power cables are connected to the drive. For more
information, see
controller card's documentation.
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Make sure that the power cable and SCSI cable are attached securely to
the drive.
■ Make sure that the last device on the SCSI cable is correctly terminated.
For more information about SCSI device configurations, see the device's
documentation.
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Use a different SCSI cable.
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"The master boot record is corrupted" on page
"Using the BIOS Setup Utility" on page
CD.
"Installing a SCSI hard drive" on page
CD.
"Installing PCI expansion cards" on page 47
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