Diagnostic codes and errors ................................................................................................................................ 64
5 Updating the workstation ............................................................................................................................ 73
Upgrading the BIOS .............................................................................................................................................. 73
Upgrading device drivers ..................................................................................................................................... 74
Resetting the password jumper .......................................................................................................................... 76
Clearing and resetting the CMOS ......................................................................................................................... 77
System RAM ......................................................................................................................................................... 79
Audio .................................................................................................................................................................... 79
Network cards ...................................................................................................................................................... 80
Hyper-Threading Technology ............................................................................................................................. 80
NVIDIA Graphics Workstations ............................................................................................................................ 80
AMD Graphics Workstations ................................................................................................................................ 81
Supported RAID configurations ........................................................................................................................... 83
Configuring Intel SATA RAID ................................................................................................................................ 84
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Solving hard drive problems ............................................................................................................. 58
Solving display problems .................................................................................................................. 59
Solving audio problems .................................................................................................................... 61
Solving printer problems .................................................................................................................. 62
Testing power supply ..................................................................................................... 63
LED color definitions ......................................................................................................................... 68
POST error messages ........................................................................................................................ 68
Upgrading BIOS ................................................................................................................................. 73
Configuring system BIOS ................................................................................................................... 84