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6. Troubleshooting
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reading. Examples of situations that might cause warning messages are low memory,
entries being out of range, or operations that could result in loss of data. These messages
are generally self-explanatory.
For assistance regarding warning messages, contact your local Molecular Devices represen-
tative.
ERROR CODE CLASSIFICATIONS
Not all error messages are listed in this user guide. The errors are grouped in relationship
to possible causes as follows:
Table 6.1: SpectraMax M2 and SpectraMax M2
Error Code Numbers
100–199
200–299
300–399
400–499
500–599
Some errors (shown in boldface in the following table) are considered fatal in that if they
are detected during power up, the instrument aborts the power up sequence and displays
"FATAL ERROR" on the LCD panel.
Check the following list to see if there is something that you can do to change the condi-
tion of the instrument to prevent the fatal error. (e.g., closing the cuvette door during the
power up sequence prevents errors 111, 219, 302, and 310).
After correcting the problem, leave the instrument on for about five minutes, turn it off
and then back on.
If you continue to get the fatal error message on power up, record the error message num-
ber and contact Molecular Devices Technical Support or your local representative for
assistance.
Possible Causes
Errors possibly caused by unrecognized commands being
sent from the computer to the instrument.
Errors probably due to a main board failure or an error in the
firmware code. Most of these errors require the assistance
of Technical Support.
Instrument errors due to either a main board failure or other
system failure. Most of these errors require the assistance of
Technical Support.
Errors caused by a motor motion failure. Most of these
errors require the assistance of Technical Support.
Errors due to failure or improper initialization of the instru-
ments non-volatile memory (NVRAM). All of these errors
require the assistance of Technical Support.
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error code ranges.