Expansion Cards; Hard Drive - Gateway 9510 User Manual

Chapter 7: Troubleshooting
The diskette drive LED is lit continuously
Remove the diskette from the drive. If the light stays on, try restarting your server.
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Open your server and make sure that the cables are connected correctly to the
diskette drive and the system board. The red-striped edge of the data ribbon cable
indicates Pin 1 and corresponds with Pin 1 on the diskette drive (typically on the
side farthest from the power supply connection). If necessary, reverse one end of
the cable so the red-striped edge of the data ribbon cable faces Pin 1 on the diskette
drive. Make sure that the pins are not bent or misaligned. For more information,
see "Installing drives" on page

Expansion cards

Your server does not recognize an expansion card
Restart your server.
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Make sure that you have installed the necessary software or driver. For more
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information, see the card's documentation.
Reseat the card. For more information, see
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page 69.
■ Install the card in a different slot.

Hard drive

The hard drive cannot be accessed, or you receive a "General failure reading drive C"
error message
If a diskette is in the diskette drive, eject it and restart your server by pressing the
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reset button.
Restart your server by pressing the reset button.
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Open your server and make sure that the cables are connected correctly to the hot
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swap drive cage and the system board. For more information, see
hot-swap hard drive" on page
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If your server has been subjected to static electricity or physical shock, you may
need to reinstall the operating system.
You receive a "Non-system disk" or "disk error" error message
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
"The master boot record is corrupted" on page
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