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Hardware Maintenance Manual

POST Error Message Description/Action

Primary Master Hard Disk Error The IDE/ATAPI device conﬁgured

as Primary Master/Primary Slave/

Secondary Master/Secondary Slave

could not be found or initialized.

Make sure the hard drive is correctly

installed.

Primary Slave Hard Disk Error

Secondary Master Hard Disk Error

Secondary Slave Hard Disk Error

System Halted The system has been halted. A reset

or power cycle is required to reboot

the machine. This message appears

after a fatal error has been detected.

Reboot and Select proper Boot

device or Insert Boot Media in

selected Boot device

The BIOS was unable to ﬁnd a

suitable boot device.

Make sure the boot drive is properly

connected to the computer.

Make sure you have bootable

media.

Undetermined problems

If this computer has a parallel ATA hard disk drive, make sure that the hard

disk drive is jumpered as a master and the optical drive is jumpered as a

slave.

1. Power-oﬀ the computer.

2. Remove or disconnect the following components (if installed) one at a

time.

a. External devices (modem, printer, or mouse)

b. Any adapters

c. Memory modules

d. Extended video memory

e. External Cache

f. External Cache RAM

g. Hard disk drive

h. Diskette drive

3. Power-on the computer to re-test the system.

4. Repeat steps 1 through 3 until you ﬁnd the failing device or adapter.

If all devices and adapters have been removed, and the problem

continues, replace the system board.

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