Troubleshooting
Section 1
MVE466 System Board
Chapter 3: Troubleshooting
This section contains a brief series of problems and
solutions that comprise the most common questions
posed during the troubleshooting of an
bus sys-
tem board. Please review these questions before
contacting your supplier’s technical support. In addi-
tion to this section, please review the BIOS Users
Guide for additional information on BIOS generated
error messages.
S.
P.
S.
P.
S.
No video and a series of beeps.
Check the BIOS section of this manual to
identify the beep codes and follow the
procedures identified; check the video card in
a different slot and/or different computer.
Floppy light is always on.
The floppy cable was installed backwards.
Reverse the cable.
System will not boot from floppy.
Confirm the setting within the CMOS table is
correct; make sure the cable is good; make
sure there is a terminating resistor on the
floppy drive.
The IDE hard disk will not spin up.
Check the power cable and IDE cable.
The HD LED on the system board does not
operate.
Some IDE disk drives do not support the LED
function on the IDE cable. Rather they
provide an LED on the disk drive itself
an
LED connection on the disk drive. Connect
the control panel LED to the disk drive.
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