Digital VENTURIS Pentium PC
Troubleshooting
MCS Logistics Engineering - Nijmegen
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Computer Troubleshooting
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Problem
Possible Cause
Action
Power is on, but
there is no
screen display
Brightness and contrast controls
are not correctly set.
The monitor-off timer has shut
the monitor off.
Monitor cable is incorrectly
installed.
Incorrect VGA drivers installed.
Video controller has failed.
Adjust the brightness and contrast controls.
Press [Shift] to reactivate monitor.
Check all monitor connections.
Install the correct VGA drivers. Refer to
“Utilities & Video Drivers”
.
Replace the video controller.
Computer
operates
incorrectly after
installing
optional
expansion
board
Expansion board installed
incorrectly.
Did not run ICU to configure
expansion board before
installation.
Expansion board has failed.
Remove expansion board and reinstall.
Run the ICU to properly configure expansion
board and then reboot the computer. Refer to the
supplied ICU documentation.
Remove expansion board and reboot. If computer
boots without errors, replace expansion board.
Computer
operates
incorrectly after
installing
optional
external cache
module
External cache module installed
incorrectly.
External cache module has
failed.
Remove external cache module and reinstall.
Replace external cache module.
Computer fails
to retain setup
information
Computer battery has failed.
Replace computer battery.
Computer does
not boot from
an internal
SCSI hard disk
drive
Operating system software is not
installed on the SCSI hard disk
drive.
Requested partition does not
exist.
Computer not configured for
SCSI hard disk drive operation.
Install the appropriate operating system on the
SCSI hard disk drive.
Partition the SCSI hard disk drive and then reload
the operating software.
Run the BIOS Setup utility and set the IDE
controller option to “Disabled”. This disables the
IDE interface.
Note:
When both IDE and SCSI hard disk drives
have been installed, the computer uses the IDE
hard disk drive as the boot device.