Dell Inspiron 3800 System Reference Manual page 88

System Error Messages: Dell Inspiron 3800 System Reference
No boot device available
No boot sector on hard-
disk drive
No timer tick interrupt
Non-system disk or disk
error
Not a boot diskette
Optional ROM bad
checksum
Sector not found
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The computer cannot find
the diskette or hard-disk
drive.
The operating system may
be corrupted.
A chip on the system
board may be
malfunctioning.
The diskette in drive A or
your hard-disk drive does
not have a bootable
operating system installed
on it.
There is no operating
system on the diskette.
The optional ROM
apparently failed.
The operating system
cannot locate a sector on
the diskette or hard-disk
drive. You probably have a
bad sector or corrupted file
allocation table ( FAT) on
the diskette or hard-disk
drive.
If the diskette drive is your
boot device, make sure that
there is a bootable diskette
in the drive. If the hard-disk
drive is your boot device,
make sure that the drive is
installed, properly seated,
and partitioned as a boot
device.
Reinstall your operating
system. See the
documentation that came
with your operating system.
Run the System Board
Devices tests in the Dell
Diagnostics.
If you are trying to boot from
the diskette, replace it with
one that has a bootable
operating system.
Boot the computer with a
diskette that contains an
operating system.
Call Dell for technical
assistance.
Run the appropriate utility to
check the file structure on
the diskette or hard-disk
drive. If a large number of
sectors are defective, back
up the data (if possible),
and then reformat the
diskette or hard-disk drive.