Government Polytechnic College, Coimbatore

Coimbatore - 641 014 Phone: 2595218

TROUBLE CHART

SL.NO PROBLEM SYMPTOM ACTUAL REASON

∗ SMPS fan not working
1. System is Dead No power connection to cabinet
∗ System Dead
∗ SMPS fan is working
2. System is Dead Restart Butting is Jammed, Change the jumper and relies restart button
∗ System Dead
∗ SMPS fan is working
3. System is Dead Restart Butting is Jammed, Change the jumper and relies restart button
∗ LED is Blinking
∗ Keyboard is working
∗ SMPS fan is working
4. System is Dead Processor Fail
∗ LED is Blinking
∗ Keyboard is working
∗ SMPS fan is working
5. System is Dead Reverse connection from SMPS to Mother Board
∗ LED is Blinking
∗ Keyboard is not working
∗ One long error beep
6. System is Not Working Display card fail clean the Dust
∗ One long error beep and two short beep
7. System is Not Working RAM or Display Card fail clean the dust
∗ No beep sound all are connected properly
8. System is Not Working Brightness is Minimized it must be increased
∗ No beep sound all are connected properly
9. System is Not Working Dust formation on the Micro processor
∗ No Beep
10. System is Not Working, Not Keyboard problem
Entering into CMOS setting ∗ Not Entering into CMOS

∗ Enter into CMOS, Hard disk is Not detected Hard Disk is Disable in CMOS
11. Hard Disk is not Detecting
CMOS
Peripheral Device
primary master
Enable
12. System is not working ∗ ERRO MESSAGE Improper configuration CMOS
Primary Hard Disk Fail
∗ Display Screen comes
13. System is not working No OS is loaded

14. System is not booting after ∗ ERRO MESSAGE Improper Configuration in CMOS FD Controller
Enable
Primary Hard Disk Fail
putting the footing floppy

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Government Polytechnic College, Coimbatore
Coimbatore - 641 014 Phone: 2595218

15. System is not Booting after ∗ ERRO MESSAGE Improper Configuration in CMOS Change thr FDD size
Floppy Disk Fail
putting the Booting floppy

16. Unable to access the floppy ∗ ERROR MESSAGE Floppy Disk is Damaged
General Failure reading Drive A
17. Unable to access the floppy ∗ ERROR MESSAGE Disk formation on floppy disk head or floppy may not insert.
Not ready Reading Drive A
∗ ERROR MESSAGE Improper Configuration in CMOS.
18. System is not Booting
Floppy Disk seek Error COMS
floppy disk seeks enabled.
19. System is not Booting ∗ ERROR MESSAGE Hard disk is may not formatted
Invalid media type reading Disk C
∗ ERROR MESSAGE 1. OS is not loads
20. System is not Booting
Missing OS 2. OS files may be corrupted
∗ ERROR MESSAGE 1. Hard disk failure
21. System is not Booting
Disk Boot failure insert system Disk 2. Booting floppy failure
∗ ERROR MESSAGE Improper Configuration in CMOS.
22. System is not Booting
Hard disk Drive mode access error COMS
std CMOS
setup
mode
off
23. System is not Booting ∗ ERROR MESSAGE OS installed in the Hard disk may corrupted
Error loading OS
24. System is not Booting ∗ ERROR MESSAGE Improper Configuration in CMOS.
Primary hard disk fail

25. System is not Booting ∗ ERROR MESSAGE CMOS battery may failed
CMOS check sum error
26. System is not Booting ∗ ERROR MESSAGE Floppy may be write protected
Write protect error reading drive A
∗ ERROR MESSAGE 1. Keyboard may not connected
27. System is not Booting
Keyboard error or keyboard Not present 2. Keyboard port may fail
3. Keyboard cable may fail

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