Alert message

Recently my XPS 8500 has been giving me this message first after being turned on:

Alert: Previous attempts in booting this system have failed at check point (00AE)....

After the message that lasts a couple of seconds, the system boot up normally and seems to run fine.

Anyone know what this message might mean?

TIA

Larry

On 5/10/2014 8:04 PM, Larry wrote:
Recently my XPS 8500 has been giving me this message first after being turned on:

Alert: Previous attempts in booting this system have failed at check point (00AE)....

After the message that lasts a couple of seconds, the system boot up normally and seems to run fine.

Anyone know what this message might mean?


Larry,

I learned (a bit late unfortunately) that the best way to track this
stuff down is to do a Google search on the error message.

Do it as a direct quote, just like this: "Alert: Previous attempts in
booting this system have failed at check point (00AE"

When I tried that, it didn't work due to the specificity of my request,
i.e. the (00AE so I dropped that and just ran it as "Alert: Previous
attempts in booting this system have failed at check point"

That returned a number of probable "hits", among them was this one:

http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1937243

Take a look at this one and some of the others and likely you'll have
the answer to your problem.

On Sunday, May 11, 2014 5:57:22 AM UTC-6, Unquestionably Confused wrote:
On 5/10/2014 8:04 PM, Larry wrote:

Recently my XPS 8500 has been giving me this message first after being turned on:



Alert: Previous attempts in booting this system have failed at check point (00AE)....



After the message that lasts a couple of seconds, the system boot up normally and seems to run fine.



Anyone know what this message might mean?





Larry,



I learned (a bit late unfortunately) that the best way to track this

stuff down is to do a Google search on the error message.



Do it as a direct quote, just like this: "Alert: Previous attempts in

booting this system have failed at check point (00AE"



When I tried that, it didn't work due to the specificity of my request,

i.e. the (00AE so I dropped that and just ran it as "Alert: Previous

attempts in booting this system have failed at check point"



That returned a number of probable "hits", among them was this one:



http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1937243



Take a look at this one and some of the others and likely you'll have

the answer to your problem.

Thanks for your reply. I did google the message as you recommended before I posted the problem in this group. However, I did not find anything specific to the checkpoint (00AE) reference.

The message does not consistently appear when booting up and when it does it last for only a few seconds before it completes the booting process.

Other than the occasional alert message concerning checkpoint (00AE), the desktop seems to be working fine.

Larry