First, check to see if your system has adequate ventilation and that all fans are in good working order. warning based on excessive average temperature is common, and can sometimes be fixed by improving ventilation.

error means you should backup your data as soon as possible and maintain consistent backups.Ī S.M.A.R.T. specifications and thresholds as well.Ī system S.M.A.R.T. Different drive manufacturers will have different S.M.A.R.T. The specifics of these thresholds are not made publicly available and can differ between designs. A few of these areas include read retries (meaning data wasn't read correctly the first time), slow spin up, high temperature, and excessive bad sector. The drive monitors several kinds of performance areas. The system will report an error when a S.M.A.R.T. error is a prediction that the diagnostic test will soon fail. Even some diagnostic tests could still have a PASS status. It is important to realize that the drive may appear to be functioning normally. errors are a near-term prediction of drive failure. You may find that your system reports that a S.M.A.R.T. Business PCs, Workstations and Point of Sale SystemsĮxplains what SMART alerts and errors mean and what you should do next.Printer Wireless, Networking & Internet.DesignJet, Large Format Printers & Digital Press.Printing Errors or Lights & Stuck Print Jobs.Notebook Hardware and Upgrade Questions.

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