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EnergyPlus Cooling Tower and Heat Exchanger

I'm fairly new to EnergyPlus and this kind of simulations but I am currently trying to setup a small simulation. I have a small building/room with a baseboard heater, a low temperature radiant system and also an air terminal. The simulation runs but I get 2 errors and a lot of warnings. The errors are no problem, I know how to handle them but I have no clue how to get rid of the warning. The warnings are regarding the heat exchanger and cooling tower I used. I tried using different input values but I keep getting this warnings. Can anyone help me? How do I get rid of these warnings?

*************  ** Warning ** HeatExchanger:AirToAir:SensibleAndLatent "RLT HX":  Average air volume flow rate is <50% or >130% warning continues. Air flow rate ratio statistics follow.

 *************  **   ~~~   **   This error occurred 147710 total times;
   *************  **   ~~~   **   during Warmup 0 times;
   *************  **   ~~~   **   during Sizing 0 times.
   *************  **   ~~~   **   Max=1.025100E-002  Min=9.729411E-003
   *************
   *************  ** Warning ** CoolingTower:VariableSpeed "TURM" - Tower range temperature is out of range error continues...
   *************  **   ~~~   **   This error occurred 5109 total times;
   *************  **   ~~~   **   during Warmup 0 times;
   *************  **   ~~~   **   during Sizing 0 times.
   *************  **   ~~~   **   Max=1.03331  Min=4.109782E-005
   *************
   *************  ** Warning ** CoolingTower:VariableSpeed "TURM" - Cooling tower air flow rate ratio calculation failed error continues.
   *************  **   ~~~   **   This error occurred 271 total times;
   *************  **   ~~~   **   during Warmup 0 times;
   *************  **   ~~~   **   during Sizing 0 times.