BIOS Messages | Action/FRU |
Keyboard Error Or | Cannot initialize the keyboard. Make sure the keyboard is attached correctly and no |
No Keyboard | keys are pressed during POST. To purposely configure the system without a |
Present | keyboard, set the error halt condition in Setup to HALT ON ALL, BUT KEYBOARD. |
| The BIOS then ignores the missing keyboard during POST. |
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Keyboard is locked | This message usually indicates that one or more keys have been pressed during the |
out - Unlock the key | keyboard tests. Be sure no objects are resting on the keyboard. |
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Memory Test: | This message displays during a full memory test, counting down the memory |
| areas being tested. |
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Memory test fail | If POST detects an error during memory testing, additional information appears giving |
| specifics about the type and location of the memory error. |
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Override enabled - | If the system cannot boot using the current CMOS configuration, the BIOS can |
Defaults loaded | override the current configuration with a set of BIOS defaults designed for the most |
| stable, |
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Press TAB to show | System OEMs may replace the Phoenix Technologies Award BIOS POST display |
POST screen | with their own proprietary display. Including this message in the OEM display |
| permits the operator to switch between the OEM display and the default POST |
| display. |
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Primary master hard | POST detects an error in the primary master IDE |
disk fail | hard drive. |
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Primary slave hard | POST detects an error in the secondary master IDE |
disk fail | hard drive. |
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Secondary master | POST detects an error in the primary slave IDE hard drive. |
hard disk fail |
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Secondary slave | POST detects an error in the secondary slave IDE |
hard disk fail | hard drive. |
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