Error Codes and Messages

Table D-1 lists all the error codes and messages that may appear during diagnostic checks.

Table D-1. Error codes and messages

Error code

 

Message

System board

V30 CPU ERROR

101

 

 

103

 

 

8254 TIMER COUNTER REGISTER ERROR

104

 

 

8254 TIMER COUNTER ERROR

105

 

 

8237 DMA CONTROLLER REGISTER ERROR

105

 

 

8237 DMA REFRESH ERROR

108

 

 

8048 SELF DIAGNOSTIC ERROR

109

 

 

8259 INTERRUPT CONTROLLER ERROR

111

 

 

146818 CMOS BATTERY ERROR

112

 

 

146818 CMOS CHECKSUM ERROR

113

 

 

V30 INSTRUCTION ERROR

Memory

 

 

201

 

 

MEMORY/PARITY ERROR

Keyboard

 

 

301

 

 

8048 ERROR

302

 

 

KEYBOARD IS DEFECTIVE

Video

adapter

 

and display

 

 

501

 

 

V-RAM ERROR

503

 

 

ATTRIBUTE ERROR

504

 

 

CHARACTER SET ERROR

505

 

 

40-COLUMN CHARACTER SET ERROR

506

 

 

320 x 200 GRAPHICS MODE ERROR

507

 

 

640 x 200 GRAPHICS MODE ERROR

508

 

 

SCREEN PAGING ERROR

510

 

 

COLOR VIDEO ERROR

Floppy

disk

drives

 

and controller

 

601

 

 

FLOPPY DISK CONTROLLER ERROR

602

 

 

SEQUENTIAL SEEK ERROR

603

 

 

RANDOM SEEK ERROR

604

 

 

WRITE ERROR

605

 

 

READ ERROR

Parallel port

 

 

901

 

 

ERROR PIN p

Serial

port

 

 

yg232c)

 

ERROR DTR DSR, DSR ALWAYS HIGH/LOW

1101

 

 

 

 

ERROR RTS CTS, CTS ALWAYS HIGH/LOW

1102

 

 

TIME OUT ERROR

1103

 

 

VERIFY ERROR

D-24

Performing System Diagnostics