Beep Codes

Beep codes are used by the BIOS to indicate a serious or fatal error to the end user. Beep codes are used when an error occurs before the system video has been initialized. Beep codes will be generated by the system board speaker, commonly referred to as the PC speaker.

AMIBIOS displays the checkpoints in the bottom right corner of the screen during POST. This display method is limited, since it only displays checkpoints that occur after the video card has been activated.

Not all computers using AMIBIOS enable this feature. In most cases, a checkpoint card is the best tool for viewing AMIBIOS checkpoints.

System ready

Symptom:

Description:

One short beep.

System is OK.

 

 

Memory not installed or memory error

 

 

 

Symptom:

Description:

Continuous one long beep.

Something is wrong with the memory installed.

 

Note that there could also be something wrong with

 

just accessing the memory (ie the motherboard has a

 

problem).

 

 

VGA not installed or VGA error

 

 

 

Symptom:

Description:

One long beep, then two short

The motherboard is not able to access the video

beeps and repeat.

card for some reasons. Either the video card is not

 

working, its memory is not accessible, or its BIOS

 

may be corrupt. This error code could also mean

 

something is wrong with the motherboard.

 

 

BIOS damaged

 

 

 

Symptom:

Description:

One long beep, then one short

BIOS damaged. Processor jump to BootBlock to

beep.

execute the default procedure.

 

 

CMOS damaged

 

 

 

Symptom:

Description:

Two short beeps.

CMOS checksum error.

 

 

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