POST Error Messages

POST Numeric Codes and Text Messages

This section covers those POST errors that have numeric codes associated with them. The section also includes some text messages that may be encountered during POST.

The computer will beep once after a POST text message is displayed on the screen.

Numeric Codes and Text Messages

Code/Message

Probable Cause

Recommended Action

 

 

 

101-Option ROM

System ROM or

1. Verify the correct ROM.

Checksum Error

expansion board option

2.

Flash the ROM if needed.

 

ROM checksum.

 

3.

If an expansion board was recently

 

 

 

 

 

added, remove it to see if the problem

 

 

 

remains.

 

 

4.

Clear CMOS. (See Appendix B,

 

 

 

“Password Security and Resetting

 

 

 

CMOS.”)

 

 

5.

If the message disappears, there may

 

 

 

be a problem with the expansion

 

 

 

card.

 

 

6.

Replace the system board.

 

 

 

102-System Board

DMA or timers.

1. Clear CMOS. (See Appendix B,

Failure

 

 

“Password Security and Resetting

 

 

 

CMOS.”)

 

 

2.

Remove expansion boards.

 

 

3.

Replace the system board.

 

 

 

103-System Board

DMA or timers.

1. Clear CMOS. (See Appendix B,

Failure

 

 

“Password Security and Resetting

 

 

 

CMOS.”)

 

 

2.

Remove expansion boards.

 

 

3.

Replace the system board.

 

 

 

 

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HP DC5100 manual Post Numeric Codes and Text Messages, Code/Message Probable Cause Recommended Action

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