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

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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