One beep and the appearance of text on the display indicates successful completion of the POST. More than one beep indicates that the POST detects an error.
Error code format
This section provides an explanation of the encoded
Error messages are displayed on the screen as three, four, five, eight, twelve, or thirteen digits. An X in an error message can be any number or letter. The shorter POST errors are highlighted in the
The following figure shows which digits display the shorter POST errors. The figure also defines additional SCSI information.
RDDDPLSCB QEET
Test state
Error code Extension
Qualifier
Bus (0=internal 1=external)
Capacity of the device
Slot number of the device
LUN (usually 0)
PUN (SCSI ID #)
Device Number
Reserved Digit (usually 0)
Notes:
1.
2.Duplicate SCSI ID settings will cause misleading error symptoms or messages.
Product Recovery Program menu
Type 6568/6569/6648/6649 machines have recovery and diagnostics programs on a separate hard drive partition. The recovery CD and Enhanced Diagnostics diskette are not shipped with the machine or the HMM. To download diagnostics tests or to order a recovery CD, see “Enhanced Diagnostics download or diskette” on page 35.
At startup, after the machine tests the DIMM memory (if
To start the Product Recovery Program, press F11
After depressing F11, you are given the following options.
vFull recovery
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