Intel BOXDH61AG manual A Error Messages and Indicators, BIOS Front-panel Power LED Blink Codes

A Error Messages and Indicators

This appendix describes error messages generated by the Desktop Board’s BIOS. The BIOS indicates these error messages with LED blink codes, speaker beep codes, and by text displayed on the PC monitor.

Front-panel Power LED Blink and Speaker Beep Codes

Whenever a recoverable error occurs during POST, the BIOS provides basic status and error messages through front-panel power LED blink codes (Table 16) as well as through audible beep codes (Table 17).

Table 16. BIOS Front-panel Power LED Blink Codes

Type	Pattern	Note
F2 Setup/F10 Boot	None
Menu Prompt
BIOS update in	Off when the update begins, then on for
progress	0.5 second, then off for 0.5 second. The
	pattern repeats until the BIOS update is
	complete.
Video error (no add-	On-off (0.5 second each) two times, then a	For processors requiring
in graphics card	3.0-second pause (off), the entire pattern	an add-in graphics card
installed)	repeats (blink and pause) until the system
	is powered off.
Memory error	On-off (0.5 second each) three times, then
	a 3.0-second pause (off), the entire pattern
	repeats (blinks and pause) until the system
	is powered off.
Thermal trip warning	Each beep will be accompanied by the
	following blink pattern: .25 seconds on,
	.25 seconds off, .25 seconds on, .25
	seconds off. This results in a total of
	32 blinks.

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