Appendix C: POST Code Diagnostic LEDs

Intel® Server Board S5000PAL / S5000XAL TPS

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Checkpoint

Diagnostic LED Decoder

 

Description

G=Green, R=Red, A=Amber

 

 

 

MSB

 

 

LSB

 

 

0xE7h

R

A

A

G

Waiting for user input

 

 

 

 

 

 

0xE8h

A

R

R

OFF

Checking password

 

 

 

 

 

 

0xE9h

A

R

R

G

Entering BIOS setup

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

0xEAh

A

R

A

OFF

Flash Update

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

0xEEh

A

A

A

OFF

Calling Int 19. One beep unless silent boot is enabled.

 

 

 

 

 

 

0xEFh

A

A

A

G

Unrecoverable boot failure / S3 resume failure

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Runtime Phase / EFI Operating System Boot

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

0xF4h

R

A

R

R

Entering Sleep state

 

 

 

 

 

 

0xF5h

R

A

R

A

Exiting Sleep state

 

 

 

 

 

 

0xF8h

A

R

R

R

Operating system has requested EFI to close boot services

 

(ExitBootServices ( ) has been called)

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

0xF9h

A

R

R

A

Operating system has switched to virtual address mode

 

(SetVirtualAddressMap ( ) has been called)

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

0xFAh

A

R

A

R

Operating system has requested the system to reset (ResetSystem ()

 

has been called)

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Pre-EFI Initialization Module (PEIM) / Recovery

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

0x30h

OFF

OFF

R

R

Crisis recovery has been initiated because of a user request

 

 

 

 

 

 

0x31h

OFF

OFF

R

A

Crisis recovery has been initiated by software (corrupt flash)

 

 

 

 

 

 

0x34h

OFF

G

R

R

Loading crisis recovery capsule

 

 

 

 

 

 

0x35h

OFF

G

R

A

Handing off control to the crisis recovery capsule

 

 

 

 

 

 

0x3Fh

G

G

A

A

Unable to complete crisis recovery.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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