SE7221BK1-E Technical Product Specification

Table 68. BIOS Recovery Beep Codes

Beeps

Error Message

POST Progress Code

Description

1

Recovery Started

E9h

Start of recovery process

2

Recovery Boot Error

Flashing series of POST

Unable to boot to floppy, ATAPI, or ATAPI

 

 

codes: EFh, FAh, FBh,

CD-ROM. Recovery process will retry.

 

 

F4h, FCh, FDh, FFh

 

Series of long

Recovery Failed

FDh

Unable to process valid BIOS recovery

low-pitched

 

 

images. BIOS already passed control to

single beeps

 

 

operating system and flash utility.

2 long high-

Recovery Complete

FFh

BIOS recovery succeeded, ready for power-

pitched beeps

 

 

down, reboot.

9.7.2BIOS Event Log

The BIOS will output the current boot progress codes on the video screen. Progress codes are 32 bit quantities plus optional data. The 32 bit numbers include Class, subclass and Operation information. Class and subclass point to the type of the hardware that is being initialized, where as the Operation field represents the specific initialization activity. Based upon the data bit availability to display Progress Code, a progress code can be customized to fit the data width. The higher the data bit, higher the granularity of information, which could send on the progress port. The progress codes may be reported by system BIOS or option ROMs.

The Response section in following table is divided in 3 different types:

Warning – The message is displayed on screen and error is logged in SEL. System will continue booting with degraded state. User may want to replace erroneous unit

Pause – The message is displayed on screen and user input is required to continue. User can take immediate corrective action or can choose to continue booting.

Halt – System cannot boot unless error is resolved. User needs to replace faulty part and restart the system.

Table 69. POST Error Messages and Handling

Error Code

Error Message

Response

100

Timer Error

Warning

 

 

 

103

CMOS Battery Low

Warning

 

 

 

104

CMOS Settings Wrong

Warning

 

 

 

105

CMOS Checksum Bad

Warning

 

 

 

10B

CMOS memory size different

Warning

 

 

 

112

CMOS time not set

Warning

 

 

 

140

Refresh timer test failed

Halt

 

 

 

141

Display memory test failed

Warning

 

 

 

142

CMOS Display Type Wrong

Pause

 

 

 

147

Unknown BIOS error. Error code = 147 (this is really a

Halt

 

PMM_MEM_ALLOC_ERR)

 

148

Password check failed

Halt

 

 

 

149

Unknown BIOS error. Error code = 149 (this is really SEGMENT_REG_ERR)

Halt

14A

Unknown BIOS error. Error code = 14A (this is really ADM_MODULE_ERR)

Warning

 

 

 

14B

Unknown BIOS error. Error code = 14B (this is really

Warning

 

 

 

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