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Beep symptoms
Beep symptoms are tones or a series of tones separated by pauses (intervals without sound) during POST.
The following tables describes beep symptoms.
Beep Symptom | FRU/Action | |
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2 short beeps | Perform the following actions in order. | |
CMOS setting error | 1. | Start the Setup Utility program and press |
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| F10 to Save and exit. See Chapter 6, |
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| “Using the Setup Utility,” on page 49. |
| 2. | Start the Setup Utility program and press |
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| F7 to load defaults and then press F10 to |
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| Save and exit. |
| 3. | Perform a |
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| “Recovering from a POST/BIOS update |
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| failure” on page 380. |
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1 long and 2 short beeps | Perform the following actions in order. | |
Monitor or video adapter card error | 1. | Make sure the monitor is properly |
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| connected to the computer. |
| 2. | Replace the video adapter card (if |
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| present). |
| 3. | Replace the system board. |
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1 long and 3 short beeps | Perform the following actions in order. | |
Keyboard error | 1. | Make sure the keyboard is properly |
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| connected to the keyboard connector. |
| 2. | Replace the keyboard. |
| 3. | Replace the system board. |
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1 long and 9 short beeps BIOS ROM error | Perform the following actions in order. | |
| 1. | Start the Setup Utility program and press |
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| F7 to load defaults and then press F10 to |
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| Save and exit. See Chapter 6, “Using the |
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| Setup Utility,” on page 49. |
| 2. | Perform a |
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| “Recovering from a POST/BIOS update |
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| failure” on page 380. |
| 3. | Replace the system board. |
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Continuos long beeps | Perform the following actions in order. | |
DRAM memory error | 1. | Make sure the memory module(s) are |
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| properly seated in the connector(s). |
| 2. | Replace the memory module(s). |
| 3. | Replace the system board. |
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