Beep symptoms

Beep symptoms are short tones or a series of short tones separated by pauses (intervals without sound). See the following examples.

Beeps

Description

 

 

 

1-2-X

v

One beep

 

v A pause (or break)

 

v

Two beeps

 

v A pause (or break)

 

v

Any number of breaks

4

Four continuous beeps

 

 

 

Use the following table to diagnose beep symptoms.

Beep Symptom

FRU/Action

 

 

 

1-1-3

1.

Run Setup

CMOS read-write error

2.

System Board

 

 

 

1-2-2-3

System board

ROM BIOS check error

 

 

 

 

1-2-1

System board

Programmable Interval Timer failed

 

 

 

 

1-2-2DMA Initialization failed

System board

 

 

1-2-3DMA page register write/read failed

System board

 

 

 

1-2-4RAM refresh verification failed

1.

Memory module

 

 

2.

System Board

 

 

 

1-3-3-11st 64K RAM test failed

1.

Memory module

 

 

2.

System Board

 

 

 

1-3-21st 64K RAM parity test failed

1.

Memory module

 

 

2.

Processor

 

3.

System Board

 

 

2-2-3-1

System board

Interrupt vector loading test failed

 

 

 

 

2-1-1Secondary DMA register failed

System board

 

 

2-1-2

System board

Primary DMA register failed

 

 

 

 

2-1-3Primary interrupt mask register failed

System board

 

 

2-1-4Secondary interrupt mask register

System board

failed

 

 

 

 

2-2-1Interrupt vector loading failed

System board

 

 

 

1-3-1-3Keyboard controller failed

1.

System Board

 

 

2.

Keyboard

 

 

 

2-2-3

1.

Battery

CMOS power failure and checksum checks

2.

System Board

failed

 

 

 

 

 

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