Safe ARCSBIOS

Table 8–2 Post Codes

Source

Post Codes

Description

SROM

00

Initialize Chipsets, Measure CPU speed

 

01

Normal Beep, Compute external cache parameters

Normal

02

Initialize memory controller

Srom

03

Initialize external cache

Codes

04

Test memory cached

 

05

Test memory noncached

 

07

Verify SROM checksum, PAL checksum, copy PAL to

 

 

memory

 

08

Initialize registers for PAL,jump into PAL

ARCSBIOS

80

No Fan

 

81

Can not measure CPU speed

 

82

Invalid DIMM configuration

 

83

Cached memory error

 

84

Noncached memory error

Error Codes

85

SROM has bad checksum

 

86

PAL has bad checksum

 

87

Error copying FLASH to memory, Failed noncached verify

 

88

Error copying FLASH to memory, Failed refill from DIMM

 

 

verify

 

89

Error copying FLASH to memory, Failed refill from Bcache

 

 

verify

 

8A

Standard ARCSBIOS has a bad checksum

Error Codes

8B

Safe ARCSBIOS has a bad Codeschecksum

 

8C

No video

 

8D

No keyboard

8.4 Safe ARCSBIOS

The safe ARCSBIOS provides an emergency recovery mechanism when the primary firmware image contained in the flash has been corrupted. When the flash memory has been corrupted, and no image can be loaded safely from the flash, you can run the safe ARCSBIOS to reprogram the flash.

Troubleshooting 8–3

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