Booting Post Beep And Error Code Faq

[nando007]

There are the code for error :

IBM:

No beep Power supply, system board
1 short beep System OK (Normal)
2 short beeps POST Error displayed on monitor
Repeating short beeps Power supply, system board
3 long beeps 3270 keyboard card
1 long, 1 short beeps System board
1 long, 2 short beeps Display adapter (MDA, CGA)
1 long, 3 short beeps EGA
Continuous beep Power supply, system board


AMI :

1 short DRAM refresh
2 short Parity circuit
3 short Base 64K RAM
4 short System timer
5 short Processor
6 short Keyboard controller Gate A20 error
7 short Virtual mode exception error
8 short Display memory R/W test
9 short ROM BIOS checksum
1 long, 3 short Non-fatal--Conventional/extended memory
1 long, 8 short Non-fatal--Display/retrace test


Later I will post for Phoenix.

Thanks

 

[PC eye]

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There's one site that covers those beep codes as well as for Phonix, Award, and others seen at http://www.computerhope.com/beep.htm#4 This will make the task a little easier there.