Beep Symptoms (Server 325/330, 8644)



Beep Symptoms

Beep symptoms are short tones or a series of short tones separated by pauses (intervals without sound). See the following examples.
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Beeps    Description
1-2-X    ° One beep
     ° A pause (or break)
     ° Two beeps
     ° A pause (or break)
     ° Any number of beeps
4    Four continuous beeps
Beep/symptom    FRU / Action
   
   1-1-2 1. Optional Microprocessor
   (Microprocessor register test failed)     (if installed)
  2. Microprocessor
1-1-3 1. Real-Time Clock or Battery
   (CMOS write/read test failed) 2. System board
1-1-4 1. System board
   (BIOS ROM checksum failed)  
1-2-1 1. System board
   (Programmable Interval Timer failed) 2. Microprocessor Board/Card
1-2-2 1. System board
   (DMA initialization failed) 2. Microprocessor Board/Card
1-2-3 1. System board
   (DMA page register write/read failed) 2. Microprocessor Board/Card
1-2-4 1. System board
   RAM refresh verification failed 2. Microprocessor Board/Card
1-3-1 1. DIMM
   (1st 64K RAM test failed) 2. Microprocessor Board/Card
1-3-2 1. DIMM
   (1st 64K RAM parity test failed) 2. Microprocessor Board/Card
  3. System Board
1-3-3 1. Microprocessor Card
   (Slave DMA register test in 2. System Board
   progress or failure)  
1-3-4 1. Microprocessor Card
   (Master DMA register test in 2. System Board
   progress or failure)  
1-4-1 1. Microprocessor Card
   (Master interrupt mask 2. System Board
   register test failure)  
1-4-2 1. Microprocessor Card
   (Slave interrupt mask 2. System Board
   register test failure)  
1-4-3 1. System Board
   (Interrupt vector loading 2. Microprocessor
   test has failed)  
1-4-4 1. System Board
   (Keyboard controller test 2. Keyboard
   failure)  
2-1-1 1. System board
   (Secondary DMA register failed) 2. Microprocessor Board
2-1-2 1. System board
   (Primary DMA register failed) 2. Microprocessor Board
2-1-3 1. System board
   (Primary interrupt mask register failed) 2. Microprocessor Board
2-1-4 1. System board
   (Secondary interrupt mask register failed) 2. Microprocessor Board
2-2-1 1. System board
   (Interrupt vector loading failed) 2. Microprocessor Board
2-2-2 1. System Board
   (Keyboard controller failed) 2. Keyboard
   (If server 330 - x1Y or Pxx then  
   Search for video resd only  
   memory in progress)  
2-2-3 1. Real-Time Clock or Battery
   (CMOS power failure and 2. System board
   checksum checks failed)  
2-2-4 1. Real-Time Clock or Battery
   (CMOS configuration info 2. System Board
   validation failed)  
   (If server 330 - x1Y or Pxx then  
   Timer tick interrupt test  
   in progress or failure)  
2-3-1 1. System Board
   (Screen initialization failed)  
   (If server 330 - x1Y or Pxx then  
   Interval timer channel 2 test  
   in progress failure)  
2-3-2 1. System Board (or Video Adapter)
   (Screen memory test failed)  
2-3-3 1. System Board (or Video Adapter)
   (Screen retrace failed)  
   (If server 330 - x1Y or Pxx then  
   Time of day clock test failure)  
2-3-4 1. System Board
   (Search for video ROM failed)  
2-4-1 1. System Board
   (Video failed, screen believed operable)  
2-4-3 1. Real-Time Clock Battery
   (Test comparing CMOS memory  
   size against actual in progress)  
2-4-4 1. Dual Inline Memory Module
   (Memory size mismatch 2. Microprocessor Card
   occurred) 3. System Board
3-1-1 1. System Board
   (Timer tick interrupt failed)  
3-1-2 1. System Board
   (Interval timer channel 2 failed)  
3-1-3 1. DIMM
   (RAM test failed above 2. Microprocessor Board
   address 0FFFFh) 3. System Board
3-1-4 1. Real-Time Clock or Battery
   (Time-Of-Day clock failed) 2. System Board
3-2-1 1. System Board
   (Serial port failed)  
3-2-2 1. System board
   (Parallel port failed)  
3-2-3 1. Optional Microprocessor
   (Math coprocessor failed)     (if installed)
  2. Microprocessor
  3. Microprocessor Board
3-2-4 1. DIMM
   (Failure comparing CMOS 2. Microprocessor Board
   memory size against actual) 3. Real-Time Clock or Battery
3-3-1 1. DIMM
   (Memory size mismatch occurred) 2. Microprocessor Board
  3. Real-Time Clock or Battery
   Three Short Beeps 1. DIMM
  2. Microprocessor Board/Card
  3. System Board
   One Continuous Beep 1. Optional Microprocessor
      (if installed)
  2. Microprocessor
  3. Microprocessor Board/Card
  4. System Board
   Repeating Short Beeps 1. Keyboard
  2. System Board
   One Long and One Short Beep 1. Video adapter (if present)
  2. System Board
   .One Long and Two Short Beeps 1. Video adapter (if present)
  2. System Board
   Two Long and Two Short Beeps 1. Video adapter


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