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Beep symptoms and No beep symptoms - Netfinity 3500 M10

Troubleshooting


Problem

Beep and no beep symptoms

Resolving The Problem

Source
Hardware Maintenance Manual

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
  • One Beep
  • A pause (or break)
  • Two beeps
  • A pause (or break)
  • Any number of beeps
4 Four continuous beeps

Beep Symptom FRU/Action
1-1-3 CMOS read/write error 1. Run Setup 2. System Board
1-1-4 ROM BIOS check error 1. System Board
1-2-X DMA error 1. System Board
1-3-X 1. Memory Module 2. System Board
1-4-4 1. Keyboard 2. System Board
1-4-X Error detected in first 64 KB of RAM. 1. Memory Module 2. System Board
2-1-1, 2-1-2 1. Run Setup 2. System Board
2-1-X First 64 KB of RAM failed. 1. Memory Module 2. System Board
2-2-2 1. Video Adapter (if installed) 2. System Board
2-2-X First 64 KB of RAM failed. 1. Memory Module 2. System Board
2-3-X 1. Memory Module 2. System Board
2-4-X 1. Run Setup 2. Memory Module 3. System Board
3-1-X DMA register failed. 1. System Board
3-2-4 Keyboard controller failed. 1. System Board 2. Keyboard
3-3-4 Screen initialization failed. 1. Video Adapter (if installed) 2. System Board 3. Display
3-4-1 Screen retrace test detected an error. 1. Video Adapter (if installed) 2. System Board 3. Display
3-4-2 POST is searching for video ROM. 1. Video Adapter (if installed) 2. System Board
4 1. Video Adapter (if installed) 2. System Board
All other beep code sequences. 1. System Board
One long and one short beep during POST. Base 640 KB memory error or shadow RAM error. 1. Memory Module 2. System Board
One long beep and two or three short beeps during POST. (Video error) 1. Video Adapter (if installed) 2. System Board
Three short beeps during POST. 1. System Board
Continuous beep. 1. System Board
Repeating short beeps. 1. Keyboard stuck key? 2. Keyboard Cable 3. System Board

 
No beep symptoms
 
Symptom/Error FRU/Action
No beep during POST but computer works correctly. 1. System Board
No beep during POST. 1. See Undetermined problem 2. System Board 3. Memory Module 4. Any Adapter or Device
5. Power Cord
6. Power Supply

Document Location

Worldwide

Operating System

Older System x:Operating system independent / None

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Document Information

Modified date:
23 January 2019

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ibm1MIGR-4ANUPA

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