Beep symptoms – IBM 8317 User Manual
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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
CMOS read-write error
1.
Run Setup
2.
System Board
1-2-2-3
ROM BIOS check error
1.
System Board
1-2-1
Programmable Interval Timer failed
1.
System Board
1-2-2
DMA Initialization failed
1.
System Board
1-2-3
DMA page register write/read failed
1.
System Board
1-2-4
RAM refresh verification failed
1.
DIMM
2.
System Board
1-3-3-1
1st 64K RAM test failed
1.
DIMM
2.
System Board
1-3-2
1st 64K RAM parity test failed
1.
DIMM
2.
Processor
3.
System Board
2-2-3-1
Interrupt vector loading test failed
1.
System Board
2-1-1
Secondary DMA register failed
1.
System Board
2-1-2
Primary DMA register failed
1.
System Board
2-1-3
Primary interrupt mask register failed
1.
System Board
2-1-4
Secondary interrupt mask register
failed
1.
System Board
2-2-1
Interrupt vector loading failed
1.
System Board
1-3-1-3
Keyboard controller failed
1.
System Board
2.
Keyboard
2-2-3
CMOS power failure and checksum checks
failed
1.
Battery
2.
System Board
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