Post flow – NEC 140He User Manual

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Suspicion of failure

Beep for many times in the period from power-on to operating system start

Appearance of an error message on the display unit

POST Flow

The flow of operations executed by POST is sequentially described below:

IMPORTANT:

Depending on the system configuration, the message "Press Any Key"

requesting key entry may appear on the display screen. This is requested by BIOS on an
installed optional board. See the explanation described in the manual for the option and
press any key.

After power-on, POST is activated to start memory check. The message indicating the counted size of base
memory and that of additional memory appears at the upper left corner of the display screen. In addition, the
following message appears at the bottom of the screen.

Press to enter SETUP, Service Partition, Network

NOTE:

If you change the factory-default for [Extended RAM Step] in [Advanced] menu

of BIOS SETUP and execute the memory test, pressing Space allows the memory test to
be skipped.

It may take several minutes to complete memory check depending on the size of the memory installed in the
server. Similarly, it may take about a minute to display the proper information on the screen at rebooting.

Detects the RAID controller built in the server and displays the message prompting the start of the
MegaRAID Configuration utility (without any key entry for several seconds, POST is automatically
continued). Press the proper keys according to the screen display.

LSI MegaRAID BIOS Version XXX (Build XXX XX XXXX)

Battery module is present on adapter
Channel-0 ID-14 -- XXX XXXXX

Channel-1 ID-14 -- XXX XXXXX
X Logical Drive(s) found on the host adapter.
X Logical Drive(s) handled by BIOS

Press or to Run Config Utility
Or Press for WebBIOS

Now press Enter to start the utility. Do not use Ctrl + M to start the utility.

For example, the SCSI BIOS setup utility must be used in the following cases:

Installation of an SCSI device in the 5.25-inch device bay

Connection of an external SCSI device (The removal of the SCSI cable for 5.25-inch device in the server
and the connection of the SCSI cable coming with the server (for external connection) are required.)

Modification of SCSI device connections within the server

When the SCSI BIOS setup utility is terminated, the server runs POST from its start again.

When more than one SCSI controller boards are installed on the PCI bus of the server, the messages
indicating the starts of the SCSI BIOS setup utilities for the installed boards appear in the following order:

PCI slot number PCI #3, PCI #4, PCI #5, PCI #8, PCI #9, PCI #6, PCI #7, PCI #1 and PCI #2. See Chapter 9,
List of Optional Devices and their Available Slots for details about boot priority.