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Beep Codes

Your computer might emit a series of beeps during start-up if the monitor cannot display errors or
problems. This series of beeps, called a beep code, identifies a problem. One possible beep code
(code 1-3-1) consists of one beep, a burst of three beeps, and then one beep. This beep code tells you
that the computer encountered a memory problem.

If your computer beeps during start-up:

1 Write down the beep code.
2 See "Dell Diagnostics" on page 30 to identify a more serious cause.
3 Contact Dell for technical assistance. For information on contacting Dell, see your online User’s

Guide.

Code

Cause

Code

Cause

1-1-2

Microprocessor register failure

3-1-4

Slave interrupt mask register failure

1-1-3

NVRAM read/write failure

3-2-2

Interrupt vector loading failure

1-1-4

ROM BIOS checksum failure

3-2-4

Keyboard Controller test failure

1-2-1

Programmable interval timer failure 3-3-1

NVRAM power loss

1-2-2

DMA initialization failure

3-3-2

Invalid NVRAM configuration

1-2-3

DMA page register read/write
failure

3-3-4

Video Memory test failure

1-3

Video Memory test failure

3-4-1

Screen initialization failure

1-3-1 through 2-4-4 Memory not being properly

identified or used

3-4-2

Screen retrace failure

3-1-1

Slave DMA register failure

3-4-3

Search for video ROM failure

3-1-2

Master DMA register failure

4-2-1

No timer tick

3-1-3

Master interrupt mask register
failure

4-2-2

Shutdown failure

4-2-3

Gate A20 failure

4-4-1

Serial or parallel port test failure

4-2-4

Unexpected interrupt in protected
mode

4-4-2

Failure to decompress code to
shadowed memory

4-3-1

Memory failure above address
0FFFFh

4-4-3

Math-coprocessor test failure

4-3-3

Timer-chip counter 2 failure

4-4-4

Cache test failure

4-3-4

Time-of-day clock stopped