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Beep Symptoms (QAPlus/PRO)


  Beep Symptoms (QAPlus/PRO) Beeps symptoms are short tones or a series of short tones separated by pauses (intervals without sound). (X can be any number.)

Examples: 

Beeps    Description
  
4    Four continuous beeps
  
1-2-X    ° One beep
     ° A pause (or break)
     ° Two beeps
     ° A pause (or break)
     ° Any number of beeps

Beeps/Symptom    FRU/Action
  
4 1. Video Adapter
  2. System Board
  
1-1-3 1. Run Setup
CMOS read/write error 2. System Board
  
1-1-4 1. System Board
ROM-BIOS check error
1-2-X 1. System Board
DMA error
1-3-1 1. System Board
RAM refresh verification error
1-3-X 1. Memory Module
(not listed above) 2. System Board
The first 64KB RAM module failed.
1-4-X 1. Memory Module
An error was detected in 2. System Board
the first 64KB of RAM failed.
2-1-X 1. Memory Module
The first 64KB of RAM failed. 2. System Board
  
2-2-X 1. Memory Module
The first 64KB of RAM failed. 2. System Board
  
2-3-X 1. Memory Module
The first 64KB of RAM failed. 2. System Board
  
2-4-X 1. Memory Module
The first 64KB of RAM failed. 2. System Board
  
3-1-X 1. System Board
The DMA register failed.
3-2-4 1. System Board
The keyboard controller failed. 2. Keyboard
  
3-3-4 1. Video Adapter
Screen initialization failed. 2. System Board
  3. Display
  
3-4-1 1. Video Adapter
the screen retrace test 2. System Board
detected an error. 3. Display
  
3-4-2 1. Video Adapter
POST is searching for video ROM 2. System Board


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