Reference Guide

BIOS Generated System Events
The BIOS-generated messages monitor the health and functionality of the chipsets, I/O channels, and other BIOS-related
functions.
Table 16. BIOS Generated System Events
Event Message Severity Cause
System Event I/O channel chk.
Critical This event is generated when a critical
interrupt is generated in the I/O
Channel.
System Event PCI Parity Err.
Critical This event is generated when a parity
error is detected on the PCI bus.
System Event Chipset Err.
Critical This event is generated when a chip
error is detected.
System Event PCI System Err.
Information This event indicates historical data, and
is generated when the system has
crashed and recovered.
System Event PCI Fatal Err.
Critical This error is generated when a fatal error
is detected on the PCI bus.
System Event PCIE Fatal Err.
Critical This error is generated when a fatal error
is detected on the PCIE bus.
POST Err.
Critical This event is generated when an
error occurs during system boot. See
the system documentation for more
information on the error code.
POST fatal error #<number> or
<error description>.
Critical This event is generated when a fatal
error occurs during system boot. For
more information, see POST Code
Errors.
Memory Spared redundancy
lost.
Critical This event is generated when memory
spare is no longer redundant.
Memory Mirrored redundancy
lost.
Critical This event is generated when memory
mirroring is no longer redundant.
Memory RAID redundancy lost.
Critical This event is generated when memory
RAID is no longer redundant.
Err Reg Pointer OEM
Diagnostic data event was
asserted.
Information This event is generated when an OEM
event occurs. OEM events can be
used by the service team to better
understand the cause of the failure.
System Board PFault Fail Safe
state asserted.
Critical This event is generated when the system
board voltages are not at normal levels.
System Board PFault Fail Safe
state deasserted
Information This event is generated when earlier
PFault Fail Safe system voltages return
to a normal level.
Memory Add (BANK# DIMM#)
presence was asserted.
Information This event is generated when memory is
added to the system.
Memory Removed (BANK# DIMM#)
presence was asserted.
Information This event is generated when memory is
removed from the system.
Memory Cfg Err configuration
error (BANK# DIMM#) was
asserted.
Critical This event is generated when memory
configuration is incorrect for the system.
206 System Event Log Messages for IPMI Systems