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.
228 System Event Log Messages for IPMI Systems