Operation Manual

Beep symptoms
Beep symptoms are short tones or a series of short tones separated by pauses
(intervals without sound). See the following examples.
Beeps Description
1-2-3
v One beep
v A pause (or break)
v Two beeps
v A pause (or break)
v Three beeps
4 Four continuous beeps
One beep after successfully completing POST indicates that the server is
functioning correctly.
Note: See Chapter 7, “Parts listing, Types 8861, 8862,” on page 139 to determine which components are
replaceable by the customer and which components must be replaced by an IBM field service technician.
Beep/symptom FRU/action
1-1-3 (CMOS write/read test failed)
1. Battery
2. I/O board
1-1-4 (BIOS ROM checksum failed)
v I/O board
1-2-1 (Programmable Interval Timer
failed)
v I/O board
1-2-2 (DMA initialization failed)
v I/O board
1-2-3 (DMA page register write/read
failed)
v I/O board
1-2-4 (RAM refresh verification failed)
1. DIMM
2. Memory cassette
1-3-1 (1st 64K RAM test failed)
1. DIMM
2. Memory cassette
2-1-1 (Secondary DMA register failed)
v I/O board
2-1-2 (Primary DMA register failed)
v I/O board
2-1-3 (Primary interrupt mask register
failed)
v I/O board
2-1-4 (Secondary interrupt mask register
failed)
v I/O board
2-2-2 (Keyboard controller failed)
v I/O board
3-1-1 (Timer tick interrupt failed)
v I/O board
3-1-2 (Interval timer channel 2 failed)
v I/O board
3-1-4 (Time-of-Day clock failed)
1. Battery
2. I/O board
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