Beep symptoms, No-beep symptoms – Lenovo X200 User Manual

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Beep symptoms

Table 4. Beep symptoms

Symptom or error

FRU or action, in sequence

One beep and a blank, unreadable, or
flashing LCD.

1.

Reseat the LCD connector

.

2.

LCD assembly.

3.

External CRT.

4.

System board.

One long and two short beeps, and a blank
or unreadable LCD.

1.

System board

.

2.

LCD assembly.

3.

DIMM.

Two short beeps with error codes.

POST error. See “Numeric error codes” on
page 62.

Two short beeps and a blank screen.

1.

System board

.

2.

DIMM.

Three short beeps, pause, three more short
beeps, and one short beep.

1.

DIMM

.

2.

System board

One short beep, pause, three short beeps,
pause, three more short beeps, and one short
beep.

Only the cursor appears.

Reinstall the operating system

.

Four cycles of four short beeps and a blank
screen.

System board

(security chip)

Five short beeps and a blank screen.

System board

No-beep symptoms

Table 5. No-beep symptoms

Symptom or error

FRU or action, in sequence

No beep, power-on indicator on, LCD blank,
and no POST.

1.

Make sure that every connector is
connected tightly and correctly

.

2.

DIMM.

3.

System board.

No beep, power-on indicator on, and LCD
blank during POST.

1.

Reseat DIMM

.

2.

System board.

The power-on password prompt appears.

A power-on password or a supervisor
password is set. Type the password and
press Enter.

The hard-disk password prompt appears.

A hard-disk password is set. Type the
password and press Enter.

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