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Diagnostic Beep Codes
No POST with three beeps is accompanied by a blinking amber power LED. All other beep codes will be accompanied by
a solid white power LED. Refer to the table below for each scenario.
Power LED Status
Beep Description
Failure Coverage
1
BIOS ROM checksum in progress or
failure. BIOS Chip
System board failure, covers BIOS
corruption or ROM error
2
No RAM Detected
Memory failure
3
Chipset Error (North and South Bridge
Chipset, DMA/IMR/Timer Error for Intel
platform); Chipset Error
System board Failure
Time-Of-Day Clock test failure.
Gate A20 failure
Super I/O chip failure
Keyboard controller test failure.
4
RAM Read/Write failure
Memory failure
5
RTC Power Fail
COMS battery failure
6
Video BIOS Test Failure
Video card failure
7
CPU Failure
CPU