Sunday, February 1, 2009

BIOS Beep Sound core list

AWARD BIOS

Beep Sound

Massage

1 short (Beep)System booting is normally.
2 short (Beep)CMOS setting error
1 long - 1 short (Beep)DRAM ERROR
1 long - 2 short (Beep)Display card or monitor connected error
1 long - 3 short (Beep)Keyboard Error
1 long - 9 short (Beep)ROM Error
Long (Beep) continuousDRAM hasn't inset correctly.
Short (Beep) continuousPOWER supply has problem.
AMI BIOS
1 short (Beep)DRAM Flash Error
2 short (Beep)DRAM ECC Check Error
3 short (Beep)DRAM Detect Fail
5 short (Beep)CPU Error
6 short (Beep)Keyboard Error
8 short (Beep)Display card memory Error
9 short (Beep)ROM Error
1 long - 3 short (Beep)DRAM Damage
1 long - 8 short (Beep)Display card or monitor connected error
Pheonix BIOS
Beep Port Description

Code

80h

1-1-302hCMOS write/read failure
1-1-403h ROM BIOS checksum failure
1-2-104hProgrammable interval timer failure
1-2-205hDMA initialization failure
1-2-306hDMA page register write/read failure
1-3-108hRAM refresh verification failure
1-3-30AhFirst 64k RAM chip or data line failure, multi-bit
1-3-40BhFirst 64k RAM odd/even logic failure
1-4-10ChAddress line failure first 64k RAM
1-4-20DhParity failure first 64k RAM
2-1-110hBit 0 first 64k RAM failure
2-1-211hBit 1 first 64k RAM failure
2-1-312hBit 2 first 64k RAM failure
2-1-413hBit 3 first 64k RAM failure
2-2-114hBit 4 first 64k RAM failure
2-2-215hBit 5 first 64k RAM failure
2-2-316hBit 6 first 64k RAM failure
2-2-417hBit 7 first 64k RAM failure
2-3-118hBit 8 first 64k RAM failure
2-3-219hBit 9 first 64k RAM failure
2-3-31AhBit 10 first 64k RAM failure
2-3-41BhBit 11 first 64k RAM failure
2-4-11ChBit 12 first 64k RAM failure
2-4-2 1DhBit 13 first 64k RAM failure
2-4-31EhBit 14 first 64k RAM failure
2-4-41FhBit 15 first 64k RAM failure
3-1-120hSlave DMA register failure
3-1-221hMaster DMA register failure
3-1-322hMaster interrupt mask register failure
3-1-4 23hSlave interrupt mask register failure
3-2-427hKeyboard controller test failure
3-3-42BhScreen initialization failure
3-4-12ChScreen retrace test failure
3-4-22DhSearch for video ROM in progress
4-2-134hTimer tick interrupt test in progress or failure
4-2-235h Shutdown test in progress or failure
4-2-336h Gate A20 failure
4-2-437hUnexpected interrupt in protected mode
4-3-138h RAM test in progress or address failure > FFFFh
4-3-33AhInterval timer channel 2 test or failure
4-3-43BhTime-of-day clock test or failure
4-4-13ChSerial port test or failure
4-4-23DhParallel port test or failure
4-4-3 3EhMath coprocessor test or failure

For example :

a 1-3-3 beep code will sound like one beep, a pause, three beeps run together, another pause, and then three more beeps run together.