4-24 361834-002 Technical Reference Guide
System Support
4.5.3 System Status
These systems provide a visual indication of system boot and ROM flash status through the
keyboard LEDs and operational status using bi-colored power and hard drive activity LEDs as
indicated in Tables 4-13 and 4-14 respectively.
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The LED indications listed in Table 4-13 are valid only for PS/2-type keyboards. A USB
keyboard will not provide LED status for the listed events, although audible (beep) indications
will occur.
NOTES:
[1]Accompanied by 1 short, 2 long audio beeps
[2]Accompanied by 1 long, 2 short audio beeps
[3]Accompanied by 2 long, 1 short audio beeps
[4]All LEDs will blink in sync twice, accompanied by 1 long and three short audio beeps
[5]LEDs will blink in sequence (NUM Lock, then CAPs Lock, then Scroll Lock)
[6]Accompanied by rising audio tone.
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Table 4-14 lists the audible and visible indications provided by system status conditions. .
[1] Repeated after 2 second pause.
[2] Beeps are produced by the on-board piezo speaker, NOT the chassis speaker.
[3] Beeps are repeated for 5 cycles, after which only blinking LED indication continues.
Table 4-13.
PS/2 Keyboard System Boot/ROM Flash Status LED Indications
Event
NUM Lock
LED
CAPs Lock
LED
Scroll Lock
LED
System memory failure [1] Blinking Off Off
Graphics controller failure [2] Off Blinking Off
System failure prior to graphics cntlr. initialization [3] Off Off Blinking
ROMPAQ diskette not present, faulty, or drive prob. On Off Off
Password prompt Off On Off
Invalid ROM detected—flash failed Blinking [4] Blinking [4] Blinking [4]
Keyboard locked in network mode Blinking [5] Blinking [5] Blinking [5]
Successful boot block ROM flash On [6] On [6] On [6]
Table 4-14.
System Operational Status LED Indications
System Status PowerLED Beeps [2] Action Required
S0: System on (normal operation) Steady green None none
S1: Suspend Blinks green @ .5 Hz None none
S3: Suspend to RAM Blinks green @ .5 Hz None none
S4: Suspend to disk Off – clear None none
S5: Soft off Off – clear None none
Processor thermal shutdown Blinks red 2 times @ I Hz [1] 2 [2] Check air flow, fans, heatsink
Processor not seated / installed Blinks red 3 times @ I Hz [1] 3 [2] Check processor presence/seating
Power supply overload failure Blinks red 4 times @ I Hz [1] 4 [2] Check voltage selector, devices, sys. bd
Memory error (pre-video) Blinks red 5 times @ I Hz [1] 5 [2] Check DIMMs, system board
Video error Blinks red 6 times @ I Hz [1] 6 [2] Check graphics card or system board
PCA failure detected by BIOS (pre-video) Blinks red 7 times @ I Hz [1] 7 [2] Replace system board
Invalid ROM checksum error Blinks red 8 times @ I Hz [1] 8 [2] Reflash BIOS ROM
Boot failure (after power on) Blinks red 9 times @ I Hz [1] 9 [2] Check power supply, processor, sys. bd
Bad option card Blinks red 10 times @ I Hz [1] 10 [2] Replace option card
