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Article #515Re: Phoenix POST beep codes?
From: Earl Baker
Date: Tue, 21 Jan 1997 00:00
Date: Tue, 21 Jan 1997 00:00
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In article <u9vi8qpga6.fsf@yorick.cygnus.com>,
Jason Merrill <jason@yorick.cygnus.com> wrote:
>Does anyone have a list of the beep codes for semi-recent Phoenix BIOS, or
>more specifically the Zeos CoralMax BIOS version 8? The code I'm getting
>is "ba-dah, bap bap", or beeps of counts 1 4 2 2. Unfortunately, Zeos
>didn't see fit to include the POST beep information in the manuals.
I don't know about 1 4 2 2 but 1 4 2 is a parity failure in the first 64k
of RAM on a Phoenix bios system.
>My Zeos Pantera 90 (CoralMax MB) has stopped working, deciding to just beep at
>me instead of doing anything useful. I can't figure out what I did to
>break it; I was just installing a SCSI CD-ROM drive. I had the cable
>connected to the drive and fed it through the drive bay before connecting
>it to my host adapter, so I thought maybe I had knocked something loose,
>but I've tried reseating the cables and SIMMs and nothing seems to work.
>I've even tried removing everything but the video card and two SIMMs, but I
>get the same behavior. Removing the video card, same. If I remove all the
>memory it doesn't beep, but I don't regard that as a positive sign.
Try different memory, see what happens.
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