Phoenix POST beep codes?

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3 total messages Started by Jason Merrill Tue, 21 Jan 1997 00:00

#514

Author: Jason Merrill
Date: Tue, 21 Jan 1997 00:00

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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.

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.

Thanks,
Jason

Re: Phoenix POST beep codes?

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Author: Earl Baker
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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Re: Phoenix POST beep codes?

#516

Author: Thomas M. Root
Date: Wed, 22 Jan 1997 00:00

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Jason Merrill wrote:
> 
> Does anyone have a list of the beep codes for semi-recent Phoenix BIOS, or
> more specifically the Zeos CoralMax BIOS version 8?  << snip >>
> 
> Thanks,
> Jason

See this newsgroup's FAQ, part 4, section 7.1.  They're currently 
posted on comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware.systems and are normally at 
comp.answers or via FTP at:
ftp://rtfm.mit.edu/pub/usenet/news.answers/pc-hardware-faq/part4

TMR
-- 
Thomas M. Root
tmroot@spessart.com
McMinnville, OR

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