[OT] BIOS Beep Codes on Intel Server with AMI BIOS ...

[Marc G. Fournier]

Oh my gawd!  I've been going at this from a memory issue :(

'k, stupid question before I write off the memory issue perspective (since 
I have Kingston ready to take the whole server and do tests on it) ... I'm 
running the SE7520JR2ATAD2 motherboard, with an ICP-Vortex RAID controller 
.. the 'beeps' happen just after the 'BIOS Lan Console' pops on the 
screen, and *long* before the ICP-Vortex RAID controller BIOS does ... 
which is why I never thought RAID controller ...

Is there an onboard RAID controller or something that these Beeps pertain 
to?



On Tue, 13 Sep 2005, Samuel Clements wrote:

> That is probably the RAID controller...
> http://support.intel.com/support/motherboards/server/sb/cs-010720.htm
>
> That particular beep code means, "Controller startup was successful."
>  -Sam
>
> Marc G. Fournier wrote:
>> 
>> I hate to ask, but am running out of places and would *really* like to get 
>> this server online sometime soon ...
>> 
>> I have a new Intel SE7520JR2 DDR2 based server, FreeBSD 4-STABLE is 
>> installed on it and running great ... *but* ... whenever I boot up, I get 
>> beeps ... specifically, "beep-pause-beepbeepbeep" ... the first beep isn't 
>> a long one though, and I can't find anywhere that talks about all short 
>> beeps like that ...
>> 
>> Does anyone have experience with Beep Codes that might be able to give some 
>> clue?
>> 
>> I've upgraded the BIOS to the latest 8.10, and, as I say above, the server 
>> appears to run fine, but putting something into production that has a 
>> "questionable boot" tends to make me a bit nervous ...
>> 
>> Thanks ...
>> 
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Marc G. Fournier           Hub.Org Networking Services (http://www.hub.org)
Email: scrappy at hub.org           Yahoo!: yscrappy              ICQ: 7615664