The following numeric codes appear on the System Board LEDs (in hex.) to report the progress of the Power-On Diagnostics, or on the LEDs and on the screen (in decimal) to report errors found by the Diagnostics. Error Codes -- Power On Diagnostics ----------------------------------- LEDs (hex) Screen (dec) Meaning ---------- ------------ ----------------------------------- 00h 00 Error in POS registers. 01H 01 Flag register failed. 02H 02 CPU register failed. 03H 03 ROM did not checksum. 04H 04 DMA controller failed. 05H 05 System Timer failed. 06H 06 Base 64K failed address test. Can also mean no memory installed or improper memory configuration. 07H 07 Base 64K failed ram test. 08H 08 Interrupt controller failed. 09H 09 Hot interrupt occurred. 0AH 10 System timer doesn't interrupt. 0BH 11 CPU still in protected mode. 0CH 12 DMA Page registers failed. 0DH 13 Refresh is not occurring. 0EH 14 Keyboard Controller not responding. 0FH 15 Could not enter protected mode. 10H 16 GDT or IDT failed. 11H 17 LDT Register failed. 12H 18 Task Register failed. 13H 19 LSL instruction failed. 14H 20 LAR instruction failed. 15H 21 VERR/VERW failed. 16H 22 Keyboard Controller A20 failed. 17H 23 Exception failed / unexpected. 18H 24 Shutdown during memory test. 18H 25 Last used error code. 19H 26 Copyright checksum error. 1AH 27 Shutdown during memory sizing. 1BH 28 Chipset Initialization. Power on Diagnostics Test Codes ------------------------------- LEDs (hex) Meaning ---------- ----------------------------------- 50H Initialize hardware. 51H Initialize timer. 52H DMA init. 53H 8259 init. 54H Initialize Chipset. 55H Set up BMS configuration. 56H Entering Protected Mode for first time. 57H Size memory chips. 58H Configure memory chip interleave. 59H Exiting Protected Mode for first time. 5AH Determine System Board memory size. 5BH Relocate Shadow RAM. 5CH Configure EMS. 5DH Set up Wait State configuration. 5EH Re-test base 64K RAM. 5FH Test Shadow RAM. 60H CMOS test. 61H Video test. 63H Protected mode interrupt test. 64H Test line a20. 65H Test memory address lines. 66H Memory test. 67H Extended Memory test. 68H Timer Interrupt test. 69H RTC test. 6AH Keyboard test. 6BH 80287 test. 6CH RS232 test. 6DH Parallel test. 6EH Dual card test. 6FH Floppy test. 70H Fixed disk test. 71H Keylock test. 72H Pointing device test. Power on Diagnostics General Information Codes ---------------------------------------------- LEDs (hex) Meaning ---------- ----------------------------------- 90H RAM Setup. 91H Calculate CPU Speed. 92H Check configuration. 93H BIOS initialization. 94H POD Bootstrap. 95H Reset ICs. 96H System board POS. 97H VGA Power-on Diagnostics and setup. 98H Adapter POS. Power on Diagnostics Exception Codes ------------------------------------ LEDs (hex) Screen (dec) Meaning ---------- ------------ ----------------------------------- A0H 160 Exception 0 during POD. A1H 161 Exception 1 during POD. A2H 162 Exception 2 during POD. A3H 163 Exception 3 during POD. A4H 164 Exception 4 during POD. A5H 165 Exception 5 during POD. A6H 166 Exception 6 during POD. A7H 167 Exception 7 during POD. A8H 168 Exception 8 during POD. A9H 169 Exception 9 during POD. AAH 170 Exception A during POD. ABH 171 Exception B during POD. ACH 172 Exception C during POD. ADH 173 Exception D during POD. Non-Maskable Interrupt Error codes ---------------------------------- LEDs (hex) Screen (dec) Meaning ---------- ------------ ----------------------------------- C0H 224 System board memory failure. C1H 225 I/O Channel Check activated. C2H 226 Watchdog Time out. C3H 227 Bus Time out.