Error Messages And Beep Codes; Speaker; Bios Beep Codes - Intel DH61CR Specification

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Error Messages and Beep Codes

4.1

Speaker

The board-mounted piezoelectric speaker provides audible error code (beep code)
information during POST.
For information about
The location of the onboard speaker
4.2

BIOS Beep Codes

Whenever a recoverable error occurs during POST, the BIOS causes the board's
piezoelectric speaker to beep an error message describing the problem (see Table 37).
Table 37. BIOS Beep Codes
Type
F2 Setup/F10 Boot
Menu Prompt
BIOS update in progress None
Video error (no add-in
graphics card installed)
Memory error
Thermal trip warning
Pattern
One 0.5 second beep when BIOS is ready to
accept keyboard input
On-off (1.0 second each) two times, then
2.5-second pause (off), entire pattern repeats
(beeps and pause) once and the BIOS will
continue to boot.
On-off (1.0 second each) three times, then
2.5-second pause (off), entire pattern repeats
(beeps and pause) until the system is powered
off.
Alternate high and low beeps (1.0 second each)
for eight beeps, followed by system shut down.
Refer to
Figure 1, page 13
Frequency/Comments
932 Hz
932 Hz
For processors requiring an
add-in graphics card
932 Hz
High beep 2000 Hz
Low beep 1500 Hz
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