Error Messages; Beep Symptoms - Lenovo ThinkPad X260 Hardware Maintenance Manual

Error messages

Symptom or error
Fan error.
Thermal sensing error.
The System UEFI Variable Storage is nearly full.

Beep symptoms

Symptom or error
One short beep, pause, three short beeps, pause, three
more short beeps, pause, and one short beep (1-3-3-1
beeps)
One long and two short beeps
Three short beeps, pause, one short beep, pause, one
short beep, pause, and three more short beeps (3-1-1-3
beeps)
Four cycles of four short beeps
Five short beeps
Five short beeps, pause, five more short beeps, and
pause
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FRU or action, in sequence
1. Replace the fan.
2. Apply thermal grease.
3. Replace the system board.
Replace the system board.
Note: This error indicates that the operating system
or applications cannot create, modify, or delete data
in the non-volatile system UEFI variable storage due to
insufficient storage space after POST.
The non-volatile system UEFI variable storage is used
by the UEFI BIOS and by the operating system or
applications. This error occurs when the operating system
or applications store large amounts of data in the variable
storage. All data needed for POST, such as BIOS setup
settings, chipset or platform configuration data, are stored
in a separate UEFI variable storage.
Solution: Enter ThinkPad Setup. A dialog asks the user
for confirmation to clean up the storage. If the user
selects "Yes", all data that were created by the operating
system or applications are deleted except global variables
defined by the Unified Extensible Firmware Interface
Specification. If the user selects "No", all data is kept, but
the operating system or applications will not be able to
create, modify, or delete data in the storage.
If this error happens at a service center, Lenovo authorized
service personnel will clean up the non-volatile system
UEFI variable storage using the above solution.
Solution
Memory problem. Shut down the computer immediately
and have the computer serviced.
Video problem. Shut down the computer immediately and
have the computer serviced.
PCI resource problem. Shut down the computer
immediately and have the computer serviced.
TCG*-compliant functionality-related problem (might be
the TPM initialization failure). Shut down the computer
immediately and have the computer serviced.
* TCG is the abbreviation for Trusted Computing Group.
System board problem. Shut down the computer
immediately and have the computer serviced.
TCG-compliant functionality-related problem (might
be the BIOS code validation failure). Shut down the
computer immediately and have the computer serviced.