From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Sep 13 18:10:30 2005 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6962516A41F; Tue, 13 Sep 2005 18:10:30 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from sclements@linkline.com) Received: from smtp1.linkline.com (smtp1.linkline.com [66.59.235.27]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 09A3E43D45; Tue, 13 Sep 2005 18:10:29 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from sclements@linkline.com) Received: from [127.0.0.1] (host-66-59-225-129.lcinet.net [66.59.225.129]) by smtp1.linkline.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6CE309CD9F; Tue, 13 Sep 2005 11:10:26 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <43271610.2000401@linkline.com> Date: Tue, 13 Sep 2005 11:10:24 -0700 From: Samuel Clements User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 1.0 (Windows/20041206) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: "Marc G. Fournier" References: <20050913150456.H1170@ganymede.hub.org> In-Reply-To: <20050913150456.H1170@ganymede.hub.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org, freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org Subject: Re: [OT] BIOS Beep Codes on Intel Server with AMI BIOS ... X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 13 Sep 2005 18:10:30 -0000 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 ... > > ---- > Marc G. Fournier Hub.Org Networking Services (http://www.hub.org) > Email: scrappy@hub.org Yahoo!: yscrappy ICQ: 7615664 > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-hardware > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-hardware-unsubscribe@freebsd.org"