POST Error Messages and Handling

Error Code Error Message Response
0000 Timer Error Warning
0004 CMOS Settings Wrong Warning
0005 CMOS Settings Bad Warning
0012 CMOS Date/Time Not Set Warning
0040 Refresh timer test failed Halt
0044 DMA Controller Error Halt
0045 DMA-1 Error Halt
0046 DMA-2 Error Halt
0048 Password check failed Halt
004C Keyboard/Interface Error Warning
004D Primary Master Hard Disk Error Warning
004E Primary Slave Hard Disk Error Warning
0055 Primary Master Drive - ATAPI Incompatible Warning
0056 Primary Slave Drive - ATAPI Incompatible Warning
005D S.M.A.R.T. Status BAD, Backup and Replace Warning
0120 Thermal Trip Failure Warning
0146 Insufficient Memory to Shadow PCI ROM Pause
0150 BSP Processor failed BIST Warning
0160 Processor missing microcode - P0 Warning
0161 Processor missing microcode - P1 Warning
0180 BIOS does not support current stepping - P0 Pause
0181 BIOS does not support current stepping - P1 Pause
0192 L2 cache size mismatch Pause
0193 CPUID, Processor stepping are different Pause
0194 CPUID, Processor family are different Pause
0195 Front side bus mismatch. System halted. Pause
0196 CPUID, Processor Model are different Pause
0197 Processor speeds mismatched Pause
5120 CMOS Cleared By Jumper Warning
5121 Password cleared by jumper Warning
5122 CMOS Cleared By BMC Request Warning
8103 Warning! Unsupported USB device found and disabled! Warning
8104 Warning! Port 60h/64h emulation is not supported by this USB Host Controller! Warning
8105 Warning! EHCI controller disabled. It requires 64-bit data support in the BIOS. Warning
8110 Processor 1 Internal Error (IERR) Warning
8111 Processor 2 Internal Error (IERR) Warning
8120 Processor 1 Thermal Trip error Warning
8121 Processor 2 Thermal Trip error Warning
8130 Processor 1 disabled Warning
8131 Processor 2 disabled Warning
8140 Processor 1 failed FBR-3 timer Warning
8141 Processor 2 failed FBR-3 timer Warning
8150 Processor 1 failed initialization on last boot Warning
8151 Processor 2 failed initialization on last boot Warning
8160 Processor 1: unable to apply BIOS update Pause
8161 Processor 2: unable to apply BIOS update Pause
8170 Processor 1 failed BIST Warning
8171 Processor 2 failed BIST Warning
8180 BIOS does not support current stepping for Processor 1 Pause
8181 BIOS does not support current stepping for Processor 2 Pause
8190 Watchdog timer failed on last boot Warning
8198 OS boot watchdog timer failure Warning
8300 BaseBoard Management Controller Failed Self-Test Pause
8301 Front Panel Controller failed to function Pause
8305 Primary Hot Swap Controller failed to function Warning
8306 Power Share Controller failed to function Warning
84F1 BIST failed for all available processors Halt
84F2 BaseBoard Management Controller failed to respond Pause
84F3 BaseBoard Management Controller in Update Mode Pause
84F4 Sensor Data Record Empty Pause
84FF System Event Log Full Warning
8500 Bad or missing memory in slot 4A Pause
8501 Bad or missing memory in slot 3A Pause
8502 Bad or missing memory in slot 2A Pause
8503 Bad or missing memory in slot 1A Pause
8504 Bad or missing memory in slot 4B Pause
8505 Bad or missing memory in slot 3B Pause
8506 Bad or missing memory in slot 2B Pause
8507 Bad or missing memory in slot 1B Pause
8601 All memory marked as fail. Forcing minimum back online. Pause