Troubleshooting
8–3
Safe ARCSBIOS
8.4 Safe ARCSBIOS
The safe ARCSBIOS provides an emergency recovery mechanism when the primary
firmware image contained in the flash has been corrupted. When the flash memory
has been corrupted, and no image can be loaded safely from the flash, you can run
the safe ARCSBIOS to reprogram the flash.
Table 8–2 Post Codes
Source
Post Codes
Description
SROM
00
Initialize Chipsets, Measure CPU speed
01
Normal Beep, Compute external cache parameters
Normal
02
Initialize memory controller
Srom
03
Initialize external cache
Codes
04
Test memory cached
05
Test memory noncached
07
Verify SROM checksum, PAL checksum, copy PAL to
memory
08
Initialize registers for PAL,jump into PAL
ARCSBIOS
80
No Fan
81
Can not measure CPU speed
82
Invalid DIMM configuration
83
Cached memory error
84
Noncached memory error
Error Codes
85
SROM has bad checksum
86
PAL has bad checksum
87
Error copying FLASH to memory, Failed noncached verify
88
Error copying FLASH to memory, Failed refill from DIMM
verify
89
Error copying FLASH to memory, Failed refill from Bcache
verify
8A
Standard ARCSBIOS has a bad checksum
Error Codes
8B
Safe ARCSBIOS has a bad Codeschecksum
8C
No video
8D
No keyboard
