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Beep sequences during system boot

During system POST, the audible alarm on the controller will produce one of a number of beep sequences to indicate the status of the controller.

Below is a description of these beep sequences:

Beep Sequences
Beep Sequence Status
beep - pause - beep, beep, beep Controller startup was successful.
beep, beep, beep, beep, ... RAID controller has a problem. A possible cause is disk failure. To diagnose the problem, run the Storage Console to check the status of the RAID controller and array.
beep, beep -
pause - beep,
beep - pause - ...
Memory or firmware may have a problem. More details may be available from the boot message. If necessary, recover the firmware.

This applies to:
Intel® RAID Controller SRCS14L
Intel® RAID Controller SRCU32
Intel® RAID Controller SRCU42L
Intel® Server RAID Controller SRCU31A
Intel® Server RAID Controller SRCU31LA



Solution ID: CS-010720
Date Created: 03-May-2004
Last Modified: 20-Jan-2009
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