One beep and the appearance of text on the display indicates successfulcompletion of the POST. More than one beep indicates that the POST detectsan error.Error code formatThis section provides an explanation of the encoded non-SCSI and SCSI POSTerror codes.Error messages are displayed on the screen as three, four, five, eight, twelve,or thirteen digits. An X in an error message can be any number or letter. Theshorter POST errors are highlighted in the Symptom-to-FRU Index. Somedigits will represent different information for SCSI errors versus non-SCSIerrors.The following figure shows which digits display the shorter POST errors. Thefigure also defines additional SCSI information.RDDDPLSCB QEETTEQBCSLPDRest staterror code Extensionualifierus (0=internal 1=external)apacity of the devicelot number of the deviceUN (usually 0)UN (SCSI ID #)evice Numbereserved Digit (usually 0)Notes:1. Non-IBM device error codes and documentation supersede this list.2. Duplicate SCSI ID settings will cause misleading error symptoms ormessages.Product Recovery Program menuType 6568/6569/6648/6649 machines have recovery and diagnostics programson a separate hard drive partition. The recovery CD and EnhancedDiagnostics diskette are not shipped with the machine or the HMM. Todownload diagnostics tests or to order a recovery CD, see “EnhancedDiagnostics download or diskette” on page 35.At startup, after the machine tests the DIMM memory (if Power-on Self Test isset to Enhanced), the machine displays the following:To start the Product Recovery Program, press F11After depressing F11, you are given the following options.v Full recovery34 Hardware Maintenance Manual: IBM NetVista Computer Types 6058, 6059, 6269, 6568, 6569, 6578, 6579, 6648,6649
