Appendix E: POST Code Diagnostic LED Decoder Intel
®
Server Board S2600CP and Server System P4000CP TPS
Revision 1.1
Intel order number G26942-003
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In the following example, the BIOS sends a value of ACh to the diagnostic LED decoder. The
LEDs are decoded as follows:
Table 151. POST Progress Code LED Example
LEDs
Upper Nibble AMBER LEDs Lower Nibble GREEN LEDs
MSB LSB
LED #7 LED #6 LED #5
LED #4
LED #3
LED #2
LED #1 LED #0
8h 4h 2h 1h 8h 4h 2h 1h
Status ON OFF ON OFF ON ON OFF OFF
Results
1 0 1 0 1 1 0 0
Ah Ch
Upper nibble bits = 1010b = Ah; Lower nibble bits = 1100b = Ch; the two are concatenated as
ACh
The following table provides a list of all POST progress codes.
Table 152. POST Progress Codes
Checkpoint Diagnostic LED Decoder Description
1 = LED On, 0 = LED Off
Upper Nibble
Lower Nibble
MSB LSB
8h 4h 2h 1h 8h 4h 2h 1h
LED # #7 #6 #5 #4 #3 #2 #1 #0
SEC Phase
01h 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 First POST code after CPU reset
02h 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 Microcode load begin
03h 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 CRAM initialization begin
04h 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 Pei Cache When Disabled
05h 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 1 SEC Core At Power On Begin.
06h 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 0 Early CPU initialization during Sec Phase.
07h 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 1 Early SB initialization during Sec Phase.
08h 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 Early NB initialization during Sec Phase.
09h 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 1 End Of Sec Phase.
0Eh 0 0 0 0 1 1 1 0 Microcode Not Found.
0Fh 0 0 0 0 1 1 1 1 Microcode Not Loaded.
PEI Phase
10h 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 PEI Core
11h 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 1 CPU PEIM
15h 0 0 0 1 0 1 0 1 NB PEIM
19h 0 0 0 1 1 0 0 1 SB PEIM
MRC Process Codes – MRC Progress Code Sequence is executed - See Table 63
PEI Phase continued…
31h 0 0 1 1 0 0 0 1 Memory Installed
32h 0 0 1 1 0 0 1 0 CPU PEIM (Cpu Init)
33h 0 0 1 1 0 0 1 1 CPU PEIM (Cache Init)
34h 0 0 1 1 0 1 0 0 CPU PEIM (BSP Select)
35h 0 0 1 1 0 1 0 1 CPU PEIM (AP Init)
36h 0 0 1 1 0 1 1 0 CPU PEIM (CPU SMM Init)
4Fh 0 1 0 0 1 1 1 1 Dxe IPL started
DXE Phase
60h 0 1 1 0 0 0 0 0 DXE Core started
61h 0 1 1 0 0 0 0 1 DXE NVRAM Init
62h 0 1 1 0 0 0 1 0 SB RUN Init
63h 0 1 1 0 0 0 1 1 Dxe CPU Init