Appendix A: POST Code LED Decoder Intel® Server Board S5500WB TPS
Revision 1.3
Intel order number E53971-004
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Table 56. Diagnostic LED POST Code Decoder
Diagnostic LED Decoder
1 = On, 0=Off
Upper Nibble Lower Nibble
MSB LSB
Checkpoint
8h 4h 2h 1h 8h 4h 2h 1h
LED #7 #6 #5 #4 #3 #2 #1 #0
Description
Host Processor
0x10h 0 0 0
1
0 0 0 0
Power-on initialization of the host processor (bootstrap
processor)
0x11h
0 0 0
1
0 0 0
1
Host processor cache initialization (including AP)
0x12h
0 0 0
1
0 0
1
0
Starting application processor initialization
0x13h
0 0 0
1
0 0
1 1
SMM initialization
0x14h
0 0 0
1
0
1
0 0
Selection of Processor with least features to be used as Boot
Strap Processor
0x15h
0 0 0
1
0
1
0
1
Switch an AP processor to become the new Boot Strap
Processor
Chipset
0x21h 0 0
1
0 0 0 0
1
Initializing a chipset component
Memory
0x22h 0 0
1
0 0 0
1
0
Reading configuration data from memory (SPD on FBDIMM)
0x23h 0 0
1
0 0 0
1 1
Detecting presence of memory
0x24h 0
0
1
0 0
1
0 0
Programming timing parameters in the memory controller
0x25h 0 0
1
0 0
1
0
1
Configuring memory parameters in the memory controller
0x26h 0 0
1
0 0
1 1
0
Optimizing memory controller settings
0x27h 0 0
1
0 0
1 1 1
Initializing memory, such as ECC init
0x28h 0 0
1
0
1
0 0 0
Testing memory
0xE4h
1 1 1
0 0
1
0 0
BIOS cannot communicate with DIMM (serial channel
hardware failure)
0xE6h
1 1 1
0 0
1 1
0
DIMM(s) failed Memory iBIST or Memory Link Training failure
0xE8h
1 1 1
0
1
0 0 0
No memory available (system halted)
0xE9h
1 1 1
0
1
0 0
1
Unsupported or invalid DIMM configuration (system halted)
0xEAh
1 1 1
0
1
0
1
0
DIMM training sequence failed (system halted)
0xEBh
1 1 1
0
1
0
1 1
Memory test failed (system halted)
0xECh
1 1 1
0
1 1
0 0
Unsupported or invalid DIMM configuration (system halted)
0xEDh
1 1 1
0
1 1
0
1
Unsupported or invalid DIMM configuration (system halted)
0xEBh
1 1 1
0
1
0
1 1
DIMM with corrupted SPD data detected (system halted)