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Beep and no beep codes - ThinkPad A30/p, A31/p
Beep symptoms
Symptom or errorFRU or action, in sequence
One beep and a blank, unreadable, or flashing LCD.
  1. Reseat the LCD connector.
  2. LCD assembly.
  3. External CRT.
  4. System board.
One long and two short beeps, and a blank or unreadable LCD.
  1. System board.
  2. LCD assembly.
  3. DIMM.
Two short beeps with error codes.

POST error.

Note: Click here for post error code definitions.

Two short beeps with blank screen.
  1. System board.
  2. DIMM.
Three short beeps, pause, three more short beeps, and one short beep.
  1. DIMM.
  2. System board
Only cursor appears.Reinstall operating system.


No beep symptoms
Symptom or errorFRU or action, in sequence
No beep, power-on indicator on, LCD blank, and no POST.
  1. Make sure that every connector is connected tightly and correctly.
  2. DIMM.
  3. System board.
No beep, power-on indicator on, and LCD blank during POST.
  1. Reseat DIMM.
  2. System board.
The power-on password prompt.A power-on password or a supervisor password is set. Type the password and press Enter.
The hard disk drive password prompt.A hard disk drive password is set. Type the password and press Enter.
The DOS full screen looks smaller.Start the ThinkPad Configuration program and set the Screen expansion function.

 



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