Saturday, August 9, 2014

power-on self-test (POST) is a process performed by firmware or software routines immediately after a computer or other digital electronic device is powered on.
The results of tests run by the POST may be displayed on a panel that is part of the device, output to an external device, or stored for future retrieval by a diagnostic tool. Since a self-test might detect that the system's usual human-readable display is non-functional, an indicator lamp or a speaker may be provided to show error codes as a sequence of flashes or beeps. In addition to running tests, the POST process may also set the initial state of the device from firmware.
In the case of a computer, the POST routines are part of a device's pre-boot sequence and only once they complete successfully is the bootstrap loader code invoked to load anoperating system.
In IBM PC compatible computers, the main duties of POST are handled by the BIOS, which may hand some of these duties to other programs designed to initialize very specific peripheral devices, notably for video and SCSI initialization. These other duty-specific programs are generally known collectively as option Rom's or individually as the video BIOS, SCSI BIOS, etc.

IBM BIOS BEEP CODES (teknicknet)


POST American Mega trends (AMI) BIOS BEEP CODES (Wikipedia)



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