Dell Optiplex GX620 hangs after firmware update... help

[Michael E Brown]

On Mon, Oct 22, 2007 at 11:55:36PM +0200, davide rossetti wrote:
> dear all,
> I'm so sad :( I ruined my GX620 using formware tools.... I know it's
> beta but please help me to get out of it...
> 
> I followed the instructions on
> http://linux.dell.com/wiki/index.php/Oss/Firmware_Tools/announce
> 
> I did:
> 1) yum install $(inventory_firmware -b)
> it found a brand new firmware (A11, old was A03)
> 2) apply_updates --yes
> 3) apply_updates --yes
> 4) apply_updates --yes
> 
> yes, I did it 3 times as the apply was so quick that I thought there
> was some error somewhere...
> Then I did a power-down
> Then a powen on
> and now I'm in the situation that the PC stops during BIOS:
> - LCD stay in power-save
> - a bunch of beeps are played, then it goes silent

Next question: what is the exact beep code?

Here are the normal beep codes you would see:

Code    Cause
1-1-2   Microprocessor register failure
1-1-3   NVRAM
1-1-4   ROM BIOS checksum failure
1-2-1   Programmable interval timer
1-2-2   DMA initialization failure
1-2-3   DMA page register read/write failure
1-3-1 through 2-4-4     DIMMs not being properly identified or used
3-1-1   Slave DMA register failure
3-1-2   Master DMA register failure
3-1-3   Master interrupt mask register failure
3-1-4   Slave interrupt mask register failure
3-2-2   Interrupt vector loading failure
3-2-4   Keyboard Controller Test failure
3-3-1   NVRAM power loss
3-3-2   NVRAM configuration
3-3-4   Video Memory Test failure
3-4-1   Screen initialization failure
3-4-2   Screen retrace failure
3-4-3   Search for video ROM failure
4-2-1   No time tick
4-2-2   Shutdown failure
4-2-3   Gate A20 failure
4-2-4   Unexpected interrupt in protected mode
4-3-1   Memory failure above address 0FFFFh
4-3-3   Timer-chip counter 2 failure
4-3-4   Time-of-day clock stopped
4-4-1   Serial or parallel port test failure
4-4-2   Failure to decompress code to shadowed memory
4-4-3   Math coprocessor test failure
4-4-4   Cache test failure

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Michael