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EPOX EP-P80P+ User Manual Download Page 5

EP-P80P+

Introduction

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Overview of EP-P80P+

EP-P80P+ is a PCI based Diagnostic & Troubleshoot-

ing card for PCI local bus motherboards allowing

realtime feedback of system boot status and current

state of the PCI Byte Enable/Command signals.

The EP-P80P+ can help IT professionals and system

engineers in the troubleshooting and repair of non-

responsive systems by obtaining system status direct

from port I/O 80H. The card is also capable of decoding

from the PCI bus C/BE as well checking the presence of

+5, +3.3, -12, 12V and PCIRST power lines.

The EP-P80P+ manual includes a comprehensive list of

common AMI and Award BIOS POST codes; see

chapter 2.

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Page 1: ...mes are trademarks or registered trademarks of their respectives holders These specifications are subject to change without notice Manual Revision 1 0 December 02 2002 EP P80P 6000012P8 100 PCI Diagnostic Troubleshooting Card User s Manual ...

Page 2: ...sing from any defect or error in the manual or product EPoX may revise this manual from time to time without notice For updated BIOS drivers or product release information you may visit our websites at http www epox com or http www epox com tw Products mentioned in this manual are mentioned for identification purposes only Product names appearing in this manual may or may not be registered tradema...

Page 3: ...5 Overview of EP P80P 6 Chapter 2 Diagnostic Card Usage System Voltage Detected 7 PCI Bus C BE 3 0 Description 7 Circular Buffer 8 Forward Backward Button Interface 9 7 Segment Decoder and Decimal Point Indicator 10 AMI BIOS v6 24 Codes 11 Award BIOS v6 0 Codes 17 ...

Page 4: ... EP P80P Page 5 Chapter 1 Chapter 1 Chapter 1 Chapter 1 Chapter 1 Introduction Introduction Introduction Introduction Introduction Package Contents A EP P80P User smanual B EP P80P PCI Diagnostic Card User s manual ...

Page 5: ...able Command signals The EP P80P can help IT professionals and system engineers in the troubleshooting and repair of non responsive systems by obtaining system status direct from port I O 80H The card is also capable of decoding from the PCI bus C BE as well checking the presence of 5 3 3 12 12V and PCIRST power lines The EP P80P manual includes a comprehensive list of common AMI and Award BIOS PO...

Page 6: ...would represent the diagnostic card s corresponding LED being enabled on while 0 would be the LED disabled off BEQ PCI Bus 3 2 1 0 Command Type 0 0 0 0 Interrupt Acknowledge 0 0 0 1 Special Cycle 0 0 1 0 I O Read 0 0 1 1 I O Write 0 1 0 0 Reserved 0 1 0 1 Reserved 0 1 1 0 Memory Read 0 1 1 1 Memory Write 1 0 0 0 Reserved 1 0 0 1 Reserved 1 0 1 0 Configuration Read 1 0 1 1 Configuration Write 1 1 0...

Page 7: ...ost chip They are indexed 0 through 31 being organized in a form of circular buffer The previous one to the index i register is indexed i 1 at a lower location the next one indexed i 1 at a higher location The last register index 31 is followed with index 0 All the registers make a cycle In the way up 32 bytes of input entries that are most recently transmitted from the EP P80P can be retained ...

Page 8: ...rnal push buttons The RP Read Pointer is incremented or decremented and the trace buffer contents pointed by the updated RP Read Pointer will be selected for LED display In this operation LED display updates with the movement of the RP Read Pointer thereby 32 consecutive POST codes can be accessed one by one Figure 2 Circular Buffer and Read Write Pointer RDPTR Read Pointer WRPTR Write Pointer ...

Page 9: ...t codes for digit display by the built in BCD to 7 segment decoders The 7 segments are labeled a through g as shown below Besides the decimal point segments of the display can be driven by the multiplexed output DP to indicate current status of the read and write pointers within the circular buffer The coding of DP display is shown in table 1 h g i H P D w o L P D s u t a t S t i g i D t f e L t i...

Page 10: ...ck point D7 D7 To pass control to Interface Module D8 Main BIOS runtime code is to be decompressed D9 Control to be passed to main BIOS in shadow RAM Boot Block Recovery Code Check Points E0 OnBoard Floppy Controller if any is initialzed To start base 512K memory test E1 To initialise interrupt vector table E2 To initialise DMA and interrupt controllers E6 To enable floppy and timer IRQ enable int...

Page 11: ...d Interrupt controllers 13 Video display is disabled and port B is initialized Chipset init about to begin 14 8254 timer test about to start 19 About to start memory refresh test 1A Memory Refresh line is toggling Going to check 15us ON OFF time 23 To read 8042 input port and disable Megakey GreenPC feature Make BIOS code segment writeable 24 To do any setup before Int vector init 25 Interrupt vec...

Page 12: ... Memory size calculation over About to go for writing patterns to test memory 47 Pattern to be tested written in extended memory Going to write patterns in ase 640k memory 48 Patterns written in base memory Going to findout amount of memory below 1M memory 49 Amount of memory below 1M found and verified Going to findout amount of memory above 1M memory 4B Amount of memory above 1M found and verifi...

Page 13: ...nitialize 8259 interrupt controller 7F Extended NMI sources enabling is in progress 80 Keyboard test started clearing output buffer checking for stuck key to issue keyboard reset command 81 Keyboard reset error stuck key found To issue keyboard controller interface test command 82 Keyboard controller interface test over To write command byte and init circular buffer 83 Command byte written Global ...

Page 14: ...alization before Coprocessor test 9C Required initialization before Coprocessor is over Going to initialize the Coprocessor next 9D Coprocesor initialized Going to do any initialization after Coprocessor test 9E Initialization after Coprocessor test is complete Going to check extd keyboard keyboard ID and num lock Keyboard ID command to be A2 Going to display any soft errors A3 Soft error display ...

Page 15: ...80P Page 16 Diagnostic Card Usage 00 Copying of code to specific area done Going to give control to INT 19 boot loader For more information about AMI BIOS please refer to the AMI website at http www ami com ...

Page 16: ...1000 0 02h Reserved 03h Initial Superio_Early_Init switch 04h Reserved 05h 1 Blank out screen 2 Clear CMOS error flag 06h Reserved 07h 1 Clear 8042 interface 2 Initialize 8042 self test 08h 1 Test special keyboard controller for Winbond 977 series Super I O chips 2 Enable keyboard interface 09h Reserved 0Ah 1 Disable PS 2 mouse interface optional 2 Auto detect ports for keyboard mouse followed by ...

Page 17: ...PURIOUS_INT_HDLR S W interrupts to SPURIOUS_soft_HDLR 1Ch Reserved 1Dh Initial EARLY_PM_INIT switch 1Eh Reserved 1Fh Load keyboard matrix notebook platform 20h Reserved 21h HPM initialization notebook platform 22h Reserved 23h 1 Check validity of RTC value e g a value of 5Ah is an invalid value for RTC minute 2 Load CMOS settings into BIOS stack If CMOS checksum fails use default value instead 3 P...

Page 18: ...tialize multi language 2 Put information on screen display including Award title CPU type CPU speed 2Eh Reserved 2Fh Reserved 30h Reserved 31h Reserved 32h Reserved 33h Reset keyboard except Winbond 977 series Super I O chips 34h Reserved 35h Reserved 36h Reserved 37h Reserved 38h Reserved 39h Reserved 3Ah Reserved 3Bh Reserved 3Ch Test 8254 3Dh Reserved 3Eh Test 8259 interrupt mask bits for chann...

Page 19: ...each CPU are not identical 4Fh Reserved 50h Initialize USB 51h Reserved 52h Test all memory clear all extended memory to 0 53h Reserved 54h Reserved 55h Display number of processors multi processor platform 56h Reserved 57h 1 Display PnP logo 2 Early ISA PnP initialization Assign CSN to every ISA PnP device 58h Reserved 59h Initialize the combined Trend Anti Virus code 5Ah Reserved 5Bh Optional Fe...

Page 20: ... ports if the corresponding item in Setup is set to AUTO 6Eh Reserved 6Fh 1 Initialize floppy controller 2 Set up floppy related fields in 40 hardware 70h Reserved 71h Reserved 72h Reserved 73h Optional Feature Enter AWDFLASH EXE if AWDFLASH is found in floppy drive ALT F2 is pressed 74h Reserved 75h Detect install all IDE devices HDD LS120 ZIP CDROM 76h Reserved 77h Detect serial ports parallel p...

Page 21: ... text mode 4 Set up ACPI table at top of memory 5 Invoke ISA adapter ROMs 6 Assign IRQs to PCI devices 7 Initialize APM 8 Clear noise of IRQs 86h Reserved 87h Reserved 88h Reserved 89h Reserved 90h Reserved 91h Reserved 92h Reserved 93h Read HDD boot sector information for Trend Anti Virus code 94h 1 Enable L2 cache 2 Program boot up speed 3 Chipset final initialization 4 Power management final in...

Page 22: ...S please refer to the website at http www phoenix com Note The code displayed on the EP P80P debug card are varied with mainboards and BIOS version which you can see during system power on The codes inside the manual here is only for EPoX and reference Please refer to BIOS vendor or your mainboard manuals for different information to identify and solve you problem ...

Page 23: ...ress most issues that users may have If you are still unable to find a solution to your questions you can send e mail to our Technical Support Department nearest you Territory Support e mail account Web site UK Ireland technical epox uk com http www epox uk com Germany Austria and Switzerland support elito epox com http www elito epox com Netherlands France Greece Poland support epox nl http www e...

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