Nexcom Peak 550, User Manual

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Peak 550 User’s Guide
BIOS Setup 4- 48
The following POST Codes are for all of Compress Version &
Non-Compress Version
POST
(hex) Description
0B 1. Verify the RTC time is valid or not
2. Detect bad battery
3. Read CMOS data into BIOS stack area
4. PnP initializations including (PnP BIOS only)
-Assign CSN to PnP ISA card
-Create resource map from ESCD
5. Assign IO & Memory for PCI devices (PCI BIOS only)
0C Initialization of the BIOS Data Area (40 : 00
−
40:FF)
0D 1. Program some of the Chipset’s value according to Setup. (Early Setup
Value Program)
2. Measure CPU speed for display & decide the system clock speed
3. Video initialization including Monochrome, CGA, EGA/VGA. If no
display device found, the speaker will beep which consists of one single
long beep followed by two short beeps.
0E 1. Initialize the APIC (Multi-Processor BIOS only)
2. Test video RAM (If Monochrome display device found)
3. Show messages including:
-Award Logo, Copyright string, BIOS Date code & Part No.
-OEM specific sign on messages
-Energy Star Logo (Green BIOS ONLY)
-CPU brand, type & speed
-Test system BIOS checksum(Non-Compress Version only)
0F DMA channel 0 test
10 DMA channel 1 test
11 DMA page registers test
12-13 Reserved
14 Test 8254 Timer 0 Counter 2.
15 Test 8259 interrupt mask bits for channel 1
16 Test 8259 interrupt mask bits for channel 2
17 Reserved
19 Test 8259 functionality
1A-1D Reserved
1E If EISA NVM checksum is good, execute EISA initialization (EISA BIOS
only)
1F-29 Reserved
30 Detect Base Memory & Extended Memory Size