Peak 602VL User's Guide
Rev. B0
Dec. 2000
BIOS Setup
4-36
POST (hex)
Description
for ESCD & DMI support.
11h Reserved
12h
Use walking 1’s algorithm to check out interface in CMOS circuitry. Also set real-time
clock power status, and then check for override.
13h Reserved
14h
Program chipset default values into chipset. Chipset default values are MODBINable by
OEM customers.
15h Reserved
16h
Initial Early_Init_Onboard_Generator switch.
17h Reserved
18h
Detect CPU information including brand, SMI type (Cyrix or Intel) and CPU level (586 or
686).
19h Reserved
1Ah Reserved
1Bh
Initial interrupts vector table. If no special specified, all H/W interrupts are directed to
SPURIOUS_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. Prepare BIOS resource map for PCI & PnP use. If ESCD is valid, take into consideration
of the ESCD’s legacy information.
4. Onboard clock generator initialization. Disable respective clock resource to empty PCI
& DIMM slots.
5. Early PCI initialization:
-Enumerate PCI bus number
-Assign memory & I/O resource
-Search for a valid VGA device & VGA BIOS, and put it into C000h:0.
