Intel 430TX User Manual

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POST

(hex)

Description

1. Turn off OEM specific cache, shadow...
2. Initialize all the standard devices with default values
standard devices includes:

-DMA controller (8237), -Programmable Interrupt
Controller (8259), -Programmable Interval Timer
(8254), -RTC chip

Auto-detection of onboard DRAM & Cache

1. Test system BIOS checksum
2. Test the first 256K DRAM
3. Expand the compressed codes into temporary DRAM area
including the compressed System BIOS & Option ROMs

Copy the BIOS from ROM into E0000-FFFFF shadow RAM so
that POST will go faster

01-02

Reserved

Initialize EISA registers (EISA BIOS only)

Reserved

1. Keyboard Controller Self-Test
2. Enable Keyboard Interface

Reserved

Verifies CMOS’s basic R/W functionality

Program defaults values into chipset according to the
MODBINable Chipset
Default Table

1. Program the configuration register of Cyrix CPU according
to the MODBINable Cyrix Register Table
2. OEM specific cache initialization (if needed)

1. Initialize the first 32 interrupt vectors with corresponding
Interrupt handlers;Initialize INT no from 33-120 with
Dummy(Suprious); Interrupt Handler.
2. Issue CPUID instruction to identify CPU type
3. Early Power Management initialization (OEM specific)

1. Verify the RTC time is valid or not
2. Detect bad battery