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Error Reporting and Handling

Intel® SHG2 DP Server Board Technical Product Specification

Intel Order Number C11343-001

Revision 1.0


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6.5.1

Alert Standard Forum (ASF) Progress Codes

The BIOS utilizes ASF Progress Events as described in the ASF Specification, Revision 1.0a
from the Distributed Management Task Force (DMTF). BIOS supported events are shown in
Table 28.

Table 28. Event Request Message Event Data Field Contents

ASF Code

Description

Comment

01h

Memory initialization.

At beginning of ECC initialization or memory test.

02h

Hard-disk initialization

At beginning of IDE device detection.

03h

Secondary processor(s) initialization

At beginning of MP Init

04h

User authentication

When waiting for User/Supervisor password

05h

User-initiated system setup

When Setup is invoked

06h

USB resource configuration

When USB devices scan/initialization begins

07h

PCI resource configuration

At beginning of configuring PCI devices in system.

08h

Option ROM initialization

At beginning of Option ROM scan

09h

Video initialization

At beginning of initialization primary video controller (if
present)

0Ah

Cache initialization

At beginning of setting up processor cache

0Bh

SM Bus initialization

At beginning of configuring SMBus to communicate
with BMC

0Ch

Keyboard controller initialization

At keyboard discovery scan

0Dh Embedded

controller/management

controller initialization

When first checking for functional BMC

12h

Calling operating system wake-up
vector

When waking from Wake-On-LAN, Wake-On-Ring,
Magic Packet, etc.

13h

Starting operating system boot
process, e.g. calling Int 19h

Immediately prior to calling INT19h

6.5.2

Power-On Self Test (POST) Codes

The BIOS indicates the current testing phase to I/O location 80h and to the LCD on the front
panel during POST after the video adapter has been successfully initialized. If a Port-80h card
(Postcard*) is installed, it displays this 2-digit code on a pair of hex display LEDs.

Table 29. Port-80h Code Definition

Code

Meaning

CP

Phoenix* check point POST code

Table 30 contains the POST codes displayed during the boot process. A beep code is a series
of individual beeps on the PC speaker, each of equal length. This table describes the error
conditions associated with each beep code and the corresponding POST checks point code as
seen by a ‘port 80h’ card and LCD. For example, if an error occurs at checkpoint 22h, a beep