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Post codes – Acer 5517 User Manual

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Chapter 4

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Post Codes

These tables describe the POST codes and descriptions during the POST.

Code

Beeps

POST Routine Description

02h Verify

Real

Mode

03h

Disable Non-Maskable Interrupt (NMI)

04h Get

CPU

type

06h Initialize

system

hardware

08h

Initialize chipset with initial POST values

09h

Set IN POST flag

0Ah

Initialize CPU registers

0Bh

Enable CPU cache

0Ch

Initialize caches to initial POST values

0Eh

Initialize I/O component

0Fh

Initialize the local bus IDE

10h Initialize

Power

Management

11h Load

alternate

registers with initial POST values

12h

Restore CPU control word during warm boot

13h Initialize

PCI

Bus Mastering devices

14h

Initialize keyboard controller

16h 1-2-2-3

BIOS

ROM

checksum

17h Initialize

cache

before memory autosize

18h 8254

timer

initialization

1Ah

8237 DMA controller initialization

1Ch

Reset Programmable Interrupt Controller

20h 1-3-1-1

Test

DRAM

refresh

22h

1-3-1-3

Test 8742 Keyboard Controller

24h

Set ES segment register to 4 GB

26h

Enable A20 line

28h Autosize

DRAM

29h

Initialize POST Memory Manager

2Ah

Clear 512 KB base RAM

2Ch

1-3-4-1

RAM failure on address line xxxx*

2Eh

1-3-4-3

RAM failure on data bits xxxx* of low byte of memory bus

2Fh

Enable cache before system BIOS shadow

30h

1-4-1-1

RAM failure on data bits xxxx* of high byte of memory bus

32h

Test CPU bus-clock frequency

33h

Initialize Phoenix Dispatch Manager

36h

Warm start shut down

38h

Shadow system BIOS ROM

3Ah Autosize

cache

3Ch

Advanced configuration of chipset registers

3Dh Load

alternate

registers with CMOS values

42h Initialize

interrupt

vectors