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Acer 365 User Manual

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C-2

Service Guide

Table C-1

POST Checkpoint List

Checkpoint

Description

24h

PIC(8259) testing & initialization

30h

System Shadow RAM

34h

DRAM sizing

3Ch

Initialize interrupt vectors

4Bh

Identify CPU brand and type

35h

PCI pass 0

40h

Assign I/O if device request

41h

Assign Memory if device requested

44h

Assign IRQ if device request

45h

Enable command byte if device is OK

50h

Initialize Video display

52h

Download keyboard matrix

4Ch

ChipUp initialization for CPU clock checking

54h

Process VGA shadow region

58h

Set POST screen mode(Graphic or Text)

Display Acer(or OEM) logo if necessary

Display Acer copyright message if necessary

Display BIOS serial number

59h

Hook int vector 1ch for POST quiet boot

5Ch

Memory testing

5Ah

SMRAM test and SMI handler initialization

4Eh

Audio initialization

60h

External Cache sizing

External Cache testing(SRAM & Controller)

Enable internal cache if necessary

Enable external cache if necessary

64h

Reset KB device

Check KB status

Note: The keyboard LEDs should flash once.

7Ch

Reset pointing device

Check pointing device

70h

Parallel port testing

74h

Serial port testing

78h

Math Coprocessor testing

80h

Set security status

84h

KB device initialization

Enable KB device