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0Ah

1. Disable PS/2 mouse interface (optional).

2. Auto detect ports for keyboard & mouse followed by a

port & interface swap (optional).

3. Reset keyboard for Winbond 977 series Super I/O chips.

0Bh Reserved

0Ch Reserved

0Dh Reserved

0Eh

Test F000h segment shadow to see whether it is R/W-able or not. If test fails,

keep beeping the speaker.

0Fh

Reserved

10h

Auto detect flash type to load appropriate flash R/W codes into the run time

area in F000 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 onboard clock generator if Early_Init_Onboard_Generator is defined.

See also POST 26h.

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.

24h

Prepare BIOS resource map for PCI & PnP use. If ESCD is valid, take

into consideration of the ESCD's legacy information.

25h

Early PCI Initialization:

-Enumerate PCI bus number.

-Assign memory & I/O resource

-Search for a valid VGA device & VGA BIOS,

and put it into C000:0

26h

1. If Early_Init_Onboard_Generator is not defined Onboard

clock generator initialization. Disable respective clock

resource to empty PCI & DIMM slots.

2. Init onboard PWM

3. Init onboard H/W monitor devices

27h

Initialize INT 09 buffer

28h Reserved

29h

1. Program CPU internal MTRR (P6 & PII)

for 0-640K memory address.

2. Initialize the APIC for Pentium class CPU.

3. Program early chipset according to CMOS setup.

Example: onboard IDE controller.

4. Measure CPU speed.

2Ah Reserved

2Bh

Invoke Video BIOS

2Ch Reserved

2Dh

1. Initialize double-byte language font (Optional)

2. Put information on screen display, including Award title,










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