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98 EPI-LX800 Series User’s Manual

40. POST Codes
Please take reference to Phoenix-Award website for the latest post codes.

http://www.phoenix.com/en/Customer+Services/BIOS/AwardBIOS/Award+Error+Codes.ht
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40.1 Normal POST Code

Note:

EISA POST codes are typically output to port address 300h. ISA POST codes are output to

port address 80h.

Code (hex)

Name

Description

C0

Turn Off Chipset and

CPU test

OEM Specific-Cache control cache

Processor Status (1FLAGS) Verification. Tests the following

processor status flags: Carry, zero, sign, overflow, the BIOS sets

each flag, verifies They are set, then turns each flag off and

verifies it is off.

Read/Write/Verify all CPU registers except SS, SP, and BP with

data pattern FF and 00. RAM must be periodically refreshed to

keep the memory from decaying. This function ensures that the

memory refresh function is working properly.

C1

Memory Presence

First block memory detect OEM Specific-Test to size on-board

memory. Early chip set initialization Memory presence test OEM

chip set routines clear low 64K of memory Test first 64K memory.

C2 Early

Memory

Initialization

OEM Specific- Board Initialization

C3

Extend Memory DRAM

select

OEM Specific- Turn on extended memory Initialization

Cyrix CPU initialization, Cache initialization

C4 Special

Display

Handling

OEM Specific- Display/Video Switch handling so that switch

handling display switch errors never occurs

C5

Early Shadow

OEM specific- Early shadow enable for fast boot

C6

Cache presence test

External cache size detection

CF

CMOS Check

CMOS checkup

B0

Spurious

If interrupt occurs in protected mode.

B1

Unclaimed NMI

If unmasked NMI occurs, display Press F1 to disable NMI, F2

reboot.

BF

Program Chip Set

To program chipset from defaults values

E1-EF

Setup Pages

E1- Page 1, E2 - Page 2, etc.

1

Force load Default to

chipset

Chipset defaults program

2 Reserved