AMI Post Code | EVGA P55 Classified 200, 160-LF-E659 manual

Appendix A. POST Codes for the EVGA P55 Classified 200

Motherboard

This section provides the AMI POST Codes (Table 6) for the EVGA P55 Classified 200 Motherboard during system boot up.

The POST Codes are displayed on the Debug LED readout located directly onboard the motherboard.

This Debug LED will also display current CPU temperatures after the system has fully booted into the Operating System.

Debug LED with CPU Temperature Monitor

Table 6.			AMI POST Code

	Code		Description
	03		Initialize BIOS.

	04		Check Battery Power and CMOS

	05		Initialize interrupt controlling hardware/vector table

	06		Initialize system timer

	07		Fixes CPU POST interface calling pointer

	08		Primary initialization of CPU

	C0		Secondary initialization of CPU

	C1		Set up boot strap processor information

	C2		Set up boot strap processor for POST

	C5		Enumerate and set up application processors

	C6		Re-enable cache for boot strap processor

	C7		Early CPU initialization exit

	0A		Initialize keyboard controller

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160-LF-E659, P55 Classified 200 specifications

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