Acer Altos R710 manual Checkpoint, Beep Code, Description

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Appendix D: BIOS POST Checkpoint Codes

 

 

 

Checkpoint

Beep Code

Description

Code

 

 

 

 

 

68h

 

Enable external cache and CPU cache if

 

 

present.

 

 

Configure non-cacheable regions if neces-

 

 

sary.

 

 

NOTE: Hook routine must preserve DX,

 

 

which carries the cache size to the Display-

 

 

CacheSizeJ routine.

 

 

 

69h

 

Initialize the handler for SMM.

 

 

 

6Ah

 

Display external cache size on the screen if it

 

 

is non-zero.

 

 

NOTE: Hook routine must preserve DX,

 

 

which carries the cache size from the cache-

 

 

ConfigureJ routine.

 

 

 

6Bh

 

If CMOS is bad, load Custom Defaults from

 

 

flash into CMOS. If successful, reboot.

 

 

 

6Ch

 

Display shadow message.

 

 

 

6Eh

 

Display the starting offset of the non-dis-

 

 

posable segment of the BIOS.

 

 

 

70h

 

Check flags in CMOS and in the BIOS data

 

 

area for errors detected during POST. Dis-

 

 

play error messages on the screen.

 

 

 

72h

 

Check status bits to see if configuration

 

 

problems were detected. If so, display error

 

 

messages on the screen.

 

 

 

76h

 

Check status bits for keyboard-related fail-

 

 

ures. Display error messages on the screen.

 

 

 

7Ch

 

Initialize the hardware interrupt vectors

 

 

from 08 to 0F and from 70h to 77h. Also set

 

 

the interrupt vectors from 60h to 66h to

 

 

zero.

 

 

 

7Dh

 

Initialize Intelligent System Monitoring.

 

 

 

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