Aspire Digital 6930G, MB.ASR06.001 manual Pico Bios

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Function

Phase

Component

Code

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

0x72

Check status bits to see if configuration problems were

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detected. If so, display error messages on the screen.

 

 

 

 

 

 

0x4F

Initialize MultiBoot. Allocate memory for old and new MultiBoot

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history tables.

 

 

 

 

 

 

0xCD

Reclaim console vector after HW vectors initialized.

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0x7D

Initialize Intelligent System Monitoring.

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0x7E

The Coprocessor initialization test. Use the floating point

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instructions to determine if a coprocessor exists instead of the

 

 

 

ET bit in CR0.

 

 

 

 

 

 

0xC1

Check Boot Type (Server BIOS)

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0x80

Disable onboard COM and LPT ports before testing for

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presence of external I/O devices.

 

 

 

 

 

 

0xCA

Redirect Int 15h to enable target board to use remote keyboard

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(PICO BIOS).

 

 

 

 

 

 

0x88

Initialize interrupt controller.

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0x81

Run late device initialization routines.

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0x87

Initialize motherboard configurable devices.

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0x85

Display any ESCD read errors and configure all PnP ISA

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devices.

 

 

 

 

 

 

0x82

Test and identify RS232 ports.

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0x84

Test and identify parallel ports.

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0x86

Initialize onboard I/O and BDA according to CMOS and

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presence of external devices.

 

 

 

 

 

 

0x83

Configure Fisk Disk Controller.

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0xCE

Initialize digitizer device and display installed message if

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successful.

 

 

 

 

 

 

0x89

Enable non-maskable interrupts.

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0x8C

Initialize both of the floppy disks and display an error message

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if failure was detected. Check both drives to establish the

 

 

 

appropriate diskette types in the TrustedCore data area

 

 

 

 

 

 

0xCB

Redirect Int 13h to Memory Technologies Devices such as

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ROM, RAM, PCMCIA, and serial disk (PICO BIOS).

 

 

 

 

 

 

0xCD

Remap I/O and memory address space for PCMCIA (PICO

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BIOS).

 

 

 

 

 

 

0x90

Initialize hard-disk controller. If the CMOS ram is valid and

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intact, and fixed disks are defined, call the fixed disk init routine

 

 

 

to initialize the fixed disk system and take over the appropriate

 

 

 

interrupt vectors.

 

 

 

 

 

 

0x8B

Setup interrupt vector and present bit in Equipment byte.

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0x95

1. Check CMOS for CD-ROM drive present

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2.Activate the drive by checking for media present

3.Check sector 11h (17) for Boot Record Volume Descriptor

4.Check the boot catalog for validity

5.Pick a boot entry

6.Create a Specification Packet

0x92

Jump to UserPatch2.

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