CHAPTER 8 - BIOS Setup
114 SPI-8450-LLVA
POST
(hex) Description
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 Early_Init_Onboard_Generator switch.
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