STL2 Server Board TPS

Basic Input Output System (BIOS)

The 8-bit test point is broken down to four 2-bit groups.

Each group is made one-based (1 through 4)

One to four beeps are generated based on each group’s 2-bit pattern.

Example:

Checkpoint 04Bh will be broken down to:

01 00 10 11

And the beep code will be:

2 – 1 – 3 – 4

 

 

Table 4-24. Standard BIOS Port-80 Codes

 

 

 

 

CP

Beeps

 

Reason

 

 

 

 

02

 

Verify Real Mode

 

 

 

 

 

04

 

Get Processor type

 

 

 

 

 

06

 

Initialize system hardware

 

 

 

 

08

 

Initialize chipset registers with initial POST values

 

 

 

 

09

 

Set in POST flag

 

 

 

 

 

0A

 

Initialize Processor registers

 

 

 

 

 

0B

 

Enable Processor cache

 

 

 

 

0C

 

Initialize caches to initial POST values

 

 

 

 

0E

 

Initialize I/O

 

 

 

 

 

0F

 

Initialize the local bus IDE

 

 

 

 

 

10

 

Initialize Power Management

 

 

 

 

11

 

Load alternate registers with initial POST values

 

 

 

12

 

Restore Processor control word during warm boot

 

 

 

 

14

 

Initialize keyboard controller

 

 

 

 

 

16

1-2-2-3

BIOS ROM checksum

 

 

 

 

 

18

 

8254 timer initialization

 

 

 

 

 

1A

 

8237 DMA controller initialization

 

 

 

 

1C

 

Reset Programmable Interrupt Controller

 

 

 

 

20

1-3-1-1

Test DRAM refresh

 

 

 

 

 

22

1-3-1-3

Test 8742 Keyboard Controller

 

 

 

 

 

24

 

Set ES segment register to 4GB

 

 

 

 

28

1-3-3-1

Autosize DRAM, system BIOS stops execution here if the BIOS does not detect any usable

 

 

memory DIMMs

 

 

 

 

 

2A

 

Clear 8 MB base RAM

 

 

 

 

2C

1-3-4-1

Base RAM failure, BIOS stops execution here if entire memory is bad

 

 

 

32

 

Test Processor bus-clock frequency

 

 

 

 

34

 

Test CMOS

 

 

 

 

35

 

RAM Initialize alternate chipset registers

 

 

 

 

36

 

Warm start shut down

 

 

 

 

 

37

 

Reinitialize the chipset

 

 

 

 

 

38

 

Shadow system BIOS ROM

 

 

 

 

 

39

 

Reinitialize the cache

 

 

 

 

 

3A

 

Autosize cache

 

 

 

 

 

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Intel STL2 manual Standard Bios Port-80 Codes, Beeps Reason

STL2 specifications

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