2.4 System Board Troubleshooting

2 Troubleshooting Procedures

Table 2-5 Printer port LED boot mode status (4/7)

LED Status

Test item

Message

 

 

 

04h

BIOS signature check (at Cold

 

 

Boot)

 

05h

SMRAM initialization

 

 

 

 

 

Check of Wake Up factor

 

 

 

 

 

Rewriting of SMRAM base and

 

 

storing CPU state map for BIOS

 

 

(Enabling SMI only by ASMI)

 

06h

Initialization of a device which

PIT test (at the Cold Boot) and initialization

 

needs initialization before

 

 

Setting of test pattern for PIT#0 of CH0

 

initialization of PCI bus

 

 

 

 

Check whether the test pattern set can be read.

 

 

 

 

 

Initialization of PIT CH0 (Setting of timer interrupt interval

 

 

to 55ms)

 

 

 

 

 

Initialization of PIT CH2 (Setting of sound generator

 

 

frequency to 664Hz)

 

 

 

 

 

Test of PIT CH1 (Check whether a refresh signal is

 

 

working properly when refresh interval is set to 30ms.

 

 

HLT when the time is out.)

 

 

Test of PIT CH2 (Check whether the speaker gate is

 

 

working properly.)

 

 

Measuring of CPU clock

 

 

 

 

 

Enabling SMI except for auto-off function

 

 

 

 

 

Check of parameter block A

 

 

 

 

 

Control of input voltage over rating

 

 

 

 

 

Control of battery discharge current

 

 

 

 

 

Control of AC adapter over current rating

 

 

 

 

 

Division process of measuring IRT time

 

 

 

 

 

Setting for clock generator

 

 

 

 

 

CPU initialization

 

 

 

 

 

Setting of CPU core frequency

 

 

 

 

 

Setting of Gsv high and low frequency

 

 

 

 

 

Check of Geyserville support

 

 

 

 

 

Setting of CPU clock to high

 

 

 

07h

Storing memory configuration in

 

 

buffer

 

 

 

 

 

Reading EC version

 

 

 

 

 

Update of flash ROM type

 

 

 

 

 

Evaluation of destination

 

 

(home/overseas) by DMI data

 

 

 

 

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