2 Troubleshooting Procedures

2.4 System Board Troubleshooting

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

LED Status

Test item

Message

 

 

 

1Fh

PRE_BOOT_SETUP

Storing the value of 40:00h (for SIO save/restore)

 

 

 

 

 

Font address setting for resume password

 

 

 

 

 

Setting of parameter for character repeat on a USB

 

 

keyboard

 

 

 

 

 

Getting keys pressed during the IRT

 

 

 

 

 

Storing T_SHADO_RAM_SIZE

 

 

 

 

 

Reflecting expansion memory size to CMOS

 

 

 

 

 

Update of system resources information just before

 

 

booting

 

 

 

 

 

Updating a table for DMI

 

 

 

 

 

Rewriting memory map data for INT15h E820h

 

 

 

 

 

Rewriting Wake UP factor of DMI and SM-BIOS structure

 

 

table

 

 

 

 

 

Copying an ACPI table to the top of an expansion

 

 

memory

 

 

 

 

 

Waiting for the end of writing PSC version on BIOS

 

 

 

 

 

Waiting for the end of clock generator setting and check

 

 

(Stop at LED=20H when an error occurred)

 

 

 

 

 

Waiting for the end of serial port initialization

 

 

 

 

 

Canceling NMI Mask

 

 

 

 

 

Examining the checksum of TIT

 

 

 

 

 

Clearance of IRT running flag for runtime

 

 

 

 

 

Updating checksum for runtime

 

 

 

 

 

Branching to hibernation

 

 

 

 

 

Bluetooth initialization

 

 

 

 

 

Check upgrade of CPU, HDD, etc.

 

 

 

 

 

Check whether a target maintenance card is set

 

 

 

 

 

Disabling a PC card not used

 

 

 

 

 

Setting of Wake UP status data for ACPI

 

 

 

 

 

HW initialization prior to boot, Waiting for the end of HW

 

 

initialization

 

 

 

 

 

SID of SC initialization

 

 

 

 

 

Cutting power consumption of built-in LAN

 

 

 

21h

IRT_POST_END

 

 

 

 

FFh

 

 

 

 

 

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tecra m2 specifications

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