Configuring the BIOS
71
Award POST Codes
Code Name Description
88 Reserved
89
Setup ACPI
tables
Setup ACPI tables
8A Reserved
8B
Option ROM
Detect
Scan for Option ROMs
8C Reserved
8D
Enable Parity
Check
Enable Parity Check
8E Reserved
8F IRQ12 Enable Enable IRQ12 if mouse present
90 Reserved
91 Reserved
92 Reserved
93
Boot Medium
Read
Detect and store boot partition head and cylinders
values in RAM
94 Final Init Final init for last micro details before boot
95 NumLock Set NumLock status according to Setup
96 Boot Attempt Set low stack Boot via INT 19h.
C0 Base CPU test Read/Write CPU registers
C1
Memory
Presence
Base memory detect
C2 Early Memory Board Initialization
C3
Extend
Memory
Turn on extended memory, cache initialization
C4 Special Display First display initialization
C5 Early Shadow Early shadow enable for fast boot
C6
Cache
presence
External cache size detection
CF CMOS Check CMOS checkup
B0 Spurious If interrupt occurs in protected mode.