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  • Page 1

    User's Guide Mega-Post PCI-Diagnosti c Card User's Guide 1[...]

  • Page 2

    User's Guide INTRODUCTION The Mega- Post PCI- Diagnostic Car d is a powerf ul diag nostic tool f or techn icians an d administra tors to troubleshoo t various pro blems of IBM co mpatible PC s. It is easy to install, y et extremely powerf ul to use. W ith Diagnostic Car d in han d, you no lo nger have to go thro ugh tedio us and time co nsumin[...]

  • Page 3

    User's Guide Power On Self-Test (POST) C odes Most AT an d 386 com puters (an d a few XT computers) o utput stat us codes duri ng POST. T he Diagnostic Car d display s these co des during a nd after POST. Refer to Append ix A fo r a comprehe nsive listing of POST codes provide d by BI OS manuf acturers. PCI Signal Def inition: CLK BIOS IRDY OS[...]

  • Page 4

    User's Guide POST Codes When the mac hine is t urned on, t he hexadecim al display should show the vario us POST co des as the system e xecutes (u nless it ha s a rare BI OS that does not display POST co des). If the machi ne does not boot, sy stem POST ha s detected a fatal f ault and stoppe d. The num ber showing in t he hexadeci mal displ a[...]

  • Page 5

    Appendix A Error Code- 00 (00)Going to give control to IN T 19H boo t loader. Error Code- 01 (01)Processor r egister test about to start, and NMI to be disabled ,286 reg. te st about to start. (01)Processor test 1;Pro cessor sta tus(1FL AGS) verification; Tests the foll owing processor status flag s carry, zero, sign, overf low. The BI OS will se t[...]

  • Page 6

    AMI AST Award Error Code - 06 controller i nput buff er to be free. Cal culat ing ROM BI OS checks um.. Video disabled a nd sys- tem timer te st begin V ideo disable d and sy stem timer co unting OK. (06)Support chipset in itialize. (06)Test me mory ref resh toggle; RAM must be periodical ly refreshed in-order to keep the memory fro m decaying. T h[...]

  • Page 7

    Appendix A Phoenix&Del l (0A)Initial ize CPU r egisters. (B eep)=1-1-3- 3. Perf orm BIOS chec ksum test . 1st 64K RAM c hip or data li ne failure m ulti - bit. AMI Award Error Code - 0B CMOS statu s register i nitialize done. Key board controller co mman d byte is wri tten. Going to iss ue Pin-2 3,24 block- ing/ unbl ocking comma nd. Going to i[...]

  • Page 8

    AST Award Compaq Appendix A blocking/unblo cking com mand. CMO S initia- lization do ne(if any ). CMOS stat us register abou t to Init f or Date and T ime. CMO S statu s register abo ut to Ini t for Date and Time. R efresh on a nd about to start 64K b ase memory test. Co nfirmed ref resh ON & about to start 64K memory . (10)DMA co ntroller tes [...]

  • Page 9

    Appendix A Chips & Tech (15)VERW /VERR f ailure. Phoenix&Del l (15)[Bee p]=2 - 2 - 2 1st 64K RA M chip or data line fail ure - bit 5. AMI Award Compaq Error Code - 16 (16)CH-2 t imer test over .8254 CH- 1 timer test to be com plete. CMOS checksum /battery check OK (16)Test 82 59-2 mask b its; Verify 8259 cha nnel 2 maske d interr upt by alt[...]

  • Page 10

    Appendix A (1E)Select me mory type. (1E)Global e quipment by te set for proper d isplay ty pe. (1E)If E ISA NV M checksum is go od, execu te EISA initializat ion(EISA BI OS ON LY). Size system memo ry. (1E)Test key board con troller. ACER AMI Award Compaq Phoenix&Del l (1E)[Bee p]=2-4- 3 1st 64K RAM chip or data line f ailure- bi t E.Base 6 4K [...]

  • Page 11

    Award Compaq setting video mode to be done next. (27)initialize parallel pr inter. Appendix A (27)Enable slo ts 7; Initial ize slot 7.Setup cac he control or shadow RA M. Phoenix&Del l (27)[Bee p]=3-2- 4 keyboard con troller test in-progress or failure. Error Code - 28 ACER (28)Tes t CPU. AMI Award Compaq (28)initializa tion before setting vi d[...]

  • Page 12

    Award Compaq Dell Phoenix AMI AST Award Compaq Appendix A (30)Get ba se memory & extende d memory size. Size b ase And e xtended memory from 256K to 640K a nd extended me mory above 1MB. (30)Clear 1st 128K by tes of RAM . (30)[beep]= none screen believed ru nning w /video ROM. (30)see Erro r Code " 2C" .Unexpected shutdown .[Beep] =no[...]

  • Page 13

    AMI Compaq Phoenix AMI Award Compaq Appendix A (39)New cur sor positio n read and saved. Going go display the Hit<DE L>messag e. Memory abov e 1MB ini tialized. (39)Check f or parallel ports. (39)Reinitiali ze the cac he.(Beep) =1-4-3-1 Error Code - 3A (3A)Check me mory , first 64K,one long beep. Reference string dis play is over . Going to d[...]

  • Page 14

    AMI Award Compaq Phoenix ACER AMI Award Compaq Phoenix ACER AMI Award Compaq Phoenix AMI Award Compaq Phoenix ACER AMI Phoenix AMI Phoenix AMI Phoenix AMI Appendix A (44)Interru pts enabled( if post sw itch is on). Going to in itialize data to check memory w rap around at 0:0. (44) Going to initialize data to check memory re-map a t 0:0. (44)Start [...]

  • Page 15

    AST Award Compaq Appendix A memory size f or reloca tion /shadow. DMA page regi ster test com plete. (50)Protecte d mode. (50)Write all the CMOS v alues c urrently in the BIOS stack areas back into the CMOS. Write CMOS; Write all CMO S v alues back to RA M an d clear screen . (50)Check f or dual freq in CMOS . Chips & Tech (50)Har dware initial[...]

  • Page 16

    AMI Compaq Appendix A (59)Hit<ESC > message cleared. <Wait..> mes sage dis played. A bout to start D MA and interr upt controll er test. Mas ter 8259 mask regis ter OK, about to start slave. (59)Check e xistence of adapter. Chips & Tech (59)Exiti ng protected mode. Phoenix AMI Compaq (59)Initialize PO ST di splay service . Error Cod[...]

  • Page 17

    Appendix A Chips & Tech (63)Protec ted mode interrupt. ACER (64)Start test real time clock . AMI AST Compaq Error Code - 64 (64)BIOS ROM data area check halfway. BI OS ROM d ata area ch eck to be complete. (64)Copy BIOS to shadow RAM. (64)Start te st of real me mory. Chips & Tech (64)Addre ss line A2 0. Phoenix AMI AST Compaq (64)Jump to Us[...]

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    Appendix A Chips & Tech (71)Key -lock . AMI Compaq Error Code - 72 (72)Keyboard interface test over, mo use i nterface test started. (72)High or der addre ss test. Chips & Tech (72)Poin ting divi de. Phoenix AMI Compaq ACER AMI Compaq Phoenix AMI Compaq AMI Compaq Phoenix AMI Compaq ACER Compaq Phoenix AMI Compaq AMI Compaq Phoenix AMI Comp[...]

  • Page 19

    AMI Compaq Phoenix AMI Compaq Phoenix ACER AMI Compaq Phoenix AMI Phoenix AMI Compaq Phoenix AMI Compaq Phoenix ACER AMI Compaq Phoenix AMI Compaq Phoenix AMI Compaq Phoenix AMI Compaq Phoenix ACER AMI Compaq Phoenix AMI Compaq AMI Phoenix AMI Phoenix ACER AMI Appendix A (82)Keyboard controller interface test over. A bout to write comma nd byte and[...]

  • Page 20

    Appendix A Compaq (90)Start of CMOS test . Chips & Tech (90)Set- up RAM. Phoenix AMI Compaq (90)Initialize hard-disk controller.(B eep)=3-2- 1-1 Error Code - 91 (91)Floppy setup com plete. Hard d isk setup to be done next. (91)CMOS seems to be O K. Chips & Tech (91)CPU speed. Phoenix AMI Compaq (91)Initialize l ocal-bus hard-disk co ntroll [...]

  • Page 21

    AMI Phoenix AMI Phoenix AMI Compaq Phoenix AMI Compaq AMI Compaq Phoenix AMI Compaq AMI Compaq Phoenix AMI Compaq AMI Compaq AMI AMI Compaq Phoenix AMI Compaq AMI Compaq Phoenix Phoenix Phoenix Compaq AMI Award Compaq Phoenix AMI Award Compaq Compaq Phoenix Compaq Compaq Phoenix Appendix A (9E)Initializat ion after Co Processor test is com plete. G[...]

  • Page 22

    Appendix A Compaq Phoenix Compaq Phoenix Compaq Compaq Phoenix Compaq Phoenix Compaq Phoenix Compaq Phoenix Compaq Phoenix Compaq Phoenix Award Compaq Phoenix Award Award Phoenix Award (B5)Drive erro r(error co ndition). (B5)terminate Quiet-Bo ot(optional) Error Code - B6 (B6)Drive fa iled(failed to respo nd). (B6)Check password(o ptional).(Bee p)=[...]

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    AMI Award AMI AMI AMI Compaq Phoenix AMI Compaq AMI Compaq Phoenix AMI Compaq AMI Compaq Phoenix AMI Phoenix AMI Compaq Phoenix Compaq Phoenix Compaq Phoenix Compaq Phoenix Phoenix Appendix A (CB)CMOS status regi ster Init do ne. Any initialization before k eyboard BAT to be done next. (CC)NMI handler shu tdown. Error Code - CD-CF (CD)BAT com mand [...]