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Figure 16: Mass storage components
2.4.12 BIOS
The FWA-3260’s BIOS is based on AMI’s APTIO BIOS and compliant to the UEFI, SMBIOS and
ACPI specifications.
The BIOS performs probing, initialization and configuration of the FWA-3260 and initializes
the OS boot process at the end of POST (Power On Self Test).
Regular BIOS output as well as the setup menu are displayed via the console port. Please
refer to section 1.3.3 reg. the console connection process.
The BIOS Setup Menu is described in detail in section 3.2. BIOS Error Codes used during POST
are described in appendix B.
Please note that the FWA-3260 does not have any onboard POST Code LEDs onboard. A
special POST code adapter is required to retrieve BIOS error codes.
All BIOS configuration parameters bare stored in NVRAM, a dedicated section of the BIOS
flash chip. Parameters are no longer stored in legacy CMOS RAM by the platform BIOS. I.e.
BIOS configuration parameters will not be lost due to an empty battery.
2.4.12.1 Password protection
The BIOS supports and administrator password to restrict access to the BIOS setup menu to
qualified and trusted personal, only.
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