Asus MAXIMUS IX APEX - Chapter 1: Product Introduction; Q-Code Table

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Chapter 1: Product Introduction
Chapter 1
Q-Code table
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Code Description
00
Notused
01 Poweron.Resettypedetection(soft/hard).
02 APinitializationbeforemicrocodeloading
03 SystemAgentinitializationbeforemicrocodeloading
04 PCHinitializationbeforemicrocodeloading
06 Microcodeloading
07 APinitializationaftermicrocodeloading
08 SystemAgentinitializationaftermicrocodeloading
09 PCHinitializationaftermicrocodeloading
0B Cacheinitialization
0C – 0D ReservedforfutureAMISECerrorcodes
0E Microcodenotfound
0F Microcodenotloaded
10 PEICoreisstarted
11 – 14 Pre-memoryCPUinitializationisstarted
15 – 18 Pre-memorySystemAgentinitializationisstarted
19 – 1C Pre-memoryPCHinitializationisstarted
2B – 2F Memoryinitialization
30 ReservedforASL(seeASLStatusCodessectionbelow)
31 MemoryInstalled
32 – 36 CPUpost-memoryinitialization
37 – 3A Post-MemorySystemAgentinitializationisstarted
3B – 3E Post-MemoryPCHinitializationisstarted
4F DXEIPLisstarted
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Memoryinitializationerror.Invalidmemorytypeorincompatiblememory
speed
54
Unspeciedmemoryinitializationerror
55
Memorynotinstalled
56
InvalidCPUtypeorSpeed
57
CPUmismatch
58
CPUselftestfailedorpossibleCPUcacheerror
59
CPUmicro-codeisnotfoundormicro-codeupdateisfailed