Appendix  C  Troubleshooting 
 
 
 
Prox-1260 USER
′
S MANUAL 
Page: C-7 
 
 
15 : Test 8259 interrupt mask bits for channel 1. 
 
16 : Test 8259 interrupt mask bits for channel 2. 
 
19 : Test 8259 functionality. 
 
30 : Detect Base Memory & Extended Memory Size. 
 
31 : 1. Test Base Memory from 256K to 640K. 
        2. Test Extended Memory from 1M to the top of memory. 
 
32 : 1.Display the Award Plug & Play BIOS Extension message (PnP BIOS only). 
 
  2.Program all onboard super I/O chips (if any) including COM ports, LPT 
ports, FDD port....according to setup value. 
 
3C : Set flag to allow users to enter CMOS Setup Utility. 
 
3D : 1 Initialize Keyboard. 
    2 Install PS2 mouse. 
 
3E : Try to turn on Level 2 cache. 
    Note : Some chipset may need to turn on the L2 cache in this stage. But 
usually, the cache is turn on later in POST 61h. 
 
BF : 1. Program the rest of the Chipset‘s value according to Setup. (Later Setup 
Value Program). 
        2. If auto-configuration is enabled, programmed the chipset with pre-defined 
value in the MODBINable Auto-Table. 
 
41 : Initialize floppy disk drive controller. 
 
42 : Initialize Hard drive controller. 
 
43 : If it is a PnP BIOS, initialize serial & parallel ports. 
 
45 : Initialize math coprocessor.