2.4 System Board Troubleshooting  2  Troubleshooting Procedures 
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Table 2-4-1  Debug port (Boot mode) error status (3/9)
 
D port status  Inspection items  Details 
Initialization of MCH 
Initialization of ICH.D30.Func0 
Initialization of ICH.D31.Func0 
Initialization of ICH.D31.Func1 
Initialization of USB. Controller 
Initialization of ICH.D31.Func3 
Initialization of ICH Audio 
(F100) Initialization of H/W (before DRAM 
recognition) 
Initialization of  TI controller 
 
Initialization of PIT channel 1 
(Setting the refresh interval to “30μs”) 
Check of DRAM type and size 
(at cold boot) 
When unsupported memory is connected, 
becoming HLT after beep sound (HLT when 
DRAM size is 0) 
F101 
SM-RAM stack area test  HLT When it can not be used as a stack 
Cache configuration    
Cache permission (L1/L2 Cache)   
CMOS access test (at cold boot)  (HLT when an error is detected) 
Battery level check of CMOS   
CMOS checksum check   
Initialization of CMOS data (1)   
Setting of IRT status 
(Setting of boot status and IRT busy flag, The 
rest bits are 0) 
F102 
Storing DRAM size in CMOS   
F103  Resume branch (at cold boot) 
Not resume when a CMOS error occurred 
 
Not resume when resume status code is not set
 
 
 
Resume error check 
S3 returning error (ICH)   
Resume error F17AH RSM_UNKNOWN_ERR 
SM-RAM checksum check   
Resume error F173H RSM_SMRAM_ERR 
RAM area checksum check in system BIOS 
Resume error F179H SM_RAMBIOS_ERR 
Expansion memory checksum check   
Resume error F176H RSM_EXTMEM_ERR
PnP RAM checksum check   
Resume error F177H RSM_PNPRAM_ERR