Appendix B: Bios Operation; Determining The Bios Version - Kontron MOPS/386A User Manual

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APPENDIX B: BIOS OPERATION

21.

The MOPS/386A comes with a Phoenix BIOS, which is located in an onboard Flash EEPROM

in compressed form. The device has 8-bit access. Faster access (16 bit) is provided by the

shadow RAM feature. The onboard Flash EEPROM also holds some special Kontron BIOS

extensions, which are loaded during boot up if the corresponding feature is enabled.

You can update the BIOS using a Flash utility.

21.1

To determine the BIOS version of the MOPS/386A, immediately press the <Pause/Break>

key on your keyboard as soon as you see the following text display in the upper left corner

of your screen:

PhoenixBIOS 4.0 Release 6.0

JUMPtec(R) BIOS Version <P389R112>

Whenever you contact technical support about BIOS issues, providing a BIOS version

<P389R???> is especially helpful.

The system BIOS provides additional information about the board's serial number, CPU, and

memory information by displaying information similar to the following:

S/N: AD215125

CPU = ALi M6117C

640K System RAM Passed

1M Extended RAM Passed

System BIOS shadowed

Video BIOS shadowed

UMB upper limit segment address: F25D

The board's serial number has value to technical support. MOPS/386A serial numbers

always start with AD and are followed by 6 or 7 digits. The first digit represents the year of

manufacturing, the next two digits stand for the week of manufacturing, and the last 3 or 4

digits are the number of the board in that lot.

In the example above, the board with the serial number AD215125 was manufactured in

year 2002, week 15 and it is the board number 125 of that lot.

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