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25.9
K ontron BIOS Extensions
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Besides the Phoenix System BIOS, the coolMONSTER/PM comes with a few BIOS extensions that support
special features. All extensions are located in the onboard flash EEPROM. Some extensions are
permanently available; some are loaded if required during boot up. Supported features include:
JIDA standard
®
Remote Control (JRC)
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Onboard LAN RPL ROM
®
All enabled BIOS extensions require shadow RAM. They will be loaded into the same 32K shadowed
memory block, if possible. However, if the system memory cannot find free memory space because all the
memory is already used for add-on peripherals, the BIOS extensions do not load.
25.9.1
J IDA BIOS extension
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The JUMPtec Intelligent Device Architecture (JIDA) BIOS extension is not a true extension BIOS. It is
part of the system BIOS and is located in the system BIOS segments after boot up. It is permanently
available and supports the JIDA 16-bit and JIDA 32-bit standard.
The JIDA 16-bit standard is a software interrupt 15hex driven programmers interface and offers lots of
board information functions. For detailed information about programming, refer to the JIDA
specification and a source code example (JIDAI???.ZIP), which you can find at the Kontron Web site. The
three question marks represent the revision number of the file. You also can contact technical support
for this file.
For other operating systems, special 32-bit drivers (JIDAIA??.ZIP) are available. You can download the
zip file from the Kontron Web site.
25.9.2
R emote Control Client Extension
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You can remotely control the coolMONSTER/PM using software available from Kontron (JRC-1, Part
Number 96047-0000-00-0). This software tool can communicate with the board via one of the serial
ports. During boot-up, the system BIOS scans the serial ports for an available JRC connection. If
detected, it loads the JRC client BIOS extension into the memory. With the JRC client loaded into the
first detected free memory location between C0000hex and DFFFFhex, a 16K block is shadowed.
For more information on the Remote Control usage, refer to the JRC-1 technical manual or Application
Note JRCUsage_E???.PDF, which you can find on the Kontron Web site.
25.9.3
L AN PXE ROM
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If the onboard LAN PXE ROM is enabled in the system BIOS setup, a special optional ROM for the Ethernet
controller loads into memory during boot up. This optional ROM allows you to boot the coolMONSTER/PM
over an Ethernet connection. A server with Intel PXE boot support is required on the other side of the
Ethernet connection. The setup and configuration of the server, including PXE support, is not the
responsibility of Kontron. The PXE ROM extension is loaded into the first free memory area between
C0000hex and DFFFFhex and a 16K block of memory is shadowed.
Kontron User's Guide
coolMonster/PM
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