Introducing The Vectra Vl800 Bios - HP Vectra VL800 Technical Reference Manual

6 HP BIOS

Introducing the Vectra VL800 BIOS

Introducing the Vectra VL800 BIOS
The BIOS is based on the core Phoenix BIOS, which includes 4 Mbits of flash
memory, support for PCI 2.2 Specification, suspend to RAM and RIMM
memory modules.
The BIOS includes a Boot ROM for the 3COM 3C905C LAN card.
The system ROM contains the POST (Power-On Self-Test) routines, and the
BIOS, which consists of the system BIOS, video BIOS, and low option ROM.
This and the next chapter give an overview of the following:
• Menu-driven Setup with context-sensitive help
• The address space, with details of the interrupts used
• The Power-On Self-Test or POST, which is the sequence of tests the
computer performs to ensure that the system is functioning correctly.
The system BIOS is identified by the version number IQ.01.xx.yy, where:
• IQ indicates that it is for the HP Vectra VL800
• 01 indicates that it is a Vectra PC
• xx is the BIOS release version
• yy indicates the language of the BIOS, for example, US for international
English, IT for Italian.
An example of a released version would look similar to the following the
example: IQ.01.04.US.
The procedure for updating the system ROM firmware is described on
page 113.
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