HP Kayak XU 04xx HP Kayak XU Series 04xx, HP MaxiLife Hardware Monitoring - Page 11

HP MaxiLife® Hardware Monitoring HP MaxiLife Test Sequence and Error Messages System Info Boot Steps Obtains information from the BIOS and the system's Serial EEPROM from a previously successful boot. This information includes: product name (HP Kayak XU, or XW), BIOS version, serial number, number of processors and speed, size of memory for each DIMM socket. The following diagram shows how the System Info obtains its information. System Info strings in EEPROM HP MaxiLife HP KAYAK XU Write BIOS LCD Status Panel DMI Table Shows the Power-On Self-Test (POST) codes during the system startup. The POST code is provided by the BIOS and is displayed on the LCD panel as soon as it is available. If the system stops during the startup, the last successful boot step POST code is displayed on the LCD. When Boot Steps is selected, the POST step will be shown on the LCD status panel during the subsequent boot processes. To ensure that HP MaxiLife is ready to display the first POST codes as soon as possible, the Pre-boot diagnostics are not executed when the system is booted with the Boot Steps option selected. The following diagram shows how Boot Steps obtains its information from the BIOS, and then displays a POST error if needed. System info Boot steps Next Go This is a toggle item, which is indicated with a check mark. HP MaxiLife "Write POST Code" "Write POST BIOS ERROR" HP KAYAK XU POST Code 24 Error! POST XXXX 11