User`s guide

T-MOPSlcdSA User's Guide

Appendix B: BIOS Operation 40

19. Appendix B: BIOS Operation

The T-MOPSlcdSA comes with the modular AMIBIOS8 of American Megatrends Inc. The BIOS is

located in an onboard Flash EEPROM in compressed form. American Megatrends refers to the BIOS

setup utility as ezPORT. The device has 8-bit access. The shadow RAM feature provides faster access

(16 bits). The onboard Flash EEPROM also holds Kontron BIOS extensions, which are loaded during

boot-up if the corresponding feature is enabled.

You can update the BIOS using a Flash utility.

19.1 Determining BIOS Version

To determine the BIOS version of the T-MOPSlcdSA , 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:

BIOS Date: 22/08/05 17:59:22 Ver: 08.00.09

Kontron(R) BIOS Version <PEXTR113>

Whenever you contact technical support about BIOS issues, providing a BIOS version <PEXTR???> 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: ETA090080

CPU : SGS Thompson 486DX2

Speed : 120MHz

Press DEL to run Setup (F4 on Remote Keyboard)

Press F11 for BBS POPUP (F3 on remote Keyboard)

Checking NVRAM..

Initializing USB Controllers .. Done.

28MB OK

The board’s serial number has value to technical support. T-MOPSlcdSA serial numbers always start

with ET and are followed by up to seven characters and digits. The first three positions represent

the lot number and the last three or four digits are the number of the board in that lot.

In the example above, the T-MOPSlcdSA with the serial number ETA090080 is board number 80

from the lot A09.