DX38BT Technical Product Specification

Intel Desktop Board DX38BT Technical Product Specification
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1.11.4 Alert Standard Format (ASF) Support
The board provides the following ASF support for PCI Conventional bus add-in LAN
cards:
• Monitoring of system firmware progress events, including:
⎯ BIOS present
⎯ Primary processor initialization
⎯ Memory initialization
⎯ Video initialization
⎯ PCI resource configuration
⎯ Hard-disk initialization
⎯ User authentication
⎯ Starting operating system boot process
• Monitoring of system firmware error events, including:
⎯ Memory missing
⎯ Memory failure
⎯ No video device
⎯ Keyboard failure
⎯ Hard-disk failure
⎯ No boot media
• Boot options to boot from different types of boot devices
• Reset, shutdown, power cycle, and power up options
• LAN Subsystem Software
LAN software and drivers are available from Intel’s World Wide Web site.