Walmart.com - laptop mini-PCI diag card

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How does it work? Gives an error code that you look up? Is there some standard that is followed by laptop manufacturers to return standard error codes?
 

VirtualLarry

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Every BIOS vendor has POST codes, which IIRC are sent by the BIOS to port 0x80.

All you need is a card and debug LED to read them out.

They make debug cards for desktop, but I had not yet seen one for laptop.
 
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