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Gene-6320

Intel Pentium III Low-Power
Consumption Subcompact
Board with LCD, LVDS,
Ethernet, TV-out, Audio and
CFD.

Summary of Contents for Gene-6320

Page 1: ...Gene 6320 Intel Pentium III Low Power Consumption Subcompact Board with LCD LVDS Ethernet TV out Audio and CFD...

Page 2: ...ANT TO PART 15 OF THE FCC RULES THESE LIMITS ARE DESIGNED TO PROVIDE REASON ABLE PROTECTION AGAINTST HARMFUL INTERFER ENCE WHEN THE EQUIPMENT IS OPERATED IN A COMMERCIAL ENVIRONMENT THIS EQUIPMENT GEN...

Page 3: ...any infringements upon the rights of third parties which may result from its use Acknowledgements Award is a trademark of Award Software International Inc Cyrix is a trademark of Cyrix Corporation IBM...

Page 4: ...performance from our products So if you run into technical difficulties we are here to help For the most frequently asked questions you can easily find answers in your product documentation These answ...

Page 5: ...t Please consult your dealer for more details If you think you have received a defective product follow these steps 1 Collect all the information about the problem encountered For example CPU type and...

Page 6: ...el port 26 25 pin pitch 2 0mm mouse serial port 10 9 pin pitch 2 0mm adapter kit 1 USB cable 2 00mm 1 Audio 3 14 pin 2 00mm and RCA jack cable 4 pin 2 54mm 1 bag of screws and miscellaneous parts 1 Qu...

Page 7: ...ead it thoroughly before you install and use the board The product that you have purchased comes with a two year limited warranty but AAEON will not be responsible for misuse of the product Therefore...

Page 8: ...GA Disable Enable Select JP6 Pin1 3 5 16 TTL LCD Clock Select JP6 Pin2 4 6 17 LCD Voltage Select JP7 17 Front Panel CN1 18 IrDA Connector CN2 18 Floppy Drive Connector CN3 19 COM1 CN19 COM2 CN4 Connec...

Page 9: ...44 Advanced Chipset Features 49 Integrated Peripherals 54 Power Management Setup 59 PnP PCI Configurations 64 PC Health Status 66 Frequency Voltage Control 66 Load Fail Safe Defaults 67 Load Optimize...

Page 10: ...Chapter 1 General Information 1 1 General Information This chapter gives background information on the mainboard Sections include Board specifications Layoutanddimensions C H A P T E R...

Page 11: ...is compact only 5 75 x 4 unit offers all the functions of a single board computer but still fits in the space of a FDD drive Onboard features include two serial ports one RS 232 one RS 232 422 485 one...

Page 12: ...erential you add a third option 5 volts which provides an extra level with which to encode and results in a higher maximum data tranferrate A higher data transfer rate means fewer wires are required a...

Page 13: ...only operation Notice 1 Due to the memory addressing limitation of North bridge 82443BX and chipset be sure that SODIMM memory configura tion can be found in SODIMM memory module datasheet is arranged...

Page 14: ...5 25 360KB and 1 2MB and or 3 5 720KB 1 44MB and 2 88MB Parallel port One bi directional parallel port to support SPP ECP and EPP mode Serial port One RS 232 and one RS 232 422 485 serial port Ports...

Page 15: ...d by Gene 6320AE Chipset ESS1938Solo 1 Ethernet Interface Gene 6320AE Chipset Intel82559ER Ethernet interface Onboard 10 100 Base T RJ 45 connector Gene 6320GE Chipset Intel 82559ER for 10 100 Mb s N...

Page 16: ...Chapter 1 General Information 7 Board Layout...

Page 17: ...8 Gene 6320 User Manual Board Layout Reverse Side...

Page 18: ...Chapter 1 General Information 9 Board Dimensions...

Page 19: ...1 0 Gene 6320 User Manual Board Dimensions Reverse Side...

Page 20: ...apter 2 Installation 11 2 Installation This chapter describes how to set up the board hardware including instructions on setting jumpers and connecting peripher als switches and indicators C H A P T E...

Page 21: ...1 2 Gene 6320 User ManualBC 599 596 Locating Jumpers Connectors...

Page 22: ...Chapter 2 Installation 13 Locating Jumpers Connectors Reverse side...

Page 23: ...P6 TTL LCD Clock VGA Disable Enable Select JP7 LCD Voltage Select CN1 Front Panel Connector CN2 IrDA Connector CN3 Floppy Connector CN4 COM2 RS 232 422 485 Serial Port Connector CN5 USB Connector CN6...

Page 24: ...4 2 COM2 RS 232 422 485 Select JP2 JP3 The COM2 serial port can be selected as RS 232 RS 422 or RS 485 by setting JP2 and JP3 The follwing chart shows the jumper setting COM2 RS 232 422 485 Select JP...

Page 25: ...ll be cleaned PCI 104 Voltage Select JP4 You can use JP4 to set the input output voltage at 5 volts or 3 3 volts PCI 104 Voltage Select JP4 5V 3 3V default 3 2 1 3 2 1 3 2 1 3 2 1 default VGA Disable...

Page 26: ...n by setting Pin2 4 and 6 of JP6 The following chart shows the available options TTL LCD Clock Select JP6 Pin2 4 6 CLK Reverse CLK 6 5 4 3 2 1 default 6 5 4 3 2 1 LCD Voltage Select JP7 LCD Voltage Se...

Page 27: ...nfrared module With this module and application software such as laplink or Win95 98 Direct Cable connection user can transfer files to or from laptops notebooks PDA and printers This connector suppor...

Page 28: ...d circuit board connector usually used for 5 25 drives Connecting the Floppy Drive 1 Plug the 34 pin flat cable connector into the CN3 connector 2 Attach the appropriate connector on the other end of...

Page 29: ...ng the BIOS Peripheral Setup program you can select the address for each port or disable it Please check the following table for the pin assignment COM1 RS 232 Connector CN19 Pin Signal 1 DCD1 2 RXD1...

Page 30: ...1 5V 2 GND 3 USBD0 4 GND 5 USBD0 6 USBD1 7 GND 8 USBD1 9 GND 10 5V Parallel Printer Connector CN6 Normally the parallel port is used to connect the card to a printer The Gene 6320 includes an onboard...

Page 31: ...Signal Pin Signal 1 5V 2 5V 3 5V 4 5V 5 GND 6 GND 7 GND 8 GND 9 GND 10 GND 11 GND 12 3 3V 13 GND 14 3 3V 15 GND 16 3 3V 17 2 5V 18 3 3V 19 2 5V 20 3 3V 21 GND 22 3 3V 23 GND 24 1 5V 25 GND 26 1 5V 27...

Page 32: ...ire corresponds to pin 1 on the connector which is labeled on the board 2 Plug the other end of the cable to the Enhanced IDE hard drive with pin 1 on the cable corresponding to pin 1 on the hard driv...

Page 33: ...RESET 2 GND 3 DATA7 4 DATA8 5 DATA6 6 DATA9 7 DATA5 8 DATA10 9 DATA4 10 DATA11 11 DATA3 12 DATA12 13 DATA2 14 DATA13 15 DATA1 16 DATA14 17 DATA0 18 DATA15 19 GND 20 N C 21 REQ 22 GND 23 IO WRITE 24 GN...

Page 34: ...Connector CN9 Pin Signal Pin Signal 1 Y 2 CVBS 3 GND 4 GND 5 C 6 N C 7 GND 8 N C LVDS Connector CN10 LVDS Connector CN10 Pin Signal Pin Signal 1 LVDS_TX1P 2 LVDS_TX1N 3 GND 4 GND 5 LVDS_TXCLKP 6 LVDS...

Page 35: ...GND 4 GND 5 3 3V 6 3 3V 7 ENBKL 8 GND 9 BLUE0 10 BLUE1 11 BLUE2 12 BLUE3 13 BLUE4 14 BLUE5 15 BLUE6 16 BLUE7 17 GREEN0 18 GREEN1 19 GREEN2 20 GREEN3 21 GREEN4 22 GREEN5 23 GREEN6 24 GREEN7 25 RED0 26...

Page 36: ...ill have the audio function on board It attaches the Mic In Line In and Audio Out to the corresponding pins as shown in the following table Audio Connector CN12 Pin Signal Pin Signal 1 MIC IN 2 MIC VC...

Page 37: ...a tion CN13 and the other to offer 10 100 Mb s N way auto negotiation operation CN14 10 100Base Tx Ethernet Connector CN14 Pin Signal Pin Signal 1 N C 9 TRD0 2 N C 10 TRD0 3 N C 11 LINK LED 4 N C 12 A...

Page 38: ...External PME Connector CN15 Pin Signal 1 VCC5SBY 2 GND 3 PME 4 SMBDATA 5 SMBCLK External ATX Power Connector CN16 If you want to use ATX power and some special function such as wake on LAN you may nee...

Page 39: ...n untailed fan so that it can be plugged into your board fan header FAN Connector CN17 Pin Signal 1 GND 2 12V 3 FAN SPEED SENSE 4P Power Connector CN18 This is the common power connector and please ch...

Page 40: ...most cases but in some cases especially in embedded applications a key board is not used The standard PC AT BIOS will report an error or fail during power on self test POST after a reset if the keyboa...

Page 41: ...28 DATA12 4 DATA5 29 DATA13 5 DATA6 30 DATA14 6 DATA7 31 DATA15 7 CS 1 32 CS 3 8 GND 33 GND 9 GND 34 IOREAD 10 GND 35 IOWRITE 11 GND 36 5V 12 GND 37 IRQ15 13 5V 38 5V 14 GND 39 CSEL 15 GND 40 N C 16 G...

Page 42: ...Chapter 3 Award BIOS Setup 33 3 Award BIOS Setup This chapter describes how to configure the BIOS for the system C H A P T E R...

Page 43: ...ing POST you can start the Setup program in one of two ways 1 By pressing Del immediately after switching the system on or 2 By pressing Del or pressing Ctrl Alt Esc when the following message appears...

Page 44: ...current page and return to Main Menu PgUP Increase the numeric value or make changes PgDn Decrease the numeric value or make changes F1 General help only for Status Page Setup Menu and Option Page Se...

Page 45: ...t resets your system to its default configuration You can invoke this override by immediately pressing Insert when you restart your computer You can restart by either using the ON OFF switch the RESET...

Page 46: ...on your system Advanced Chipset Features Use this menu to change the values in the chipset registers and optimize your system s performance Integrated Peripherals Use this menu to specify your setting...

Page 47: ...for the minimal stable performance for your system to operate Load Optimized Defaults Use this menu to load the BIOS default values that are factory settings for optimal performance system operations...

Page 48: ...y of the week from the other date information This field is for information only Press the left or right arrow key to move to the desired field date month year Press the PgUp or PgDn key to increment...

Page 49: ...nt to select AUTO other methods of selecting the drive type are available 1 NONE No drive type to be selected 2 Manual This will allow you to manually set the drive type you are using in your system S...

Page 50: ...nder Landz Landing zone Sector Number of sectors Drive A Drive B Select the correct specifications for the diskette drive s installed in the computer None No diskette drive installed 360K 5 25 in 5 1...

Page 51: ...24Bit TFT 800x600 18Bit TFT 800x600 24Bit TFT 1024x768 18Bit TFT 1024x768 24Bit TFT TV Mode Phase Alternation Line PAL is the analog television display standard that is used in Europe and certain othe...

Page 52: ...rograms and data currently being used so they are accessible to the CPU Modern personal computers may contain up to 64 MB 128 MB or more Base Memory Typically 640 KB Also called conventional memory Th...

Page 53: ...s to write to the boot sector or the partition table of the hard disk drive You should then run an anti virus program Keep in mind that this feature protects only the boot sector not the entire hard d...

Page 54: ...ernal cache memory Thechoices Enabled Disabled CPU L2 Cache ECC Checking When you select Enabled memory checking is enable when the external cache contains ECC SRAMs Thechoices Enabled Disabled Quick...

Page 55: ...they have 40 or 80 tracks Only 360 KB floppy drives have 40 tracks drives with 720 KB 1 2 MB and 1 44 MB capacity all have 80 tracks Because very few modern PCs have 40 track floppy drives we recomme...

Page 56: ...elect a typematic delay the delay before key strokes begin to repeat of 250 500 750or1000milliseconds Security Option If you have set a password select whether the password is required every time the...

Page 57: ...similar ROM firmware for expansion peripherals but it also reduces the amount of high memory 640 KB to 1 MB available for loading device drivers etc Enable shadowing into each section of memory separ...

Page 58: ...not available when Auto Configuration is Enabled The choices Enabled Disabled EDO DRAM Speed Selection The value in this field must correspond to the speed of the DRAM installed in your system DO NOT...

Page 59: ...EDO DRAM is installed in the system The choices 1 2 SDRAM RAS to CAS Delay This field lets you insert a timing delay between the CAS and RAS strobe signals used when DRAM is written to read from or r...

Page 60: ...in better system performance However if any program writes to this memory area a system error may result The choices Disabled Enabled Video BIOS Catchable Selecting Enabled allows caching of the video...

Page 61: ...discusses their memory requirements Thechoices Disabled Enabled Passive Release When Enabled CPU to PCI bus accesses are allowed during passive release Otherwise the arbiter only accepts another PCI...

Page 62: ...industrial cases use AT power supply type And if you want the support of ATX power supply please choose ATX in this field The choices AT ATX Onboard LAN1 2 Control By selecting Disabled in these two...

Page 63: ...he system automatically determines the best mode for each device Thechoices Auto Mode0 Mode1 Mode2 Mode3 Mode IDE Primary Secondary Master Slave UDMA Ultra DMA33 66 implementation is possible only if...

Page 64: ...hoices PCI Slot AGP IDE HDD Block Mode Block mode is also called block transfer multiple commands or multiple sector read write If your IDE hard drive supports block mode most new drives do please sel...

Page 65: ...z 12MHz 16MHz Onboard FDC Controller Select Enabled if your system has a floppy disk controller FDC installed on the system board and you wish to use it If you install an add in FDC or the system has...

Page 66: ...ion in one direction only at a time Select the value required by the IR device connected to the IR port The choices Full Half RxD TxD Active Please consult your IR peripheral documentation to select t...

Page 67: ...P The choices SPP EPP ECP ECP EPP ECP Mode Use DMA Select a DMA channel for the port The choices 1 3 EPP Mode Select You can use this feature to choose which version of EPP to use For better performan...

Page 68: ...ba It establishes industry standard interfaces for OS directed configuration and power management on laptops desktops and servers If you want to manage power consumption well please Enable this item T...

Page 69: ...ced power management is installed on your system selecting Yes gives better power savings The choices Yes No k n a l B C N Y S H V f f o n r u t o t m e t s y s e h t e s u a c l l i w n o i t c e l e...

Page 70: ...lock runs at slower speed while all other devices still operate at full speed Standby Mode After the selected period of system inactivity the fixed disk drive and the video shut off while all other de...

Page 71: ...by Ring An input signal on the serial Ring Indicator RI line in other words an incoming call on the modem awakens the system a soft off state TheChoices Enabled Disabled Wake Up On LAN Sets to turn t...

Page 72: ...urrence can prevent the system from entering a power saving mode or can awaken the system from such a mode In effect the system remains alert for anything which occurs to a device which is configured...

Page 73: ...ed the BIOS to configure non boot devices The choices No Yes Reset Configuration Data Normally you leave this field disabled Select enabled to reset Extended System Configuration Data ESCD when you ex...

Page 74: ...by going into each of the sub menu that follows this field a sub menu is proceeded by a Thechoices Auto ESCD Manual IRQ Resources When resources are controlled manually assign each system interrupt a...

Page 75: ...d spectrum modulate When the system clock generator pulses the extreme values of the pulse generate excess EMI Enabling pulse spectrum spread modulation changes the extreme pulse spikes to flat curves...

Page 76: ...ults Load Fail Safe Defaults When you press Enter on this item you get a confirmation dialog box with a message similar to Load Fail Safe Default Y N Pressing Y loads the BIOS default values for the m...

Page 77: ...Load Optimized Default When you press Enter on this item you get a confirmation dialog box with a message similar to Load Optimized Defaults Y N Pressing Y loads the default values that are factory se...

Page 78: ...MOS memory Now the message changes CONFIRM PASSWORD Again type the password and press Enter To abort the process at any time press Esc In the Security Option item in the BIOS Features Setup screen sel...

Page 79: ...mory Now the message changes CONFIRM PASSWORD Again type the password and press Enter To abort the process at any time press Esc In the Security Option item in the BIOS Features Setup screen select Sy...

Page 80: ...MOS and Exit Y N Pressing Y stores the selections made in the menus in CMOS a special section of memory that stays on after you turn your system off The next time you boot your computer the BIOS confi...

Page 81: ...Without Saving Pressing Enter on this item asks for confirmation Quit Without Saving Y N This allows you to exit Setup without storing in CMOS any change The previous selections remain in effect This...

Page 82: ...iver Installation 73 C H A P T E R Drivers Installation 4 This Gene 6320 is equipped with an audio VGA and LAN interface This chapter provides instructions for installing the software drivers on these...

Page 83: ...n so you have to follow the instructions as below to install the audio driver 1 Insert the Gene 6320 CD ROM into the CD ROM Drive 2 Select the Drivers audio folder to click on the setup icon Please ch...

Page 84: ...Chapter 4 Driver Installation 75 4 Select the default setting and then click on Next 5 Click on Finish Installation process is completed and allows the system to reboot...

Page 85: ...1 Insert the Gene 6320 CD ROM into the CD ROM Drive 2 Select the Drivers vga Windows Complete Win9X to click on the setup icon Notice We take the VGA installation under Windows 98 for example here Ple...

Page 86: ...Chapter 4 Driver Installation 77 A driver installation screen will appear please follow the onscreen instructions to install the driver in sequence...

Page 87: ...Gene 6320 User Manual 78 3 At last click on Finish Installation process is complete and allows the system to reboot...

Page 88: ...ernet driver for Gene 6320GE Installing Intel 82559ER Driver Here we install the Intel 82540EM driver first 1 Insert the Gene 6320 CD ROM into the CD ROM Drive 2 Find out and double click on the setup...

Page 89: ...Gene 6320 User Manual 80 3 Click on Next...

Page 90: ...Chapter 4 Driver Installation 81 4 Click on Next...

Page 91: ...Gene 6320 User Manual 82 5 Choose Typical or Custom setting according to your needs and click on Next...

Page 92: ...Chapter 4 Driver Installation 83 6 Click on Install to start the process of installation...

Page 93: ...Gene 6320 User Manual 84 7 Click on OK to confirm the results of installation 7 Click on Yes to carry out the effect od installation...

Page 94: ...l the Intel 82559ER driver Please follow the instruc tions below to install it 1 Insert the Gene 6320 CD ROM into the CD ROM Drive 2 Click the Start button 3 Select the Settings item 4 Click the Contr...

Page 95: ...20 User Manual 86 Another file will appear below this file and then click on the file 8 Click on the Driver Tab 9 Click on the Update Driver Button TheUpdate Device Driver Wizardwill appear 10 Click o...

Page 96: ...Chapter 4 Driver Installation 87 11 Click on Next...

Page 97: ...Gene 6320 User Manual 88 12 Find out the intel 82559ER driver in CD ROM drive according to your windows OS and click on Next...

Page 98: ...Chapter 4 Driver Installation 89 13 Click on Next...

Page 99: ...board is equipped with a watchdog timer that resets the CPU or generates an interrupt if processing comes to a stand still for whatever reason This feature ensures system reliability in industrial sta...

Page 100: ...3F0 3F1 define IO_INDEX_PORT 3F0 define IO_DATA_PORT 3F1 Set Watchdog reset pin 12 13 16 define watch_dog_output_GP16 define UNLOCK_DATA 0x87 define LOCK_DATA 0xAA defineDEVICE_REGISTER 0x07 void Ente...

Page 101: ...urn inportb IO_DATA_PORT void WriteAData unsigned char reg unsigned char data outportb IO_INDEX_PORT reg outportb IO_DATA_PORT data void SetWatchDogTime unsigned char time_val EnterConfigMode SelectDe...

Page 102: ...mistake if watch_dog_output_GP 12 Set Register E2 to define GP12 WriteAData 0xE2 0x0A else if watch_dog_output_GP 13 Set Register E3 to define GP13 WriteAData 0xE3 0x0A else if watch_dog_output_GP 16...

Page 103: ...GP13 for WD Rst WriteAData 0x2B ReadAData 0x2B 0x01 else if watch_dog_output_GP 16 Set Register 2C PIN 119 Bit 5 4 01 GP16 set to GP16 for WD Rst WriteAData 0x2C ReadAData 0x2C 0x10 Exit W83977 Config...

Page 104: ...Syntax WATCHDOG time n printf time range 1 256 n n return if argc 1 ptr argv 1 time_value atoi ptr if time_value 0 time_value 256 SetWatchDogTime unsigned char time_value init_w83977tf_aw_watchdog pr...

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