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PCM-4894

All-in-One 486 single Board computer

with Flat Panel / CRT SVGA, Ethernet,

and 4 Serial Ports

Summary of Contents for PCM-4894

Page 1: ...PCM 4894 All in One 486 single Board computer with Flat Panel CRT SVGA Ethernet and 4 Serial Ports...

Page 2: ...ices Inc AMI is a trademark of American Megatrends Inc Award is a trademark of Award Software International Inc Cyrix is a trademark of Cyrix Corporation IBM PC AT PS 2 and VGA are trademarks of Inter...

Page 3: ...l cable kit PCM 10489 1 Part No 9969048900 If any of these items are missing or damaged contact your distributor or sales representative immediately Notice Dear Customer Thank you for purchasing the P...

Page 4: ...5 Serial ports connector CN2 16 COM 1 4 RS 232 422 485 serial ports CN2 16 Parallel port connector CN3 17 IDE hard drive connector CN4 18 Floppy drive connector CN5 20 Connecting the flopy drive 20 Po...

Page 5: ...S setup 36 BIOS features setup 38 CHIPSET features setup 41 Power management setup 42 PCI configuration setup 47 Load BIOS defaults Load setup defaults 49 Chpater 4 Flat Panel CRT Controller Display D...

Page 6: ...ware configuration 62 Appendix A Watchdog Timer Demo Program 63 How to program the WATCHDOG TIMER 64 Demo program in C 65 Appendix B Installing PC 104 Modules 67 Installing PC 104 modules 68 Appendix...

Page 7: ...Chapter 1 General Information 1 C H A P T E R 1 General Information This chapter provides background information for the PCM 4894 Sections include Specifications Board layout Dimensions...

Page 8: ...orts remote boot ROM functions The PCM 4894 supports the M Systems DiskOnChip 2000 optional which is a new generation of high performance single chip Flash Disk It provides a Flash Disk as a BIOS expa...

Page 9: ...drive interface Supports up to two floppy disk drives 5 25 360KB and 1 2MB and or 3 5 720KB 1 44MB and 2 88MB 17 x 2 header pitch 2 54mm with housing Multi mode parallel port Configured to LPT1 LPT2...

Page 10: ...d modes APM 1 1 compliant Flat panel VGA interface Chipset C T65550 Display memory 2MB on board Display type Supports CRT and flat panel TFT DSTN mono and EL display Can display both CRT and flat pane...

Page 11: ...dress 294H Bit 0 1 2 3 Expansion Slots PC 104 connector 104 pin connector for a 16 bit bus expan sion One PCI ISA bus slot Mechanical and environmental Power supply voltage 5V 4 75V to 5 25V Max power...

Page 12: ...6 PCM 4894 User Manual Board layout 2 0 F 0 0 1 N XILINX X C 9 5 7 2 DiskOnChip RTL8029AS Winbond Winbond ALI M 1 4 8 7 A 1 ALI M 1 4 8 9 B 1 CHIPS F65550 A M 4 8 6 D X 5 R T C...

Page 13: ...Chapter 1 General Information 7 Card dimensions 5 08 40 64 97 16 100 97 119 38 3 56 174 63 177 17 193 04 203 20 198 12 5 08 9 53 135 89 95 25 146 05 140 97...

Page 14: ...8 PCM 4894 User Manual...

Page 15: ...pter explains set up procedures for the PCM 4894 hardware including instructions on setting jumpers and connecting peripherals switches and indicators Be sure to read all safety precautions before you...

Page 16: ...nction CN1 Ethernet connector CN2 Serial ports connector CN3 Parallel port connector CN4 HDD connector CN5 FDD connector CN6 Main power connector CN7 Keyboard PS2 mouse connector CN8 Power LED Keyboar...

Page 17: ...F 0 0 1 N XILINX X C 9 5 7 2 DiskOnChip RTL8029AS Winbond Winbond ALI M 1 4 8 7 A 1 ALI M 1 4 8 9 B 1 CHIPS F65550 A M 4 8 6 D X 5 R T C CN5 CN6 CN12 CN13 CN14 CN15 JP5 JP4 CN16 CN18 PCI ISA Riser Ca...

Page 18: ...ins to connect them To close a jumper you connect the pins with the clip To open a jumper you remove the clip Sometimes a jumper will have three pins labeled 1 2 and 3 In this case you would connect e...

Page 19: ...an be damaged by the sudden rush of power Only experienced electronics personnel should open the PC chassis Caution Always ground yourself to remove any static charge before touching the CPU card Mode...

Page 20: ...he retaining clips at both ends of the module click into place When positioned correctly the pins on top of the vertical posts should corre spond to the circular holes on the ends of the module 3 Repe...

Page 21: ...s to the PCM 4894 via an adapter cable to a 10 pin polarized header CN1 For 10Base T RJ 45 operation an adapter cable converting CN1 into a standard RJ 45 jack is required Ethernet connector CN1 Pin S...

Page 22: ...COM2 COM3 COM4 RS 232 422 485 serial port CN2 PIN SIGNAL PIN SIGNAL COM1 1 DCDA 2 DSRA 3 RXDA 4 RTSA 5 TXDA 6 CTSA 7 DTRA 8 RIA 9 GND 10 N C COM2 11 DCDB 12 DSRB 422TXD 485DATA 13 RXDB 14 RTSB 422TXD...

Page 23: ...ith an adapter cable which lets you use a traditional DB 25 connector The cable has a 26 pin connector on one end and a DB 25 connector on the other Pin assignments Parallel port connector CN3 Pin Sig...

Page 24: ...t one end of the cable to the IDE connector Make sure that the red or blue wire corresponds to pin 1 on the connector which is labeled on the board 2 Plug the other end of the cable to the Enhanced ID...

Page 25: ...tor CN4 Pin Signal Pin Signal 1 Reset 2 GND 3 D7 4 D8 5 D6 6 D9 7 D5 8 D10 9 D4 10 D11 11 D3 12 D12 13 D2 14 D13 15 D1 16 D14 17 D0 18 D15 19 GND 20 N C 21 N C 22 GND 23 IOW 24 GND 25 IOR 26 GND 27 IO...

Page 26: ...nector usually used for 5 25 drives Connecting the floppy drive 1 Plug the 34 pin flat cable connector into the CN5 connector 2 Attach the appropriate connector on the other end of the cable to the fl...

Page 27: ...ain power connector CN6 Main power conector CN6 Pin Signal 1 12V 2 GND 3 GND 4 5V Auxiliary power connector CN17 Auxiliary power connector CN17 Pin Signal 1 12V 2 GND 3 GND 4 5V CPU fan power connecto...

Page 28: ...l report an error or fail during power on self test POST after a reset if the keyboard is not present The mainboard BIOS Advanced setup menu allows you to select System Key board under the Present or...

Page 29: ...oard In this state the PC will not respond to any input This is useful if you do not want anyone to change or stop a running program Simply connect the switch between Pins 4 and 5 The pin assignments...

Page 30: ...TTL input bits 4 Open Collector output bits The following table lists the pin assignment for CN10 Digital I O DIO connector CN10 Pin Function 1 TTL Input Bit 0 2 O C Output Bit 0 3 TTL Input Bit 1 4 O...

Page 31: ...active signal LED CN13 3 4 A flashing LED indicates that the PCM 4894 is transmitting or receiving data HDD LED CN13 5 6 A flashing LED indicates that PCM 4894 is accessing the hard drive Hardware re...

Page 32: ...e internal buzzer and connect an external speaker to CN14 Enabling the external speaker automatically disables the internal buzzer Buzzer or External Speaker Buzzer External Speaker Buzzer or External...

Page 33: ...gnments LCD connector CN15 Pin Signal Pin Signal 1 12 VDC 2 12 VDC 3 GND 4 GND 5 Vcc 5V 3 3V 6 Vcc 5V 3 3V 7 ENA VEE 8 GND 9 P0 10 P1 11 P2 12 P3 13 P4 14 P5 15 P6 16 P7 17 P8 18 P9 19 P10 20 P11 21 P...

Page 34: ...y as well as high resolution color displays SVGA connector CN16 Pin Signal Pin Signal 1 Red video 9 Key no pin 2 Green video 10 Sync return GND 3 Blue video 11 Monitor ID not used 4 Not used 12 Monito...

Page 35: ...ction mode of COM3 4 via JP1 The available configurations are as follows COM3 COM4 RI function selection 1 2 COM3 RI RI function 3 4 COM3 RI 5V output 5 6 COM3 RI 12V output 7 8 COM4 RI RI function 9...

Page 36: ...pin 1 6 controls the memory address of the Flash disk DOC address setting JP2 1 6 CC00 D000 D400 D800 DC00 E000 default COM2 RS 232 422 485 select JP2 7 10 The serial port COM2 of this board can be c...

Page 37: ...tting JP4 The configuration is as follows LCD panel s voltage setting JP4 3 4 V 5 V default LCD SHF ASHF clock select JP5 You can select the LCD control signals by setting JP5 The following charts sho...

Page 38: ...MB unformatted In order to manage the disk the DiskOnChip 2000 includes the TrueFFS M Systems Flash File System proprietary software The DiskOn Chip 2000 package is pin to pin compatible with standar...

Page 39: ...Chapter 3 Award BIOS Setup 33 3 Award BIOS Setup This chapter describes how to configure the BIOS for the PCM 4894 C H A P T E R...

Page 40: ...ss F1 to RESUME Write down the message and press the F1 key to continue the bootup sequence System configuration verification These routines check the current system configuration against the values s...

Page 41: ...This type of information is stored in a battery backed CMOS RAM so that the information is retained when the power is turned off Many fields in the setup screens have on line help descriptions availa...

Page 42: ...isplay and memory Online help for each field can be accessed by pressing F1 CMOS setup screen Date and Time Configuration Select the Date and Time in the Standard setup The current values for each cat...

Page 43: ...y modes as below d n a r B e m a n e m a n l e d o M t a m r o F p r a h S 0 8 X 5 1 X L N T S D 8 6 7 x 4 2 0 1 p r a h S P 3 8 1 4 6 M L O N O M 0 8 4 x 0 4 6 p r a h S P 5 3 C 4 6 M L N T S D 0 8 4...

Page 44: ...e displayed configuration is based on the manufacturer s SETUP DEFAULTS settings BIOS features setup Virus Warning When this item is enabled the Award BIOS will monitor the boot sector and partition t...

Page 45: ...for the operating system Swap Floppy Drive This item allows you to swap the floppy drive assignments so that drive A is treated as drive B and drive B is treated as drive A under DOS The default setti...

Page 46: ...a password at boot up and Setup which only requires a password to access the setup utility Video BIOS Shadow Determines whether the video display card BIOS will be copied into system DRAM in order to...

Page 47: ...ages bus speeds and access to system memory resources such as DRAM and the external cache It also coordinates communica tions between the conventional ISA bus and the PCI bus It must be stated that th...

Page 48: ...power saving modes In the power manage ment scheme there are four system states which proceed in the following sequence Normal Doze Standby Suspend Power management setup By choosing the POWER MANAGEM...

Page 49: ...Disabled some items which are predefined will become unmodi fiable PM Control by APM When this is set to Yes the Advanced Power Management feature in Microsoft Windows controls power management operat...

Page 50: ...play card must support DPMS Modem Use IRQ If you have a modem installed in your system you can enter which IRQ it is using so that APM can control it HDD Power Down When enabled and after the selected...

Page 51: ...he system goes into power saving mode power management will skip to the next mode in the sequence if this is disabled Suspend Mode This sets the period of system inactivity after which the system goes...

Page 52: ...evice wants to gain the attention of the operating system it signals this by causing an IRQ Interrupt Request to occur When the operating system is ready to respond to the request it interrupts itself...

Page 53: ...nect PCI bus system which allows I O devices to operate at speeds nearing the speed of the CPU when communi cating with its own special components This section covers some very technical items and it...

Page 54: ...vel Edge PCI IDE IRQ Map To This allows you to configure your system to the type of IDE disk controller in use The more apparent difference is the type of slot being used If you have equipped your sys...

Page 55: ...provides the most stable settings though they do not provide optimal performance LOAD SETUP DEFAULTS on the other hand provides for maximum system performance If the stored record created by the setup...

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Page 57: ...Flat Panel CRT Controller 51 4 Flat Panel CRT Controller Display Drivers and Utilities This chapter provides information about Driver types and installation Software utility installation and use C H...

Page 58: ...require any special drivers to operate in standard modes The purpose of the enclosed software drivers is to take advantage of the extended features of the CHIPS VGA Flat Panel CRT controller Hardware...

Page 59: ...d disk Understand the MS DOS directory structure If you are uncertain about any of these concepts please refer to the DOS or OS 2 user reference guides for more information before you proceed with the...

Page 60: ...dow click on the Change button under Adapter Type This will bring up the Select Device window 2 Place the Windows 95 Display Driver Diskette in drive A In the Select Device window click on Have Disk P...

Page 61: ...your CD ROM drive model name the model number of your product At this point the setup program locates the directory where Windows is installed For proper operation the drivers must be installed in the...

Page 62: ...ndows looks strange This is because different drivers have different default colors You can correct this by choosing the same color scheme or a new color scheme First select the Control Panel from the...

Page 63: ...rve model name the model number of your product This file is a Winsows 95 based utility for selecting display type and refresh rate It is a Display Properties Refresh window that is automat ically ins...

Page 64: ...rate is available in CRT Mode only WINDOWS DEFAULT allows you to return to the default refresh rate setting for the selected monitor in Windows 95 Note 1 The refresh rates that are supported by the s...

Page 65: ...installed when installing CHIPS Windows 3 1 linear drivers The Control Panel icon is in the Main Windows group To invoke the control panel applet simply click on the icon The driver resolution and co...

Page 66: ...only available refresh rates that can be selected CURSOR ANIMATION ALT A allows you to select an animated cursor instead of the hour glass wait cursor BIG CURSOR ALT G allows you to select a big curso...

Page 67: ...Chapter 5 Software Configuration 61 5 Ethernet Software Configuration This chapter describes how to configure the onboard Ethernet to match your application requirements C H A P T E R...

Page 68: ...e Ethernet interface Just highlight the option you wish to change by using the Up and DOWN keys To change a selected item press ENTER and a screen will appear with the available options Highlight your...

Page 69: ...A Watchdog Timer Demo Program The following demo program illustrates the programming steps required to enable set and disable the watchdog timer APPENDIX...

Page 70: ...will be 1 sec 255 sec Whenever the value of timer is not zero the timer will automatically count down e g outportb 0x443 30 set interval to 30 sec and count down 2 To set the time out event output da...

Page 71: ...et watchdog timer to 20 sec Demo program in C outportb 0x444 0 set time out event to reset system outportb 0x443 10 set time out interval to 10 seconds job1 execute your job here be sure your job will...

Page 72: ...A 66 PCM 4894 User Manual...

Page 73: ...Appendix B Installing PC 104 Modules B 67 B Installing PC 104 Modules This appendix gives instructions for installing PC 104 modules APPENDIX...

Page 74: ...115B PCMCIA Module two slot PCM 3200 PC 104 Sound Module PCM 3420 PC 104 Fast SCSI Module PCM 3521 Advanced Flat Panel CRT VGA Module PCM 3522 LCD Panel Adapter PCM 3600 PC 104 Fax Modem Module PCM 36...

Page 75: ...dy mentioned above Step2 Make any jumper or link changes required to the CPU card now Once the PC 104 module is mounted you may have difficulty in accessing these Step3 Mount the PC 104 module onto th...

Page 76: ...B 70 PCM 4894 User Manual 0 200 0 0 0 200 3 350 3 550 0 200 3 575 3 250 0 300 3 775 3 575 PC 104 module dimenstions inches 5...

Page 77: ...Appendix C Optional Extras C 71 C Optional Extras APPENDIX...

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