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PCM-6892

All-in-One Single Board Computer
onboard VIA C3 EBGA CPU with LCD,
LVDS, TV-out, Audio, Dual Ethernet,
CFD, PCMCIA, & 4 USBs

Summary of Contents for PCM-6892 Rev.B

Page 1: ...PCM 6892 All in One Single Board Computer onboard VIA C3 EBGA CPU with LCD LVDS TV out Audio Dual Ethernet CFD PCMCIA 4 USBs...

Page 2: ...TO PART 15 OF THE FCC RULES THESE LIMITS ARE DESIGNED TO PROVIDE REASONABLE PROTECTION AGAINTST HARMFUL INTERFERENCEWHEN THE EQUIPMENT IS OPERATED IN A COMMERCIAL ENVIRONMENT THIS EQUIPMENT GENERATES...

Page 3: ...o Devices 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...

Page 4: ...om your 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 answers are norma...

Page 5: ...service time and freight Please consult your dealer for more details If you think you have a defective product follow these steps 1 Collect all the information about the problem encountered For exampl...

Page 6: ...er Manual this manual in PDF file l System drivers and utilities l Ethernet drivers and utilities l VGA drivers and utilities l Audio drivers and utilities l Short Copper Kit l Jumper Cap The PCM 6892...

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

Page 8: ...RING Status Setup JP6 15 Serial Port 4 RING Status Setup JP5 16 LCD Shift Clock Setting J1 16 CPU Fan Connector CN1 17 K B PS2 Mouse Connector CN2 17 LPT Connector CN3 18 FDD Connector CN4 18 IR Conn...

Page 9: ...res 50 Integrated Peripherals 55 Power Management Setup 62 PnP PCI Configurations 67 PC Health Status 70 Frequency Voltage Control 71 Load Fail Safe Defaults 72 Optimized Defaults 73 Set Supervisor Pa...

Page 10: ...Appendix A WatchDog Timer 81 Appendix B Optional Extras 88...

Page 11: ...Chapter 1 General Information 1 1 General Information This chapter gives background informa tion on the PCM 6892 Sections include Board Introduction Board Features Board Specifications C H A P T E R...

Page 12: ...6 Twister TNorth Bridge integratedAGP4X 2D 3Dgraphics accelerator With 18 bit 36 bit dual channel LVDS interface and TTL signal you can utilize this board to display CRT This board offers two alternat...

Page 13: ...two Type II PCMCIA Slots Optional z Two 10 100Base T Fast Ethernet z Supports UDMA100 z 5V only operation PCM 6892 also includes four high speed serial ports three RS 232 one RS 232 422 485 one multim...

Page 14: ...0MB sec FDDinterface Supports up to two floppy disk drives 5 25 inch 360KBand1 2MB and or3 5inch 720KB 1 44MB and 2 88MB Parellel Port One bi directional parallel port Supports SPP ECP and EPP modes S...

Page 15: ...TX or AT power supply Supports PC97 I O peripheral devices support power saving and doze standby suspend modes APM 1 2 compliant AudioInterface Chipset VIAVT82C686B Integrated SoundBlaster Sound Blast...

Page 16: ...104 Connector One 16 bit 104 pin connector onboard PCI Slot One 32 bit 120 pin PCI slot onboard PCMCIASlot Two Type II PCMCIA slots on solder side SDDInterface One type II Compact Flash Socket Mechani...

Page 17: ...ways completely disconnect the power cord from your chassis whenever you work with the hardware Do not make connections while the power is on Sensitive electronic components can be damaged by sudden p...

Page 18: ...stallation GuideBC PCM 6892 CN12 CN6 CN10 CN5 VIA PCI1 DIM1 CN23 CN22 JP2 CN21 JP1 CN20 CN19 CN18 BATTERY CN24 CN1 JP1 CN25 JP5 JP6 CN9 JP4 JP2 CN2 CN3 CN4 CN26 CN17 CN13 CN14 CN16 CN15 Locating Jumpe...

Page 19: ...PCM 6892 Installation Guide 9 Quick Installation Guide Locating Jumpers Connectors...

Page 20: ...37 54 93 22 86 27 3 18 32 13 97 6 35 3 17 3 46 5 08 138 53 63 49 78 74 99 06 120 02 131 91 149 14 153 37 178 8 198 12 154 7 15 24 119 7 172 9 140 97 15 24 100 96 138 06 128 68 121 91 113 3 33 3 138 4...

Page 21: ...PCM 6892 Installation Guide 11 Quick Installation Guide Mechanical Drawing...

Page 22: ...on the board has a number of jumpers that allow you to configure your system to suit your applications The table below lists the function of each jumper and connector Jumpers Label Function JP1 Clear...

Page 23: ...nnector CN9 IDE Hard Drive Connector CN10 USB Connector Port 0 Port 1 CN11 Compact Flash Connector CN12 USB Connector Port 2 Port 3 CN13 LAN1 Port CN14 LAN1 Status Connector LED CN15 LAN2 Port CN16 LA...

Page 24: ...You can use JP1 to clear the CMOS data if necessary To reset the CMOS data set jumper to 2 3 closed for few seconds and then move the jumper back to 1 2 closed Protect default Clear CMOS default 1 2 3...

Page 25: ...e Serial Port 2 Status Setup JP4 J2 Serial Port 3 Ring Status Setup JP6 12V 5V Ring default 1 2 3 4 5 6 1 2 3 4 5 6 1 2 3 4 5 6 RS 232 RS 422 RS 485 default 1 2 3 4 5 6 1 2 3 4 5 6 1 2 3 4 5 6 JP4 J2...

Page 26: ...1 6 PCM 6892 Installation GuideBC PCM 6892 LCD Shift Clock Setting J1 shclk shclk default 1 2 3 1 2 3 Serial Port 4 Ring Status Setup JP5 12V 5V Ring default 1 2 3 4 5 6 1 2 3 4 5 6 1 2 3 4 5 6...

Page 27: ...92 Installation Guide 17 Quick Installation Guide CPU Fan Connector CN1 K B PS2 Mouse Connector CN2 Pin Signal 1 GND 2 5V 3 SENSOR Pin Signal Pin Signal 1 KB_DATA 5 KB_CLK 2 GND 6 5V 3 MS DATA 7 MS_CL...

Page 28: ...GND 11 BUSY 24 GND 12 PE 25 GND 13 SELECT 26 N C FDD Connector CN4 You can attach up to two floppy disks to the PCM 6892 s on board controller and use any combination of 5 25 360 KB and 1 2 MB and or...

Page 29: ...nly one connector in the set The set on the end after the twist in the cable connects to the A floppy and the other set in the middle connects to the B floppy Pin Signal Pin Signal 1 33 odd GND 2 REDW...

Page 30: ...f the cable to the IDE connector and make sure that the red wire corresponds to pin 1 on the connector which is labeled on the board on the right side 2 Plug the other end of the cable to the Enhanced...

Page 31: ...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 G...

Page 32: ...2 2 PCM 6892 Installation GuideBC PCM 6892 USB Connector CN10 CN12 Pin Signal Pin Signal 1 5VSB 2 GND 3 USB DT0 4 GND 5 USB DT0 6 USB DT1 7 GND 8 USB DT1 9 GND 10 5VSB...

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

Page 34: ...N1 LAN2 Status Connector CN14 CN16 Pin Signal Pin Signal 1 RXLED 2 5VSB 3 Link LED 4 5VSB 5 TX LED 6 5VSB Pin Signal Pin Signal 1 TX 2 TX 3 RX 4 TEMP_GND 5 TEMP_GND 6 RX 7 TEMP_GND 8 TEMP_GND 9 CHASSI...

Page 35: ...IC IN 2 MIC BIAS 3 GND 4 GND 5 LINE IN LEFT 6 CD IN LEFT 7 LINE IN RIGHT 8 CD IN GND 9 GND 10 CD IN RIGHT 11 LINE OUT LEFT 12 LINE OUT RIGHT 13 GND 14 GND VGA Port CN18 Pin Signal Pin Signal 1 RED 9 N...

Page 36: ...in Signal 1 5V 2 5V 3 GND 4 GND 5 3 3V 6 3 3V 7 ENVDD 8 GND 9 NC 10 NC 11 O_BLUE0 12 O_BLUE1 13 O_BLUE2 14 O_BLUE3 15 O_BLUE4 16 O_BLUE5 17 NC 18 NC 19 O_GREEN0 20 O_GREEN1 21 O_GREEN2 22 O_GREEN3 23...

Page 37: ...EEN0 10 E_GREEN1 11 E_GREEN2 12 E_GREEN3 13 E_GREEN4 14 E_GREEN5 15 E_RED0 16 E_RED1 17 E_RED2 18 E_RED3 19 E_RED4 20 E_RED5 LVDS Connector CN22 Pin Signal Pin Signal 1 TX1OUT1 2 TX1OUT1 3 CHASSIS_GND...

Page 38: ...TX2CLK 6 TX2CLK 7 CHASSIS_GND 8 LCDVCC 9 LCDVCC 10 LCDVCC 11 TX2OUT2 12 TX2OUT2 13 CHASSIS_GND 14 CHASSIS_GND 15 TX2OUT0 16 TX2OUT0 17 N C 18 N C 12 5V AT Power Connector CN24 Pin Signal 1 N C 2 5V 3...

Page 39: ...on Guide 29 Quick Installation Guide ATX Power Connector CN25 Pin Signal Pin Signal 1 3 3V 11 3 3V 2 3 3V 12 12V 3 GND 13 GND 4 5V 14 PS ON 5 GND 15 GND 6 5V 16 GND 7 GND 17 GND 8 PWR OK 18 5V 9 5VSB...

Page 40: ...1 6 CTS1 7 DTR1 8 RI1 9 GND 10 N C 11 DCD2 485DATA 422TXD 12 DSR2 13 RXD2 422RXD 14 RTS2 15 TXD2 485DATA 422TXD 16 CTS2 17 DTR2 422RXD 18 RI2 19 GND 20 N C 21 DCD3 22 DSR3 23 RXD3 24 RTS3 25 TXD3 26 C...

Page 41: ...can insert your IEEE 1394 card modem card wireless LAN card storage card sound card for add on functions Note When utilizing 16 bit PC Card under Windows 98 you have to assign an IRQ address to it Fr...

Page 42: ...32 PCM 6892 User Manual 3 Award BIOS Setup This chapter describes how to configure the BIOS for the system C H A P T E R...

Page 43: ...The BIOS launches the operating system and hands control of system operations to it During POST you can start the Setup program in the following way By pressing Del immediately after switching the sys...

Page 44: ...rrent 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 Setup...

Page 45: ...that 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 RE...

Page 46: ...Features Use this menu to set the advanced features available on your system Advanced Chipset Features Use this menu to change the values in the chipset registers and optimize your system performance...

Page 47: ...6892 Frequency Voltage Control Use this menu to specify your settings for frequency voltage control Load Fail Safe Defaults Use this menu to load the BIOS default values for the minimal stable perform...

Page 48: ...38 PCM 6892 User Manual Save and Exit Setup Save CMOS value changes to CMOS and exit setup Exit Without Saving Abandon all CMOS value changes and exit setup...

Page 49: ...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 50: ...Secondary Master Slave If you do not want 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 dr...

Page 51: ...Landing Zone 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...

Page 52: ...al they are incorporating with the PCM 6892 single board computer Thechoices CRT LCD CRT LCD TV CRT TV Panel Type PCM 6892 supports only 18 bit and 36 bit TTL LVDS display panels with various resoluti...

Page 53: ...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 54: ...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 55: ...hoices 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 Power On Self Test Sele...

Page 56: ...The system will automatically boot the other device Thechoices Enabled Disabled Swap Floppy Drive This field is effective only in systems with two floppy drives Selecting enabled assigns physical driv...

Page 57: ...controls Gate A20 Setting Gate A20 to Fast improves system speed particularly with OS 2 and Windows The choices Fast Normal Typematic Rate Setting Key strokes repeat at a rate determined by the keybo...

Page 58: ...ed for the Onboard FDD Controller field The choices Yes No Shadow Software that resides in a read only memory ROM chip on a device is called firmware TheAward BIOS permits shadowing of firmware such a...

Page 59: ...ry are C0000 C7FFF The remaining areas shown on the BIOS Features Setup screen may be occupied by other expansion card firmware If an expansion peripheral in your system contains ROM based firmware yo...

Page 60: ...t the value in this field depending on whether the board has paged DRAMs or EDO extended data output DRAMs The choices Enabled Disabled DRAM Clock This item allows you to control the DRAM speed The ch...

Page 61: ...ws yo to enable disable the PCI to CPU CPU to PCI concurrency The choices Enabled Disabled System BIOS Cacheable Selecting Enabled allows caching of the system BIOS ROM at F0000h FFFFFh resulting in b...

Page 62: ...st cycles that hit the aperture range are forwarded to the AGP without any translation The choices 4M 8M 16M 32M 64M 128M AGP 4X Mode Enable 4X mode will enhance your system performance Thechoices Ena...

Page 63: ...PCI bus are buffered to compensate for the speed differences between the CPU and PCI bus When disabled the writes are not buffered and the CPU must wait until the write is complete before starting ano...

Page 64: ...be disconnected if max retries are attempted without success Thechoices Enabled Disabled AGP Master 1 WS Write System will run single wait state delay before writing data from buffer If the setting i...

Page 65: ...se select Enabled to activate each channel separately The choices Enabled Disable IDE Prefetch Mode The onboard IDE drive interfaces supports IDE prefetching for faster drive accesses If you install a...

Page 66: ...if your IDE hard drive supports it and the operating environment includes a DMA driver If your hard drive and IDE cable both support Ultra DMA33 66 100 selectAuto to enable BIOS support The choices A...

Page 67: ...O devices were run through the same address your devices would come to a near halt Also the corresponding interrupt needs to be selected The choices Disabled 3F8 IRQ4 2F8 IRQ3 3E8 IRQ4 2E8 IRQ3 UART...

Page 68: ...IRQ5 Disabled Onboard Parallel Mode Two bidirectional parallel ports SupportsNormal ECP EPP ECP EPP Thechoices Normal EPP ECP ECP EPP ECP Mode Use DMA Select a DMA channel for the port The choices 1...

Page 69: ...ing address for the forth serial port or disable it The choices 3F8 2F8 3E8 2E8 Diabled Serial Port 4 use IRQ If you don t disable serial Port 4 you must select corresponding interrupt for it The choi...

Page 70: ...pt for the Sound Blaster interface The choice IRQ5 IRQ7 IRQ9 IRQ10 SB DMA Select SelectDMA mode for the Sound Blaster interface Thechoice DMA0 DMA1 DMA2 DMA3 MPU 401 Select Enabled to configure the MP...

Page 71: ...mode OS COM 3 4 16 bit PCMCIA 32 bit PCMCIA Enable F O Win 98 Disable O 2 O 2 Enable F O Win 2K Disable O O Enable O O APM 5V only or AT Win XP Disable O O Enable F O Win 98 Disable O 2 O 2 Enable F...

Page 72: ...ement functions such as ACPI Modem ring in and Soft off by PWRBTN etc ACPI Function only for ATX type ACPI Advanced Configuration and Power Interface is an open industry specification co developed by...

Page 73: ...ATX type This category allows you to select the type or degree of power saving and is directly related to the following modes 1 HDDPowerDown 2 Doze Mode 3 Suspend Mode Power Management Select Max Savi...

Page 74: ...st IRQ line assigned to the modem if any on your system Activity of the selected IRQ always awakens the system The choices NA 3 4 5 7 9 10 11 Soft Off by PWR BTTN only for ATX type If you select Insta...

Page 75: ...hing the mouse does not awaken the system PCM 6892 offers several ways to awaken the system Define each way as the wake up interrupt requests or not VGA The choices ON OFF LPT COM Thechoices LPT COM L...

Page 76: ...F IRQs Activity Monitoring Enable the following devices with the corresponding IRQ address to wake up the system IRQ3 COM 2 IRQ4 COM 1 IRQ5 LPT2 IRQ6 FloppyDisk IRQ7 LPT1 IRQ8 RTCAlarm IRQ9 IRQ2 Redir...

Page 77: ...need 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 ConfigurationData ESCD when you e...

Page 78: ...g the interrupt There are two types for choice Lagacy ISA and PCI ISA PnP Legacy ISA Devices compliant with the original PCAT bus specification requiring a specific interrupt such as IRQ4 for serial p...

Page 79: ...Chapter 3 Award BIOS Setup 69 Assign IRQ For VGA Enable to assign interrupt for VGA Thechoice Enabled Disabled Assign IRQ For USB Enable to assign interrupt for USB Thechoice Enabled Disabled...

Page 80: ...70 PCM 6892 User Manual PC Health Status Your system does not allow you to alter any of the setting in this menu The system engineer has already designated the correct setting for PCM 6892...

Page 81: ...k Thechoices Enabled Disabled Spread Spectrum Modulated This allows you to enable disable the spread spectrum modulate When the system clock generator pulses the extreme values of the pulse generate e...

Page 82: ...Safe Defaults When you press Enter on this item you get a confirmation dialog box with a message similar to Load Fail SafeDefault Y N Pressing Y loads the BIOS default values for the most stable mini...

Page 83: ...zed Default When you press Enter on this item you get a confirmation dialog box with a message similar to Load OptimizedDefaults Y N Pressing Y loads the default values that are factory settings for o...

Page 84: ...memory Now the message changes ComfirmPassword 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...

Page 85: ...memory Now the message changes ComfirmPassword 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...

Page 86: ...t 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 configures your...

Page 87: ...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 exits th...

Page 88: ...nual 78 4 Driver Installation This PCM 6892 is equipped with an Graphic Audio Ethernet and PCMCIA interfaces This chapter provides instruc tions for installing the software drivers on these peripheral...

Page 89: ...rs Step 1 Install VIA 4 in 1 driver Step 2 Install Graphic Driver Step 3 Install Audio Driver Step 4 Install Ethernet Driver Step 5 Install PCMCIA Driver Win98 only Please read instructions below for...

Page 90: ...Please re start your computer 4 3 Step 3 Install Audio Driver for Windows 98SE 2000 XP 1 Double click on the Setup exe file 2 Follow the instructions that the window will show you 3 The system will he...

Page 91: ...Appendix A Watchdog Timer 81 A WatchDog Timer A P P E N D I X...

Page 92: ...82 PCM 6892 User s Manual Watchdog Timer PCM 6892 contains a watchdog timer reset pin GP16 All reference material can be found on the following pages...

Page 93: ...f in e IO _ IN D E X _ P O R T 0 x 3 F 0 d e f in e IO _ D A T A _ P O R T 0 x 3 F 1 S e t W a tc h d o g r e s e t p in 1 2 1 3 1 6 d e f in e w a t c h _ d o g _ o u tp u t_ G P 1 6 d e f in e U N...

Page 94: ...signed char reg unsigned char data outportb IO_INDEX_PORT reg outportb IO_DATA_PORT data void SetWatchDogTime unsigned char time_val Enter W83977 Configure Mode EnterConfigMode Select Device 8 SelectD...

Page 95: ..._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 Set Register E6...

Page 96: ...ata 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 Configure mode ExitConfigMode void main int...

Page 97: ...ix A Watchdog Timer 87 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 printf Watch Dog Timer set up d n time...

Page 98: ...88 PCM 6892 User Manual B Optional Extras A P P E N D I X...

Page 99: ...Cable 34 pin 2 54mm Female 60cm 1701150150 CRT Cable 15 pin 2 54mm DSUB 15cm 1700080180 TV Out Cable RCA S terminal Connector 1700140510 Audio Cable CD In Line In Out Mic in 1700080204 K B Mouse Cabl...

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