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Gene-6310

All-in-One SubCompact Board
VIA Eden Series CPU with LAN,
Audio, TV-Out, LVDS & 2 COM
Ports

Summary of Contents for VIA Eden Series

Page 1: ...Gene 6310 All in One SubCompact Board VIA Eden Series CPU with LAN Audio TV Out LVDS 2 COM Ports...

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: ...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: ...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: ...9 pin pitch 2 0mm adapter kit 1 USB cable with bracket pitch 2 00mm 1Audio14 pin pitch2 00mm and3RCAjackcableswith4 pin 1 TV Out 8 pin pitch 2 0mm cable with a RCA Jack S terminal 1 bag of screws and...

Page 7: ...oughly 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 we strongly...

Page 8: ...S485 Select JP2 JP3 19 PC104 Power I O JP4 20 Clear CMOS JP5 20 LCD Shift Clock Select JP6 20 IDE Hard Drive Connector CN1 21 TV Output Connector CN2 23 FAN Connector CN3 23 TTL LCD Connector CN4 CN5...

Page 9: ...hipset Features 51 Integrated Peripherals 56 Power Management Setup 61 PnP PCI Configurations 64 PC Health Status 66 Frequency Voltage Control 66 Load Fail Safe Defaults 67 Load Optimized Defaults 68...

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

Page 11: ...cluding large hard disks CD ROM drives and tape backup drives etc The GENE 6310 also features power management to minimize power consumption It complies with the APM standard and supports three types...

Page 12: ...68 wires These devices require a high transfer rate over short distance Using standard I O transfer SCSI hard drives would require a lot more than 68 wires Low voltage means that the standard 5 volts...

Page 13: ...X2D 3DGraphicsAccelator Supports CRT and 36 bit TFT DSTN panels Supports NTSC PAL TV output Integrated AC 97 2 0 SoundBlaster compatible audio codec Supports Compact Flash Storage DualchannelLVDSinter...

Page 14: ...PT2 LPT3 or disabled Supports SPP ECP andEPP Serial port One RS 232 and one RS 232 422 485 serial ports Ports can be configured as COM1 COM2 or disabled individually 16C550 equivalent IR interface Sup...

Page 15: ...taneously such as CRT with TTL or CRT with LVDS at the same time Resolution Up to 1600x1200 16bpp colors for CRT RCA TV Out Connector Chipset VIA1621digitalTVencoder Interface Onboard pin header suppo...

Page 16: ...Type II Expansion Interface PC 104 connector One 120 pin PCI Interface connector for PC 104 plus module expansion Mechanical and Environmental Powersupplyvoltage 5V 4 75Vto5 25V Operating temperature...

Page 17: ...8 Gene 6310 User Manual Board Layout...

Page 18: ...Chapter 1 General Information 9 Board Layout Reverse Side...

Page 19: ...1 0 Gene 6310 User Manual Board Dimensions...

Page 20: ...Chapter 1 General Information 11 Board Dimensions Reverse Side...

Page 21: ...s chapter describes how to set up the main board hardware including instruc tions on setting jumpers and connecting peripherals switches and indicators Be sure to read all the safety precautions befor...

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

Page 23: ...1 4 Gene 6310 User ManualBC 599 596 Locating Jumpers Connectors Reverse side...

Page 24: ...Chapter 2 Installation 15 Mechanical Drawing...

Page 25: ...1 6 Gene 6310 User ManualBC 599 596 Mechanical Drawing Reverse...

Page 26: ...oppy drives In addition the board has a number of jumpers that allow you to configure your system to suit your applications The following tables list the function of each jumper and connector Jumpers...

Page 27: ...l2 Connector CN9 Serial Port Connector COM2 CN10 Parallel Port Connector CN11 LVDS Channel1 Connector CN13 Audio Connector CN14 RJ 45 Ethernet Connector CN15 Power Connector CN16 USB Connector CN17 US...

Page 28: ...nstallation 19 LCD Voltage Select JP1 JP1 5V 3 3V RS232 RS422 RS485 Select JP2 JP3 JP2 RS232 RS422 RS485 JP3 RS232 RS422 RS485 1 3 4 6 7 9 10 12 1 3 4 6 7 9 10 12 1 2 3 1 2 3 1 3 4 6 7 9 10 12 1 3 5 1...

Page 29: ...V 3 3V PC104 Power I O JP4 1 2 3 1 2 3 Clear CMOS JP5 reset the CMOS data set JP5 to 2 3 for just a few seconds and then move the jumper cap back to 1 2 Clear CMOS J5 Pin 1 3 Protect Clear CMOS JP5 de...

Page 30: ...other wires are usually gray 1 Connect one end of the cable to CN1 and make sure the red or blue wire corresponds to pin 1 on the connector which is labeled on the board on the right side 2 Plug the...

Page 31: ...9 DATA 4 10 DATA 11 11 DATA 3 12 DATA 12 13 DATA 2 14 DATA 13 15 DATA 1 16 DATA 14 17 DATA 0 18 DATA 15 19 SIGNAL GND 20 NC 21 DREQ 22 GND 23 IO WRITE 24 GND 25 IO READ 26 GND 27 IO CHANNEL READY 28 A...

Page 32: ...as an 8 pin connector for supporting TV output function The pin definition is listed below TV Out Connector CN2 Pin Signal Pin Signal 1 LUMF 2 Composite 3 GND 4 GND 5 CHROMF 6 NC 7 GND 8 NC FAN Connec...

Page 33: ...17 NC 18 NC 19 GREEN0 20 GREEN1 21 GREEN2 22 GREEN3 23 GREEN4 24 GREEN5 25 NC 26 NC 27 RED0 28 RED1 29 RED2 30 RED3 31 RED4 32 RED5 33 GND 34 GND 35 SHIFT CLK 36 FLM 37 DE 38 LP 39 NC 40 ENVEE TTL LCD...

Page 34: ...TOR A 11 GND 12 DRIVESELECTB 13 GND 14 DRIVESELECTA 15 GND 16 MOTOR B 17 GND 18 DIRECTION 19 GND 20 STEP 21 GND 22 WRITE DATA 23 GND 24 WRITE GATE 25 GND 26 TRACK 0 27 GND 28 WRITE PROTECT 29 GND 30 R...

Page 35: ...XCLK 6 TXCLK 7 GND 8 PPVCC 9 PPVCC 10 PPVCC 11 TXOUT2 12 TXOUT2 13 GND 14 GND 15 TXOUT0 16 TXOUT0 17 NC 18 NC LVDS Channel 1 Connector CN11 LVDS 1 Connector CN11 Pin Signal Pin Signal 1 TXOUT1 2 TXOUT...

Page 36: ...rs etc COM2 CN9 PIN Signal PIN Signal 1 CM2 1 2 CM2 2 3 CM2 3 4 CM2 4 5 GND 6 SDSRB2X 7 SRTSB2X 8 SCTSB2X 9 SRIB2X 10 N C Parallel Port Connector CN10 Parallel Port Connector Pin Signal Pin Signal 1 S...

Page 37: ...ND 5 Line In Left 6 CD_Left 7 Line In Right 8 CD_GND 9 GND 10 CD_Right 11 Audio Out Left 12 Audio Out Right 13 GND 14 GND 100Base T Ethernet Connector CN14 This 100Base T Ethernet connector is a stand...

Page 38: ...owing table for its pin assignment Power Connector CN15 Pin Signal 1 Vcc 2 GND 3 GND 4 12V USB Connector CN16 CN17 The Gene 6310 has 4 USB Universal Serial Bus ports that provide complete functions to...

Page 39: ...s infrared module With this module and applications such as laplink or Win95 98 Direct Cable connection user can transfer files to or from laptops notebooks PDA and printers that also equip IrDa funct...

Page 40: ...BIOS will 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 can let you select Present or Ab sent under the Sy...

Page 41: ...ing electroluminescent EL gas plasma passive LCD and active LCD displays In other words the board has two connectors to support these displays one for standard CRT VGA monitor and the other for any on...

Page 42: ...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 GND 41 IDERE...

Page 43: ...This connector can show the power management events of PCM 3794 PC 104 expansion interface made by AAEON which is connected to Gene 6310 to provide the function of Hot Swap PME Connector for PCM 3794...

Page 44: ...Chapter 3 Award BIOS Setup 35 3 Award BIOS Setup This chapter describes how to configure the BIOS for the system C H A P T E R...

Page 45: ...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 46: ...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 47: ...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 48: ...n 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 settings...

Page 49: ...alues 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 opera...

Page 50: ...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 t...

Page 51: ...DE drives This section does not show information about other IDE devices such as a CD ROM drive or about other hard drive types such as SCSI drives NOTE We recommend that you select type AUTO for all...

Page 52: ...pensation factor landing zone and number of sectors Drives whose specifications do not accommodate any predefined type are classified as type USER Size Disk drive capacity approximate Note that this s...

Page 53: ...e sided drive 1 44 mega byte capacity 2 88M 3 5 in 3 1 2 inch double sided drive 2 88 mega byte capacity Video Select the type of primary video subsystem in your computer The BIOS usually detects the...

Page 54: ...e GENE 6310 single board computer Thechoices LCD CRT LCD CRT TV andCRT TV Panel Type GENE 6310 can be used with various display panels Please select the type of panel you are incorporating with our si...

Page 55: ...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 dr...

Page 56: ...is enable when the external cache contains ECC SRAMs Thechoices Enabled Disabled Processor Number Feature This option is for Pentium III processor During Enabled this will check the CPU Serial number...

Page 57: ...ave 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 recommend that...

Page 58: ...e at which character repeats when yu hold down a key of 6 8 10 12 15 20 24 30 Typematic Delay When the typematic rate setting is enabled you can select a typematic delay the delay before key strokes b...

Page 59: ...e of the system BIOS and 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...

Page 60: ...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 Thechoi...

Page 61: ...Concurrency This item allows yo to enable disable the PCI to CPU CPU to PCI concurrency Thechoices Enabled Disabled System BIOS Cacheable Selecting Enabled allows caching of the system BIOS ROM at F0...

Page 62: ...4X mode will enhance your system performance Thechoices Enabled Disabled OnChip USB Select enabled if your system contains a Universal Serial Bus controller and you have a USB keyboard If you disable...

Page 63: ...ransactions then burst on the PCI bus and nonburstable transactions do not The choices Enabled Disabled PCI Master 0 WS Write When enabled writes to the PCI bus are executed with zero wait states The...

Page 64: ...rom buffer if user set to disable system will run twice wait states system can stable The choices Enabled Disabled AGP Master 1 WS Read System will run single wait state delay before read data from bu...

Page 65: ...d Disabled On Chip IDE Channel 1 The chipset contains a PCI IDE interface with support for two IDE channels Select Enabled to activate the secondary IDE interface Select Disabled to deactivate this in...

Page 66: ...nit Display First This item allows you to active PCI slot or onboard first The choices PCI Slot AGP IDE HDD Block Mode Select Enabled only if your hard drives support block mode The choices Enabled Di...

Page 67: ...un through the same address your devices would come to a near halt By providing the end user with four serial ports this allows devices to run more efficiently if needed Also the corresponding interru...

Page 68: ...nly at a time The choices Full Half TX RX inverting enable Consult your IR peripheral documentation to select the correct setting The choices Yes No Yes Yes No Yes No No Onboard Parallel Port Select a...

Page 69: ...or disable The choices Enabled Disabled SB I O Base Address Select a base I O address for the Sound Blaster interface The choices 220H 240H 260H 280H SB IRQ Select Select a IRQ to use for the on board...

Page 70: ...anagement This category allows you to select the type or degree of power saving and is directly related to the following modes 1 HDD Power Down 2 Doze Mode 3 Suspend Mode MaximumSaving 1 HDD 1 15 minu...

Page 71: ...1 hour PM Control by APM If advanced power management is installed on your system selecting Yes gives better power savings The choices Yes No Video Off Option Select the power saving modes during whi...

Page 72: ...a t n o z i r o h d n a l a c i t r e v e h t r e f f u b o e d i v e h t o t s k n a l b e t i r w d n a n e e r c S k n a l B r e f f u b o e d i v e h t o t s k n a l b s e t i r w y l n o n o i t...

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: ...ing 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 type...

Page 75: ...spread 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 c...

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: ...e to CMOS 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...

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 6310 is equipped with an audio VGA and LAN interface This chapter provides instructions for installing the software drivers on these...

Page 83: ...ion for Windows OS The system driver installation procedure must be performed first 1 Insert the Gene 6310 CD Diskette into the CD ROM Drive 2 Select the Drivers system file to click the Setup icon A...

Page 84: ...Chapter 4 Driver Installation 75 4 Click Yes 5 Select Normally Install and then click Next...

Page 85: ...Gene 6310 User Manual 76 6 Remain the default setting and then click Next 7 StillclickNext...

Page 86: ...Chapter 4 Driver Installation 77 8 As the following picture click Next 9 SelectInstallVIA AGPVxDinTurboMode andclickNext...

Page 87: ...Gene 6310 User Manual 78 10 ClickNext 11 Click Finish Installation process is complete and allows the system to reboot...

Page 88: ...ver Installation 79 Audio Driver Installation 1 Insert the Gene 6310 CD Diskette into the CD ROM Drive 2 Select the Drivers audio ac97 file to click the Setup icon A driver installation box will appea...

Page 89: ...Gene 6310 User Manual 80 4 Select Install Driver and then click Next 5 Click Finish Installation process is complete and allows the system to reboot...

Page 90: ...allation 1 Insert the Gene 6310 CD Diskette into the CD ROM Drive 2 Select the Drivers vga 9x file to click on the set up icon Notice We take the VGA installation under Windows 98 for example here ple...

Page 91: ...Manual 82 3 At last click Finish Installation process is complete and allows the system to reboot A driver installation screen will appear please follow the onscreen instructions to install the drive...

Page 92: ...Insert the Gene 6310 CD Diskette into the CD ROM Drive 2 Click the Start button 3 Select the Settings item 4 Click the Control Panel item 5 Select the Systems icon to open the System Properties box 6...

Page 93: ...Gene 6310 User Manual 84 Another file will appear below this file and then click on the file 8 Click the DriverTab 9 Click theUpdate DriverButton TheUpdateDeviceDriverWizard willappear 10 ClickNext...

Page 94: ...ver Installation 85 11 Select CD ROM drive D Drivers lan Win98 and click Next Notice We take the LAN installation under Windows 98 for example here please choose the file depending on your Windows OS...

Page 95: ...Gene 6310 User Manual 86 13 Click Finish Installation process is complete shutdown the computer and will allow the system to reboot...

Page 96: ...dog Timer The mainboard is equipped with a watchdog timer that resets the CPU or generates an interrupt if processing comes to a standstill for whatever reason This feature ensures system reliability...

Page 97: ...rupt on IRQ10 IRQ11 IRQ15 and NMI This can be set via I O Port 444 the functions as following 0 RESET 1 NMI 2 IRQ10 3 IRQ11 4 IRQ15 If you decide to program the watchdog timer you must write data to I...

Page 98: ...R To start watchdog timer and set function Reset type o 444 0 Enter out 444h data 0 To input Watchdog timers time out interval of 5 seconds type o 443 05 Enter out 443h data 05 To disable the watchdog...

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