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FS-979 User’s Manual                                                Packing List 

 

 

DVI module with bracket x 1

Audio cable with bracket x 1

4-pin to 3-pin ATX cable x 1 

RAID drivers Disc for Windows 2000, 

Windows XP and Windows Server 2003 

PS/2 Keyboard & Mouse Cable x 1 

Audio & VGA cable with bracket x 1 (

FS-979VDG3

 only) 

CD Content: 

Drivers 

User’s Manual 

Summary of Contents for FS-979

Page 1: ...FS 979 Full size PICMG CPU Card User s Manual Edition 1 11 2004 12 24 ...

Page 2: ... document are property of their respective owners Disclaimer The company shall not be liable for any incidental or consequential damages resulting from the performance or use of this product The company does not issue a warranty of any kind express or implied including without limitation implied warranties of merchantability or fitness for a particular purpose The company has the right to revise t...

Page 3: ...uction Hardware FS 979 Full size PICMG CPU Card x 1 Cable Kit Floppy flat cable x 1 40 pin ATA100 IDE flat cable x 1 DB25 DB9 cable with bracket x 1 FS 979VDL only Dual DB9 cable with bracket x 1 FS 979VDG3 only DB25 cable with bracket x 1 FS 979VDG3 only Dual USB cable with bracket x 2 Serial ATA ribbon cable x 2 ...

Page 4: ... bracket x 1 Audio cable with bracket x 1 4 pin to 3 pin ATX cable x 1 RAID drivers Disc for Windows 2000 Windows XP and Windows Server 2003 PS 2 Keyboard Mouse Cable x 1 Audio VGA cable with bracket x 1 FS 979VDG3 only CD Content Drivers User s Manual ...

Page 5: ...ctor 14 2 3 Jumper Reference 15 2 4 CPU and Memory installation 16 2 4 1 CPU Installation 16 2 4 2 Memory Installation 17 2 5 CMOS Setup 18 2 6 Enhanced IDE Interface 19 2 7 Serial ATA interface 20 2 8 LAN Interface 21 2 9 Audio Interface 22 2 10 Display Interface 23 2 11 Compact Flash Interface 25 2 12 USB2 0 Interface 26 2 13 Power and Fan Installation 27 2 13 1 Power connectors 27 2 13 2 Fan Co...

Page 6: ...I O Port Pin Assignment 45 A 1 IDE Port 45 A 2 Serial ATA Port 45 A 3 Floppy Port 46 A 4 IrDA Port 46 A 5 Parallel Port 47 A 6 Serial Port 47 A 6 1 External DB9 serial port 47 A 6 2 Internal serial port 47 A 7 VGA Port 48 A 8 LAN Port 48 A 8 1 Fast Ethernet 48 A 8 2 Gigabit Ethernet 48 A 9 AT Keyboard Port 49 A 10 PS 2 Keyboard Mouse Port 49 Appendix B Flash BIOS 51 B 1 BIOS Auto Flash Tool 51 B 2...

Page 7: ...sier Intel 915GV and ICH6R chipset The Intel 915GV integrates DDR2 400 533MHz for memory and Graphic Media Accelerator GMA 900 technology for new graphic engine It can provide up to 224MB of frame buffer when you install over 256MB of system memory The ICH6R integrates with up to 8 USB2 0 interfaces 4 ports for FS 979 and serial ATA interface with RAID function Dual Display Supported Based on Inte...

Page 8: ...in RTC with lithium battery Enhanced IDE Enhanced IDE interface supports dual channels and up to 2 ATAPI devices at Ultra DMA100 with One 40 pin IDE port onboard Serial ATA Intel ICH6R integrates 4 Serial ATA interface RAID 0 1 Intel Matrix Storage Technology supported Multi I O Port Chipset Intel 82801FR ICH6R with Winbond W83627THF controller Serial Port One RS232 and one jumper selectable RS232...

Page 9: ...RQ supported only no support DMA bus mastering Audio Interface Chipset Intel ICH6R with Realtek ALC201A AC97 3D audio codec Interface 2 channel 3D audio with Line in Line out and MIC in Connector Internal header for Line out Line in and MIC in Internal CD audio connector Power and Environment Power Requirement Standard AT 4 pin power supply Additional 12V 4 pin power connector 3 pin ATX function c...

Page 10: ...roduction Component Placement 10 1 3 Component Placement Intel 82562EZ LAN Winbond W83627THF Super I O SATA ISA Bridge USB2 0 Compact Flash ICH6R Southbridge ALC201A Audio 915G Northbridge CH7307B DE DVI DDR2 Memory LGA775 CPU ...

Page 11: ... 240 pin DDR2 400 533MHz up to 4GB DVI SDVO CH7307B DE Intel 915G GMCH 2GB s DMI 150MB s 4 x Serial ATA ports 2 x Serial ports 1 x Floppy ports IrDA 1 x Parallel ports 8 bit GPIO 4 x USB2 0 ports AC97 Codec Intel 82562EZ LAN VDL PCI Express x1 PCI PICMG Backplane Marvell E8053 LAN VDG3 ISA Bridge BIOS with Intel Hyper Threading Technology support ...

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Page 13: ...dware Setup 2 1 Connector Location LPT IDE1 CN_VGA VGA RJ45_1 COM1 PS2 CN_ATKB CN_COM2 CN_DIO CN_IR S_ATA2 S_ATA1 CDIN CN_AUDIO NBFAN CN_DVI CPU JFRNT SYSFAN CPUFAN LAN_LED CN_USB1 CN_USB0 CF Solder Side S_ATA4 S_ATA3 DIMMA_1 DIMMA_2 DIMMB_1 DIMMB_2 FDD CN_PS CN_12V CN_PWR ...

Page 14: ...ndard CN_USB0 10 pin USB 1 2 connector Standard CN_USB1 10 pin USB 3 4 connector Standard NBFAN 3 pin Northbridge chip fan connector Standard CPUFAN 4 pin CPU fan connector Standard SYSFAN 4 pin system fan connector Standard CN_IR 5 pin IrDA connector Standard CN_ATKB 5 pin AT keyboard connector Standard CN_DVI 26 pin TMDS connector Standard CN_VGA 16 pin VGA connector pitch 2 00mm Standard JFRNT ...

Page 15: ... 15 2 3 Jumper Reference Jumper Function JRTC CMOS Operating Clear Setting JDOM IDE1 Pin 20 voltage setting JCFSEL Compact Flash address setting JCSEL1 COM2 communication mode setting JCSEL2 COM2 communication mode setting JCSEL1 JCSEL2 JDOM JCFSEL JRTC ...

Page 16: ...to install the processor properly Intel Pentium 4 processor Package type 775 pin PLGA L2 Cache 1MB FSB 800MHz 200MHz x 4 Manufacturing 90nm Intel Hyper Threading Technology supported Check point 1 Lift this bar 2 Uncover this plate 3 Place the CPU on the top of the pins 3 Cover this plate 4 Lock this bar Notice Please place the CPU on the pins tenderly to avoid bending the pins ...

Page 17: ...33MHz 100MHz x 4 or 133MHz x 4 Only Non ECC memory is supported Dual Channel technology is supported while applying two same modules on one of each group Notice When applying 4GB of memory due to the memory resource issue the available memory size would be less than 4GB Group B Group A 128 pin 112 pin Please check the pin number to match the socket side well before installing memory module ...

Page 18: ... data of CMOS can be setting in BIOS If the board refuses to boot due to inappropriate CMOS settings here is how to proceed to clear reset the CMOS to its default values Jumper JRTC Type Onboard 3 pin jumper JRTC Mode 1 2 Clear CMOS 2 3 Normal Operation Default setting JRTC 3 1 ...

Page 19: ...o ATAPI devices with ATA100 Based on this function FS 979 has one 40 pin IDE connector with jumper selectable for pin 20 5V supported The jumper JDOM is two pin type for pin 20 supplied with 5V to apply the DOM Disk on Module Jumper JDOM Type onboard 3 pin header JDOM Mode ON IDE1 pin 20 5V power supply enable OFF No 5V power supply on IDE1 pin 20 Default setting 40 JDOM IDE1 1 ...

Page 20: ...of RAID 0 and RAID 1 modes The main features of RAID on ICH6R are listed below 1 Supports for up to RAID volumes on a single two hard drive RAID array 2 Supports for two two hard drive RAID arrays on any of four Serial ATA ports 3 Supports for Serial ATA ATAPI devices 4 Supports for RAID spares and automatic rebuild 5 Supports for AHCI on RAID arrays including NCQ and native hot plug For more info...

Page 21: ...gy for its serial data transfer scheme each 1x lane will be up to 500MB s duplex Connector LAN_LED Type 18 pin 9 x 2 header pitch 2 54mm Pin Description Pin Description Function 1 YELLOW 2 3VDU ACT 3 GREEN 4 3VDU 100Mbps 5 ORANGE 6 3VDU 1000Mbps LAN1 7 YELLOW 8 3VDU ACT 9 GREEN 10 3VDU 100Mbps 11 ORANGE 12 3VDU 1000Mbps LAN2 13 YELLOW 14 3VDU ACT 15 GREEN 16 3VDU 100Mbps 17 ORANGE 18 3VDU 1000Mbps...

Page 22: ...o full duplex compliant with AC97 Rev 2 2 specifications Connector CN_AUDIO Type 10 pin 2 x 5 header pitch 2 54mm Pin Description Pin Description 1 Line Right 2 Ground 3 Line Left 4 MIC 5 MIC 6 Ground 7 N C 8 Line Out Left 9 Line Out Right 10 Ground Connector CDIN Type 4 pin header pitch 2 54mm Pin Description 1 CD Left 2 Ground 3 Ground 4 CD Right CDIN 4 1 10 CN_AUDIO 1 ...

Page 23: ...ides the powerful onboard graphics interface without additional graphic card More information please visit Intel s website The board also comes with a DVI interface with CHRONTEL CH7307B DE for digital video interface When you use the FS 979VDG3 version please connect the VGA cable in the cable kit with CN_VGA for display monitors Connector CN_VGA Type 16 pin 2 x 8 pin header pitch 2 0mm Pin Descr...

Page 24: ...6 pin header connector pitch 2 00mm Pin Number Assignment Pin Number Assignment 1 TMDS_TX1 2 TMDS_TX1 3 Ground 4 Ground 5 TMDS_TXC 6 TMDS_TXC 7 Ground 8 PVDD 9 N C 10 N C 11 TMDS_TX2 12 TMDS_TX2 13 Ground 14 Ground 15 TMDS_TX0 16 TMDS_TX0 17 N C 18 HPDET 19 DDCDATA 20 DDCCLK CN_DVI 26 2 1 25 ...

Page 25: ...mpact Flash Type II socket users can apply embedded system on CF card or Micro drives the jumper JCFSEL can let you select operating mode under master or slave The Compact Flash socket supports storage type only Jumper JCFSEL Type onboard 3 pin header JCFSEL Mode 1 2 Master 2 3 Slave Default setting CF JCFSEL 1 3 ...

Page 26: ...Intel ICH6R contains and Enhanced Host Controller Interface EHCI and four Universal Host Controller Interfaces UHCI it can determine whether your connected device is for USB1 1 or USB2 0 and change the transfer rate automatically Connector CN_USB0 1 Type 10 pin 5 x 2 header for USB1 2 USB3 4 Ports Pin Description Pin Description 1 VCC 2 VCC 3 Data0 4 Data1 5 Data0 6 Data1 7 Ground 8 Ground 9 Groun...

Page 27: ...1 Power connectors Connector CN_PWR Type 4 pin P type connector for 5V 12V input Pin Description Pin Description Pin Description Pin Description 1 12V 2 Ground 3 Ground 4 5V Connector CN_12V Type 4 pin standard Pentium 4 additional 12V power connector Pin Description Pin Description 1 Ground 2 Ground 3 12V 4 12V Notice The CN_12V is necessary for CPU powering please ensure your power supply has th...

Page 28: ...r CPUFAN Type 4 pin fan wafer connector Pin Description Pin Description 1 Ground 2 12V 3 Fan Speed Detection 4 Fan Control Connector NBFAN SYSFAN Type 3 pin fan wafer connector Pin Description Pin Description Pin Description 1 Ground 2 12V 3 Fan Control SYSFAN 1 3 NBFAN 1 3 CPUFAN 1 4 ...

Page 29: ...mper selectable RS232 422 485 serial ports The jumper JCSEL1 JCSEL2 can let you configure the communicating modes for COM2 Jumper JCSEL1 2 Type onboard 12 6 pin header COM2 Mode JCSEL1 JCSEL2 RS 232 1 2 4 5 7 8 10 11 1 2 RS 422 1 2 4 5 8 9 11 12 5 6 RS 485 2 3 5 6 7 8 10 11 3 4 Default setting 3 12 2 6 JCSEL2 10 COM1 2 JCSEL1 5 1 1 1 9 CN_COM2 10 ...

Page 30: ...vides a 12 pin General Purpose I O interface with programmable 8 bit I O 4 bit input 4 bit output Connector CN_DIO Type onboard 2 x 6 pin header pitch 2 0mm Pin Description Pin Description 1 Ground 2 Ground 3 GP10 4 GP14 5 GP11 6 GP15 7 GP12 8 GP16 9 GP13 10 GP17 11 VCC 12 12V 12 1 CN_DIO ...

Page 31: ...ower button reset and beeper etc Please check well before you connecting the cables on the chassis Connector JFRNT Type onboard 14 pin 2 x 7 2 54 pitch header Function Signal PIN Signal Function Vcc 1 2 Vcc IDE LED Active 3 4 N C Reset 5 6 GND Power LED Reset GND 7 8 Vcc N C 9 10 N C PWRBT 11 12 N C Power Button GND 13 14 SPKIN Speaker 14 1 JFRNT ...

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Page 33: ...rt up to 4 IDE devices including SATA devices and Windows 2000 XP Server2003 have no such limitation Parallel ATA Serial ATA Operating System Support Mode Primary 2 Devices SATA1 SATA2 SATA3 SATA4 Windows 2000 XP Enhance Mode Windows 98 ME NT4 0 Type 1 Combine Mode Primary X Secondary X Secondary Type 2 Combine Mode Secondary Primary X Primary X Type 3 SATA only X Primary Master Secondary Master P...

Page 34: ...A Mode This option can let you select whether the Serial ATA hard drives would work under normal IDE mode or RAID mode The RAID mode need more than one HDD is applied Once you enable the RAID mode the boot up screen would pop up the RAID configuration option for setup ...

Page 35: ... To allow the system select the optimized mode automatically Combined mode PATA and SATA work as two channels for supporting two drives on each channel Enhanced mode Max supported of the PATA and SATA for up to 6 drives SATA Only To disable the PATA and only apply the SATA drives Notice The Combined mode and Enhanced mode are supported depends on your operating system please check page33 for relat...

Page 36: ...ds two unused drives or one used and one unused drive to build this operation The second drive must be the same or lager size than first one Intel Matrix Storage Technology This technology would allow you to use RAID 0 1 mode on only two drives 4 drives needed on traditional RAID 0 1 It will create two partitions on each hard drive to simulate RAID 0 and RAID 1 It also can let you modify the parti...

Page 37: ...l the Intel Application Accelerator Ver 4 5 later to support RAID configuration with Intel Matrix Storage Technology 1 After installing Intel Application Accelerator please execute Intel Storage Utility Demo configuration for 2 SATA Drives and set as Intel Matrix Storage Technology set 2 Select Actions to Create RAID Volume Rename the Volume name Select RAID Level as 0 Left as default ...

Page 38: ...olume 4 Specify the Volume size Tune this bar to specify the volume size if you specify the volume size lower than maximum you can create a second volume for another RAID set Make RAID 0 1 on only two hard drives 5 Repeat the step 1 to create second volume as RAID Level 1 For other configuration set please click Help on tool bar ...

Page 39: ... On Chip Frame Buffer Size This item can let you select video memory which been allocated for legacy VGA and SVGA graphics support and compatibility The available option is 1MB and 8MB Fixed Memory Size This item can let you select a static amount of page locked graphics memory which will be allocated during driver initialization Once you select the memory amount it will be no longer available for...

Page 40: ...32MB 8MB 32MB 0MB 32MB 128MB 255MB 8MB 0 32MB 32MB 1MB 64MB 0MB 64MB 1MB 0 64MB 64MB 1MB 128MB 0MB 128MB 1MB 0 128MB 128MB 1MB 64MB 64MB 128MB 8MB 64MB 0MB 64MB 8MB 0 64MB 64MB 8MB 128MB 0MB 128MB 8MB 0 128MB 128MB 256MB 511MB 8MB 64MB 64MB 128MB 1MB 64MB 0 64MB 1MB 0 64MB 64MB 1MB 128MB 0 128MB 1MB 0 128MB 128MB 1MB 64MB 64MB 128MB 1MB 0 224MB 224MB 8MB 64MB 0 64MB 8MB 0 64MB 64MB 8MB 128MB 0 128...

Page 41: ...lor bit Please install the Intel Graphic Driver before you starting setup display devices 1 Click right button on the desktop to lunch display properties You can find two DACs on this setup screen to select each for resolution and color bit setup You can choose on of the device for primary monitor You can setup the two devices for extended desktop 2 Click Advanced button for more specificity setup...

Page 42: ...k Monitor to setup the CRT monitor for Colors Resolution and Refresh Rate Click Digital Display to setup the DVI monitor for Colors and Resolution Click Intel Dual Display Clone to setup the dual display mode as same screen Set the main display device here Click Extended Desktop to setup the dual display mode as different screen display ...

Page 43: ...he information when the power is turned off If the battery runs out of the power then the settings of BIOS will come back to the default setting The BIOS section of the manual is subject to change without notice and is provided here for reference purpose only The settings and configurations of the BIOS are current at the time of print and therefore they may not be exactly the same as that displaye...

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Page 45: ... 8 D10 9 D4 10 D11 11 D3 12 D12 13 D2 14 D13 15 D1 16 D14 17 D0 18 D15 19 Ground 20 VCC 21 REQ 22 Ground 23 IOW STOP 24 Ground 25 IOR HDMARDY 26 Ground 27 IORDY DDMARDY 28 IDESEL 29 DACK 30 Ground 31 IRQ 32 N C 33 A1 34 CBLID 35 A0 36 A2 37 CS0 MASTER CS 38 CS1 SLAVE CS 39 LED ACT 40 Ground A 2 Serial ATA Port Connector S_ATA1 2 3 4 Type 7 pin wafer connector 1 7 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 GND RSATA_TXP1 RSATA...

Page 46: ...und 8 INDEX 9 Ground 10 MOTOR ENABLE A 11 Ground 12 DRIVER SELECT B 13 Ground 14 DRIVER SELECT A 15 Ground 16 MOTOR ENABLE B 17 Ground 18 DIRECTION 19 Ground 20 STEP 21 Ground 22 WRITE DATA 23 Ground 24 WRITE GATE 25 Ground 26 TRACK 0 27 Ground 28 WRITE PROTECT 29 Ground 30 READ DATA 31 Ground 32 HEAD SELECT 33 Ground 34 DISK CHANGE A 4 IrDA Port 5 Connector CN_IR Type 5 pin header for SIR Ports 1...

Page 47: ... D7 22 Ground 10 ACKNOWLEDGE 23 Ground 11 BUSY 24 Ground 12 PAPER EMPTY 25 Ground 13 SELECT 26 N C A 6 Serial Port 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 A 6 1 External DB9 serial port Connector COM1 VDL only Type 9 pin D sub male connector on bracket Pin Description Pin Description 1 DCD 6 DSR 2 SIN 7 RTS 3 SO 8 CTS 4 DTR 9 RI 5 Ground 2 10 A 6 2 Internal serial port Connector CN_COM1 VDG3 only CN_COM2 1 9 Type 10 pi...

Page 48: ...7 Ground 12 5VCDA 3 BLUE 8 Ground 13 HSYNC 4 N C 9 LVGA5V 14 VSYNC 5 Ground 10 Ground 15 5VCLK A 8 LAN Port A 8 1 Fast Ethernet 1 8 Connector RJ45_1 Type RJ45 connector with LED on bracket Pin 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 Description TX TX RX N C N C RX N C N C A 8 2 Gigabit Ethernet 1 10 Connector RJ45_2 RJ45_3 VDG3 only Type RJ45 connector with LED on bracket Pin 1 2 3 4 5 Description TRD0 TRD0 TRD1 TRD1 NC ...

Page 49: ...Pin 1 2 3 4 5 Description VCC Ground N C DATA CLK A 10 PS 2 Keyboard Mouse Port Connector PS2 Type 6 pin Mini DIN connector on bracket Pin 1 2 3 4 5 6 Description KBD MSD Ground VCC KBC MSC 3 4 1 2 5 6 Note The PS 2 connector supports standard PS 2 keyboard directly or both PS 2 keyboard and mouse through the PS 2 Y type cable PS2 ...

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Page 51: ... of the tool is awdflash exe it s the utility that can write the data into the BIOS flash ship and update the BIOS B 2 Flash Method 1 Please make a bootable floppy disk 2 Get the last bin files you want to update and copy it into the disk 3 Copy awardflash exe to the disk 4 Power on the system and flash the BIOS Example C awardflash XXX bin 5 Re star the system Any question about the BIOS re flash...

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