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Hardware:

P4LA industrial motherboard x 1

Cable Kit:

40-pin ATA100 IDE flat cable x 1

Serial ATA ribbon cable x 2

I/O Shield x 1

COM port Cable x 1

RAID drivers Disc for Windows 2000,

Windows XP and Windows Server 2003

Other Accessories:

Divers CD (including User’s Manual) x 1

User’s Manual x 1

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Page 1: ...P4LA Industrial motherboard User s Manual Edition 1 00 2006 05 30 ...

Page 2: ...ument 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 the m...

Page 3: ...products Hardware P4LA industrial motherboard x 1 Cable Kit 40 pin ATA100 IDE flat cable x 1 Serial ATA ribbon cable x 2 I O Shield x 1 COM port Cable x 1 RAID drivers Disc for Windows 2000 Windows XP and Windows Server 2003 Other Accessories Divers CD including User s Manual x 1 User s Manual x 1 ...

Page 4: ...r Reference 15 2 3 1 Internal Connectors 15 2 3 2 External Connectors 15 2 4 CPU and Memory Setup 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 installation 20 2 8 Floppy Installation 21 2 9 LAN installation 22 2 10 Audio Installation 23 2 11 Display Installation 25 2 12 USB Installation 26 2 13 Power and Fan Installation 2...

Page 5: ...4 BIOS Setup 47 Appendix A I O Port Pin Assignment 49 A 1 IDE Port 49 A 2 Serial ATA Port 49 A 3 Floppy Port 50 A 4 IrDA Port 50 A 5 Serial Port 51 A 6 VGA Port 51 A 7 LAN Port 52 A 8 SMBus 52 A 9 LPT Port 53 Appedix B System Resources 54 Appedix B How to setting RS 422 485 58 Appedix C Flash BIOS 59 C 1 BIOS Auto Flash Tool 59 C 2 Flash Method 59 Appendix D Programming GPIO s 60 Appendix E What D...

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Page 7: ...ssor on the socket easier Intel 945G and ICH7R chipset The Intel 945G integrates DDR2 400 533 667MHz for memory and Graphic Media Accelerator GMA 950 technology for new graphic engine It can provide up to 224MB of frame buffer when you install over 256MB of system memory The ICH7R integrates with up to 8 USB2 0 interfaces 8 ports for P4LA and serial ATA II interface with RAID function One Marvell ...

Page 8: ...nced IDE Enhanced IDE interface supports dual channels and up to 2 ATAPI devices at Ultra DMA100 One 40 pin IDE port onboard Serial ATAII Intel ICH7R integrates 4 Serial ATA II interface RAID 0 1 5 10 Intel Matrix Storage Technology supported Multi I O Port Chipset Intel 82801GR ICH7R with Winbond W83627THG controller Serial Port Five internal RS 232 and one external RS 232 serial port USB Port Ei...

Page 9: ...or Expansive Interface PCI Express One x16 PCI Express slot compatible with x1 slot One x4 PCI Express slot One x1 PCI Express slot Up to 8GB s of transfer bandwidth Power supply 3 3V 12V PCI Four PCI slot 32 bit 33MHz Power supply 3 3V 5V ISA One ISA slot Power and Environment Power Requirement Standard ATX 24 pin 20 pin is compatible power supply Additional 12V 8 pin 4 pin is compatible power co...

Page 10: ...P4LA User s Manual Introduction Component Placement 10 1 3 Component Placement COM port ISA DOC CF ATX SATA II DIMM PCI Express PCI LPT LAN PS2 Serial port VGA Audio ...

Page 11: ...cs PCI Express 16x 8GB s Intel 945G GMCH 4 x Serial ATA II ports 300MB s 1 x Marvell E8053 Gigabit LAN 4 x PCI bus BIOS 6 x Serial ports 1 x Floppy port 8 bit GPIO SMBus 2 0 8 x USB2 0 ports ALC 880 AC97 7 1CH Codec ICH7R 1 x LPT Port 1 x IDE 4x 1x PCI Express 1 x ISA bus 2GB s DMI 4 x 240 pin DDR2 400 533 667MHz up to 3GB 6 4GB s ...

Page 12: ...P4LA User s Manual Introduction Mechanial Drawing 12 1 5 Mechanical Drawing ...

Page 13: ...ware Setup Connector Location 13 Chapter 2 Hardware Setup 2 1 Connector Location ISA DOC JFRNT CN_ Audio CN_DIO CF SYSFAN ATX IDE1 FDD CN_USB1 2 JP2 JDOC CD_ SPDIF IN NBFAN CN_SMBUS CN_IR CPUFAN CN_12V JP1 JCSEL1 JCSEL2 JRTC ...

Page 14: ...rence Jumper Function JRTC CMOS Operating Clear Setting JCFSEL Compact Flash Address Setting JCSEL1 Setting RS232 422 485 JCSEL2 Setting RS232 422 485 JDOC Setting address JP1 Setting COM Port Voltage JP2 Setting COM Port Voltage JRTC JCFSEL JP2 JCSEL1 JP1 JDOC JCSEL2 ...

Page 15: ...dard CN_DIO 6 x 2 pin digital I O connector Standard CN_USB1 2 10 pin USB connector Standard CPUFAN 4 pin CPU cooler fan connector Standard SYSFAN 3 pin system cooler fan connector Standard NBFAN 3 pin Northbridge cooler fan connector Standard CN_IR 5 pin IrDA connector Standard CN_SMBUS 4 pin I 2 C connector Standard JFRNT 14 pin front panel switch indicator connector Standard SPDIF Digital audio...

Page 16: ... the CPU Socket Warring If CPU Socket internal Pin damage We could not provide warranty Intel Pentium 4 processor Package type 775 pin PLGA L2 Cache Up to 2M FSB 533 800 1066MHz 266MHz x 4 Manufacturing 90nm Intel Hyper Threading Technology And Dual core support 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 ...

Page 17: ...o 3GB of memory capacity The memory frequency supports 400 533 667MHz Only Non ECC memory is supported Dual Channel technology is supported while applying two same modules DDRII4 DIMM4 DDRII3 DIMM3 DDRII2 DIMM2 DDRII1 DIMM1 128 pin 112 pin Please check the pin number to match the socket side well before installing memory module ...

Page 18: ...ata 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 1 JRTC 3 ...

Page 19: ...mper selectable for pin 20 5V supported The board supports 32 pin DiskOnChip 2000 The onboard 32 pin socket DOC supports DiskOnChip2000 single chip flash disk in 32 pin DIP JEDEC with jumper selectable address on jumper JDOC IDE1 JDOC DOC Jumper JDOC 3 1 Type onboard 3 pin header JDOC JDOC DiskOnChip Address 1 2 D800h 2 3 D000h Default setting Jumper JCFSEL 3 1 JCFSEL Type onboard 3 pin header JCF...

Page 20: ... of RAID 0 1 5 and 10 The main features of RAID on ICH7R 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 on RAID arrays including NCQ and native hot plug For more information please...

Page 21: ...Manual Hardware Setup Floppy Installation 21 2 8 Floppy Installation P4LA has one 34 pin floppy interface it supports use floppy and powering from onboard please follow up the steps below to install the device FDD ...

Page 22: ...22 2 9 LAN installation P4LA integrates one Gigabit LAN interfaces with Marvell E8053 they provide a standard IEEE 802 3 Ethernet interface for 1000BASE T 100BASE TX and 10BASE T applications P4LA provides one RJ45 connectors on the rear I O panel LAN ...

Page 23: ...ns of ALC880 are High performance DACs with 100dB S N ratio 8 DAC channels support 16 20 24 bit PCM format for 7 1 audio solution 16 20 24 bit S PDIF OUT supports 44 1K 48K 96kHz sample rate Compatible with AC 97 Meets Microsoft WHQL WLP 2 0 audio requirements The board provides 7 1 channels audio phone jacks on rear I O port and amplified speaker out and Line in MIC in ports for front I O panel t...

Page 24: ... Description Pin Description 1 MIC_L 2 Ground 3 MIC_R 4 VCC 5 Front_R 6 MIC_JD 7 Sense 8 N C 9 Front_L 10 Line_JD Connector CDIN Type 4 pin header pitch 2 54mm Pin Description 1 CD Left 2 Ground 3 Ground 4 CD Right Connector SPDIF Type 4 pin header pitch 2 54mm Pin Description 1 5V 2 N C 3 SPDIFO 4 Ground SPDIF 4 1 ...

Page 25: ...eo Memory Technology 3 0 for up to 224MB frame buffer size shared with system memory With a 400MHz core and DirectX 9 and OpenGL acceleration P4LA provides the powerful onboard graphics interface without additional graphic card More information please visit Intel s website For more information of configuring the frame buffer size please check the chapter of video memory configuration Intel 945G GM...

Page 26: ...USB2 0 are listed below Interface USB2 0 Controller Intel ICH7R Transfer Rate Up to 480Mb s The Intel ICH7R 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 USB ...

Page 27: ...rdware Setup USB Installation 27 Connector CN_USB1 2 Type 10 pin 5 x 2 header for USB1 2 Ports Pin Description Pin Description 1 VCC 2 VCC 3 Data0 4 Data1 5 Data0 6 Data1 7 Ground 8 Ground 9 Ground 10 N C 10 9 1 2 CN_USB1 2 ...

Page 28: ...d additional 12V connector and the board provides one 4 pin fan connectors supporting smart fan for CPU cooler and two 3 pin cooler fan connectors for system and Northbridge chip The 8 pin additional power connector is necessary for CPU powering please connect this well before you finishing the system setup ATX 1 4 1 12 CPUFAN 8 13 24 1 3 SYSFAN 1 4 NBFAN 3 2 1 CN_12V ...

Page 29: ... 22 5V 11 12V 23 5V 12 3 3V 24 GND Connector CN_12V Type 8 pin standard Pentium 4 additional 12V power connector Pin Description Pin Description 1 Ground 2 12V 3 Ground 4 12V 5 Ground 6 12V 7 Ground 8 12V Connector CPUFAN Type 4 pin fan wafer connector Pin Description Pin Description 1 Ground 2 12V 3 Fan Speed Detection 4 Sense Connector NBFAN SYSFAN Type 3 pin fan wafer connector Pin Description ...

Page 30: ...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 11 12 W83627THG Assignment CN_DIO PIN 121 GPSA2 GP17 PIN 10 PIN 122 GPSB2 GP16 PIN 8 PIN 123 GPY1 GP15 PIN 6 PIN 124 GPY2 P16 GP14 PIN 4 PIN 125 GPX2 P15 GP13 PIN 9 PIN 126 GPX1 P14 GP12 PIN 7 PIN 127 GPSB1 P13 GP11 PIN 5 PIN 128 GPSA1 P...

Page 31: ...anel and five onboard serial port COM2 Support RS232 422 485 Jump setting please refer to Page 57 This Pin header provide 5V 12V for COM1 COM2 Pin1 Pin 9 Jumper JP1 2 Type onboard 6 pin header Pin Description Pin Description 1 VCC 2 12V 3 COM1 2 pin1 4 COM1 2 pin9 5 MDCD1 6 MRI2 5 6 1 2 Internal Serial port External Serial port ...

Page 32: ... 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 HDLED 1 2 PWDLED IDE LED HDLED 3 4 N C Reset 5 6 PWDLED Power LED Reset Reset 7 8 SPKIN N C 9 10 N C PWRBT 11 12 N C Power Button PWRBT 13 14 SPKIN Speaker 14 13 JFRNT 1 2 ...

Page 33: ...Express is the last expansion interface technology for its serial data transfer scheme each lane will be up to 500MB s duplex and the 16x 16 lanes can be up to 8GB s more than 2GB s as AGP 8x bus transfer rate The 16x slot can be also for 1x compatible use PCIE PCI Express 16x slot PCIE PCI Express 1x slot PCIE PCI Express 4x slot ...

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Page 35: ...ort 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 ...

Page 36: ... 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 37: ...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 page35 for relati...

Page 38: ... recreating data that was lost from a single drive which increases fault tolerance The data and parity are striped across all the hard drives in the array The parity is striped in a rotating sequence to reduce bottlenecks associated with the parity calculations RAID 10 RAID 0 1 A RAID 10 array uses four hard drives to create a combination of RAID levels 0 and 1 The data is striped across a two dri...

Page 39: ...stem for Microsoft Windows XP SP1 or Windows 2000 SP4 version please install 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 ...

Page 40: ...P4LA User s Manual System Configuration SATA RAID Configuration 40 2 Select Actions to Create RAID Volume Rename the Volume name Select RAID Level as 0 Left as default ...

Page 41: ...me 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 42: ... ICH7R with REALTEK ALC880 codec It can support 7 1 channel sound under system configuration Please follow the steps below to setup your sound system 1 Install REALTEK AC97 Audio driver 2 Lunch the control panel and Sound Effect Manager 3 Select Speaker Configuration 4 Select the sound mode to meet your speaker system ...

Page 43: ...50 Driver with supported OS BIOS Setup On Chip Video Memory Size This option combines three items below for setup 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 224MB DVMT Memory Size This item can let you select a maximum size of dynamic amount usage of video memory...

Page 44: ... 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 128MB 8MB 0 128MB 128MB 8MB 64MB 64MB 128MB 512MB upper 8MB 0 224MB 224MB Notice 1 The On Chip Frame Buffer Size would be include...

Page 45: ...c Media Accelerator the board supports two DACs for display device as different resolution and color bit Please install the Intel Graphic Driver before you starting setup display devices 1 Click right button on the desktop to lunch display properties 2 Click Advanced button for more specificity setup Click Graphics Properties for advanced setup ...

Page 46: ... support more than one display devices Click Digital Display to setup the DVI monitor for Colors and Resolution Click Monitor to setup the CRT monitor for Colors Resolution and Refresh Rate Click Extended Desktop to setup the dual display mode as different screen display Click Intel Dual Display Clone to setup the dual display mode as same screen Set the main display device here ...

Page 47: ...e 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 displayed...

Page 48: ...P4LA User s Manual System Configuration Display Properties Setting 48 This Page is Left for Blank ...

Page 49: ...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 IDE66 IDE33 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_T...

Page 50: ...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 Connector CN_IR Type 5 pin header for SIR Ports Pin Des...

Page 51: ...nector COM2 3 4 5 6 Type 9 pin D sub male connector on bracket 2 1 Pin Description Pin Description 1 DCD 6 DSR 2 SIN 7 RTS 3 SO 8 CTS 4 DTR 9 RI 5 Ground 10 N C A 6 VGA Port 6 10 1 2 3 4 5 11 12 13 14 15 Connector VGA Type 15 pin D sub female connector on I O Panel Pin Description Pin Description Pin Description 1 RED 6 Ground 11 N C 2 GREEN 7 Ground 12 5VCDA 3 BLUE 8 Ground 13 HSYNC 4 N C 9 LVGA5...

Page 52: ...tor RJ45 Type RJ45 connector with LED on I O Panel Pin 1 2 3 4 5 Description TRD0 TRD0 TRD1 TRD1 NC Pin 6 7 8 9 10 Description NC TRD2 TRD2 TRD3 TRD3 A 8 SMBus Connector CN_SMBUS Type 4 pin SMBus connector Pin Description Pin Description 1 VCC 2 N C 3 SMBDATA 4 SMBCLK 5 Ground 5 1 ...

Page 53: ... Pin D Sub female Connector on I O Panel Pin Description Pin Description 1 PSTB 2 PRO0 3 PRO1 4 PRO2 5 PRO3 6 PRO4 7 PRO5 8 PRO6 9 PRO7 10 ACK 11 BUSY 12 PE 13 SLCT 14 AFD 15 ERR 16 INT 17 SLIN 18 Ground 19 Ground 20 I O Ground 21 Ground 22 Ground 23 Ground 24 Ground 25 Ground 26 N C ...

Page 54: ...P4LA User s Manual System Resources I O Port Address Map 54 Appedix B System Resources B1 I O Port Address Map ...

Page 55: ...P4LA User s Manual I O Port Pin Assignment I 55 ...

Page 56: ...P4LA User s Manual System Resources I O Port Address Map 56 B2 Memory Address Map ...

Page 57: ...P4LA User s Manual I O Port Pin Assignment I 57 B3 System IRQ DMA Resources DMA IRQ ...

Page 58: ...P4LA User s Manual System Resources I O Port Address Map 58 Appedix B How to setting RS 422 485 JCSEL1 5 6 1 2 12 3 1 RS 232 JCSEL2 10 JCSEL1 JCSEL1 RS 485 RS 422 JCSEL2 JCSEL2 ...

Page 59: ... of the tool is awdflash exe it s the utility that can write the data into the BIOS flash ship and update the BIOS C 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...

Page 60: ...r configuration o 2E 87 o 2E 29 o 2E 40 enale GPIO function o 2E 07 o 2E 07 enable GPIO configuration o 2E F0 o 2F xx set GPIO as input output set 1 for input 0 for output o 2E F1 o 2F xx if set GPIO s as output in this register its value can be set Optional o 2E F2 o 2F xx Data inversion register 1 inverts the current valus of the bits 0 leaves them as they are o 2E 30 o 2F 01 active GPIO s For f...

Page 61: ...tem reset mode by program Timeout Value Range 1 to 255 Second or Minute Program Sample Watchdog timer setup as system reset with 5 second of timeout 2E 87 2E 87 2E 07 2F 08 Logical Device 8 2E 30 Activate 2F 01 2E F5 Set as Second 2F 00 2E F6 Set as 5 2F 05 Minute bit 3 0 Second bit 3 1 You can select Timer setting in the BIOS after setting the time options the system will reset according to the p...

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