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2. System Reference

 

                                                                                                                                            

SLC-8550-LVA

11

Board Dimensions

CPU Socket

855GME

ICH4

1

1

1

27.

0

42

.0

11

6.

0

14

0.

0

145.

0

5.

0

24.

0

30

.0

31

.5

105

.0

5.0

41.0

129.2

198.0

199.0

5.0

5.5

50.8

109.5

153.0

188.2

198.0

203.0

1.

0

4-

φ

3.2

10-

φ

4.0

(For HeatSink)

[mm]

Figure 2.3.  Board Dimensions

Summary of Contents for SLC-8550-LVA

Page 1: ...SBC Series 5 25 Little Board for Pentium M CPU with LAN VGA Audio SLC 8550 LVA User s Manual CONTEC CO LTD...

Page 2: ...iver disk utilities 1 1 IDE 80pin Ribbon Cable 1 IDE 40pin Ribbon Cable 1 Combine screw for D SUB connector 10 6 pin mini DIN cable 2 in 1 for PS2 Mouse Keyboard functions 1 Jumper short pin 2mm 1 1 T...

Page 3: ...CONTEC CO LTD Regardless of the foregoing statement CONTEC assumes no responsibility for any errors that may appear in this document nor for results obtained by the user as a result of using this pro...

Page 4: ...NTY 2 HOW TO OBTAIN SERVICE 2 LIABILITY 2 SAFETY PRECAUTIONS 2 SAFETY INFORMATION 3 Handling Precautions 3 Environment 4 Inspection 4 Storage 4 Disposal 4 2 SYSTEM REFERENCE 5 SPECIFICATION 5 POWER MA...

Page 5: ...6 20 BATTERY CONNECTOR CN17 21 KEYBOARD MOUSE CONNECTOR CN21 21 COMPACTFLASH SLOT CN23 22 CPU FAN CONNECTOR FAN1 23 SYSTEM FAN CONNECTOR FAN2 23 ATX POWER SUPPLY CONNECTOR PW1 23 4 JUMPER SETTING 25 C...

Page 6: ...D CHIPSET FEATURES SETUP 53 ON CHIP VGA SETTING 56 INTEGRATED PERIPHERALS 58 ON CHIP IDE DEVICE 58 ONBOARD DEVICE 61 SUPER IO DEVICE 64 POWER MANAGEMENT SETUP 66 PNP PCI CONFIGURATION SETUP 70 IRQ N R...

Page 7: ...vi SLC 8550 LVA...

Page 8: ...essor 1 6G 2 0GHz FSB400MHz Celeron R M Processor 1 3G 1 5GHz FSB400MHz Intel R 855GME chipset Max 1GB DDR SDRAM and ECC function support 5 inches bay sized CPU board and equipped with a range of stan...

Page 9: ...copy of the original invoice and a Return Merchandise Authorization to the distributor or the CONTEC group office from which it was purchased This warranty is not applicable for scratches or normal w...

Page 10: ...t CONTEC will bear no responsibility for any problems etc resulting from modifying this product Do not strike or bend the board Otherwise the board may malfunction overheat causes a failure or breakag...

Page 11: ...it safely Check that the bus connector of the board and its cable have been plugged correctly Check that the board has no dust or foreign matter adhering Storage When storing this product keep it in i...

Page 12: ...pansion bus PCI slot x 1 1 LAN Port 100BASE TX 10BASE T Intel ICH4 integrated controller One RJ 45 connector Wake On LAN support IDE I F Two EIDE ports up to four IDE devices Two box header 40 pin con...

Page 13: ...gases None Weight 360g Operating System Support Windows XP Professional Windows XP Home Edition Windows 2000 Professional 1 When using the PCI slot of this product use an optional riser card Mount th...

Page 14: ...t For the best performance makes sure your power supply provides a range of 4 75 volts minimum to 5 25 volts maximum DC power source Power Consumption For typical configurations the product is designe...

Page 15: ...PU Socket 855GME ICH4 LVDS B LVDS A JBAT1 JP3 PCI Slot JP4 JP5 1 1 1 FAN2 CN19 LED Key Mouse CN21 FAN1 Audio CN1 LAN USB CN2 SERIAL1 3 CN3 SERIAL2 4 CN6 CN9 CN10 USB USB CN5 SERIAL5 6 VGA CN13 Reset S...

Page 16: ...ector External Keyboard Mouse Connector CN13 VGA connector CN14 Secondary IDE Connector CN15 CN16 LVDS Connector CN17 Battery Connector CN18 Reserved Connector CN19 PCI slot CN21 PS2 Keyboard Mouse Co...

Page 17: ...PC SUPER I O W83627HF SERIAL1 RS232 SERIAL2 RS232 16550UARTx4 PCI SLOT SERIAL 3 4 5 6 RS232 LAN RJ 45 10 100 LAN 8256GI USB 5 6 USB 3 4 USB 1 2 CF SLOT IDE S IDE P DDR 184P DIMM 1 DDR 200 266 333 Inte...

Page 18: ...11 Board Dimensions CPU Socket 855GME ICH4 1 1 1 27 0 42 0 116 0 140 0 145 0 5 0 24 0 30 0 31 5 105 0 5 0 41 0 129 2 198 0 199 0 5 0 5 5 50 8 109 5 153 0 188 2 198 0 203 0 1 0 4 3 2 10 4 0 For HeatSin...

Page 19: ...2 System Reference 12 SLC 8550 LVA...

Page 20: ...processor The heat sink with a fan cable connects to the fan connector on this board 4 Insert the DDR DRAM module with correct orientation 5 Insert all external cables Keyboard Mouse LAN etc 6 Prepar...

Page 21: ...tal contact to avoid CPU overheating problem that would cause your system to hang or be unstable Main Memory Installation DIMM1 The product supports one single side or double sided DDR200 266 333 unre...

Page 22: ...3 4 5 6 7 8 CN2 8 1 Link ACT LED Speed LED Right LED Link LED Link Green Active Blink Left LED Speed LED 10M Off 100M Yellow USB Connector CN2 CN9 CN10 This board has six USB v2 0 compliant ports The...

Page 23: ...3 5 Serial Port Connector CN3 CN6 Pin No 1 2 3 4 5 RS 232C DCD RxD TxD DTR GND Pin No 6 7 8 9 RS 232C DSR RTS CTS RI Upper side CN3 SERIAL3 CN6 SERIAL4 Lower side CN3 SERIAL1 CN6 SERIAL2 No 4 40 UNC...

Page 24: ...plugs at the other end to your hard disk s If you install two hard disks you must configure the second drive to Slave mode by setting its jumper accordingly Please refer to your hard disk documentatio...

Page 25: ...cted to an LED that will light when the computer is powered on IDE drive activity LED IDE ACT This header can be connected to an LED to provide a visual indicator that data is being read from or writt...

Page 26: ...nal Mouse 9 11 5 7 8 10 12 1 3 2 4 13 15 14 16 2 1 20 19 Housing DF13 20DS 1 25S HIROSE Contact DF13 2630SCF HIROSE 2 1 20 19 HDD Active Indicator LED Power Switch for ATX Reset Switch External Speake...

Page 27: ...LCD_VDD GND DDC_DATA Reserved 5V 5V 12V 12V Pin No 1 3 5 7 9 11 13 15 17 19 21 23 25 27 29 Function A_TX0 A_TX0 GND A_TX2 A_TX2 GND A_CLK1 A_CLK1 GND DDC_CLK Reserved Reserved BLK_EN GND GND CN15 Chan...

Page 28: ...This board has the large capacity battery connected to this connector as standard Keyboard Mouse Connector CN21 The product provides a standard PS 2 keyboard mouse MINI DIN 6pin connector for attachin...

Page 29: ...mpatible with ATA ATA 4 Table 3 13 CompactFlash Slot Pin No 1 3 5 7 9 11 13 15 17 19 21 23 25 27 29 31 33 35 37 39 41 43 45 47 49 Function GND D4 D6 CS1 GND GND VCC GND GND A1 D0 D2 GND D11 D13 D15 GN...

Page 30: ...m cooling fan power connector The fan must be a 12V fan Pin 3 is for Fan speed sensor input Pin 2 is for 12V power supply Table 3 15 System FAN Connector Pin No 1 2 3 Function GND POWER FAN FAN2 Housi...

Page 31: ...3 Hardware Installations 24 SLC 8550 LVA...

Page 32: ...short pin2 and pin3 of JBAT1 together Table 4 1 Clear CMOS Content JBAT1 Function Normal Operation Default Clear CMOS Content 3 2 1 3 2 1 Clear ROM Content JP3 It is possible to start by invalidating...

Page 33: ...le 4 3 Power Reset switch Selector JP4 JP4 Function ATX Power switch Reset switch Default 3 2 1 3 2 1 CF Master Slave Selector JP5 On board CF slot is connected to Secondary IDE This jumper is select...

Page 34: ...96KB Expansion Area 896 960KB Extended System BIOS Area 960 1MB System BIOS Area Memory Segment Memory Segments Comments 00000h 9FFFFh 0 640K DOS Region A0000h BFFFFh Video Buffer B0000h B7FFFh Monoch...

Page 35: ...5 CPU Card Resources 28 SLC 8550 LVA...

Page 36: ...or any abnormal condition occurs The watchdog timer comes with 255 level time out interval 1 255 seconds per interval which can be adjusted by software setting There is a tolerance of 2 second for th...

Page 37: ...H OUT DX AL OUT DX AL Set WDT function at pin89 MOV DX 2EH MOV AL 2BH OUT DX AL MOV DX 2FH MOV AL 0DH OUT DX AL Select logical device WDT number 8 MOV DX 2EH MOV AL 07H OUT DX AL MOV DX 2FH MOV AL 08H...

Page 38: ...MOV DX 2EH MOV AL 87H OUT DX AL OUT DX AL Select logical device WDT number 8 MOV DX 2EH MOV AL 07H OUT DX AL MOV DX 2FH MOV AL 08H OUT DX AL Set time of WDT and start to count down MOV DX 2EH MOV AL...

Page 39: ...ct logical device WDT number 8 MOV DX 2EH MOV AL 07H OUT DX AL MOV DX 2FH MOV AL 08H OUT DX AL Stop count down of WDT MOV DX 2EH MOV AL F6H OUT DX AL MOV DX 2FH The data of 00H is stop WDT MOV AL 00H...

Page 40: ...with built in a CPU Sensor2 These sensors position are the followings You can read Temperature of these sensors Sensor2 Sensor1 Q5 855GME ICH4 CPU Voltage You can read 3 3V 5V 12V Vcore VCCP VBAT 5VS...

Page 41: ...owing Index Register 295h Data Register 296h The registers Index is showed as next page Sample Program Read Chip ID Register to bx mov ax 4eh mov dx 295h out dx ax index register set for BANK select r...

Page 42: ...or reading 2Ah 6Ah Reserved 2Bh 3Dh 6Bh 7Dh Reserved 3Eh 3Fh 7Eh 7Fh Reserved 40h 46h Reserved 47h VID Fan Register 48h 4Dh 4Fh Reserved 4Eh 50h 5Fh Bank Select register BANK0 50h 55h Reserved 56h 57h...

Page 43: ...mV x ReadData 5V reading Register 23h V5 V 16mV x ReadData x 1 68 12V reading Register 24h V 12 V 16mV x ReadData x 3 8 5VSB reading Register BANK5 50h V5VSB V 16mV x ReadData x 1 52 Temperature Senso...

Page 44: ...BANK0 5Dh 7 6 5 4 3 2 1 0 EN_VBAT_MNT DIODES1 DIODES2 DIODES3 Reserved FAN_Sensor1_divisor_B2 FAN_Sensor2_divisor_B2 not in use FAN_Sensor3_divisor_B2 not in use Bit 7 FAN_Sensor3 Divisor Bit3 not in...

Page 45: ...d HBACS Bit 7 Byte access select for 4Fh not in use Bit 6 3 Reserved Bit 2 0 Index ports 50h 5Fh Bank Select Chip ID Register BANK0 58h 7 6 5 4 3 2 1 0 CHIPID Bit 7 0 Winbond Chip ID number Read this...

Page 46: ...2 1 0 Reserved Reserved Reserved Reserved Reserved Reserved Reserved TEMP 0 Please refer to temperature Sensor2 Data Format Table Temperature Sensor2 Data Format Table Temperature TEMP 8 1 TEMP 0 125...

Page 47: ...ED The I O Port of status LED control uses address 2e 2fH The following example is created by Intel8086 assembly language 1 Initialize Operate only at once first Enter the extended function mode MOV D...

Page 48: ...MOV AL AA OUT DX AL 2 LED On Enter the extended function mode MOV DX 2E MOV AL 87 OUT DX AL OUT DX AL Select logical device GPIO Port3 number 9 MOV DX 2E MOV AL 07 OUT DX AL MOV DX 2F MOV AL 09 OUT DX...

Page 49: ...E MOV AL 87 OUT DX AL OUT DX AL Select logical device GPIO Port3 number 9 MOV DX 2E MOV AL 07 OUT DX AL MOV DX 2F MOV AL 09 OUT DX AL Set GPIO35 Red LED output 0 OFF MOV DX 2E MOV AL F1 OUT DX AL MOV...

Page 50: ...inishes the BIOS will seek an operating system on one of the disks and then launch and turn control over to the operating system While the BIOS is in control the Setup program can be activated in one...

Page 51: ...turn to Main Menu F1 key General help on Setup navigation keys F5 key Load previous values from CMOS F6 key Load the fail safe defaults from BIOS default table F7 key Load the optimized defaults F10 k...

Page 52: ...e main menu includes the following main setup categories Recall that some systems may not include all entries Standard CMOS Features Use this menu for basic system configuration Advanced BIOS Features...

Page 53: ...factory has the right to change these defaults to meet their needs Supervisor User Password Use this menu to set User and Supervisor Passwords Save Exit Setup Save CMOS value changes to CMOS and exit...

Page 54: ...in its sub menu Press Enter to enter the sub menu of detailed options IDE Secondary Master Options are in its sub menu Press Enter to enter the sub menu of detailed options Drive A Drive B None 360K...

Page 55: ...umber of cylinders heads etc Note PRECOMP 65535 means NONE Capacity Auto Display your disk drive size Disk drive capacity Approximated Note that this size is usually slightly greater than the size of...

Page 56: ...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 drive CAUTION Many disk diagnostic programs that acces...

Page 57: ...un the power on self test POST A quick POST skips certain steps First Second Third Other Boot Device The BIOS attempts to load the operating system from the devices in the sequence selected in these i...

Page 58: ...ing two items Typematic Rate and Typematic Delay are irrelevant Keystrokes repeat at a rate determined by the keyboard controller in your system When Enabled you can select a typematic rate and typema...

Page 59: ...tem The system will not boot and access to Setup will be denied if the correct password is not entered at the prompt Setup The system will boot but access to Setup will be denied if the correct passwo...

Page 60: ...e PCI bus It must be stated that these items should never need to be altered The default settings have been chosen because they provide the best operating conditions for your system The only time you...

Page 61: ...installed DRAM or the installed CPU Active to Precharge delay Select the precharge delay timer DRAM RAS to CAS delay This field lets you insert a timing delay between the CAS and RAS strobe signals u...

Page 62: ...m BIOS Cacheable Selecting Enabled allows caching of the system BIOS ROM at F0000h FFFFFh resulting in better system performance However if any program writes to this memory area a system error may re...

Page 63: ...hat hit the aperture range are forwarded Host cycles that hit the aperture range are forwarded to the AGP without any translation On Chip VGA setting Description Choice On Chip VGA When Enabled to cho...

Page 64: ...C 8550 LVA 57 Description Choice Panel Number Select the LVDS panel device resolution Internal DDC ROM VGA Analog RGB use DDC data select When Enabled display data read from internal DDC ROM Normally...

Page 65: ...8 BIOS Setup 58 SLC 8550 LVA Integrated Peripherals Figure 8 5 Integrated Peripherals On Chip IDE Device Figure 8 6 OnChip IDE Device...

Page 66: ...Auto mode the system automatically determines the best mode for each device IDE Primary Master Slave UDMA UDMA Ultra DMA is a DMA data transfer protocol that utilizes ATA commands and the ATA bus to...

Page 67: ...sfer protocol that utilizes ATA commands and the ATA bus to allow DMA commands to transfer data at a maximum burst rate of 33 MB s When you select Auto in the four IDE UDMA fields for each of up to fo...

Page 68: ...Description Choice USB Controller Select Enabled if your system contains a Universal Serial Bus USB controller and you have USB peripherals USB 2 0 controller Select Enabled if your system contains a...

Page 69: ...B keyboard USB Mouse support Select Enabled if your system contains a Universal Serial Bus USB controller and you have a USB mouse AC 97 Audio Select Enabled to use the audio capabilities of your syst...

Page 70: ...SLC 8550 LVA 63 Description Choice Internal LAN Select Enabled to active the onboard 10 100 LAN controller select Disabled to turn off the onboard 10 100 LAN controller when you do not want to use th...

Page 71: ...8550 LVA Super IO Device Figure 8 8 Super I O Device Description Choice Onboard FDC Controller Always select Disabled Onboard Serial Port 1 Select an address and corresponding interrupt for the first...

Page 72: ...8 BIOS Setup SLC 8550 LVA 65 Description Choice Onboard Serial Port 2 Select an address and corresponding interrupt for the second serial port SERIAL2...

Page 73: ...re you system to most effectively save energy while operating in a manner consistent with your own style of computer use Figure 8 9 Power Management Setup Description Choice Power Supply Type Select t...

Page 74: ...A 67 Description Choice ACPI function Select to Enabled the ACPI function and select Disabled to disable the APCI Power management Video Off In Suspend This determines the manner in which the monitor...

Page 75: ...the power button at the time of power supply OFF Instant off If a button is pushed it turns off immediately Delay 4 Sec If a button is pushing continues for 4 seconds it turns off Wake up on LAN PCI...

Page 76: ...by Alarm When Enabled your can set the date and time at which the RTC real time clock alarm awakens the system from Suspend mode Reload Global Timer Events When Enabled an event occurring on each lis...

Page 77: ...ngly recommended that only experienced users should make any changes to the default settings Figure 8 10 PnP PCI Configuration Setup Description Choices PNP OS Installed In the case of OS correspondin...

Page 78: ...source Controlled by The Award Plug and Play BIOS can automatically configure all the boot and Plug and Play compatible devices If you select Auto all the interrupt request IRQ and DMA assignment fiel...

Page 79: ...wing type depending on the type of device using the interrupt Legacy ISA Devices compliant with the original PC AT bus specification requiring a specific interrupt Such as IRQ4 for serial port 1 PCI I...

Page 80: ...ing the interrupt Legacy ISA for devices compliant with the original PC AT bus specification PCI ISA PnP for devices compliant with the Plug and Play standard whether designed for PCI or ISA bus archi...

Page 81: ...tion Current System Temp This field displays the current system temperature if your computer contains a monitoring system Current CPU1 Temp This field displays the current CPU temperature if your comp...

Page 82: ...m When the system clock generator pulses the extreme values of the pulse generate excess EMI Enabling pulse spectrum spread modulation changes the extreme values from spikes to flat curves thus reduci...

Page 83: ...creating a password ENTER PASSWORD Type the password up to eight characters in length and press Enter The password typed now will clear any previously entered password from CMOS memory You will be as...

Page 84: ...something to fix it will either sound a beep code or display a message If a message is displayed it will be accompanied by PRESS F1 TO CONTINUE CTRL ALT ESC OR DEL TO ENTER SETUP POST Beep Currently...

Page 85: ...ince last powering off the system the display adapter has been changed You must configure the system for the new display type EISA configuration checksum error PLEASE RUN EISA CONFIGURATION UTILITY Th...

Page 86: ...memory address error at a specific location You can use this location along with the memory map for your system to find and replace the bad memory chips Memory parity error at Indicates a memory parit...

Page 87: ...s been found in the indicated slot Note When this error appears the system will boot in ISA mode which allows you to run the EISA Configuration Utility Slot not empty Indicates that a slot designated...

Page 88: ...ard controller is pulled low Keyboard error or no keyboard present Cannot initialize the keyboard Make sure the keyboard is attached correctly and no keys are being pressed during the boot Manufacturi...

Page 89: ...keyboard mouse followed by a port interface swap optional Reset keyboard for Winbond 977 series Super I O chips 0Bh Reserved 0Ch Reserved 0Dh Reserved 0Eh Test F000h segment shadow to see whether it i...

Page 90: ...it into C000 0 24h Reserved 25h Reserved 26h Reserved 27h Initialize INT 09 buffer 28h Reserved 29h Program CPU internal MTRR P6 PII for 0 640K memory address Initialize the APIC for Pentium class CP...

Page 91: ...atform 56h Reserved 57h 1 Display PnP logo 2 Early ISA PnP initialization Assign CSN to every ISA PnP device 58h Reserved 59h Initialize the combined Trend Anti Virus code 5Ah Reserved 5Bh Optional Fe...

Page 92: ...go is supported If errors occur report errors wait for keys If no errors occur or F1 key is pressed to continue Clear EPA or customization logo 80h Reserved 81h Reserved 82h Call chipset power managem...

Page 93: ...t final initialization Clear screen display summary table Program K6 write allocation Program P6 class write combining 95h Program daylight saving Update keyboard LED typematic rate 96h Build MP table...

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