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NOVA-7895 Socket 370 Celeron

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 & Pentium III 

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Multimedia & Dual Ethernet ,IEEE1394,  Embedded Board 

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10. If you want to disable the dual-view function, just click on the 
item “Extend my Windows desktop onto this monitor”. The mark 
before this item will be cancelled and the dual-view function is 
disabled. 
 

 

 

Summary of Contents for NOVA-7895

Page 1: ...the product or documentation even if advised of the possibility of such damages This document contains proprietary information protected by copyright All rights are reserved No part of this manual may be reproduced by any mechanical electronic or other means in any form without prior written permission of the manufacturer Trademarks NOVA 7895 is a registered trademark of ICP Electronics Inc IBM PC...

Page 2: ... Disk Drive Connector 19 3 3 Parallel Port 20 3 4 Serial Ports 21 NOVA 7895 Socket 370 CeleronTM Pentium III Multimedia Dual Ethernet IEEE1394 Embedded Board 2 3 5 Keyboard Mouse Connector 23 3 6 External Switches and Indicators 23 3 7 USB Port Connector 24 3 8 IrDA Infrared Interface Port 25 3 9 VGA TV OUT Connector CN1 CN38 CN37 25 3 10 LAN RJ45 Connector 26 3 11 Fan Connector 27 3 12 Temperatur...

Page 3: ...tel Celeron up to 1 4GHz Pentium III FC PGA 1 GHz or above Processor and an advanced high performance multi mode I O designed for system manufacturers integrators or VARs looking to combine excellent performance reliability and quality at a reasonable price This board has a built in IDE Interface CompactFlash Disk Type II for embedded applications The CompactFlash Disk is 100 compatible with all h...

Page 4: ...ller Two Ethernet Realtek 8100 or Intel 82559 Auto sensing interface to 10 100Mbps Network RJ45 connector for 10BASE T and 100BASE TX Full Duplex capability Full Software driver support Ultra DMA 66 100 Enhanced PCI IDE Interface Supports two PCI Enhanced IDE hard drives The Ultra DMA 66 100 IDE can handle data transfer up to 66 100MB s Best of all this new technology is compatible with existing A...

Page 5: ... needs Cooler NOVA 7895 Socket 370 CeleronTM Pentium III Multimedia Dual Ethernet IEEE1394 Embedded Board 8 1 2 Package Contents In addition to this User s Manual the NOVA 7895 package includes the following items NOVA 7895 Socket 370 Celeron Pentium III Dual Ethernet IEEE1394 VGA Audio Board FDD HDD 1x2 54mm and 1x2 54mm Support DMA66 Cable 32200 000017 32200 000052 Keyboard Mouse Adapter Mini Di...

Page 6: ... the next page and the Unpacking Precautions are described on the following one Also included is the setting for the jumpers and switches on this board s configuration such as CPU type selection system clock setting and Watchdog timer 2 1 NOVA 7895 Layout please refer to the next page NOVA 7895 Socket 370 CeleronTM Pentium III Multimedia Dual Ethernet IEEE1394 Embedded Board 10 2 1 NOVA 7895 Layou...

Page 7: ...5 You can do it by using a grounded wrist strap at all times or by frequently touching any conducting materials that are connected to the ground Handle your NOVA 7895 at the edges Don t touch IC chips leads or circuitry if not necessary Do not plug in any connector or jumper while the power is on Do not put your NOVA 7895 unprotected on a flat surface as it has sensitive components on both sides 2...

Page 8: ...ny specific setting JP14 JP13 Set pin 9 of COM2 as signal RI or voltage source NOVA 7895 Socket 370 CeleronTM Pentium III Multimedia Dual Ethernet IEEE1394 Embedded Board 14 1 2 3 JP14 DESCRIPTION 2 3 COM2 RI Pin Use RI 1 2 COM2 RI Pin Use Voltage JP13 DESCRIPTION 2 3 COM2 RI Pin Use Voltage 12V 1 2 COM2 RI Pin Use Voltage 5V If JP14 uses 2 3 then JP13 does not need any specific setting JP11 JP12 ...

Page 9: ...VA 7895 Socket 370 CeleronTM Pentium III Multimedia Dual Ethernet IEEE1394 Embedded Board 16 Now support LCD Type 1 IMES M121 SOHR 800x600 TFT 2 LG LM151X2 1024x768 TFT 3 SAMSUNG LT121S1 153 800x600 TFT 4 SAMSUNG LT121S1 106 800x600 TFT 3 2 1 JP17 JP18 JP19 JP20 DESCRIPTION 2 3 2 3 1 2 2 3 1024X768 TFT 2 3 2 3 2 3 2 3 800X600 TFT 2 9 CompactFlash Disk Setting The CompactFlash Disk is 100 compatibl...

Page 10: ...to connect peripherals switches and indicators to the NOVA 7895 board 3 1 Floppy Disk Drive Connector NOVA 7895 board is equipped with a 34 pin daisy chain driver connector cable CN26 FDD CONNECTOR PIN NO DESCRIPTION PIN NO DESCRIPTION 1 GROUND 2 REDUCE WRITE 3 GROUND 4 N C 5 GROUND 6 N C 7 GROUND 8 INDEX 9 GROUND 10 MOTOR ENABLE A 11 GROUND 12 DRIVE SELECT B 13 GROUND 14 DRIVE SELECT A 15 GROUND ...

Page 11: ...RUPT 32 N C 33 SA 1 34 N C 35 SA 0 36 SA 2 37 HDC CS0 38 HDC CS1 39 HDD ACTIVE 40 GND CN36 44Pin 2 0mm IDE Secondary IDE Connector CN36 IDE Interface Connector Default without NOVA 7895 Socket 370 CeleronTM Pentium III Multimedia Dual Ethernet IEEE1394 Embedded Board 20 PIN NO DESCRIPTION PIN NO DESCRIPTION 1 RESET 2 GROUND 3 DATA 7 4 DATA 8 5 DATA 6 6 DATA 9 7 DATA 5 8 DATA 10 9 DATA 4 10 DATA 11...

Page 12: ...No Description Pin No Description 1 DCD 2 DSR 3 RXD 4 RTS 5 TXD 6 CTX 7 DTR 8 RI 9 GND 10 NC CN31 Serial Port 2x7 pin header Connector COM2 COM2 Support Three Mode RS232 RS422 RS485 For 2x7 pin header Connector RS232 Mode NOVA 7895 Socket 370 CeleronTM Pentium III Multimedia Dual Ethernet IEEE1394 Embedded Board 22 Pin No Description Pin No Description 1 DCD 2 DSR 3 RXD 4 RTS 5 TXD 6 CTX 7 DTR 8 R...

Page 13: ...5V 3 6 External Switches and Indicators There are several external switches and indicators for monitoring NOVA 7895 Socket 370 CeleronTM Pentium III Multimedia Dual Ethernet IEEE1394 Embedded Board 24 and controlling your CPU board All functions are in the CN5 connector CN5 Multi Panel PIN NO DESCRIPTION PIN NO DESCRIPTION 1 SPEAKER 11 POWER LED 2 N C 12 N C 3 N C 13 POWER LED 4 SPEAKER 5V 14 KEYL...

Page 14: ...6 The NOVA 7895FWT has a built in 10 pin Header VGA CN1 connector which directly connects to your CRT monitor and a pin header 10pin CN38 which provides secondary CRT output The primary CRT output is provided by the SIS630ST The secondary CRT output comes from the SIS301 Both support dual view function The SIS301 also offers additional TV OUT functions with the ability to perform simultaneous acti...

Page 15: ...or 3 12 Temperature Sensor Connector You can connect an external temperature sensor to this connector NOVA 7895 Socket 370 CeleronTM Pentium III Multimedia Dual Ethernet IEEE1394 Embedded Board 28 CN8 Temperature Sensor Connector Use 10K Ohm Temperature register sensor Pin No Description Pin No Description 1 THER DA 2 GND 3 13 Audio CD IN This is used to connect to CD Out from the CD ROM player CN...

Page 16: ... C 35 IOW 11 N C 36 OBLIGATORY TO PULL HIGH 12 N C 37 IRQ15 13 VCC 38 VCC 14 N C 39 MASTER SLAVE 15 N C 40 N C 16 N C 41 RESET 17 N C 42 IORDY 18 A2 43 N C 19 A1 44 OBLIGATORY TO PULL HIGH 20 A0 45 ACTIVE NOVA 7895 Socket 370 CeleronTM Pentium III Multimedia Dual Ethernet IEEE1394 Embedded Board 30 21 D0 46 PDIAG 22 D1 47 D8 23 D2 48 D9 24 N C 49 D10 25 CARD DETECT2 50 GROUND 3 17 Power Connector ...

Page 17: ...Socket 370 CeleronTM Pentium III Multimedia Dual Ethernet IEEE1394 Embedded Board 32 41 SHFCLK 42 ENABLK 43 FPVDD 44 FLM 45 FPVEE 46 LP 47 GND 48 GND 49 12V 50 12V 3 21 PCI 104 PLUS Connector CN15 PCI 104 Plus Connector A B C D 1 GND SIRQ 5V AD0 2 104VIO AD2 AD1 5V 3 AD5 GND AD4 AD3 4 C BE0 AD7 GND AD6 5 GND AD9 AD8 GND 6 AD11 104VIO AD10 7 AD14 AD13 GND AD12 8 3 3V C BE1 AD15 3 3V 9 SERR GND PAR ...

Page 18: ... OFF then ON or pressing the RESET button on the system case You may also restart by simultaneously pressing the Ctrl Alt and Delete keys If you do not press all three keys at the correct time and the system does not boot an error message will be displayed and the following will appear on your screen PRESS F1 TO CONTINUE DEL TO ENTER SETUP 4 3 Using Setup In general by using the arrow keys items c...

Page 19: ...rformance and reliability Even a seemingly small change to the chipset setup has the potential to cause the override to kick in 4 5 Main Menu Once you enter the AwardBIOS CMOS Setup Utility the Main Menu will appear on the screen This allows you to select from several setup functions and two exit choices Use the arrow keys to select among the items and press Enter to accept and enter the sub menu ...

Page 20: ...il Safe Defaults Use this menu to load the BIOS default values for minimal stable performance for your system to operate See section 4 14 for details Load Optimized Defaults Use this menu to load the factory BIOS default values for optimal performance system operations While Award has designed the custom BIOS to maximize performance the factory has the right to change these defaults to meet their ...

Page 21: ...M DD YYYY Set system date Time HH MM SS Set system time IDE Primary Master Options are in its sub menu described in Table 3 Press Enter to enter the sub menu of detailed options IDE Primary Slave Options are in its sub menu described in Table 3 Press Enter to enter the sub menu of detailed options IDE Secondary Master Options are in its sub menu described in Table 3 Press Enter to enter the sub me...

Page 22: ...o the main menu Use Table 3 to configure the hard disk NOVA 7895 Socket 370 CeleronTM Pentium III Multimedia Dual Ethernet IEEE1394 Embedded Board 42 Item Options Description IDE HDD Auto detection Press Enter Press Enter to auto detect the HDD on this channel If detection is successful it fills the remaining fields on this menu IDE Primary Master None Auto Manual Selecting manual lets you set the...

Page 23: ... the boot sector or hard disk partition table CPU Internal Cache External Cache These two categories speed up memory access However memory access speed depends on the CPU chipset design Enabled Enable cache Disabled Disable cache CPU L2 Cache ECC Checking This item allows you to enable disable CPU L2 Cache ECC checking The choice Enabled Disabled Processor Number Feature Some of the new generation...

Page 24: ...own before it begins to repeat the keystroke NOVA 7895 Socket 370 CeleronTM Pentium III Multimedia Dual Ethernet IEEE1394 Embedded Board 46 The choice 250 500 750 1000 Security Option Select whether the password is required every time the system boots or only when you enter setup System The system will not boot and access to Setup will be denied if the correct password is not entered at the prompt...

Page 25: ... memory chips NOVA 7895 Socket 370 CeleronTM Pentium III Multimedia Dual Ethernet IEEE1394 Embedded Board 48 Auto Configuration This item will automatically configure the chipset timing You may select manual to set up following gray items by your specific need The choice Manual Auto 100MHZ 133MHZ SDRAM RAS Active Time This item defines SDRAM ACT to PRE command period The Choice 6T 7T 5T 4T SDRAM R...

Page 26: ...ol the timing to drive memory command onto the memory bus The choice Normal Delay 1T SDRAM VCM CAS Latency When synchronous DRAM is installed the number of clock cycles of CAS latency depends on the DRAM timing NOVA 7895 Socket 370 CeleronTM Pentium III Multimedia Dual Ethernet IEEE1394 Embedded Board 50 The Choice 2 3 SPD SDRCLK Control This item controls the phase of SDRCLK that lags behind SDCL...

Page 27: ...ws CPU access memory cycles and PCI masters access memory cycles concurrently issued onto host bus and PCI bus respectively and then the memory access cycles will be rearranged by SiS630 to memory sequentially The choice Enabled Disabled Concurrent Function PCI NOVA 7895 Socket 370 CeleronTM Pentium III Multimedia Dual Ethernet IEEE1394 Embedded Board 52 This item is CPU PCI Masters Concurrently A...

Page 28: ...mum burst rate of 33 MB s When you select Auto in the four IDE UDMA fields for each of up to four IDE devices that the internal PCI IDE interface supports the system automatically determines the optimal data transfer rate for each IDE device The choice Auto Disabled IDE Burst Mode Selecting Enabled reduces latency between each drive s read write cycle but may cause instability in IDE subsystems th...

Page 29: ...Universal Serial Bus USB controller and you have USB peripherals Choices are Enabled Disabled NOVA 7895 Socket 370 CeleronTM Pentium III Multimedia Dual Ethernet IEEE1394 Embedded Board 56 USB Keyboard Support Select Enabled if your system contains a Universal Serial Bus USB controller and you have a USB keyboard Choices are Enabled Disabled IDE HDD Block Mode Block mode is also called block trans...

Page 30: ...em enters either Suspend or Standby modes All Modes Off Monitor blanked when the system enters any power saving mode Video Off Method This determines the manner in which the monitor is blanked V H SYNC Blank This selection will cause the system to turn off the vertical and horizontal synchronization ports and write blanks to the video buffer Blank Screen This option only writes blanks to the video...

Page 31: ... so it does not awaken the system from Suspend mode Ring PCIPME Power Up Control When you select Enabled a signal from ring PCIPME returns the system to Full On state The choice Enabled Disabled 4 11 PnP PCI Configuration Setup This section describes how to configure the PCI bus system PCI or Personal Computer Interconnect is a system which allows I O devices to NOVA 7895 Socket 370 CeleronTM Pent...

Page 32: ...70 CeleronTM Pentium III Multimedia Dual Ethernet IEEE1394 Embedded Board 62 4 12 PC Health Status This section helps you to get more information about your system including CPU temperature FAN speed and voltages It is recommended that you contact your motherboard supplier to get proper value about the CPU temperature setting Phoenix AwardBIOS CMOS Setup Utility PC Health Status Vcore 1 40V 2 5V 2...

Page 33: ...odulate The choice Enabled Disabled CPU Host DRAM PCI Clock NOVA 7895 Socket 370 CeleronTM Pentium III Multimedia Dual Ethernet IEEE1394 Embedded Board 64 This item allows you to select CPU PCI frequency The choice Default 66 66 33MHz 133 133 33MHz 100 100 33MHz CPU Clock Ratio This item allows you to select CPU clock ratio The choice By H W 3 3 5 4 4 5 5 5 5 6 6 5 7 7 5 8 4 14 Defaults Menu Selec...

Page 34: ...e you try to enter Setup This prevents an unauthorized user from changing any part of your system configuration Additionally when a password is enabled you can also require the BIOS to request a password every time your system is rebooted This prevents unauthorized use of your computer You determine when the password is required within the BIOS Features Setup Menu and its Security option see Secti...

Page 35: ...443H This will activate the timer that will eventually time out and reset the CPU board To ensure that this reset condition does not occur the Watch Dog Timer must be periodically refreshed by reading the same I O port 443H This must be done within the time out period please refer to the example program Finally be sure to disable the Watch Dog timer by reading the I O port 843H or 043H otherwise t...

Page 36: ... was not detected or the drive does not contain proper system boot files Insert a system disk into Drive A and press Enter If you assumed the system would boot from the hard drive make sure the controller is inserted correctly and all cables are properly attached Also be sure the disk is formatted as a boot device Then reboot the system DISKETTE DRIVES OR TYPES MISMATCH ERROR RUN SETUP Type of dis...

Page 37: ...for your system to find and replace the bad memory chips Memory parity Error at Indicates a memory parity 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 NOVA 7895 Socket 370 CeleronTM Pentium III Multimedia Dual Ethernet IEEE1394 Embedded Board 72 MEMORY SIZE HAS CHANGED SINCE LAST BOOT Memory has been added...

Page 38: ...ll boot in ISA mode which allows you to run the EISA Configuration Utility FLOPPY DISK S fail 80 Unable to reset floppy subsystem FLOPPY DISK S fail 40 Floppy Type dismatch Hard Disk s fail 80 HDD reset failed Hard Disk s fail 40 HDD controller diagnostics failed Hard Disk s fail 20 HDD initialization error Hard Disk s fail 10 Unable to recalibrate fixed disk NOVA 7895 Socket 370 CeleronTM Pentium...

Page 39: ... USB K B or Mouse then IRQ9 may be set free NOVA 7895 Socket 370 CeleronTM Pentium III Multimedia Dual Ethernet IEEE1394 Embedded Board 76 1st MB Memory Address Map Memory Address Description 00000 9FFFF System Board extension for ACPI BIOS A0000 CFFFF SIS630 D0000 DFFFF Free F0000 FFFFF System Board extension for ACPI BIOS I O Address Map I O Address Range Description 000 01F DMA Controller 1 020...

Page 40: ...name xxx is the file name of the BIOS file Press enter 6 Your first option in sequence will be to save the old BIOS We recommend that you do that in case for whatever reason you decide you don t wish to use the new version once it is installed NOTES A If you decide to save the old BIOS PLEASE make sure you do NOT save it to the same file name as the new BIOS if you use the same BIOS name the old f...

Page 41: ...stall screen NOVA 7895 Socket 370 CeleronTM Pentium III Multimedia Dual Ethernet IEEE1394 Embedded Board 80 Appendix E Digital Input Output NOVA 7895 has a 4 bit IN and 4 bit OUT built in digital I O connector An external power supply to the connector s pin 9 and pin 10 is needed to activate the digital I O circuit The external power supply s DC output should be connected with NOVA 7895 s power su...

Page 42: ...nection Module The FP24 02 V1 0 connection module is installed on the NOVA 7895 as standard The FP24 02 V1 0 converts NOVA 7895 s on board 50pin LCD interface signal to the 44 pin LCD connectors The 44 pin connector will only support a 24 bit flat panel The major function of FP24 02 V1 0 is to enhance the drive strength of LCD signal to provide NOVA 7895 with a better connection J3 44 pin LCD Inte...

Page 43: ...Socket 370 CeleronTM Pentium III Multimedia Dual Ethernet IEEE1394 Embedded Board 84 Appendix G Dual View Setup The NOVA 7895 is equipped with an OnChip SIS300 VGA chip which supports dual view function It allows you to run two applications on two monitors respectively The following will describe how to enable the dual view function in WINDOWS 1 Select Display in Control Panel and enter Display Pr...

Page 44: ...al Ethernet IEEE1394 Embedded Board 85 2 Select the item Settings and click on the Advanced button NOVA 7895 Socket 370 CeleronTM Pentium III Multimedia Dual Ethernet IEEE1394 Embedded Board 86 3 Select the item Display Modes and click on the Advanced button ...

Page 45: ...he item Multimonitor in Driver Mode and select the Display combination of primary and secondary display NOVA 7895 Socket 370 CeleronTM Pentium III Multimedia Dual Ethernet IEEE1394 Embedded Board 88 5 After everything is set up you need to restart your computer in order for the new settings to take effect ...

Page 46: ...erties and go to the item Settings You will be able to see two monitors on the screen NOVA 7895 Socket 370 CeleronTM Pentium III Multimedia Dual Ethernet IEEE1394 Embedded Board 90 7 Click on the second monitor icon and Windows will ask you if you want to enable the second monitor Click Yes to enable the second monitor ...

Page 47: ...will be able to see an image on the second monitor Then you can drag the monitor icons to arrange the display of your monitors in the way of left right or up down alignment The screen below is left and right alignment NOVA 7895 Socket 370 CeleronTM Pentium III Multimedia Dual Ethernet IEEE1394 Embedded Board 92 9 Up and down alignment ...

Page 48: ...timedia Dual Ethernet IEEE1394 Embedded Board 93 10 If you want to disable the dual view function just click on the item Extend my Windows desktop onto this monitor The mark before this item will be cancelled and the dual view function is disabled ...

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