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Summary of Contents for IMM-A21P2S

Page 1: ...User Manual IMM A21S A21PS A21P2S Mobile Box Computer ...

Page 2: ...ironment Operation of this equipment in a residential area is likely to cause interference in which case the user at his own expense will be required to take whatever measures may be required to correct the interference Disclaimer This information in this document is subject to change without notice In no event shall Indumicro com be liable for damages of any kind whether incidental or consequenti...

Page 3: ... Updating your BIOS 8 3 2 BIOS Setup Program 9 3 3 BIOS Menu Screen 11 3 3 1 Standard CMOS Features 12 3 3 2 Advanced CMOS Features 14 3 3 3 Advanced Chipset Features 19 3 3 4 Integrated Peripherals 21 3 3 5 Security Chip Configuration 26 3 3 6 Power Management Setup 27 3 3 7 PnP PCI Configurations 29 3 3 8 PC Health Status 30 3 3 9 Frequency Voltage Control 31 3 3 10 Load Optimized Defaults 32 3 ...

Page 4: ... x PS 2 for Keyboard and Mouse Connectors Serial Port 2 x RS 232 Ethernet 2 x Gigabit LAN USB Port 4 x USB port on the I O side and 2 x USB on the front side Audio 1 x Line in 1 x Line out 1 x MIC in Expansion Slots None 1 x PCI slot 2 x PCI slots Power Input DC 11 32V Watchdog Timer Reset 1 sec 255 min and 1 sec or 1 min step OS support XP Pro XP Embedded Vista 7 Construction Aluminum Molding Hea...

Page 5: ...1 3 Dimensions Chapter 1 Getting Started Dimensions of the IMM A21S IMM A21 Px S User Manual 2 ...

Page 6: ...Dimensions of the IMM A21PS Chapter 1 Getting Started IMM A21 Px S User Manual 3 ...

Page 7: ...Dimensions of the IMM A21P2S Chapter 1 Getting Started IMM A21 Px S User Manual 4 ...

Page 8: ...ll visual interface and maintenance applications to large control process applications These systems come with a DC11 32V wide ranging power input Front and Rear View of the IMM A21PxS Chapter 1 Getting Started 1 5 Safety Precautions Follow the messages below to avoid your systems from damage Avoid your system from static electricity on all occasions Prevent electric shock Don t touch any componen...

Page 9: ...the rail 2 1 3 Insert the PCI Card Now slide an addon into the slot of the PCI as circled in the picture and making sure the golden part of the card is evenly aligned with the slot of the PCI Then carefully push the card deep into the slot 2 1 4 Tightening PCI bracket Now get the addon secured by tightening the screw as circled in the picture Support Card size of PCI 115 mm x 210mm 2 1 5 Finish th...

Page 10: ...Mode Selection APO and ATX power modes can be used on these Box PCs Power mode flexibility allows you to select the most suitable power mode for your unique application requirements Default APO APO Mode Auto Power On ATX Mode IMM A21 Px S User Manual 7 ...

Page 11: ...Drive icon d Click File from the menu then select Format A Format 3 1 2 Floppy Disk window appears e Select Create an MS DOS startup disk from the format options field then click Start Windows 2000 environment a Insert a formatted high density1 44 MB floppy disk into the drive b Insert the Windows 2000 CD to the optical drive c Click Start then select Run From the Open field type D bootdisk makebo...

Page 12: ...rogram Press Del during the Power On Self Test POST to enter the Setup utility otherwise POST continues with its test routines If you wish to enter Setup after POST restart the system by pressing Ctrl Alt Delete or by pressing the reset button on the system chassis You can also restart by turning the system off and then back on Do this last option only if the first two failed The Setup program is ...

Page 13: ...hat you can display a sub menu from this field A sub menu contains additional options for a field parameter To display a sub menu move the highlight to the field and press Enter The sub menu appears Use the legend keys to enter values and move from field to field within a sub menu as you would within a menu Use the Esc key to return to the main menu Take some time to familiarize yourself with the ...

Page 14: ...reen displays the items that allow you to make changes to the system configuration To access the menu items press the up down right left arrow key on the keyboard until the desired item is highlighted then press Enter to open the specific menu Chapter 3 BIOS Setup IMM A21 Px S User Manual 11 ...

Page 15: ...omatic device detection IDE Device Setup Auto None to make system start up faster Manual User can manually input the correct settings Access Mode The options are CHS LBA Large Auto Capacity Capacity of currently installed hard disk Cylinder Number of cylinders Head Number of heads Select this when no IDE device is used The system will skip the auto detection setup Automatically detects IDE devices...

Page 16: ...o halt on errors according to the system functions specified in each option Configuration options All Errors No Errors All But Keyboard Memory This category displays base memory extended memory and total memory detected during POST Power On Self Test Color Graphics Adapter power up in 40 column mode Color Graphics Adapter power up in 80 column mode Monochrome adapter includes high resolution monoc...

Page 17: ...enu It allows the user to configure the IMM A21 Px S according to his particular requirements Below are some major items that are provided in the Advanced BIOS Features screen A quick booting function is provided for your convenience Simply enable the Quick Booting item to save yourself valuable time Chapter 3 BIOS Setup IMM A21 Px S User Manual 14 ...

Page 18: ...ic mode after the system boots For example with the default value of 16 Minutes the BIOS activates the Thermal Monitor in automatic mode 16 minutes after the system starts booting up Limit CPUID MaxVal Set Limit CPUID MaxVal1 to 3 This should be disabled for WinXP Vista and 7 C1E Function CPU C1E function select Execute Disable Bit When disabled forces the XD feature flag to always return 0 Chapte...

Page 19: ...item on the HDD boot priority list 3 3 2 3 Virus Warning Enables or disables the virus warning Enable Activates automatically when the system boots up causing a warning message to appear when anything attempts to access the boot sector or hard disk partition table Disable No warning message will appear when anything attempts to access the boot sector or hard disk partition table Chapter 3 BIOS Set...

Page 20: ...ppy Device USB ZIP USB ZIP Device USB CDROM USB CDROM Device USB HDD USB Hard Disk Device Legacy LAN Network Device Disabled Disabled any boot device Boot Other Device Use this to boot another device The options are Enabled and Disabled Boot Up NumLock Status Sets the boot up NumLock status The options are On and Off Gate A20 Option Normal A pin in the keyboard controller controls Gate A20 Fast Le...

Page 21: ...ld Intel architecture systems with two or more processors MPS 1 1 was the original specification MPS version 1 4 adds extended configuration tables for improved support of multiple PCI bus configurations and greater expandability in the future In addition MPS 1 4 introduces support for a secondary PCI bus without requiring a PCI bridge Small Logo EPA Show This item allows you to enable disable the...

Page 22: ...SDRAM Read command and the time data actually becomes available DRAM RAS to CAS Delay Controls the latency between the DDR SDRAM active command and the read write command DRAM RAS Precharge Controls the idle clocks after issuing a precharge command to the DDRSDRAM Precharge delay tRAS Precharge Delay This setting controls the prechar ge delay whic h determines the timing delay for DRAM precharge S...

Page 23: ...eature reserves 15 MB to 16 MB memory address space for ISA expansion cards that specifically require this setting This makes memory from 15 MB and up unavailable to the system Expansion cards can only access memory up to 16 MB The default setting is Disabled On Chip Frame Buffer Size The On Chip Frame Buffer Size can be set as 1MB or 8MB This memory is shared with the system memory DVMT Mode Use ...

Page 24: ...3 3 4 Integrated Peripherals Chapter 3 BIOS Setup 3 3 4 1 OnChip IDE Device IMM A21 Px S User Manual 21 ...

Page 25: ...IO mode 0 4 for each of the four IDE devices that the onboard IDE interface supports Modes 0 through 4 provide successively increased performance In Auto mode the system automatically determines the best mode for each device IDE Primary Secondary Master Slave UDMA Ultra DMA 33 implementation is possible only if your IDE hard drive supports it and the operating environment includes a DMA driver Win...

Page 26: ...ia Audio Select Select Disabled if you do not want to use Azalia audio Configuration options Auto Disabled Audio Amplifier Amplifier Gain dB Onboard LAN1 Device Onboard LAN2 Device Chapter 3 BIOS Setup IMM A21 Px S User Manual 23 ...

Page 27: ...t key button The choices are Ctrl F1 Ctrl F2 Ctrl F3 to Ctrl F8 Onboard Serial Port 1 2 The settings are 3F8 IRQ4 2F8 IRQ3 3E8 IRQ4 2E8 IRQ3 and Disabled for the on board serial connector PWRON After PWR Fail This item allows you to select if you want to power on the system after power failure The choice Off On Former Sts 3 3 4 3 SuperIO Device Chapter 3 BIOS Setup IMM A21 Px S User Manual 24 ...

Page 28: ...performance controller you will need to disable this feature USB 2 0 Controller Enable the USB 2 0 controller USB Keyboard Support Select Enabled if your system contains a Universal Serial Bus USB controller and you have an USB keyboard USB Mouse Support Select an address and corresponding interrupt for the first and second serial ports Chapter 3 BIOS Setup IMM A21 Px S User Manual 25 ...

Page 29: ...PM Support The choices are Enabled and Disabled TPM Current Status This item shows you the current TPM status TPM Status The choices are No Change Clear Enable Activate Deactivate Disable Chapter 3 BIOS Setup IMM A21 Px S User Manual 26 ...

Page 30: ... settings Min Power Saving Minimum power management HDD Power Down 15 Min Max Power Saving Maximum power management HDD Power Down 1 Min User Defined Allows you to set each mode individually When not disabled each of the ranges are from 1 min to 1 hr except for HDD Power Down which ranges from 1 min to 15 min and disable Video Off Method Use this to select the method to turn off the video The choi...

Page 31: ... than 4 seconds will turn off the system whereas pushing the button momentarily for less than 4 seconds will switch the system to suspend mode Wake up by PCI Card The choices are Enabled and Disabled Power On by Ring USB KB Wake up From S3 Resume 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 Video Off In Suspend Cha...

Page 32: ...ere are Auto ESCD or Manual Choosing Manual requires you to choose resources from the following sub menu Auto ESCD automatically configures all of the boot and Plug and Play devices but you must be using Windows 95 or above PCI VGA Palette Snoop This is set to Disabled by default Maximum Payload Size This allows you to set the maximum TLP payload size for PCI Express devices The options are 128 by...

Page 33: ...em shows you the current CPU temperature CPU Fan Speed This item shows you the current CPU fan speed System Fan Speed This item shows you the current system fan speed Vcore This item shows you the current Vcore voltage value 12V This item shows you the current 12V voltage value 5V This item shows you the current 5V voltage value Chapter 3 BIOS Setup IMM A21 Px S User Manual 30 ...

Page 34: ...ng allows you to reduce EMI by modulating the signals the CPU generates so that the spikes are reduced to flatter curves This is achieved by varying the frequency slightly so that the signal does not use any particular frequency for more than a moment The choices are Disabled and Enabled CPU Host SRC PCI Clock The choice 100 Chapter 3 BIOS Setup IMM A21 Px S User Manual 31 ...

Page 35: ...nu to load the BIOS default values for the minimal stable performance for your system to operate Press Y to load the BIOS default values for the most stable minimal performance system operations Chapter 3 BIOS Setup IMM A21 Px S User Manual 32 ...

Page 36: ...good and this option has been used to change the default password the user is asked for the password stored in the CMOS The screen displays the following message Please Confirm Your Password Type the current password and press Enter After pressing Enter ROM password or the current password user defined you can change the password stored in the CMOS The password must be no longer than eight 8 chara...

Page 37: ...this option has been used to change the default password the user is asked for the password stored in the CMOS The screen displays the following message Please Confirm Your Password Type the current password and press Enter After pressing Enter ROM password or the current password user defined you can change the password stored in the CMOS The password must be no longer than eight 8 characters Rem...

Page 38: ...t up utilities will be recorded in the CMOS memory of the chipset The processor will check this every time you turn your system on and compare this to what it finds as it checks the system This record is required for the system to operate Chapter 3 BIOS Setup IMM A21 Px S User Manual 35 ...

Page 39: ...3 3 14 Exit Without Saving Selecting this option and pressing Enter lets you exit the setup program without recording any new values or changing old ones Chapter 3 BIOS Setup IMM A21 Px S User Manual 36 ...

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