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ThinkCore V481 WinCE User’s Manual 

System Recovery 

 

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System recovery 
> If the bios setup is correct, the computer will restart and boot from the USB disk. 
> In the 

c:\ directory

 type “mkdisk” to initiate the recovery procedure. 

> When the execution is completed, power off and remove the USB disk. 
> Power on the computer to activate the operating system. 

NOTE: The HP USB Disk Storage Format Tool can be downloaded from the Internet. Use 
the keyword “HP USB Disk Storage Format Tool” to search for and download this tool. 

 

Summary of Contents for ThinkCore V481

Page 1: ...er s Manual First Edition September 2007 www moxa com product Moxa Systems Co Ltd Tel 886 2 2910 1230 Fax 886 2 2910 1231 Web www Moxa com Moxa Technical Support Worldwide support Moxa com The America...

Page 2: ...mitment on the part of Moxa Moxa provides this document as is without warranty of any kind either expressed or implied including but not limited to its particular purpose Moxa reserves the right to ma...

Page 3: ...mputer 2 2 Changing the Network Settings 2 3 Using the Windows CE Network Utility to Configure Network Settings 2 3 Using the Command Line to Configure Network Settings 2 4 Operating Your V481 Compute...

Page 4: ...rage space and the USB ports can connect to a wide range of devices making the ThinkCore V481 a reliable embedded computer for industrial applications that require VGA and HMI features The ThinkCore V...

Page 5: ...be stored in the pre installed CompactFlash memory Card Package Checklist The ThinkCore V481 Series includes the following models ThinkCore V481 CE x86 Ready to Run Embedded Computer with VGA Dual LA...

Page 6: ...Flash BIOS supports Plug Play System Memory 200 pin SO DIMM socket x 1 with built in 256 MB DDR supports DDR200 266 up to 1 GB Supported OS Windows CE 5 0 Display Graphics Controller Integrated graph...

Page 7: ...ars and Din rail Kit Construction Material Aluminum Mounting Wall mount DIN rail Environment Operating Temperature 10 to 60 C 14 to 140 F 5 to 95 RH 35 to 75 C 31 to 167 F 5 to 95 RH for T model Stora...

Page 8: ...s CE 5 0 provides functionality similar to the SOAP Toolkit version 2 on the desktop It provides a layer that allows COM objects to use SOAP as the transport protocol for remote procedure calls and to...

Page 9: ...Includes ASP ISAPI and Web Administration ISAPI Extensions y SQL Express SQL Server 2005 Express Edition is the next version of MSDE and is a free easy to use lightweight and embeddable version of SQ...

Page 10: ...s of both applications and users The system provides 1 MB of RAM based storage under the RAMDisk directory Although data saved in RAM will be deleted when the system shuts down RAM storage has the adv...

Page 11: ...the second USB device is USBDisk2 Inserting a CompactFlash into the Computer The V481 has a type II CompactFlash slot that supports cards of both types I and II A mass storage card is considered to be...

Page 12: ...m commands after gaining access to the computer and others can be done by a System Manager application which is described in a later chapter The following topics are covered in this chapter Starting Y...

Page 13: ...indows CE desktop window will appear Resetting Your V481 Computer Reset button It may be necessary to reset the system if the computer stops responding or an application locks up The reset button is l...

Page 14: ...irectories Y N You will be asked whether you want to delete all files and directories Press Y if you would like to delete all files in the Program Files directory Step4 Proceed Y N You will be asked t...

Page 15: ...mask g gateway d DNS server w WINS Server noask e g netconfig n PCI E100CE1 i 192 168 10 101 g 192 168 10 254 netconfig n PCI RTCENIC1 EnableDHCP Alias LAN1 PCI E100CE1 LAN2 PCI RTCENIC1 For example i...

Page 16: ...utility on the target computer After establishing a connection type the login name and password as requested to logon to the computer The default login name and password are both admin Login admin Pas...

Page 17: ...a User Use the command useradd newUserID to add a user for accessing the system The user s password by default is the same as the user name useradd xxxx user xxxx has been added In addition you can pe...

Page 18: ...Stopping Services After booting up the V481 computer runs several services continuously to serve requests from users or other programs Notable services include telnet TEL0 World Wide Web HTTP HTP0 an...

Page 19: ...omputer by sending Internet Control Message Protocol ICMP Echo Request messages The corresponding return Echo Reply messages are displayed along with round trip times For more information type ping wi...

Page 20: ...The V481 computer installs an SNMP agent to serve as an SNMP device You should install the SNMP manager on the workstation computer for example a Linux system that monitors the network After installin...

Page 21: ...far away from system administrators Managing the computers requires being able to modify the network server configuration take care of file management and handle process thread monitoring control A m...

Page 22: ...r CRT or LCD monitor to the V481 box computer and then double click the System Manager icon on the desktop System Information The first page displays the V481 s system information including the firmwa...

Page 23: ...age up to 32 applications at the same time You can use the management system to monitor and control the applications To view active processes click the Processes tab Processes that are currently runni...

Page 24: ...ggle a start stop operation for a service Some listed services cannot be stopped in order to maintain normal operation of the computer Such services do not have a check box next to them You can also u...

Page 25: ...t Tools 3 5 Serial Port Configuration The V481 has 8 high performance serial ports Click the COM Ports tab and then select RS 232 RS 422 or RS 485 from the drop down lists to select the serial interfa...

Page 26: ...t to an LCD monitor or CRT monitor to display the WinCE window The default settings are 800x600 60 Hz and 16 bits For general usage you should tune the settings to match those of your LCD or CRT Click...

Page 27: ...h Configuration You can specify that certain programs execute automatically at boot up Click the Add button to select the program After entering the program value click OK The programs you specify wil...

Page 28: ...clicking the Add button Give the user name and assign the groups the user belongs to Usually the user group is the service that the user has permission to access You can assign more than one group to...

Page 29: ...ols 3 9 You can also change a user s password If you double click on a User Name a change password window will pop up Provide the current password and new password After you confirm the new password c...

Page 30: ...for web administration Open an IE window and then go to URL http 192 168 3 127 WebAdmin this is provided the V481 s network IP address is 192 168 3 127 You will see the standard Web server Administra...

Page 31: ...ThinkCore V481 WinCE User s Manual Management Tools 3 11 You can also change the authentication for each web virtual directory...

Page 32: ...internal file systems support FAT Although it happens rarely you may find on occasion that operating system files become damaged In this chapter we explain how to revert to the original OS configurat...

Page 33: ...l c Select the USB device you want to use as a bootable disk in device options d Select FAT for the File system e Type the disk name in the volume label f Check the option Create a DOS startup disk in...

Page 34: ...sk In the c directory type mkdisk to initiate the recovery procedure When the execution is completed power off and remove the USB disk Power on the computer to activate the operating system NOTE The H...

Page 35: ...download the firmware to your work station take the following steps to upgrade the firmware 1 Upload this file to the target machine under the root directory i e If you place this file on a CompactFla...

Page 36: ...Procedure 5 2 4 Press Y to continue the process 5 Please allow at least one minute to complete the upgrade process After the firmware has been upgraded successfully press Y to keep the current network...

Page 37: ...ThinkCore V481 WinCE User s Manual Firmware Upgrade Procedure 5 3 6 Press Y to reboot the target computer...

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