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ROBO-638

Single Board Computer

User

′′′′

s Manual

P/N : 861106380010 Version 1.2

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Page 1: ...ROBO 638 Single Board Computer User s Manual P N 861106380010 Version 1 2 Copyright Portwell Inc 1999 All rights reserved All other brand names are registered trademarks of their respective owners...

Page 2: ...Member States relating to Electromagnetic Compatibility Directive 89 336 EEC The equipment was evaluated and passed the test the following standards were applied EMC EN 55022 1994 A1 1995 Class A EN 5...

Page 3: ...RAGE PRO Graphics Controller 3 4 3 3 3 Intel 82558 Fast Ethernet Controller 3 5 3 3 4 On board LED Indicator 3 5 3 4 M system Flash Disk 3 6 3 5 Watch Dog Timer Programming 3 6 Chapter 4 BIOS Setup In...

Page 4: ...m flash disk to get a safe installation and give you a programming guide of Watch Dog Timer function In addition it will introduce and show you the driver installation procedure about SCSI controller...

Page 5: ...l ports one FIR Fast Infrared port and one parallel port Two high performance 16C550 compatible UARTs provide 16 byte send receive FIFOs and the multi mode parallel port supports SPP EPP ECP function...

Page 6: ...pin to 5 pin keyboard cable for backplane connection One 4 pin ATX power control cable for backplane connection One pairs of right angle slot 1 latch for Pentium II SECC2 support Three diskettes to su...

Page 7: ...et Intel 440BX AGPset Bus Interface Follow PICMG standard 32 bit PCI and 16 bit ISA Fully complies with PCI bus specification V2 1 PCI IDE Interface Supports two enhanced IDE ports up to four HDD devi...

Page 8: ...r with battery backup for 10 year data retention Watchdog Timer 0 5 1 2 4 8 16 32 64 sec time out intervals by jumper setting or 255 intervals from 0 5 min to 254 5 min by software programming Disk On...

Page 9: ...wer Good On board power good generator with 300ms 500ms reset duration Physical and Environmental Requirements Outline Dimension L X W 339 5mm 13 36 X 121 5mm 4 78 Board Weight 1 1 lb 0 5kg PCB layout...

Page 10: ...ernal backplane support The South Bridge 82371EB PCI ISA IDE Xcelerator PIIX4E provides a highly integrated multifunction PCI to ISA bridge solution for the best industry application It supports 2 cha...

Page 11: ...th identical channel up to 80Mbytes sec data transfer Another on board PCI device LAN port powered by Intel 82558B 10 100 Ethernet Controller supports Fast Ethernet interface through RJ 45 port The ot...

Page 12: ...Block Diagram PENTIUM II III PROCESSOR SLOT 1 82443BX 492 BGA MEMORY 4 SDRAM DIMM 82371EB 324 BGA IDE 1 IDE 2 BIOS RTC BUFFER DISK On Chip CKBF CLOCK BUFFER TWO USB PORTS BUFFER LOGIC WDT SUPER I O W8...

Page 13: ...ct options for certain features Some of the jumpers are designed to be user configurable allowing for system enhancement The others are for testing purpose only and should not be altered To select any...

Page 14: ...7 0x OFF OFF OFF ON 7 5x OFF ON ON OFF 8 0x OFF ON OFF OFF Reserved NOTE For system stability do not arbitrarily set CPU to run over speed unless you can handle BIOS parameters Disk On Chip Jumper Se...

Page 15: ...will be initiated from software by programming I O chipset W83977ATF TF RTC CMOS Clear Jumper Setting JP1 JP1 NC Normal operation Short Clear CMOS contents NOTE This CMOS clearing operation can be do...

Page 16: ...CSI function NOTE This jumper setting will be ignored on ROBO 638Z which does not support on board Ultra 2 SCSI feature CPU Type Selection JP11 JP11 1 2 Supports Pentium II III or 66MHz FSB Celeron Pr...

Page 17: ...ket located on this single board computer Figure 2 2 ROBO 638 Connector Locations on component side 82443BX 82371EB W83977ATF J3 DIMM1 ATI 3D RAGE PRO AGP 2X Adaptec AIC 7890AB 82558B J11 J12 DIMM2 DI...

Page 18: ...ace Connect to Chassis J15 IDE1 IDE2 SCSI active status report LED indicator J16 IrDA infrared port Reserve 6 pin for FIR J17 On board Ethernet interface connector RJ 45 J18 On board VGA connector D S...

Page 19: ...M2 9 LVDP3 43 LVDM3 10 LVDP4 44 LVDM4 11 LVDP5 45 LVDM5 12 LVDP6 46 LVDM6 13 LVDP7 47 LVDM7 14 LVDPLP 48 LVDPLM 15 Ground 49 Ground 16 DIFFSEN 50 SENSE_A Pull up 17 LVTRMPWR 51 LVTRMPWR 18 LVTRMPWR 52...

Page 20: ...22 Ground 23 IOW 24 Ground 25 IOR 26 Ground 27 IOCHRDY 28 Pull down 29 DMA ACK 30 Ground 31 INT REQ 32 N C 33 SA1 34 N C 35 SA0 36 SA2 37 HDC CS0 38 HDC CS1 39 HDD Active 40 Ground J9 Parallel Port Co...

Page 21: ...round 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 N C 30 Read Data 31 Ground 32 Head Select 33 N C 34 Disk Change...

Page 22: ...RXD 7 Request to Send RTS 3 Transmit Data TXD 8 Clear to Send CTS 4 Data Terminal Ready DTR 9 Ring Indicator RI 5 Ground GND 10 N C J15 IDE1 IDE2 SCSI Active LED Header PIN No Signal Description 1 5V...

Page 23: ...5 Ground 6 Ground 7 Ground 8 Ground 9 N C 10 Ground 11 N C 12 MONID1 13 HSYNC 14 VSYNC 15 MONID2 J19 PS 2 Mouse Connector 6 pin Mini DIN PIN No Signal Description 1 Mouse Data 2 N C 3 Ground 4 5V 5 M...

Page 24: ...nd 5 SBD0 USBP0 6 SBD1 USBP1 7 Ground 8 SBD1 USBP1 9 N C 10 5V J22 PS 2 Keyboard Connector 6 pin Mini DIN PIN No Signal Description 1 Keyboard Data 2 N C 3 GND 4 5V 5 Keyboard Clock 6 N C J23 CPU Fan...

Page 25: ...Pentium II CPU 1 Mounting the Single Edge Contact SEC Cartridge or SECC2 CPU module Place the CPU cartridge from a horizontal direction to the retention module and gently slide it down the trails Push...

Page 26: ...th speed less than 100ns 10 could be used If you adopt 100MHz system clock you need to use SDRAM with speed less than 80ns 8 You would better use PC100 compliant memory chip For system compatibility a...

Page 27: ...ur system Step 4 Attach cables to existing peripheral devices and secure it WARNING Please ensure that your SBC properly inserted and fixed by mechanism Otherwise the system might be unstable or do no...

Page 28: ...ily Manager Set v3 02 Disk 3 of 3 for SCO Unix 3 2v4 2 Version d2 12 Fast Ultra d1 1 Ultra2 SCO Unix OpenServer 5 0X Version d2 12 Fast Ultra d1 1 Ultra2 SCO Unix Ware 2 0 X 2 1X Version d2 01 2 Fast...

Page 29: ...Support There is only one diskette to support LAN drivers in various O S environments Intel EtherExpress TM PRO 100 PCI LAN Adapter v1 63 Disk 1 of 1 NOTE You can capture the backup files from ROBO 63...

Page 30: ...e ensure that your DOC is properly inserted Placing the DOC in reverse will cause severe damage to it The ROBO 638 will instruct user to install and utilize DOC for practical application If you want t...

Page 31: ...limit must be considered For instance if the time out interval is set to 1 second the WDT trigger command must be issued within 700ms at least The example below gives you a sample algorithm for WDT p...

Page 32: ...System Installation ROBO 638 User s Manual 3 8...

Page 33: ...IOS setup program If the message disappears before you respond but you still wish to enter Setup please restart the system to try COLD START again by turning it OFF and then ON or touch the RESET butt...

Page 34: ...ican Megatrends Inc All Rights Reserved Standard CMOS Setup Advanced CMOS Setup Advanced Chipset Setup Power Management Setup PCI Plug and Play Setup Peripheral Setup Hardware Monitor Setup Change Use...

Page 35: ...t VGA EGA Mono Password Check Setup Setup Always Boot To OS 2 64MB No No Yes System BIOS Cacheable Enabled Disabled C000 16K Shadow Cached Cached Enabled Disabled C400 16K Shadow Cached Cached Enabled...

Page 36: ...Disabled 1 2 4 8 10 20 30 40 50 60 Min Throttle Slow Clock Ratio 50 62 5 50 62 5 0 12 5 12 5 25 25 37 5 37 5 50 62 5 75 75 87 5 Display Activity Ignore Ignore Monitor Device 6 Serial Port 1 Monitor Mo...

Page 37: ...PnP PCI PnP ISA EISA IRQ7 PCI PnP PCI PnP ISA EISA IRQ9 PCI PnP PCI PnP ISA EISA IRQ10 PCI PnP PCI PnP ISA EISA IRQ11 PCI PnP PCI PnP ISA EISA IRQ12 PCI PnP PCI PnP ISA EISA IRQ14 PCI PnP PCI PnP ISA...

Page 38: ...nge Date Time Drive type and Boot Sector Virus Protection Status 4 5 Advanced CMOS Setup Menu This setup includes all of the advanced features in the system The detail descriptions are specified as be...

Page 39: ...ssword Check This option enables the password checking when the system boots up or runs CMOS Setup It only takes effect after setting Change Supervisor Password Setup This option will force system to...

Page 40: ...4 6 Advanced Chipset Setup Menu This setup is very important to keep system stability If you are not technical person do not attempt to change any parameters The best way is to choose optimal default...

Page 41: ...lid on leadoffs for CPU cycles If you select Auto this timing will be automatically initialized and set by BIOS from CPU speed detection For Desktop platforms it might be set to 4 SCLKs In general ano...

Page 42: ...assive Release When enabled this allows PIIX4 to use Passive Release to obtain better USB performance while transferring control information or data for USB transactions When disabled PIIX4 will perfo...

Page 43: ...criptions will specify the definition of each item in details Power Management APM Using this feature to control system power resources Set this option to Enabled to enable power management function a...

Page 44: ...DD and Sec HDD independently It is also used to control CPU throttle running function All of sub items will be ineffective in selection of disabling Stand by Time out or Suspend Time out even if it ca...

Page 45: ...e forced into suspend mode when user turn it off unless you can consecutively press the power button for more than 4 second to get in Soft off function Ring Resume From Soft Off This item will be used...

Page 46: ...ication 2 1 or later and PCI bus frequency in system user can select different timer to meet their PCI bus environment Primary Graphics Adapter This option allows user to specify a primary VGA display...

Page 47: ...A INTB INTC INTD or Hardwired for installing off board non compliant PCI IDE card PCI Slot 1 2 3 4 IRQ Priority These options specify the priority IRQ to be used for any PCI devices installed in PCI e...

Page 48: ...port function is ineffective 3F8h COM1 assign I O address 3F8h to COM1 2F8h COM2 assign I O address 2F8h to COM2 3E8h COM3 assign I O address 3E8h to COM3 2E8h COM4 assign I O address 2E8h to COM4 On...

Page 49: ...e Extended Capabilities Port ECP specification ECP uses the DMA protocol to achieve data transfer rates up to 2 5 Megabits per second ECP provides symmetric bidirectional communication EPP Version Thi...

Page 50: ...BIOS will display an error message describing the message and explaining the problem in detail so that the problem can be corrected During the POST the BIOS signals a checkpoint by issuing one code t...

Page 51: ...ext Bootblock Recovery Codes The bootblock recovery checkpoint hex codes are listed in order of execution Code Description E0 The onboard floppy controller if available is initialized Next beginning t...

Page 52: ...led Port B has been initialized Next initializing the chipset 14 The 8254 timer test will begin next 19 The 8254 timer test is over Starting the memory refresh test next 1A The memory refresh line is...

Page 53: ...itten to extended memory Writing patterns to the base 640 KB memory test 48 Patterns written in base memory Determining the amount of memory below 1MB next 49 The amount of memory below 1MB has been f...

Page 54: ...mand byte written Global data init done To check for lock key 84 Locked key checking is over Checking for a memory size mismatch with CMOS RAM data next 85 The memory size check is done Displaying a s...

Page 55: ...the screen and enabling parity and the NMI next A7 NMI and parity enabled Performing any initialization required before passing control to the adaptor ROM at E000 next A8 Initialization before passing...

Page 56: ...BIOS Setup Information ROBO 638 User s Manual 4 24...

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