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ROBO-8712VLA

Single Board Computer

User's Manual

P/N: B8980850 Version 1.4

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Page 1: ...ROBO 8712VLA Single Board Computer User s Manual P N B8980850 Version 1 4 Copyright Portwell Inc 2004 All rights reserved All other brand names are registered trademarks of their respective owners...

Page 2: ...dio Device 3 4 3 4 5 On board 68 pin PCI connector 3 4 3 5 Clear CMOS Operation 3 5 3 6 WDT Function 3 5 3 7 On Board USB 2 0 Controller 3 6 3 8 Panel Display Output Factory Optional only 3 7 3 9 GPIO...

Page 3: ...imer function Besides it will introduce and show you the driver installation procedure about Graphics Controller Chapter 4 BIOS Setup Information This chapter specifies the meaning of each setup param...

Page 4: ...etic 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 50082 2 1991 EN 61000 4 2 1995 EN 6100...

Page 5: ...e pulled out from socket when taking cooler off This action may damage processor socket which will cause poor contact between CPU socket Handling SBC Caution Do not just hold any single side of the SB...

Page 6: ...high speed non ECC DDR SDRAM high performance graphic controller AGP 4X controller and Intel fast Ethernet connection enable ROBO 8712VLA to provide most versatile SBC in the market ROBO 8712VLA was...

Page 7: ...ontact your vendor and keep all packing materials for future replacement and maintenance 1 3 Product Specification Main Features Intel 845GV based PICMG SBC with VGA LAN Audio and optional SCSI 160 or...

Page 8: ...asy upgrade Support DMI PnP Green function and ACPI ACPI support suspend to RAM USB wake up On Board I O PCI IDE Interface Support two enhanced IDE channel up to four HDDs with PIO mode 4 Ultra DMA 33...

Page 9: ...tchdog Timer Support WDT function through software programming Software programmable time out internal setting Generate system reset or NMI Solid State Disk SSD Reserved one 32 pin socket for M system...

Page 10: ...ly complies with PCI Local Bus specification V2 1 support 4 master PCI slots On Board PCI to ISA Bridge Support ISA Bus mastering Support standard ISA slot 64mA high driving Support M system DOC ISA64...

Page 11: ...ps Intel 845GV chipset supports Pentium 4 Celeron processor DDR SDRAM 2D 3D graphic display and its ICH4 supports PCI bus interface APM ACPI compliant power management USB port SMBus communication and...

Page 12: ...urther extension CLOCK GENERATOR 2 DDR MEMORY x 2 up to 2GB in total DDR 200 266 82845GV GMCH HOST BUS 400 533 MHz 82801DA ICH4 420 EBGA Hub Link PCI BUS ITE IT8888 DiskOnChip BUFFER ISA BUS Golden Fi...

Page 13: ...r jumper pins Open or N C Not Connected means removing a jumper cap from jumper pins Users can refer to Figure 2 1 for the Jumper locations Figure 2 1 ROBO 8712VLA Jumper Connector Location JP1 CMOS C...

Page 14: ...PS 2 keyboard Mouse Connector 6 pin Mini DIN J14 External keyboard Connector Connect to Backplane J15 Single port USB Connector J16 External USB Connector J18 Audio MIC Line in Line out J19 Audio CD...

Page 15: ...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 DA1 34 CBLID 35 DA0 36 DA2 37 HDC CS0 38 HDC CS1 39 HDD Active 40 Ground J3 FDC Interface...

Page 16: ...1 2 Connector PIN No Signal Description RS 232 RS 422 RS 485 1 DCD Data Carrier Detect TX DATA 2 RXD Receive Data TX DATA 3 TXD Transmit Data RX N C 4 DTR Data Terminal Ready RX N C 5 GND Ground GND...

Page 17: ...r Select IN 5 Data 3 18 Ground 6 Data 4 19 Ground 7 Data 5 20 Ground 8 Data 6 21 Ground 9 Data 7 22 Ground 10 Acknowledge 23 Ground 11 Busy 24 Ground 12 Paper Empty 25 Ground 13 Printer Select 26 N C...

Page 18: ...Ground 5 USB2 6 USB3 7 Ground 8 USB3 9 Frame Ground 10 5V Dual Note 5V Dual is always available It s supplied by either 5V VCC power source in normal operation mode or 5V standby power source in stand...

Page 19: ...ound 3 CD Ground 4 CD in Right Channel J20 On board VGA CRT Connector PIN No Signal Description 1 Red 2 Green 3 Blue 4 Monitor ID0 MONID0 5V I F 5 Ground 6 Ground 7 Ground 8 Ground 9 N C 10 Ground 11...

Page 20: ...3 18 AD14 19 AD15 20 Ground 21 5V 22 AD16 23 AD17 24 AD18 25 AD19 26 AD20 27 AD21 28 AD22 29 AD23 30 Ground 31 5V 32 AD24 33 AD25 34 AD26 35 AD27 36 AD28 37 AD29 38 AD30 39 AD31 40 Ground 41 5V 42 C B...

Page 21: ...DO1 7 Buffered Digital Output Port 2 DO2 8 Buffered Digital Output Port 3 DO3 9 Buffered Digital Output Port 4 DO4 10 5V Notes 1 All General Purpose I O ports can only adapt standard TTL 5 signal leve...

Page 22: ...drain w internal series 33 Ohm 2 N C 3 Ground 4 5V Note The pull high voltage of external speaker is limited at 5V maximum J29 ATX Power Control Connector PIN No Signal Description 1 ATX Power Good S...

Page 23: ...0 devices need large current consumption It is helpful for them to detect by system while Standalone Power connector is connected on SBC J32 ATX Power button Interface PIN No Signal Description 1 Pul...

Page 24: ...19 DVOBCCLKINT 20 DVOBCINTR 21 Ground 22 3 3V 23 MDDC_CLK 24 MDDC_DATA 25 MI2CCLK 26 MI2CDATA 27 MDVI_CLK 28 MDVI_DATA 29 Ground 30 5V 31 ADDIN0 32 ADDIN1 33 ADDIN2 34 ADDIN3 35 ADDIN4 36 ADDIN5 37 AD...

Page 25: ...Hardware Configuration ROBO 8712VLA User s Manual 2 13 J38 Front SMBus Connector PIN No Signal Description 1 SMBCLK 2 N C 3 Ground 4 SMBDATA 5 5V...

Page 26: ...his operation is not easy or smooth don t do it forcibly You need to check and rebuild the CPU pin uniformly 3 Push down the lever to lock processor chip into the socket once CPU fits 4 Follow the ins...

Page 27: ...rom 2MB to 288MB This operation structure is running with pure ISA bus without PnP Plug and Play function Before installing make sure that I O address jumper setting is set on right position to preven...

Page 28: ...ze To overcome this compatibility issue for Windows Operating Systems such as Windows 95 98 98SE 2000 please install its INF before any of other Drivers are installed You can find very easily this chi...

Page 29: ...ME Windows 2000 Windows XP and Linux LED Indicator for LAN status ROBO 8712VLA provides three LED indicators to report 82801BA MAC Fast Ethernet interfaces status Please refer to the table below as a...

Page 30: ...oftware programming The WDT starts counting when it is activated It sends out a signal to system reset or to non maskable interrupt NMI when time out interval ends To prevent the time out interval fro...

Page 31: ...gic Device 8 outp 0x002E 0x30 outp 0x002F 0x01 Select Count Mode outp 0x002E 0xF5 outp 0x002F inp 0x002F 0xF7 Count mode Register 0x08 Specify Time out Value outp 0x002E 0xF6 outp 0x002F Time out Valu...

Page 32: ...utput port by programming register bit of I O Selection To invert port value the setting of Inversion Register has to be made Port values can be set to read or write through Data Register Additionally...

Page 33: ...or this function When set to a 1 the incoming outgoing port value is inverted When set to a 0 the incoming outgoing port value is the same as in Data Register Value of I O Selection Register Only high...

Page 34: ...reboot the computer When the message Hit DEL if you want to run SETUP appears press Del key immediately to enter BIOS setup program If the message disappears before you respond but you still wish to e...

Page 35: ...Phoenix AwardBIOS CMOS Setup Utility f Standard CMOS Features f Advanced BIOS Features f Advanced Chipset Features f Integrated Peripherals f Power Management Setup f PnP PCI Configurations f PC Healt...

Page 36: ...Slave f IDE Secondary Master f IDE Secondary Slave Drive A 1 4M 3 5 in Drive B None Floppy 3 Mode Support Disabled Video EVG VGA Halt On All But Keyboard Base Memory 640K Extended Memory 65472K Total...

Page 37: ...in 720K 3 5 in 1 44M 3 5 in 2 88M 3 5 in Press Enter to enter the next page for detail hard drive settings Video EGA VGA CGA 40 CGA 80 MONO Select the default video device Halt On All Errors No Errors...

Page 38: ...eneral Help F5 Previous Values F6 Fail Safe Defaults F7 Optimized Defaults Menu Selections Item Options Description IDE HDD Auto detection Press Enter Press Enter to auto detect the HDD on this channe...

Page 39: ...tem Help Virus Warning Disabled CPU L1 L2 Cache Enabled Quick Power On Self Test Enabled First Boot Device HDD 0 Second Boot Device HDD 1 Third Boot Device Floppy Boot Other Device Enabled Swap Floppy...

Page 40: ...d up memory access However it depends on CPU chipset design Enabled Enable cache Disabled Disable cache Quick Power On Self Test Allows the system to skip certain tests while booting This will decreas...

Page 41: ...12 15 20 24 30 Typematic delay Msec The delay before key strokes begin to repeat The choice 250 500 750 1000 Security Option Select whether the password is required every time the system boots or only...

Page 42: ...elp DRAM Timing Selectable By SPD X CAS Latency Time 2 5 X Active to Precharge Delay 6 X DRAM RAS to CAS Delay 3 X DRAM RAS Precharge 3 Memory Frequency For Auto System BIOS Cacheable Enabled Video BI...

Page 43: ...tivate command to a read or write command If your system installs good quality of SDRAM you can set this option to 3 SCLKs to obtain better memory performance Normally the option will be set to Auto T...

Page 44: ...w 16MB The choice Enabled Disabled Delayed Transaction Select Enabled to enable delay transaction This will enhance performance for data transmission between different PCI bus The choice Enabled Disab...

Page 45: ...upport Disabled AC97 Audio Auto Init Display First PCI Slot IDE HDD Block Mode Enabled POWER ON Function BUTTON ONLY KB Power ON Password Enter Hot Key Power ON Ctrl F1 Onboard FDC Controller Enabled...

Page 46: ...6 100 implementation is possible only if your IDE hard drive supports it and the operating environment includes a DMA driver Windows 95 OSR2 or a third party IDE bus master driver If your hard drive a...

Page 47: ...d key Mouse Left Power on using mouse left click Mouse Right Power on using mouse right click Any Key Power on using any keyboard key Button Only Power on by power Button Keyboard 98 Power on by keybo...

Page 48: ...s to configure Infrared transmission rate Four options are available Hi Hi High rate for receiving High rate for transmitting Hi Lo High rate for receiving Low rate for transmitting Lo Hi Low rate for...

Page 49: ...PWRON After PWR Fail This item allows user to configure the power status of using ATX power supply after a serious power loss occurs On System automatically restores power back Off System stays at po...

Page 50: ...POS X Run VGABIOS if S3 Resume No Power Management User Define Video Off Method DPMS Video Off In Suspend Yes Suspend Type Stop Grant Suspend Mode Disabled HDD Power Down Disabled Soft Off by PWR BTTN...

Page 51: ...Saving Minimum power management Suspend Mode 1 Hour and HDD Power Down 15 Min Max Power Saving Maximum power management Suspend Mode 1 Min and HDD Power Down 1 Min User Defined Allows you to set each...

Page 52: ...Min 3 Min 4 Min 5 Min 6 Min 7 Min 8 Min 9 Min 10 Min 11 Min 12 Min 13 Min 14 Min 15 Min Soft Off by PWR BTTN This item allows users to set the time to remove the power after the power button is press...

Page 53: ...abled this item could allow users to configure the time parameter of the timing dateline on which to power on the systm The choice hh 0 23 mm 0 59 ss 0 59 Primary Secondary IDE 0 1 This item is to con...

Page 54: ...GA Enabled INT Pin 1 Assignment Auto INT Pin 2 Assignment Auto INT Pin 3 Assignment Auto INT Pin 4 Assignment Auto INT Pin 5 Assignment Auto INT Pin 6 Assignment Auto INT Pin 7 Assignment Auto INT Pin...

Page 55: ...ISA PnP Legacy ISA DMA Resources When resources are controlled manually assign each system DMA channel a type depending on the type of device using the DMA channel Enter for more options DMA 0 DMA 1 D...

Page 56: ...Dev 29 Func 2 The choice Auto 3 4 5 7 9 10 11 12 14 15 INT Pin 4 Assignment Devices S using this INT USB 1 0 1 1 UHCI Cntrlr Bus 0 Dev 29 Func 1 The choice Auto 3 4 5 7 9 10 11 12 14 15 INT Pin 5 Assi...

Page 57: ...Help F5 Previous Values F6 Fail Safe Defaults F7 Optimized Defaults CPU Warning Temperature This item allows you to set a temperature above which the system will start the beeping warning Default sett...

Page 58: ...le the spread spectrum modulate The choice Enabled Disabled 4 12 Default Menu Selecting Defaults from the main menu shows you two options which are described below Load Fail Safe Defaults When you pre...

Page 59: ...o press Esc to abort the selection and not enter a password To disable a password just press Enter when you are prompted to enter the password A message will confirm the password will be disabled Once...

Page 60: ...ys on after you turn your system off The next time you boot your computer the BIOS configures your system according to the Setup selections stored in CMOS After saving the values the system is restart...

Page 61: ...12VLA requires power drawing from at least two connectors The CPU supplementary power connector J26 should be connected at all time for this P4 system to run properly At its standalone mode the single...

Page 62: ...e Step3 Use a 4 pin power cable to connect the ATX P S CONTROL CONNECTOR 4 pin connector on the backplane Step4 Please find the J29 4 pin ATX Power Control Connector on the right part of ROBO 8712VLA...

Page 63: ...ITCH which is used to switch the ATX Power on off for SBC Usually the TOGGLE SWITCH is located on the chassis front panel Pressing the switch button once will turn power on and press again to turn it...

Page 64: ...d keyboard over the standard keyboard connector on backplane if provided In this way users need to adopt a 5 pin keyboard connection cable to line up external keyboard interface J14 on ROBO 8712VLA wi...

Page 65: ...engineering sample processor from Intel System default setting is automatically setting when you plug in commercial processors from Intel and you will not see the CPU Clock Ratio item in the BIOS set...

Page 66: ...this so you can be sure the system is running with the BIOS setting that Portwell has highly endorsed As a matter of fact users can load the default BIOS setting any time when system appears to be un...

Page 67: ...to release further IRQ numbers 5 4 OS Diagnostics What will be presented here is a brief guide to properly house in the driver for any Microsoft Windows 95 98 NT device For other operating systems pl...

Page 68: ...ormance If you are using a monitor that Microsoft Windows cannot identify you will also need to set in the display from the setup menu a system monitor to correctly retrieve display output For Windows...

Page 69: ...the protocol loading 5 Restart your system 6 There is also situation that the installed network adapter is not working anymore for you or old network driver stays in the system after you change your n...

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