Troubleshooting
ROBO-8713BVG2 User’s Manual
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Chapter 5
Troubleshooting
This chapter provides a few useful tips to quickly get ROBO-8713 running with
success. As basic hardware installation has been addressed in Chapter 2, this chapter
will primarily focus on system integration issues, in terms of BIOS setting, and OS
diagnostics.
5.1
Hardware Quick Installation
Backplane
ROBO-8713BVG2 is a full-sized Signal Board Computer, and therefore is only able to
run on PICMG PCI/ISA backplane. To know whether your backplane is PICMG
PCI/ISA backplane, please contact with vendor or manufacturer.
P4 Power connector
ROBO-8713BVG2 requires power drawing from at least one or two power
connectors (J17 and J7), depending on power mode (AT or ATX). The CPU
supplementary Power Connector (J7) has to be connected to a system all the time no
matter using AT or ATX mode. Otherwise, the system won’t boot up properly. In
addition, the 4-pin connector (J17) is only required at ATX mode due to the fact that
4-pin connector provides 5V Stand-by from the backplane to the SBC. If J17 isn’t
connected, it could also cause system failed to boot up.
Serial ATA Hard Disk Setting
Unlike IDE bus, each Serial ATA channel can only connect to one SATA hard disk at
a time; there are total two connectors, J18 and J24. The installation of Serial ATA is
simpler and easier than IDE, because SATA hard disk doesn’t require setting up
Master and Slave, which can reduce mistake of hardware installation. All you need
to do is to plug in two cables and enable SATA in System BIOS.
