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ROBO-8773VG

Single Board Computer

User's Manual

P/N: B8981480 Version 1.0

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Page 1: ...ROBO 8773VG Single Board Computer User s Manual P N B8981480 Version 1 0 Copyright Portwell Inc 2007 All rights reserved All other brand names are registered trademarks of their respective owners...

Page 2: ...ice 3 6 3 4 Clear CMOS Operation 3 6 3 5 WDT Function 3 7 3 6 SMBus 3 8 3 7 On Board USB 2 0 Controller 3 9 3 8 GPIO 3 9 3 8 1 Pin assignment 3 9 3 8 2 ROBO 8773VG GPIO Programming Guide 3 10 3 8 3 Ex...

Page 3: ...ch Dog Timer function Chapter 4 BIOS Setup Information Specifies the meaning of each setup parameters how to get advanced BIOS performance and update new BIOS In addition POST checkpoint list will giv...

Page 4: ...the fact these days that users have to keep an eye on their competition and the other on their budget and that s the very reason they can rely on ROBO 8773VG and it is just one example of several leve...

Page 5: ...nance 1 3 Product Specification Main processor Intel Pentium 4 Pentium D Celeron D Processor in LGA 775 package FSB 800 533MHz BIOS Phoenix Award system BIOS with 4Mb Flash ROM with easy upgrade funct...

Page 6: ...s System reset switch external speaker Keyboard lock and HDD active LED etc Real Time Clock Calendar RTC Support Y2K Real Time Clock Calendar with battery backup for 7 year data retention Watchdog Tim...

Page 7: ...ration CPU Intel Pentium 4 3 4G SL8PS FSB 800 1M cache Memory DDR SDRAM 512MBx2 Primary Master IDE HDD Seagate ST340014A OS Microsoft Windows XP SP2 Test Programs Run Burning Test V4 0 Connected Fans...

Page 8: ...ACPI compliant power management USB port SMBus communication and Ultra DMA 33 66 100 IDE Master Super I O chip W83627HF is responsible for PS 2 Keyboard Mouse UARTs FDC Hardware Monitor Parallel Watch...

Page 9: ...B Port 1 2 PCI BUS ISA BUS PCI ADDR DATA PCI CTRL ISA ADDR DATA ISA CTRL LPC to ISA USB Port 3 4 USB Port 5 6 USB Port 7 8 SATA X2 Winbond W83627THF LPC SIO F W HUB KEYBOARD MOUSE FLOPPY PARALLEL SERI...

Page 10: ...OBO 8773VG series are in the proper position The default settings shipped from factory are marked with a star 2 1 Jumper Setting Figure 2 1 ROBO 8773VG Jumper Location JP1 COM2 J21 Interface Selection...

Page 11: ...J15 Primary IDE Connector J12 External Wake On Ring Connector J13 External Wake On LAN Connector J14 FDC Interface Connector J16 ATX Power Button J17 ATX Power Control Connector J18 Primary SATA Conne...

Page 12: ...age of external speaker is limited at 5V maximum J2 Power LED PIN No Signal Description 1 5V Standby 470 Ohm pull up for power LED 2 Ground For Power LED J3 Hard Disk Drive LED Connector PIN No Signal...

Page 13: ...any over current protection J9 3 pin Fan Connector PIN No Signal Description 1 Ground 2 12V 3 Fan Speed Detecting signal Note The fan must be a 12V fan And there is not any over current protection J15...

Page 14: ...scription 1 Strobe 14 Auto Form Feed 2 Data 0 15 Error 3 Data 1 16 Initialization 4 Data 2 17 Printer 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...

Page 15: ...A 15 Ground 16 Motor ENB 17 Ground 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 Ground 30 Read Data 31 Ground 32 He...

Page 16: ...4 General Purpose I O Port 3 GPIO3 5 Ground 6 General Purpose I O Port 4 GPIO4 7 General Purpose I O Port 5 GPIO5 8 General Purpose I O Port 6 GPIO6 9 General Purpose I O Port 7 GPIO7 10 5V Note All...

Page 17: ...quest to Send N C N C 8 CTS Clear to Send N C N C 9 RI Ring Indicator N C N C 10 N C N C N C Note J21 COM1 could be configurable as RS 232 422 485 with jumper JP1 J46 General Purpose I O Connector PIN...

Page 18: ...Signal Description PIN No Signal Description 1 5V Dual 2 Frame Ground 3 USB2 4 Ground 5 USB2 6 USB3 7 Ground 8 USB3 9 Frame Ground 10 5V Dual 1 5V Dual 2 Frame Ground Note 5V Dual is always available...

Page 19: ...J33 PS 2 Keyboard Mouse Connector PIN No Signal Description 1 Keyboard Data 2 Mouse Data 3 Ground 4 5V Dual 5 Keyboard Clock 6 Mouse Clock J34 AC97 Connector PIN No Signal Description PIN No Signal De...

Page 20: ...Manual 2 11 11 Monitor ID1 MONID1 5V I F 12 VGA DDC Data 5V I F 13 Horizontal Sync HSYNC 5V I F 14 Vertical Sync VSYNC 5V I F 15 VGA DDC Clock 5V I F J36 SMBus Connector PIN No Signal Description 1 SM...

Page 21: ...4 Celeron Processor Installing LGA775 CPU 1 Lift the handling lever of CPU socket outwards and upwards to the other end Following step A position to step B position Figure 3 1 2 Align the processor p...

Page 22: ...tem Installation ROBO 8773VG User s Manual 3 2 Figure 3 2 Figure 3 3 Figure 3 4 Triangle mark is meaning first pin position kindly assemble and take aim at notch of top and bottom between CPU and sock...

Page 23: ...R SDRAM DIMM sockets to support 333 400 DDR SDRAM as main memory Non ECC non buffered DIMMS only The maximum memory size can be up to 2GB Auto detecting memory clock in according to BIOS CMOS settings...

Page 24: ...533MHz 333 MHz When using 800MHz FSB CPU DDR DIMMs may run at 320MHz not 333MHz due to chipset limitation 3 3 Installing the Single Board Computer To install your ROBO 8773VG into standard chassis or...

Page 25: ...ptor this onboard video will usually be the system display output By adjusting the BIOS setting to disable on board VGA an add on PCI or ISA VGA card can take over the system display Drivers Support P...

Page 26: ...Change the AC 97 Audio setting to Disable will turn off this PCI Audio device 3 4 Clear CMOS Operation The following table indicates how to enable disable CMOS Clear Function hardware circuit by putt...

Page 27: ...sample program that is written in C language User can fill a non zero value into the Time out Value Register to enable refresh WDT System will be reset after the Time out Value to be counted down to z...

Page 28: ...t Disable 2 0x01 0xFF Value for counting down 3 6 SMBus The System Management Bus is a two wire interface through which simple power related chips can communicate with rest of the system It uses I2C a...

Page 29: ...ng 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 3 8 1 Pin assignment J19 General Pu...

Page 30: ...to be programmed to control the GPIO direction and status GPI value GPO CR00h CR2F are common global registers to all Logical Devices LD in W83627THF CR07h contains the Logical Device Number that can...

Page 31: ...needed to Enter Enable Configuration Mode first When completing the programming it is suggested to Exit Disable Configuration Mode Enter Configuration Mode Write 87h to IO port EFER twice Exit Config...

Page 32: ...v dx 2fh in al dx or al 01h mov ah al mov dx 2eh CR30_Bit0 P1 mov al 30h out dx al mov dx 2fh mov al ah out dx al mov dx 2eh mov al 0f0h Read LD7_CRF0 out dx al mov dx 2fh in al dx and al 0efh mov ah...

Page 33: ...RF2_Bit4 P0 out dx al mov dx 2fh mov al ah out dx al mov dx 2eh mov al 0f1h Read LD7_CRF1 out dx al mov dx 2fh in al dx and al 0efh mov ah al mov dx 2eh mov al 0f1h LD7_CRF1_Bit4 P0 out dx al mov dx 2...

Page 34: ...boot 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 ent...

Page 35: ...x 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 Health Stat...

Page 36: ...r None f IDE Channel 0 Slave None f IDE Channel 1 Master None f IDE Channel 1 Slave None Drive A 1 4M 3 5 in Drive B None Floppy 3 Mode Support Disabled Video EVG VGA Halt On All But Keyboard Base Mem...

Page 37: ...60K 5 25 in 1 2M 5 25 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 O...

Page 38: ...what kind of storage device does user employ Menu Selections Item Options Description IDE HDD Auto detection Press Enter Press Enter to auto detect the HDD on this channel If detection is successful...

Page 39: ...k Boot Priority Press Enter Virus Warning Disabled CPU L1 L2 Cache Enabled Hyper Threading Technology Enabled Quick Power On Self Test Enabled First Boot Device Hard Disk Second Boot Device CDROM Thir...

Page 40: ...it CPUID MaxVal The choice Enabled Disabled C1E Function The choice Auto Disabled Execute Disabled Bit The choice Enabled Disabled When disabled forces the XD feature flag to always return Hard Disk B...

Page 41: ...k POST Disabled Normal POST First Second Third Boot Device Select your Boot Device Priority The choice Floppy LS120 Hard Disk CDROM ZIP 100 USB FDD USB ZIP USB CDROM LAN and Disabled Boot Other Device...

Page 42: ...e denied if the correct password is not entered at the prompt Setup The system will boot but access to Setup will be denied if the correct password is not entered at the prompt Note To disable securit...

Page 43: ...s being lost while during system operation Phoenix AwardBIOS CMOS Setup Utility Advanced Chipset Features Item Help DRAM Timing Selectable By SPD X CAS Latency Time 2 5 X Active to Precharge Delay 7 X...

Page 44: ...be set to Auto The choice 2 3 4 DRAM RAS Precharge This option controls the number of SCLKs for RAS precharge If the system equipped with quality memory module change to 3 SCLKs to obtain better memo...

Page 45: ...in 32 Min AGP Aperture Size MB The choice 4 8 16 32 64 128 256 Init Display First This item allows you to select the first display port to be initialized The choice PCI Slot Onboard AGP On Chip VGA Th...

Page 46: ...bled IDE Secondary Master PIO Auto IDE Secondary Slave PIO Auto IDE Secondary Master UDMA Auto IDE Secondary Slave UDMA Auto On Chip Serial ATA Setting On Chip Serial ATA Disabled X Serial ATA Port0 M...

Page 47: ...performance In Auto mode the system automatically determines the best mode for each device The choice Auto Mode 0 Mode 1 Mode 2 Mode 3 Mode 4 IDE Primary Secondary Master Slave UDMA Ultra DMA 33 66 1...

Page 48: ...nabled Disabled USB 2 0 Controller This entry is for disable enable EHCI controller only This BIOS itself may may not have high speed USB support built in the support will be automatically turn on whe...

Page 49: ...5 Previous Values F6 Fail Safe Defaults F7 Optimized Defaults Power On Function This item allows selecting different power on scheme using ATX power supply Password Power on using customized password...

Page 50: ...Infrared transmission mode Normal Disable Infrared function IrDA Select IrDA mode transmission ASKIR Select ASKIR mode transmission As Infrared transmission function shares onboard serial port 2 COM2...

Page 51: ...choice Disabled 378 IRQ7 278 IRQ5 3BC IRQ7 Parallel Port Mode There are four different modes for the onboard parallel port SPP Switch to SPP mode EPP Switch to EPP mode ECP Switch to ECP mode ECP EPP...

Page 52: ...D Power Down Disabled Soft Off by PWR BTTN Instant Off PWRON After PWR Fail On CPU THRM Throttling 50 0 Power On by Ring LAN Disabled Wake Up by Onboard LAN Disabled X USB KB Wake Up From S3 Disabled...

Page 53: ...spend Mode 1 Min and HDD Power Down 1 Min User Defined Allows you to set each mode individually When not disabled Suspend Mode ranges from 1 min to 1 Hour and HDD Power Down ranges from 1 Min to 15 Mi...

Page 54: ...users to set the time to remove the power after the power button is pressed The choice Instant Off Delay 4 Sec PWRON After PWR Fail This item allows user to configure the power status of using ATX po...

Page 55: ...hen Resume by Alarm is enabled this item could allow users to configure the time parameter of the timing dateline on which to power on the system The choice hh 0 23 mm 0 59 ss 0 59 Primary Secondary I...

Page 56: ...enu Level f Select Yes if you are using a Plug and Play capable operating system Select No if you need the BIOS to configure non boot devices Move Enter Select PU PD Value F10 Save ESC Exit F1 General...

Page 57: ...urces 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 DMA 3 DMA 5 DMA 6 DMA 7 The choice PCI ISA...

Page 58: ...e F10 Save ESC Exit F1 General Help F5 Previous Values F6 Fail Safe Defaults F7 Optimized Defaults CPU Warning Temperature This item allows user to set a temperature above which the system will start...

Page 59: ...the default values that are factory settings for optimal performance system operations 4 13 Supervisor User Password Setting Either supervisor or user password can be setup or both of then The differ...

Page 60: ...thin the BIOS Features Setup Menu and its Security option see Section 3 If the Security option is set to System the password will be required both at boot and at entry to Setup If set to Setup prompti...

Page 61: ...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 pr...

Page 62: ...vendor Serial ATA Hard Disk Setting 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 an...

Page 63: ...make sure that you have a successful start with ROBO 8773VG it is recommended when going with the boot up sequence to hit DEL key and enter the BIOS setup menu to tune up a stable BIOS configuration...

Page 64: ...e port to release IRQ resource A few good examples are Disable COM1 serial port to release IRQ 4 Disable COM2 serial port to release IRQ 3 Disable Parallel port to release IRQ 7 Disable PS 2 mouse to...

Page 65: ...ning Action One long beep with one short beeps DRAM error Change DRAM or reinstall it One long beep constantly DRAM error Change DRAM or reinstall it One long beep with two short beeps Monitor or Disp...

Page 66: ...A device Please refer to SATA hard disk device installation guide Question I am using an ATA 66 or 100 hard drive how can I know that ATA 66 function is enabled Answer You need to use the 80 pin ATA 6...

Page 67: ...ng ISA card why isn t it working Answer As a matter of fact some ISA cards need to occupy shadow memory which might case ISA card malfunction In order to determine it is a lack of shadow memory proble...

Page 68: ...Data Area 0050 006F 0 5K System Data 0070 03DE 13K DOS 03DF 0BB6 31K Program Area 0BB7 9F7F 583K Available Conventional memory ends at 640K 9F80 9FFF 2K Extended BIOS Area A000 AFFF 64K VGA Graphics B...

Page 69: ...RV System Timer IRQ 1 SMARTDRV Keyboard Event IRQ 2 Unassigned Usable IRQ IRQ 3 System ROM COM 2 IRQ 4 System ROM COM 1 IRQ 5 Unassigned Usable IRQ IRQ 6 System ROM Diskette Event IRQ 7 Unassigned Usa...

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