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ROBO-8777VG2A

Single Board Computer

User's Manual

P/N: B8981530 Version 1.1

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Page 1: ...ROBO 8777VG2A Single Board Computer User s Manual P N B8981530 Version 1 1 Copyright Portwell Inc 2007 All rights reserved All other brand names are registered trademarks of their respective owners...

Page 2: ...4 Clear CMOS Operation 3 6 3 5 WDT Function 3 6 3 6 SMBus 3 8 3 7 On Board USB 2 0 Controller 3 8 3 8 GPIO 3 9 3 8 1 Pin assignment 3 9 3 8 2 ROBO 8777VG2A GPIO Programming Guide 3 9 3 8 3 Example 3...

Page 3: ...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 give users...

Page 4: ...zed socket 478 processor on single host board with up to 84W TDP ROBO 8777VG2A a PICMG 1 0 PCI ISA single host board adopts Intel 965 chipset that supports up to Intel 1 066MHz FSB Core 2 Duo processo...

Page 5: ...acket One Installation Resources CD Title One booklet of ROBO 8777VG2A manual If any of these items is damaged or missing please contact your vendor and keep all packing materials for future replaceme...

Page 6: ...2 keyboard mouse connection ATX Power Control Interface One 4 pin header to support ATX power control via backplane Auxiliary I O Interfaces System reset switch external speaker and HDD active LED etc...

Page 7: ...CPU 2 8A 12V System 1 3A 5V 5 6A Test configuration CPU Intel Core 2 Duo 2 12GHz Memory DDR II 1GBx2 Primary Master IDE HDD ST 3808110AS OS Microsoft Windows XP SP2 Test Programs 3D Mark 2003 PRO for...

Page 8: ...press PCI bus ISA Bus SATA ports USB ports and LPC Low Pin Count interface Dual Realtek RTL8111B Gigabit Ethernet controllers are attached to the PCI Express x1 interface to add Ethernet connectivity...

Page 9: ...DDR2 DIMM SLOT CODEC GPIO 4IN 4OUT Realtek SATA X4 With Conn WITH PIN HEADER INTEL Q965 CHIPSET PCI E X1 CTRL MIC IN ADDR DDR2 DIMM SLOT FOUR FOR PIN HEADER WINBOND DATA FLOPPY PORT COM1 PRINTER PORT...

Page 10: ...shipped from factory are marked with a star 2 1 Jumper Setting J50 J9 J10 U28 J21 J18 J49 J54 J47 J25 J45 J36 J34 J39 J38 J52 J1 J51 J41 J37 J32 J31 J27 J42 U45 J35 U41 J40 U7 J48 J27 J46 J43 JP5 Fig...

Page 11: ...onnector J27 SATA Connector J28 SATA Connector J31 SATA Connector J32 SATA Connector J34 External USB D SUB Connector J35 Internal USB Connector J36 External USB D SUB Connector J37 Internal USB Conne...

Page 12: ...5V I F 5 Ground 6 Ground 7 Ground 8 Ground 9 5V 10 Ground 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 J9...

Page 13: ...1 7 Ground 8 Index 9 Ground 10 Motor ENA 11 Ground 12 Drive Select B 13 Ground 14 Drive Select A 15 Ground 16 Motor ENB 17 Ground 18 Direction 19 Ground 20 Step 21 Ground 22 Write Data 23 Ground 24 Wr...

Page 14: ...USB3 7 USB2 8 Ground 9 5V Dual 10 Ground 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 standby mode J38 J39 Ether...

Page 15: ...CD Data Carrier Detect 2 RXD Receive Data 3 TXD Transmit Data 4 DTR Data Terminal Ready 5 GND Ground 6 DSR Data Set Ready 7 RTS Request to Send 8 CTS Clear to Send 9 RI Ring Indicator 10 N C J43 COM2...

Page 16: ...IO0 2 GPIO4 3 GPIO1 4 GPIO5 5 GPIO2 6 GPIO6 7 GPIO3 8 GPIO7 9 Ground 10 5V Note All General Purpose I O ports can only apply to standard TTL 5 signal level 0V 5V and each Fan J47 Parallel Port Connect...

Page 17: ...pull up 1K ohm 6 PWR_Button Signal 7 Reset Signal 8 Ground J49 External Speaker Connector PIN No Signal Description 1 Speaker Signal Output Open drain w internal series 33 Ohm 2 N C 3 Ground 4 5V Not...

Page 18: ...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 pins with pinholes on the socket...

Page 19: ...em Installation ROBO 8777VG2A 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 soc...

Page 20: ...DIMM sockets to support dual channel single channel DDR2 memory interface The maximum memory size can be up to 4 GB memory frequency includes 1066 800 667 533 Auto detects memory clock which is accor...

Page 21: ...he type of DDR2 DIMM CPU FSB Memory Frequency 1066MHz 800 667 533MHz 800MHz 667 533MHz 533MHz 533MHz 3 3 Installing the Single Board Computer To install your ROBO 8777VG2A into standard chassis or pro...

Page 22: ...video adaptor 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...

Page 23: ...gle switch a few times for ATX system Move the JP4 back to 1 2 position Normal Operation and start the system System will then produce a CMOS Check Sum Error message and hold up Users may then follow...

Page 24: ...pplication program For more information about WDT please refer to Winbond W83627 data sheet There are two PNP I O port DDR2 that can be used to configure WDT 1 0x2E EFIR Extended Function Index Regist...

Page 25: ...messages to and from devices instead of tripping individual control lines With the SMBus a device can provide manufacturer information tell the system what its model part number is save its state for...

Page 26: ...l General Purpose I O ports can only apply to standard TTL 5 signal level 0V 5V and each source sink capacity up to 12mA 3 8 2 ROBO 8777VG2A GPIO Programming Guide There are 8 GPIO pins on ROBO 8777VG...

Page 27: ...GPIO27 20 data port for input pin get status from the related bit for output pin write value to the related bit For example LD9_CRE3h_Bit0 P0 Let GPIO20 as output pin LD9_CRE5h_Bit0 P0 Let CRE4_Bit0 n...

Page 28: ...87h out dx al jmp 2 out dx al mov dx 2eh mov al 2Ah Read CR2A out dx al mov dx 2fh in al dx and al 07Fh CR2A_Bit 0 P 0 out dx al mov dx 2eh mov al 07h Point to LDN9 out dx al mov dx 2fh mov al 09h out...

Page 29: ...out dx al mov dx 2fh in al dx and al 0FEh out dx al mov dx 2eh mov al 0f0h Read LD9_CRF0 out dx al mov dx 2fh in al dx and al 0efh out dx al mov dx 2eh mov al 0f2h LD9_CRF2_Bit4 P0 out dx al mov dx 2f...

Page 30: ...n or 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...

Page 31: ...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 32: ...ction Status Phoenix AwardBIOS CMOS Setup Utility Standard CMOS Features Item Help Date mm dd yy Mon May 14 2007 Time hh mm ss 10 20 30 f IDE Channel 0 Master None f IDE Channel 0 Slave None f IDE Cha...

Page 33: ...B None 360K 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 devic...

Page 34: ...he HDD on this channel If detection is successful it fills the remaining fields on this menu IDE Channel 0 1 2 3 Master Slave None Auto Manual Selecting manual lets you set the remaining fields on thi...

Page 35: ...Swap Floppy Drive Disabled Boot up Floppy Seek Enabled Boot up NumLock Status On Gate A20 Option Fast Typematic Rate Setting Disabled X Typematic Rate Chars Sec 6 X Typematic Delay Msec 250 Security O...

Page 36: ...p 1 ch0 M Hard Disk module name 2 Bootable add in Cards Menu Level f Use or to select a device then press to move it up or to move it down the list Press ESC to exit this menu Move Enter Select PU PD...

Page 37: ...cess However it depends on CPU chipset design Enabled Enable cache Disabled Disable cache Hyper Threading Technology Enabled for windows XP and Linux 2 4 x OS optimized for Hyper Threading Technology...

Page 38: ...stem The system will not boot and access to Setup will be 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 passw...

Page 39: ...perating conditions for the system The only time user might consider making any changes would be if you discovered that data was being lost while during system operation Phoenix AwardBIOS CMOS Setup U...

Page 40: ...Port 3 Auto PCI Express Port 4 Auto PCI Express Port 5 Auto PCI Express Port 6 Auto PCI E Compliancy Mode v1 0a Menu Level f Move Enter Select PU PD Value F10 Save ESC Exit F1 General Help F5 Previous...

Page 41: ...e PIO Auto IDE Primary Master UDMA Auto IDE Primary Slave UDMA Auto On Chip Secondary PCI IDE Enabled IDE Secondary Master PIO Auto IDE Secondary Slave PIO Auto IDE Secondary Master UDMA Auto IDE Seco...

Page 42: ...100 implementation is possible only if IDE hard drive supports and the operating environment includes a DMA driver Windows 95 OSR2 or a third party IDE bus master driver If your hard drive and system...

Page 43: ...COM2 needs to be enabled RxD TxD Active This item is to configure Infrared transmission rate Four options are available Hi Hi High rate for receiving High rate for transmitting Hi Lo High rate for re...

Page 44: ...2 3 4 Min Phoenix AwardBIOS CMOS Setup Utility USB Device Setting Item Help USB 1 0 Controller Enabled USB 2 0 Controller Enabled USB Operation Mode High Speed USB Keyboard Function Enabled USB Mouse...

Page 45: ...ated USB Keyboard Function This item allows enabling USB keyboard function under POST BIOS setup menu DOS or Windows NT with no USB driver loaded The choice Enabled Disabled USB Mouse Function Enabled...

Page 46: ...Suspend Mode Disabled HDD Power Down Disabled Soft Off by PWR BTTN Instant Off Wake Up by PCI card Disabled Power On by Ring Disabled USB KB Wake Up From S3 Disabled Resume by Alarm Disabled X Date o...

Page 47: ...uspend 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 M...

Page 48: ...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 pressed The choice Instant Off Delay 4 Sec Wake Up By PCI car...

Page 49: ...g monitored by system so as to keep system out of suspend mode if the associated device is busy The choice Enabled Disabled FDD COM LPT Port This item is to configure floppy device COM ports and paral...

Page 50: ...figurations Item Help Init Display First PCI Slot Reset Configuration Data Disabled Resources Controlled By Auto ESCD X IRQ Resources Press Enter X DMA Resources Press Enter PCI VGA Palette Snoop Disa...

Page 51: ...ype of device using the interrupt The choice Press Enter Default setting is unavailable selection IRQ 3 IRQ 4 IRQ 5 IRQ 7 IRQ 9 IRQ 10 IRQ 11 IRQ 12 IRQ 14 IRQ 15 assigned to The choice PCI ISA PnP Le...

Page 52: ...nter Select PU PD Value F10 Save ESC Exit F1 General Help F5 Previous Values F6 Fail Safe Defaults F7 Optimized Defaults 4 11 Frequency Voltage Control Phoenix AwardBIOS CMOS Setup Utility Frequency V...

Page 53: ...or user password can be setup or both of then The differences between are Set Supervisor Password can enter and change the options of the setup menus Set User Password just can only enter but do not h...

Page 54: ...System the password will be required both at boot and at entry to Setup If set to Setup prompting only occurs when trying to enter Setup 4 14 Exiting Selection Save Exit Setup Pressing Enter on this i...

Page 55: ...ding on ATX power mode The CPU supplementary Power Connector J10 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...

Page 56: ...e initial factory configuration It is recommended to do 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 def...

Page 57: ...iption IRQ 0 System Timer IRQ 1 Keyboard Event IRQ 2 Usable IRQ IRQ 3 COM2 IRQ 4 COM1 IRQ 5 Usable IRQ IRQ 6 Diskette Event IRQ 7 Usable IRQ IRQ 8 Real Time Clock IRQ 9 Usable IRQ IRQ 10 Usable IRQ IR...

Page 58: ...reen output Solution Indeed you can do the stand alone to identify the root cause by isolating the board from other possible system devices such as PCI device backplane and so on If the system still c...

Page 59: ...m please disable USB controller and on board LAN After disabling these two devices ISA card works The lack of shadow memory could be a case To solve this problem you can download BIOS from our website...

Page 60: ...Area 0040 004F 0 3K BIOS Data Area 0050 006F 0 5K System Data 0700 05BD 321K DOS 05BE 1468 58K Program Area 1469 9EFE 554K Available 9EFE 9EFE 0 1K Unused Conventional memory ends at 640K 9F00 9FBF 3...

Page 61: ...DRV System Timer IRQ 1 SMARTDRV Keyboard Event IRQ 2 Unassigned Usable IRQ IRQ 3 System ROM COM2 IRQ 4 System ROM COM1 IRQ 5 Unassigned Usable IRQ IRQ 6 System ROM Diskette Event IRQ 7 Unassigned Usab...

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