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ROBO-8779VG2AR

Single Board Computer

User's Manual

Version 1.0

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Page 1: ...ROBO 8779VG2AR Single Board Computer User s Manual Version 1 0a Copyright Portwell Inc 2010 All rights reserved All other brand names are registered trademarks of their respective owners...

Page 2: ...egrated Graphics GMCH Chip 3 5 3 3 3 On board Fast Ethernet Controllers 3 5 3 3 4 On board High Definition Audio Controller 3 6 3 3 5 Intel Matrix Storage Manager Device 3 6 3 4 Clear CMOS Operation 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: ...and one Compact Flash socket up to UDMA 5 mode GPIO and Watchdog timer as usual However some functions are evolved with higher bandwidth such like PCI Express x1 interface Gigabit Ethernet compares t...

Page 5: ...r FSB 1 333 1 066 800MHz BIOS AMI BIOS Main Memory Support dual channel signal channel DDR3 memory interface Non ECC non buffered DIMMS only Two DIMM sockets support 1 066 800 DDR3 SDRAM up to 4GB Sys...

Page 6: ...ndar RTC Support Y2K Real Time Clock Calendar with battery backup for 7 year data retention Watchdog Timer Support WDT function through software programming for enable disable and interval setting Gen...

Page 7: ...82574L Gigabit Ethernet controller LAN Driver Intel 82574L Gigabit Network Connetion Version 10 3 42 0 Audio Card Onboard Realtek ALC662Audio controller Audio Driver Realtek High Definition Audio Ver...

Page 8: ...System Overview ROBO 8779VG2AR User s Manual 1 5 1 3 1 Mechanical Drawing...

Page 9: ...PI BUS USB PORT X8 ICH7R DDR3 CHB DDR3 CHA SATA BUS LPC I F USB BUS DMI x4 RGB VRD11 1 FSB INTEL LAG775 G41 CK505 PATA BUS SPI ROM SATA CONN x4 W83627HG DDR3 DIMM1 DDR3 DIMM0 CRT P4 Processor CF 82574...

Page 10: ...ons 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 option...

Page 11: ...0 13 15 14 16 21 22 Short RS 422 1 2 7 9 8 10 19 20 Short RS 485 JP3 ATX Emulation AT Mode Selection 1 JP3 Function Short ATX Emulation AT Mode Open ATX Mode JP4 WDT Selection 1 JP4 Function Short Ena...

Page 12: ...External PS 2 Keyboard Mouse Connector J9 Parallel Port Connector J10 COM2 Serial Port 2 Connector J12 General Purpose I O Connector J13 J14 J15 External USB Connector J16 Front Panel Pin HDR J17 J18...

Page 13: ...ignal Description 1 Ground 2 12V 3 Fan on off output 4 Fan Speed control J3 System Fan Connector 1 PIN No Signal Description 1 Ground 2 Fan speed control 3 Fan on off output J4 COM1 Serial Port 1 2 PI...

Page 14: ...ndex 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 Write Gate 25 Gr...

Page 15: ...S2 Power 8 PS2 Power 9 Mouse Clock 10 Keyboard clock J9 Parallel Port Connector 1 2 PIN No Signal Description PIN No Signal Description 1 Strobe 14 Auto Form Feed 2 Data0 15 Error 3 Data1 16 Initializ...

Page 16: ...Data RX N C 6 CTS Clear to Send N C N C 7 DTR Data Terminal Ready RX N C 8 RI Ring Indicator N C N C 9 GND Ground GND GND 10 N C N C N C Note J10 COM2 could be configurable as RS 232 422 485 with jump...

Page 17: ...available It s supplied by either 5V VCC power source in normal operation mode or 5V standby power source in standby mode J16 Front Panel Pin HDR 1 2 PIN No Signal Description PIN No Signal Descripti...

Page 18: ...4 Analog Ground 5 Line in Right Channel 6 Analog Ground 7 Line out Left Channel 8 Analog Ground 9 Line out Right Channel 10 N C J28 On board VGA Connector PIN No Signal Description 1 Red 2 Green 3 Bl...

Page 19: ...VCLKIN 23 SDVO_CTRLCLK 24 SDVO_TVCLKIN 25 Ground 26 Ground 27 SDVO_GREEN 28 Ground 29 SDVO_GREEN 30 SDVO_INT 31 Ground 32 SDVO_INT 33 Ground 34 Ground 35 SDVO_BLUE 36 Ground 37 SDVO_BLUE 38 SDVO_FLDST...

Page 20: ...0 DVI Connector 1 2 PIN No Signal Description PIN No Signal Description 1 Ground 2 Ground 3 Data 0P 4 Clock 5 Data 0N 6 Clock 7 Ground 8 Ground 9 Data 1P 10 5V 11 Data 1N 12 5V 13 Ground 14 HPDET 15 D...

Page 21: ...A 775 Processor Installing LGA 775 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 Figure 3 1 2 Align the proc...

Page 22: ...em Installation ROBO 8779VG2AR 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 so...

Page 23: ...fan first 2 Lift the lever of CPU socket outwards and upwards to the other end 3 Carefully lifts up the existing CPU to remove it from the socket 4 Follow the steps of installing a CPU to change to a...

Page 24: ...figurations CPU FSB Bandwidth 1066MHz 8 5GB s 800MHz 6 4GB s Memory Frequency Dual Channel DDR Bandwidth Single Channel DDR Bandwidth 1066MHz 17GB s 8 5GB s 800MHz 12 8GB s 6 4GB s Note To maintain sy...

Page 25: ...s onboard video will usually be the system display output By adjusting the BIOS setting to disable on board VGA an add on PCI Express by 16 VGA card can take over the system display Drivers Support Pl...

Page 26: ...9VG2AR supports RAID 0 RAID 1 RAID 5 RAID 1 0 and Intel Matrix Storage configurations for Serial ATA hard disks drives through the Intel ICH7R Southbridge chip RAID configurations RAID 0 Data striping...

Page 27: ...configuration you get all the benefits of both RAID 0 and RAID 1 configurations Use four new hard disk drives or use an existing drive and three new drives for this setup Intel Matrix Storage Manager...

Page 28: ...ing 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...

Page 29: ...or output 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 3 6 1 P...

Page 30: ...o be programmed to control the GPIO direction and status GPI value GPO CR00h CR2F are common global registers to all Logical Devices LD in W83627THG CR07h contains the Logical Device Number that can b...

Page 31: ...EFDR To R W W83627THG CR it is 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...

Page 32: ...2 0x2A d2 IO test loop 1 Set GPIO Port 1 of Superio 2 Enable Set_CFG2 0x07 0x07 Select logic device 07 of Superio2 Set_CFG2 0x30 0x01 Enable GPIO Port 1 of Superio2 IO test loop 1 Set GPIO Port 1 of S...

Page 33: ...t_CFG2 0x07 0x07 Select logic device 07 Set_CFG2 0xF1 0xEF GP14 of Superio2 GP10 of Superio2 Set_CFG2 0x07 0x07 Select logic device 07 of Superio2 d2 Get_CFG2 0xF1 get GPIO Port 2 data if d2 0xEE prin...

Page 34: ...mpt the user to enter the SETUP program Some errors are significant enough to abort the start up 4 1 Entering Setup Launch System Setup Power on the computer and the system will start POST Power On Se...

Page 35: ...ons such as time date etc AMI BIOS Processor System Memory These items show the firmware and hardware specifications of your system Read only System Time The time format is Hour Minute Second Use or t...

Page 36: ...up Information ROBO 8779VG2AR User s Manual 4 3 4 3 Advanced Use this menu to set up the items of special enhanced features CPU Configuration These items show the advanced specifications of your CPU R...

Page 37: ...n core of each CPU die The choice Disabled Enabled Intel R SpeedStep tm tech Disabled Enabled GV3 tech function The choice Disabled Enabled IDE Configuration The IDE Configuration the IDE devices such...

Page 38: ...gical Block Addressing to be used in place of Cylinders Heads and Sectors Block Multi Sector Transfer Any selection except Disabled determines the number of sectors transferred per block PIO Mode Indi...

Page 39: ...ce is accessed through BIOS The choice Disabled Enabled IDE Detect Time Out Sec Select the time out value for detecting ATA ATAPI device s The choice 0 5 10 15 20 25 30 35 ATA PI 80Pin Cable Detection...

Page 40: ...MB 3 1 2 Super IO Configuration OnBoard Floppy Controller This item allows enable disable onboard Floppy disk controller The choice Disabled Enabled Serial Port 1 Port 2 Address Allows BIOS Select Ser...

Page 41: ...al mode Bi Directional Switch to Bi Directional mode ECP Switch to ECP mode EPP Switch to EPP mode ECP EPP Switch to ECP EPP mode Parallel Port IRQ Allows BIOS Select Parallel Port IRQ The choice IRQ5...

Page 42: ...tup Information ROBO 8779VG2AR User s Manual 4 9 H W Health Function Enable or Disable Hardware Health Monitoring Device The choice Disabled Enabled ACPI Configuration Select for Advanced ACPI Configu...

Page 43: ...his field Options are S1 POS The S1 sleep mode is a low power state In this state no system context is lost CPU or chipset and hardware maintains all system contexts S3 STR The S3 sleep mode is a lowe...

Page 44: ...res Enable RSDP pointers to 64 bit Fixed System Description Tables The choice ACPI v1 0 ACPI v2 0 ACPI v3 0 ACPI APIC support Include ACPI APIC table pointer to RSDT pointer list The choice Disabled E...

Page 45: ...e additional ACPI options Energy Lake Feature Select the ACPI state used for System Suspend The choice Disabled Enabled APIC ACPI SCI IRQ Enable Disable APIC ACPI SCI IRQ The choice Disabled Enabled U...

Page 46: ...abled Enabled Video Power Down Mode Select Power Down video in Suspend or Standby Mode The choice Disabled Suspend Hard Disk Power Down Mode Select Power Down Hard Disk in Suspend or Standby Mode The...

Page 47: ...ice On Off Suspend Resume On Ring Disable Enable RI to generate a wake event The choice Disabled Enabled Resume On LAN Disable Enable LAN to generate a wake event The choice Disabled Enabled Resume On...

Page 48: ...vendor of your operating system The choice 1 1 1 4 MPS Revision This field allows you to select which MPS Multi Processor Specification version to be used for the operating system You need to select t...

Page 49: ...BIOS Setup Information ROBO 8779VG2AR User s Manual 4 16 Smbios Configuration SMBIOS Configuration Menu Smbios Smi Support SMBIOS SMI Wrapper support for PnP Func 50h 54h The choice Disabled Enabled...

Page 50: ...BIOS Setup Information ROBO 8779VG2AR User s Manual 4 17 Remote Access Configuration Remote Access Select Remote Access type The choice Disabled Enabled...

Page 51: ...ort or have any USB 1 1 2 0 driver installed such as DOS and SCO Unix The choice Disabled Enabled Auto USB 2 0 Controller Mode This setting specifies the operation mode of the onboard USB 2 0 controll...

Page 52: ...BIOS Setup Information ROBO 8779VG2AR User s Manual 4 19 4 4 PCIPnP Advanced PCI PnP setting wrong values in below sections may cause system to malfunction...

Page 53: ...8 Allocate IRQ to PCI VGA Yes Assigns IRQ to PCI VGA card if card requests an IRQ No Does not assign IRQ to PCI VGA card even if card requests an IRQ The choice No Yes Palette Snooping Enabled informs...

Page 54: ...choice Available Reserved DMA Channel 0 DMA Channel 1 DMA Channel 3 DMA Channel 5 DMA Channel 6 DMA Channel 7 Available Specified DMA is available to be used by PCI PnP devices Reserved Specified DMA...

Page 55: ...rboard or system manufacturer s full screen logo When it is enabled the BIOS will display the full screen logo during the boot up sequence hiding normal POST messages When it is disabled the BIOS will...

Page 56: ...Auto Wait For F1 If Error When this setting is set to Enabled and the boot sequence encounters an error it asks you to press F1 If disabled the system continues to boot without waiting for you to pre...

Page 57: ...aptors Nor will you be able to gain access to their ROM setup utilities The choice Disabled Enabled Boot Device Priority 1st Boot Device The items allow you to set the sequence of boot devices where B...

Page 58: ...This setting allows users to set the priority of the removable devices First press Enter to enter the sub menu Then you may use the arrow keys to select the desired device then press or PageUp PageDo...

Page 59: ...ord Supervisor Password controls access to the BIOS Setup utility These settings allow you to set or change the supervisor password User Password Change User Password User Password controls access to...

Page 60: ...BIOS Setup Information ROBO 8779VG2AR User s Manual 4 27 4 7 Chipset This menu controls the advanced features of the onboard Northbridge and Southbridge North Bridge Configuration...

Page 61: ...n space in memory is reserved for ISA cards This memory must be mapped into the memory space below 16MB The choice Disabled 15MB 16MB Initiate Graphic Adapter Select which graphics controller to use a...

Page 62: ...ure to DVMT Mode for maximum performance Setting it to DVMT Mode ensures that system memory is dynamically allocated for optimal balance between graphics and system performance The choice Fixed Mode D...

Page 63: ...BIOS Setup Information ROBO 8779VG2AR User s Manual 4 30 Spread Spectrum Clock The choice Disabled Enabled South Bridge Configuration...

Page 64: ...r This setting Enable the onboard Gigabit Ethernet controller GbE LAN Boot When Enabled the BIOS attempts to boot from a LAN boot image before it attempts to boot from a local storage device The choic...

Page 65: ...ort 2 PCIE Port 3 PCIE Port 4 The choice Auto Disabled Enabled PCIE High Priority Port The choice Disabled Port 0 Port 1 Port 2 Port 3 Port 4 Port 5 PCIE Port 0 PCIE Port 1 PCIE Port 2 PCIE Port 3 PCI...

Page 66: ...the Setup Utility Discard Changes and Exit Abandon all changes and exit the Setup Utility Discard Changes Abandon all changes and continue with the Setup Utility Load Optimal Defaults Use this menu to...

Page 67: ...lane To know whether your backplane is PICMG 1 0 backplane please contact with vendor or manufacturer P4 Power connector The CPU supplementary Power Connector J7 has to be connected to a system all th...

Page 68: ...timal BIOS setup This will force your BIOS setting back to the initial factory configuration It is recommended to do this so you can be sure the system is running with the BIOS setting that Portwell h...

Page 69: ...he basic IRQ mapping is given below for your reference IRQ Description 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...

Page 70: ...em devices such as PCI device backplane and so on If the system still cannot boot up please fill out RMA from which is provides on Portwell website and then send back to Portwell as a RMA Besides you...

Page 71: ...Area 0040 004F 0 3K BIOS Data Area 0050 006F 0 5K System Data 0700 0483 16K DOS 0484 053F 2 9K Program Area 0540 9EFE 614K Available 9EFE 9EFE 0 1K Unused Conventional memory ends at 640K 9F00 9FBF 3...

Page 72: ...ROM System Timer IRQ 1 System ROM 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 U...

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