P4LA
Industrial motherboard
User’s Manual
Edition: 1.00
2006/05/30
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Packing List
Packing List
Please check package component before you use our products.
Hardware:
P4LA industrial motherboard x 1
Cable Kit:
40-pin ATA100 IDE flat cable x 1
Serial ATA ribbon cable x 2
I/O Shield x 1
COM port Cable x 1
RAID drivers Disc for Windows 2000,
Windows XP and Windows Server 2003
Other Accessories:
Divers CD (including User’s Manual) x 1
User’s Manual x 1
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Index
Index
1.5 <Mechanical Drawing >..........................................................................12
2.1 <Connector Location>............................................................................13
2.2 <Jumper Reference> .............................................................................14
2.3 <Connector Reference>.........................................................................15
2.5 <CMOS Setup>......................................................................................18
2.7 <Serial ATA installation>.........................................................................20
2.8 <Floppy Installation>..............................................................................21
2.9 <LAN installation> ..................................................................................22
2.10 <Audio Installation>..............................................................................23
2.11 <Display Installation> ...........................................................................25
2.12 <USB Installation>................................................................................26
2.14 <GPIO interface> .................................................................................30
2.15 <Serial Port> ........................................................................................31
2.16 <Switch and Indicator>.........................................................................32
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2.17 <Expansion Interface> .........................................................................33
3.1 <SATA configuration>.............................................................................35
3.3 <Audio Configuration> ...........................................................................42
3.4 <Video Memory Setup> .........................................................................43
3.5 <Display Properties Setting>..................................................................45
A.1 IDE Port .................................................................................................49
A.2 <Serial ATA Port>...................................................................................49
A.3 <Floppy Port> ........................................................................................50
A.4 <IrDA Port> ............................................................................................50
A.5 <Serial Port>..........................................................................................51
A.6 <VGA Port>............................................................................................51
A.7 <LAN Port> ............................................................................................52
A.8 <SMBus> ...............................................................................................52
A.9 <LPT Port >............................................................................................53
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Introduction
Chapter1 <Introduction>
1.1 <Product Overview>
P4LA is the motherboard with last Intel desktop technology with industrial motherboard
form factor. Based on Intel® 945G and ICH7R, the board integrates a new Pentium 4
processor 775-pin socket, DDR2 memory slot, Intel® Graphic Media Accelerator 950
technology, PCI express interface and Serial ATA II with RAID function for a powerful
desktop system.
Intel® LGA775 processor
The Intel® Pentium 4 processor now comes with a new form factor with 775-pin PLGA
package, for 533/800/1066MHz front-side-bus, 2MB L2 cache, and for 90nm manufacturing
technology, the PLGA processor without pin header on solder side can make user installing
the processor on the socket easier.
Intel® 945G and ICH7R chipset
The Intel 945G integrates DDR2 400/533/667MHz for memory, and Graphic Media
Accelerator (GMA) 950 technology for new graphic engine. It can provide up to 224MB of
frame buffer when you install over 256MB of system memory. The ICH7R integrates with up
to 8 USB2.0 interfaces (8 ports for P4LA), and serial ATA II interface with RAID function.
One Marvell E8053
One Gigabit LAN with Marvell E8053, P4LA comes with a powerful network function for the
system that requires large transfer data of NAS system or Server platform.
PCI-Express interface
P4LA integrates one x16, x4 and x1 PCI-Express interface, it can provide up to 8GB/s of
bandwidth, which AGP 8x can only provide up to 2GB/s.
Multimedia interfaces
P4LA also integrates 7.1 channel HD audio, PCI-Express, PCI and ISA interface, for these
flexible function, system integrator can built more powerful systems for many applications.
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1.2 <Product Specification>
General Specification
Form Factor
CPU
Industrial motherboard
Intel® Pentium 4 /Pentium D/ Celeron D/ Core 2 Duo
processor with LGA775 socket
Package type: 775 pin PLGA
Front side bus: 533/800/1066MT/s (133/200/266MHz x 4)
Intel® Hyper-Threading Technology and Dual Core supported
4 x 240-pin DDR2 400/533/667MHz SDRAM up to 3GB
Dual-Channel technology supported
Memory
Unbufferred, none-ECC memory supported only
Intel® 945G (Northbridge) and ICH7R (Southbridge)
Phoenix-Award v6.00PG 4Mb PnP flash BIOS
Power saving mode includes doze, standby and suspend modes.
ACPI version 1.0 and APM version 1.2 compliant
System reset programmable watchdog timer with 1 ~ 255
sec./min. of timeout value
Chipset
BIOS
Green Function
Watchdog Timer
Real Time Clock
Enhanced IDE
Intel® ICH7R built-in RTC with lithium battery
Enhanced IDE interface supports dual channels and up to 2
ATAPI devices at Ultra DMA100
One 40-pin IDE port onboard
Serial ATAII
Intel® ICH7R integrates 4 Serial ATA II interface
RAID 0, 1,5,10 Intel Matrix Storage Technology supported
Multi-I/O Port
Chipset
Intel® 82801GR ICH7R with Winbond® W83627THG controller
Five internal RS-232 and one external RS-232 serial port
Eight Hi-Speed USB 2.0 ports with 480Mbps of transfer rate
One LPT port on rear I/O panel
Serial Port
USB Port
Parallel Port
Floppy Port
IrDA Port
K/B & Mouse
GPIO
One Floppy port
One IrDA compliant Infrared interface supports SIR
External PS/2 keyboard and mouse ports on rear I/O panel
One 12-pin Digital I/O connector with 8-bit programmable I/O
interface
Smart Fan
One CPU fan connectors for fan speed controllable
VGA Display Interface
Chipset
Core Frequency
Memory
Display Type
Connector
Intel® 945G GMCH (Graphic Memory Controller Hub)
400MHz
Intel® DVMT 3.0 with up to 224MB shared with system memory
CRT, LCD monitor with analog display
External DB15 female connector on rear I/O panel
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Ethernet Interface
Introduction
Chipset
Type
10/100/1000MT LAN interface with Marvell E8053
10Base-T / 100Base-TX/1000Base-T,
auto-switching Fast Ethernet
Full duplex, IEEE802.3U compliant
Connector
Audio Interface
Chipset
one External RJ45 connectors with LED on rear I/O panel
Intel® ICH7R with Realtek® ALC880 codec
Intel High Definition Audio compliance
7.1 channels sound output
Interface
Connector
External Audio phone jack for Line-out, Line-in, MIC-in,
Surround, Center and Backsurround
Onboard audio connector with pin header (built-in amplifier for
speaker out)
Onboard CD-IN and S/PDIF connector
Expansive Interface
PCI-Express
One x16 PCI-Express slot (compatible with x1 slot)
One x4 PCI-Express slot
One x1 PCI-Express slot
Up to 8GB/s of transfer bandwidth
Power supply: +3.3V, +12V
Four-PCI slot (32-bit, 33MHz)
Power supply: +3.3V, +5V
PCI
ISA
One ISA slot
Power and Environment
Power
Standard ATX 24-pin (20-pin is compatible) power supply
Additional +12V 8-pin(4-pin is compatible) power connector
307mm x 244mm (L x W)
Requirement
Dimension
Temperature
Operating within 0 ~ 60oC (32 ~ 140oF)
Storage within -20 ~ 85oC (-4 ~ 185oF)
Ordering Code
P4LA
Support Intel Pentium 4 LGA775 with DDRII, Onboard VGA, One
Marvell Gigabit LAN ,8 x USB2.0, Realtek ALC880 HD Audio, 6 x
COM Ports, GPIO, SATA, CF and ISA slot.
The specifications may be different as the actual production.
For further product information please visit the website at http://www.commell.com.tw
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1.4 <Block Diagram>
Intel Pentium 4 with 775 pin PLGA processor
6.4GB/s
Intel GMA950 Graphics
PCI-Express 16x
4 x 240-pin DDR2
400/533/667MHz
up to 3GB
8GB/s
Intel 945G
GMCH
2GB/s
DMI
SMBus 2.0
8 x USB2.0 ports
1 x IDE
4 x Serial ATA II ports
300MB/s
ICH7R
1 x Marvell E8053
Gigabit LAN
ALC 880 AC97 7.1CH Codec
4x & 1x PCI-Express
4 x PCI bus
6 x Serial ports
1 x Floppy port
1 x ISA bus
BIOS
8-bit GPIO
1 x LPT Port
Block Diagram
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Chapter 2 <Hardware Setup>
2.1 <Connector Location>
JP2
ATX
IDE1 FDD
JCSEL1 JCSEL2
CF
SYSFAN
JFRNT
CN_ Audio
CN_DIO
JRTC
CPUFAN
CN_USB1/2
CN_IR
CD_IN SPDIF
NBFAN CN_SMBUS
ISA
CN_12V JP1
DOC
JDOC
Connector Location
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2.2 <Jumper Reference>
Jumper
JRTC
Function
CMOS Operating/Clear Setting
Compact Flash Address Setting
Setting RS232/422/485
Setting RS232/422/485
Setting address
JCFSEL
JCSEL1
JCSEL2
JDOC
JP1
Setting COM Port Voltage
Setting COM Port Voltage
JP2
JCFSEL JP2 JCSEL1
JRTC
JCSEL2
JP1
JDOC
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2.3 <Connector Reference>
2.3.1 <Internal Connectors>
Connector
Function
Remark
Standard
Standard
Standard
Standard
Standard
Standard
Standard
Standard
Standard
Standard
Standard
Standard
Standard
Standard
Standard
Standard
Standard
Standard
Standard
CPU
LGA775 CPU socket
DDRII1/2/3/4
IDE1
240 -pin DDR2 SDRAM DIMM socket
40-pin primary IDE connector
34-pin floppy connector
FDD
S_ATAII1/2/3/4 7-pin Serial ATA II connector
ATX
24-pin power supply connector
8-pin +12V additional power supply connector
5 x 2-pin audio connector
CN_12V
CN_AUDIO
CDIN
4-pin CD-ROM audio input connector
6 x 2-pin digital I/O connector
10-pin USB connector
CN_DIO
CN_USB1/2
CPUFAN
SYSFAN
NBFAN
CN_IR
4-pin CPU cooler fan connector
3-pin system cooler fan connector
3-pin Northbridge cooler fan connector
5-pin IrDA connector
CN_SMBUS
JFRNT
4-pin I2C connector
14-pin front panel switch/indicator connector
Digital audio optical interface
32-pin DiskOnChip Socket
SPDIF
DOC
2.3.2 <External Connectors>
Connector
Function
Remark
Standard
Standard
Standard
Standard
Standard
Standard
VGA
USB
DB15 VGA connector
Dual USB Port
COM
PS2
DB7 Serial port connector
PS/2 Keyboard/Mouse connector
Audio connectors
AUDIO
USB_RJ45_A/B Dual USB and RJ45 LAN connector
Connector Reference
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2.4 <CPU and Memory Setup>
2.4.1 <CPU installation>
P4LA has a LGA775 CPU socket onboard; please check following steps to install the
processor properly.
Attention If P4LA need RMA, please Keep CPU socket cover on the CPU Socket.
Warring
If CPU Socket internal Pin damage, We could not provide warranty.
Intel® Pentium 4 processor
Package type: 775 pin PLGA
L2 Cache: Up to 2M
FSB: 533/800/1066MHz (266MHz x 4)
Manufacturing: 90nm
Intel Hyper Threading Technology
And Dual core support
Check point
1. Lift this bar
3. Place the CPU on the top of
the pins
2. Uncover this plate
3. Cover this plate
4. Lock this bar
Notice: Please place the CPU on the pins tenderly to avoid bending the pins
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2.4.2 <Memory installation>
P4LA has Four 240-pin DDR2 DIMM support up to 3GB of memory capacity. The memory
frequency supports 400/533/667MHz .Only Non-ECC memory is supported. Dual-Channel
technology is supported while applying two same modules.
DDRII4 (DIMM4)
DDRII3 (DIMM3)
DDRII2(DIMM2)
DDRII1(DIMM1)
128-pin
112-pin
Please check the pin number to match the socket side well
before installing memory module.
Memory Installation
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2.5 <CMOS Setup>
The board’s data of CMOS can be setting in BIOS. If the board refuses to boot due to
inappropriate CMOS settings, here is how to proceed to clear (reset) the CMOS to its
default values.
Jumper: JRTC
Type: Onboard 3-pin jumper
JRTC
1-2
Mode
Clear CMOS
Normal Operation
2-3
Default setting
1
3
JRTC
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2.6 <Enhanced IDE interface>
The Intel® ICH7R (south bridge chip) supports one enhanced IDE interface, dual channel
for two ATAPI devices with ATA100. Based on this function, P4LA has one 40-pin IDE
connector with jumper selectable for pin-20 +5V supported.
DiskOnChip2000 single chip flash disk in 32-pin DIP JEDEC with jumper selectable address
on jumper JDOC.
IDE1
DOC
Jumper: JDOC
3
Type: onboard 3-pin header
JDOC
JDOC
1
JDOC
1-2
2-3
DiskOnChip Address
D800h
D000h
Default setting
Jumper: JCFSEL
3
1
JCFSEL
Type: onboard 3-pin header
JCFSEL
1-2
2-3
Compact Flash Address Setting
Master
Slave
Default setting
Enhanced IDE Interface
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2.7 <Serial ATA installation>
P4LA has four Serial ATA II interfaces with RAID function, the transfer rate of the Serial ATA
technology information. Based on Intel® ICH7R, it supports Intel® Matrix Storage
Technology with combination of RAID 0,1,5 and 10. The main features of RAID on ICH7R
are listed below:
1. Supports for up to RAID volumes on a single, two-hard drive RAID array.
2. Supports for two, two-hard drive RAID arrays on any of four Serial ATA ports.
3. Supports for Serial ATA ATAPI devices.
4. Supports for RAID spares and automatic rebuild.
5. Supports on RAID arrays, including NCQ and native hot plug.
For more information please visit Intel’s official website.
For more about the system setup for Serial ATA, please check the chapter of SATA
configuration.
S_ATA3
S_ATA4
S_ATA2
S_ATA1
(Associate accessory)
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2.9 <LAN installation>
P4LA integrates one Gigabit LAN interfaces with Marvell E8053; they provide a standard
IEEE 802.3 Ethernet interface for 1000BASE-T, 100BASE-TX and 10BASE-T applications.
P4LA provides one RJ45 connectors on the rear I/O panel.
LAN
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2.10 <Audio Installation>
The board integrates onboard audio interface with REALTEK ALC880 codec, with Intel next
generation of audio standard as High Definition Audio, it offers more vivid sound and other
advantages than former AC97 audio compliance.
The main specifications of ALC880 are:
ꢀ
ꢀ
ꢀ
ꢀ
ꢀ
High-performance DACs with 100dB S/N ratio
8 DAC channels support 16/20/24-bit PCM format for 7.1 audio solution
16/20/24-bit S/PDIF-OUT supports 44.1K/48K/96kHz sample rate
Compatible with AC'97
Meets Microsoft WHQL/WLP 2.0 audio requirements
The board provides 7.1 channels audio phone jacks on rear I/O port, and amplified speaker
out and Line-in/MIC-in ports for front I/O panel through optional cable.
10
2
9
1
CN_AUDIO
4
1
CDIN
LINE-IN
LINE-OUT
MIC-IN
Center
Rear Speaker
Side Speaker
Rear I/O phone jacks
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Connector: CN_AUDIO
Type: 10-pin (2 x 5) header (pitch = 2.00mm)
Introduction
Pin
1
3
Description
MIC_L
MIC_R
Pin
2
4
Description
Ground
VCC
5
7
Front_R
Sense
6
8
MIC_JD
N/C
9
Front_L
10
Line_JD
Connector: CDIN
Type: 4-pin header (pitch = 2.54mm)
Pin
1
2
Description
CD – Left
Ground
3
Ground
4
CD – Right
Connector: SPDIF
Type: 4-pin header (pitch = 2.54mm)
Pin
1
Description
+5V
2
N/C
3
4
SPDIFO
Ground
4
SPDIF
1
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2.11 <Display Installation>
P4LA integrates with Intel® 945G GMCH for Intel Graphic Media Accelerator (GMA) 950
technology. It supports Intel® DVMT (Dynamic Video Memory Technology) 3.0 for up to
224MB frame buffer size shared with system memory. With a 400MHz core and DirectX 9
and OpenGL acceleration, P4LA provides the powerful onboard graphics interface without
additional graphic card. (More information please visit Intel’s website)
For more information of configuring the frame buffer size, please check the chapter of video
memory configuration.
Intel 945G GMCH
VGA (DB15)
Display Installation
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2.12 <USB Installation>
P4LA integrates eight USB2.0 ports. The specifications USB2.0 are listed below:
Interface
Controller
USB2.0
Intel ICH7R
Up to 480Mb/s
Transfer Rate
The Intel® ICH7R contains and Enhanced Host Controller Interface (EHCI) and four
Universal Host Controller Interfaces (UHCI), it can determine whether your connected
device is for USB1.1 or USB2.0, and change the transfer rate automatically.
USB
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Connector: CN_USB1/2
Type: 10-pin (5 x 2) header for USB1/2 Ports
Pin
1
Description
VCC
Pin
2
Description
VCC
3
Data0-
4
Data1-
Data1+
Ground
N/C
5
Data0+
Ground
Ground
6
7
8
9
10
9
1
10
2
CN_USB1/2
USB Installation
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2.13 <Power and Fan Installation>
The P4LA provides a standard ATX power supply with 24-pin ATX connector and additional
12V connector, and the board provides one 4-pin fan connectors supporting smart fan for
CPU cooler and two 3-pin cooler fan connectors for system and Northbridge chip. The 8-pin
additional power connector is necessary for CPU powering; please connect this well before
you finishing the system setup.
1
4
1
ATX
12
24
CPUFAN
13
1
3
SYSFAN
8
2
1
3
4
NBFAN
1
CN_12V
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Connector: ATX
Type: 24-pin ATX power connector
PIN assignment
1
2
3
4
5
6
7
8
9
3.3V
13
14
15
16
17
18
19
20
21
22
23
24
3.3V
-12V
GND
PS_ON
GND
GND
GND
-5V
5V
5V
5V
GND
3.3V
GND
5V
GND
5V
GND
PW_OK
5V_SB
12V
10
11
12
12V
3.3V
Connector: CN_12V
Type: 8-pin standard Pentium 4 additional +12V power connector
Pin
1
Description
Ground
Pin
2
Description
+12V
3
Ground
4
+12V
5
Ground
6
+12V
7
Ground
8
+12V
Connector: CPUFAN
Type: 4-pin fan wafer connector
Pin
1
Description
Pin
2
Description
+12V
Ground
3
Fan Speed Detection
4
Sense
Connector: NBFAN, SYSFAN
Type: 3-pin fan wafer connector
Pin Description
Ground
Pin
Description
Pin
Description
1
2
+12V
3
Sense
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2.14 <GPIO interface>
The board provides a programmable 8-bit digital I/O interface, and a SMBus (System
management bus) interface for control panel application.
Connector: CN_DIO
Type: onboard 2 x 6-pin header, pitch=2.0mm
Pin
1
3
Description
Ground
GP10
Pin
2
4
Description
Ground
GP14
5
GP11
6
GP15
7
GP12
8
GP16
9
11
GP13
VCC
10
12
GP17
+12V
12
11
CN_DIO
2
1
W83627THG
PIN 121
PIN 122
PIN 123
PIN 124
PIN 125
PIN 126
PIN 127
PIN 128
Assignment
CN_DIO
PIN 10
PIN 8
PIN 6
PIN 4
PIN 9
PIN 7
PIN 5
PIN 3
GPSA2/GP17
GPSB2/GP16
GPY1/GP15
GPY2/P16/GP14
GPX2/P15/GP13
GPX1/P14/GP12
GPSB1/P13/GP11
GPSA1/P12/GP10
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2.15 <Serial Port>
The board has one RS232 serial ports on real I/O panel, and five onboard serial port .
COM2 Support RS232/422/485. Jump setting please refer to Page 57
Internal Serial port
This Pin header provide +5V/+12V for COM1/COM2 Pin1,Pin 9.
1
2
6
Jumper: JP1/2
Type: onboard 6-pin header
5
Pin
1
Description
VCC
Pin
2
Description
+12V
3
COM1/2 pin1
MDCD1-
4
COM1/2 pin9
MRI2-
5
6
External Serial port
Enhanced IDE Interface
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2.16 <Switch and Indicator>
The JFRNT provides front control panel of the board, such as power button, reset and
beeper, etc. Please check well before you connecting the cables on the chassis.
Connector: JFRNT
Type: onboard 14-pin (2 x 7) 2.54-pitch header
Function
IDE LED
Signal
HDLED+
HDLED-
PIN
Signal
PWDLED+
N/C
Function
1
3
2
4
Power
LED
Reset+
Reset-
5
7
6
PWDLED-
SPKIN+
N/C
Reset
8
N/C
9
10
12
14
Speaker
Power
Button
PWRBT+
PWRBT-
11
13
N/C
SPKIN-
13
14
JFRNT
1
2
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2.17 <Expansion Interface>
P4LA has one 16x , 4x and 1x PCI-Express slot .PCI-Express is the last expansion
interface technology, for its serial data transfer scheme, each lane will be up to 500MB/s
(duplex), and the 16x (16 lanes) can be up to 8GB/s more than 2GB/s as AGP 8x bus
transfer rate. The 16x slot can be also for 1x compatible use.
PCIE (PCI-Express 16x slot)
PCIE (PCI-Express 1x slot)
PCIE (PCI-Express 4x slot)
Expansion Interface
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Chapter 3 <System Configuration>
3.1 <SATA configuration>
Based on Intel® ICH7R Southbridge chip, the board supports 4 Serial ATA II ports; please
follow the touring guide to setup your Serial ATA devices.
For Windows 98/SE/ME, Windows NT4.0 and DOS system, they only support up to 4 IDE
devices including SATA devices, and Windows 2000/XP/Server2003 have no such
limitation.
Operating
System
Parallel ATA
Primary
Serial ATA
SATA2 SATA3
SATA1
SATA4
(Support Mode)
Windows
(2 Devices)
ꢁ ꢁ ꢁ ꢁ ꢁ
2000/XP
(Enhance Mode)
Windows
98/ME/NT4.0
Type 1
(Combine Mode)
Type 2
X
X
ꢁ
ꢁ
ꢁ
(Primary)
(Secondary)
(Secondary)
X
X
ꢁ ꢁ
ꢁ
(Combine Mode) (Secondary)
(Primary)
(Primary)
ꢁ ꢁ ꢁ ꢁ
Type 3
X
(Primary) (Secondary) (Primary) (Secondary)
(SATA only)
(Master)
(Master)
(Slave)
(Slave)
(Table 3.1.1)
The following BIOS setup screen shows how to setup your ATAPI devices with each mode.
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System Configuration
This option can let you select whether the Serial ATA hard drives would work under normal
IDE mode or RAID mode. The RAID mode need more than one HDD is applied.
Once you enable the RAID mode, the boot-up screen would pop up the RAID configuration
option for setup.
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On-Chip Serial ATA mode:
This option can let you select operation modes of Serial ATA drives.
Disabled: To disable the onboard Serial ATA controller.
Auto: To allow the system select the optimized mode automatically.
Combined mode: PATA and SATA work as two channels for supporting two drives on each
channel.
Enhanced mode: Max supported of the PATA and SATA for up to 6 drives.
SATA Only: To disable the PATA and only apply the SATA drives.
Notice: The Combined mode and Enhanced mode are supported depends on your
operating system, please check page35 for relative information.
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3.2 <SATA RAID Configuration>
The board integrates Intel® ICH7R with RAID function for Serial ATA II drives, and supports
the configurations below:
RAID 0 (Stripping): Two hard drives operating as one drive for optimized data R/W
performance. It needs two unused drives to build this operation.
RAID 1 (Mirroring): Copies the data from first drive to second drive for data security, and if
one drive fails, the system would access the applications to the workable drive. It needs two
unused drives or one used and one unused drive to build this operation. The second drive
must be the same or lager size than first one.
RAID 5 (striping with parity)
A RAID 5 array contains three or more hard drives where the data is divided into
manageable blocks called strips. Parity is a mathematical method for recreating data that
was lost from a single drive, which increases fault-tolerance. The data and parity are striped
across all the hard drives in the array. The parity is striped in a rotating sequence to reduce
bottlenecks associated with the parity calculations.
RAID 10 (RAID 0+1)
A RAID 10 array uses four hard drives to create a combination of RAID levels 0 and 1. The
data is striped across a two-drive array forming the RAID 0 component. Each of the drives
in the RAID 0 array is then mirrored by a RAID 1 component.
Intel Matrix Storage Technology: This technology would allow you to use RAID 0+1 mode
on only two drives (4 drives needed on traditional RAID 0+1). It will create two partitions on
each hard drive to simulate RAID 0 and RAID 1. It also can let you modify the partition size
without re-formatted.
For more information of Intel Matrix Storage Technology, please visit Intel’s website.
If you need to install an operation system on the RAID set, please use the driver disk
attached in the package when it informs you to obtain the RAID drivers.
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Please press <CTRL+I> to enter the RAID configuration menu.
You can setup the RAID under operation system for Microsoft® Windows XP SP1 or
Windows 2000 SP4 version, please install the Intel® Application Accelerator Ver.4.5 later to
support RAID configuration with Intel® Matrix Storage Technology.
1. After installing Intel Application Accelerator, please execute Intel® Storage Utility.
Demo configuration for 2 SATA Drives and
set as Intel Matrix Storage Technology set
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2. Select Actions to Create RAID Volume
Rename the Volume name
Select RAID Level as 0
Left as default
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3. Please select two hard drives to prepare to set the RAID volume
4. Specify the Volume size
Tune this bar to specify
the volume size, if you
specify the volume size
lower than maximum,
you can create a second
volume for another
RAID set.
(Make RAID 0+1 on only
two hard drives)
5. Repeat the step 1 to create second volume as RAID Level 1.
For other configuration set please click Help on tool bar.
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3.3 <Audio Configuration>
The board integrates Intel® ICH7R with REALTEK® ALC880 codec. It can support 7.1
channel sound under system configuration. Please follow the steps below to setup your
sound system.
1. Install REALTEK AC97 Audio driver.
2. Lunch the control panel and Sound Effect Manager.
3. Select Speaker Configuration
4. Select the sound mode to meet your speaker system.
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3.4 <Video Memory Setup>
Based on Intel® 945G chipset with GMA (Graphic Media Accelerator) 950, the board
supports Intel® DVMT (Dynamic Video Memory Technology) 3.0, which would allow the
video memory be triggered up to 224MB.
To support DVMT, you need to install the Intel GMA 950 Driver with supported OS.
BIOS Setup:
On-Chip Video Memory Size: This option combines three items below for setup.
On-Chip Frame Buffer Size:
This item can let you select video memory which been allocated for legacy VGA and SVGA
graphics support and compatibility. The available option is 1MB and 224MB.
DVMT Memory Size:
This item can let you select a maximum size of dynamic amount usage of video memory,
the system would configure the video memory depends on your application, this item is
strongly recommend to be selected as MAX DVMT.
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On-Chip
Frame
Buffer Size
1MB
Fixed
Memory
Size
32MB
0MB
32MB
0
DVMT
Memory
Size
Total
Graphic
Memory
32MB
System
Memory
0MB
1MB
32MB
0MB
32MB
128MB~255MB
8MB
32MB
8MB
32MB
0MB
32MB
1MB
64MB
0
64MB
1MB
64MB
0MB
64MB
1MB
128MB
0
128MB
128MB
128MB
64MB
1MB
128MB
64MB
0MB
1MB
64MB
64MB
0
8MB
256MB~511MB
8MB
64MB
0MB
64MB
8MB
128MB
0
128MB
128MB
128MB
64MB
8MB
128MB
64MB
0
8MB
64MB
64MB
0
1MB
1MB
64MB
0
64MB
1MB
128MB
0
128MB
128MB
128MB
224MB
64MB
1MB
128MB
64MB
224MB
0
1MB
64MB
0
512MB upper
1MB
8MB
64MB
0
8MB
64MB
0
64MB
8MB
128MB
0
128MB
128MB
128MB
224MB
8MB
128MB
64MB
224MB
8MB
64MB
0
8MB
Notice:
1. The On-Chip Frame Buffer Size would be included in the Fixed Memory.
2. Please select the memory size according to this table.
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3.5 <Display Properties Setting>
Based on Intel 945G GMCH with GMA 950 (Graphic Media Accelerator), the board supports
two DACs for display device as different resolution and color bit.
Please install the Intel Graphic Driver before you starting setup display devices.
1. Click right button on the desktop to lunch display properties
2. Click Advanced button for more specificity setup.
Click Graphics Properties... for
advanced setup
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3. This setup options can let you define each device settings.
Notice: The dual display needs PCIE-SDVO module to support more than one display
devices.
Click Digital Display to setup
the DVI monitor for Colors,
and Resolution
Click Monitor to setup the CRT
monitor for Colors, Resolution
and Refresh Rate
Click Extended Desktop to
setup the dual display mode
as different screen display
Click Intel® Dual Display
Clone to setup the dual
display mode as same screen
Set the main display device here
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Chapter 4 <BIOS Setup>
The motherboard uses the Award BIOS for the system configuration. The Award
BIOS in the single board computer is a customized version of the industrial standard
BIOS for IBM PC AT-compatible computers. It supports Intel x86 and compatible CPU
architecture based processors and computers. The BIOS provides critical low-level
support for the system central processing, memory and I/O sub-systems.
The BIOS setup program of the single board computer let the customers modify the
basic configuration setting. The settings are stored in a dedicated battery-backed
memory, NVRAM, retains the information when the power is turned off. If the battery
runs out of the power, then the settings of BIOS will come back to the default setting.
The BIOS section of the manual is subject to change without notice and is provided here
for reference purpose only. The settings and configurations of the BIOS are current at
the time of print, and therefore they may not be exactly the same as that displayed on
your screen.
To activate CMOS Setup program, press ＜DEL＞ key immediately after you turn on
the system. The following message “Press DEL to enter SETUP” should appear in the
lower left hand corner of your screen. When you enter the CMOS Setup Utility, the Main
Menu will be displayed as Figure 4-1. You can use arrow keys to select your function,
press ＜Enter＞ key to accept the selection and enter the sub-menu.
Figure 4-1 CMOS Setup Utility Main Screen
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Appendix A <I/O Port Pin Assignment>
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1
2
A.1 IDE Port
Connector: IDE1
Type: 40-pin (20 x 2) box header
40
Pin
1
Description
Pin
2
Description
Ground
D8
Reset
3
D7
4
5
D6
6
D9
7
D5
8
D10
9
D4
10
12
14
16
18
20
22
24
26
28
30
32
34
36
38
40
D11
11
13
15
17
19
21
23
25
27
29
31
33
35
37
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D3
D12
D2
D13
D1
D14
D0
D15
Ground
VCC
REQ
Ground
Ground
Ground
IDE66#/IDE33
Ground
N/C
IOW-/STOP
IOR-/HDMARDY
IORDY/DDMARDY
DACK-
IRQ
A1
CBLID
A2
A0
CS0 (MASTER CS)
LED ACT-
CS1 (SLAVE CS)
Ground
A.2 <Serial ATA Port>
Connector: S_ATA1/2/3/4
Type: 7-pin wafer connector
1
7
1
2
3
4
5
6
7
GND RSATA_TXP1 RSATA_TXN1 GND RSATA_RXN1 RSATA_RXP1 GND
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A.3 <Floppy Port>
Connector: FDD
Type: 34-pin (2 x 17) 2.54-pitch header
34
2
Pin
1
Description
Ground
Ground
Ground
Ground
Ground
Ground
Ground
Ground
Ground
Ground
Ground
Ground
Ground
Ground
Ground
Ground
Ground
Pin
2
Description
DRIVE DENSITY SELECT 0
DRIVE DENSITY SELECT 1
N/C
3
4
5
6
7
8
INDEX-
9
10
12
14
16
18
20
22
24
26
28
30
32
34
MOTOR ENABLE A-
DRIVER SELECT B-
DRIVER SELECT A-
MOTOR ENABLE B-
DIRECTION-
11
13
15
17
19
21
23
25
27
29
31
33
STEP-
WRITE DATA-
WRITE GATE-
TRACK 0-
WRITE PROTECT-
READ DATA-
HEAD SELECT-
DISK CHANGE-
A.4 <IrDA Port>
Connector: CN_IR
Type: 5-pin header for SIR Ports
Pin
1
Description
VCC
2
N/C
3
IRRX
4
Ground
IRTX
5
5
1
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A.5 <Serial Port>
1
6
7
8
9
2
3
4
5
Connector: COM1
Type: 9-pin D-sub male connector on I/O Panel
Pin
1
Description
DCD
Pin
6
Description
DSR
2
SIN
7
RTS
3
SO
8
CTS
4
DTR
9
RI
5
Ground
9
1
10
Connector: COM2/3/4/5/6
Type: 9-pin D-sub male connector on bracket
2
Pin
1
Description
DCD-
Pin
6
Description
DSR-
RTS-
CTS-
RI
2
SIN-
7
3
SO-
8
4
DTR-
9
5
Ground
10
N/C
A.6 <VGA Port>
6
1
2
3
4
5
11
12
13
14
15
Connector: VGA
Type: 15-pin D-sub female connector on I/O Panel
10
Pin
1
Description
RED
Pin
6
Description
Ground
Pin
Description
N/C
11
12
13
14
15
2
GREEN
BLUE
7
Ground
5VCDA
HSYNC
VSYNC
5VCLK
3
8
Ground
4
N/C
9
LVGA5V
Ground
5
Ground
10
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A.7 <LAN Port>
Connector: RJ45
Type: RJ45 connector with LED on I/O Panel
Pin
Description TRD0+ TRD0- TRD1+ TRD1-
1
2
3
4
5
NC
10
Pin
6
7
8
9
Description
NC TRD2+ TRD2- TRD3+ TRD3-
A.8 <SMBus>
Connector: CN_SMBUS
Type: 4-pin SMBus connector
Pin
1
Description
VCC
Pin
2
Description
N/C
3
SMBDATA
Ground
4
SMBCLK
5
5
1
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A.9 <LPT Port >
Connector : LPT
Type :26-Pin D-Sub female Connector on I/O Panel
Pin
1
Description
-PSTB
PRO1
Pin
2
Description
PRO0
PRO2
PRO4
PRO6
ACK-
3
4
5
PRO3
6
7
PRO5
8
9
PRO7
10
12
14
16
18
20
22
24
26
11
13
15
17
19
21
23
25
BUSY
PE
SLCT
AFD-
ERR-
INT-
SLIN-
Ground
I/O Ground
Ground
Ground
N/C
Ground
Ground
Ground
Ground
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B2.<Memory Address Map>
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B3.<System IRQ & DMA Resources>
DMA :
IRQ :
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Appedix C <Flash BIOS>
C.1 BIOS Auto Flash Tool
The board is based on Award BIOS and can be updated easily by the BIOS auto flash
tool. You can download the tool online at the address below:
File name of the tool is “awdflash.exe”, it’s the utility that can write the data into the BIOS
flash ship and update the BIOS.
C.2 Flash Method
1. Please make a bootable floppy disk.
2. Get the last .bin files you want to update and copy it into the disk.
3. Copy awardflash.exe to the disk.
4. Power on the system and flash the BIOS. (Example: C:/ awardflash XXX.bin)
5. Re-star the system.
Any question about the BIOS re-flash please contact your distributors or visit the
web-site at below:
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Appendix D <Programming GPIO’s>
The GPIO can be programmed with the MSDOS debug program using simple
IN/OUT commands.The following lines show an example how to do this.
GPIO0…..GPIO7 bit0……bit7
-o 2E 87
-o 2E 87
-o 2E 29
-o 2E 40
-o 2E 07
-o 2E 07
-o 2E F0
-o 2F xx
output
;enter configuration
;enale GPIO function
;enable GPIO configuration
;set GPIO as input/output; set ‘1’ for input,’0’for
-o 2E F1
-o 2F xx
;if set GPIO’s as output,in this register its value can
be set
Optional :
-o 2E F2
-o 2F xx
; Data inversion register ; ‘1’ inverts the current valus
of the bits ,’0’ leaves them as they are
-o 2E 30
-o 2F 01
; active GPIO’s
For further information ,please refer to Winbond W83627THF datasheet.
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Appendix E <What Dog timer Setting >
The watchdog timer makes the system auto-reset while it stops to work for a period. The
integrated watchdog timer can be setup as system reset mode by program.
Timeout Value Range
- 1 to 255
- Second or Minute
Program Sample
Watchdog timer setup as system reset with 5 second of timeout
2E, 87
2E, 87
2E, 07
2F, 08
2E, 30
2F, 01
2E, F5
2F, 00
2E, F6
2F, 05
Logical Device 8
Activate
Set as Second*
Set as 5
* Minute: bit 3 = 0; Second: bit 3 = 1
You can select Timer setting in the BIOS, after setting the time options, the system will
reset according to the period of your selection.
Programming GPIO’s
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