ASUS Eee pc 4g 701 Service Manual Chapter-06

Software Specification

Chapter

Software Specifications

Get to know more about the Eee PC 4G (701) Notebook with a detailed look at the software
specifications.

he information contained in the chapter can be quite useful when you are

troubleshooting the system’s hardware. Each item has its individual usage for you to

T

Understand the software side of the notebook’s arc hitecture.

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1. General Description

The specification is a guideline for BIOS development on 701 platforms. Anyone who needed
the system BIOS information can check this document for reference.

The general device specification, hardware block diagram, SMBUS, GPIO definition and so on
are subjected to be depicted in this document. Hotkeys implementation and other BIOS features
are also included in the document.

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2. CPU, Chipsets & Main Devices

Item Vendor Specification Part’s Name Revision

CPU
North Bridge
South Bridge

INTEL
INTEL 910GML
INTEL ICH6M

VGA
HD Controller
Audio Codec
USB
Lan
Flash memory
Clock Gen.
Thermal

Internal
REALTEK ALC662
INTEL
Athros L2
DDR2

ICS

EC ENE

Wireless Lan

Atheros

Dothan

single core

Internal

ICS9LR367

KB3310
AR5006X

Camera

Azure Wave AZWAVE

CardReader PANASONIC ICS9LPR426AGLF-T

modem Askey AFM6010NAM

Table 2-1 Chipsets

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Main component block diagram:

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3. Device resources

3.1 Subsystem and Sub vendor ID of PCI Devices

Device Bus/Dev/

Func

Function Vendor

ID

Device
ID

Sub-Vendor
ID

Sub-System
ID

INTEL 0,0,0 Host Bridge 0x8086 0x2590 0x1043 0x1882

0.2.0 VGA 0x8086 0x2592 0x1043 0x1882

0.31.2 IDE controller 0x8086 0x2653 0x1043 0x8290

Realtek 0.27.0 Audio controller 0x8086 0x2668 0x1043 0x82A1

Athros 3.0.0 LAN 0x1969 0x2048 0x1969 0x2048

Table3-1

3.2 Devices I/O Base

Table3.2 IO Base Address

Devices Base Address

ACPI Power Management 0x800

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4. Specified Function Tables

The Specified Functions are controlled via General Purpose Pins of Chipsets, following tables
are the definition of The Functions which controlled via the GPIO pins of South-Bridge
(ICH6M).

Table 4-1. SB ICH6M GPIO Definition

GPIO# Definition I/O Active

Polarity

Description

7

8
12
13

19
21
23
24

S_GPI7

KBC_SCI#
S_GPI12
EXTSMI#

WLAN_LED#
CAMERA_EN#

SPEAKER_EN#
MINICARD_EN

#

25
26

27

WLAN_ON#
S_GPI26

CARD_READE

R_EN#

28
29
30
31

MODEM_EN#
PCBVER0
S_GPI30
PCBVER1

Input EC THRO_CPU
Input Low Level SCI Event

Input Detect LID level
Input Low Level SMI event

Output High Level Wireless Lan LED
Output High Level Camera Enable
Output Low Level Speaker Enable
Output Low Level Minicard Enable

Output Low Level Wireless Lan Enable
Input Detect PCB Version

Output Low Level Card Read Enable

Output High Level Modem Enable
Input Detect PCB Version
Input Detect PCB Version
Input Detect PCB Version

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