Epson ACTIONPC 5000 User Manual

NEW EPSON ActionPC 5000, ActionTower 5000

speed light

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inlet

power lightpower light

AC outlet

hard

diskhard disk

I

diskette drive

MOUSE

drive baysdrive bays

COM2

reset buttonreset button

button

VGA

Computer Specifications

CPU and Memory

32-bit CPU

Green PC

energy saver

System speed

486SX/25 or /33; SX2/50 or /66;
DX/33, /40, or /50; DX2/50 or /66;
DX4/75 or /100; or Pentium™OverDrive™
processor

Energy Star compliant, low-power,

standby mode for the hard disk drive and

video signals

sent

monitor; select timeout periods in SETUP;
in a standard

configuration

disk drive and one diskette drive,
consumes less than 30 watts in standby
mode

Fast and slow processor speeds available;
fast is the speed of your processor and
slow is 8 MHz; 0 wait state memory access
at fast speed

Press

Ctrl Alt

and - to select slow speed or

Ctrl Alt

and + to select fast speed

by the computer to the

of one hard

system

power

option skits

power light

speed light

hard disk

access light

drive bays

PARALLEL

COM1

MOUSE
Km

Memory

ROM

Video RAM

Shadow RAM

Memory
relocation

4MB or 8MB RAM standard on a SIMM;
expandable to 64MB using 1MB, 2MB,
4MB, 8MB, 16MB, and 32MB SIMMs;

SIMMs must be tin-plated, 72-pin, 32-bit
or 36-bit, fast-page mode type with an
access speed of 70ns or faster

128KB Phoenix@ system BIOS, video BIOS,
and SETUP program located in EPROM

on main system board

1MB DRAM on main system board;
expandable to 2MB using eight,

4 x 4 x 256, 20-pin DIP chips

Supports shadowing of system and video
BIOS ROM into RAM

Supports relocation of 256KB of memory
from A0000h to BFFFFh and D0000h to
EFFFFh to extended

memory

AC &let\

AC Inlet

voltage switch

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Cache

Math
coprocessor

Clock/
calendar

Controllers

Video

Diskette

Hard disk

Interfaces

Monitor

Parallel

Serial

Keyboard

Mouse

Optional game
port

8KB of internal cache; supports 64KB,
128KB, or 256KB of external cache using
28-pin, 8 x 8 or 32 x 8, 20ns DIP chips; in
486DX/50 or Pentium OverDrive systems,
use a 15ns tag chip.

Math coprocessor built into the
microprocessor for DX, DX2, DX4, and
Pentium OverDrive systems

Contained in the 82C491 system controller
chip along with 64 bytes of CMOS RAM,
backed up by a soldered NiCad
rechargeable battery

Cirrus Logic GD5428 high-speed, super
VGA local bus controller with True Color”

support; provides resolutions up to
1280 x 1024 in 256 colors; True Color
support in the 640 x 480 resolution

Controller on main system board supports
up to two diskette drives or one diskette
drive and a tape drive

Energy Star compliant, high-speed, 32-bit
local bus IDE interface on main system
board supports up to two IDE hard disk
drives with built-in controller; BIOS
provides hard disk auto-sensing function

Energy Star compliant VGA interface for
fixed or multi-frequency monitor built into

system

board; 15-pin, D-shell

connector

One standard, 8-bit, parallel,
unidirectional or bidirectional interface
built into main system board; 25-pin,
D-shell connector; operation controllable
by SETUP option

Two RS-232C, programmable,

asynchronous interfaces built into main
system board; 9-pin, D-shell connectors

PS/2 compatible keyboard interface built

into main system board; 6-pin, mini DIN
connector

PS/2 compatible mouse interface built
into main system board; 6-pin mini DIN
connector

Optional 10-pin game port interface on

system board; can control joy-stick
functions with the addition of a port
connector

Option slots

Action PC:

Connector card with five 16-bit, ISA
compatible expansion slots; three
full-length and two half-length; two of the
full-length slots are also VESA local bus
compatible

ActionTower:

Connector card with five full-length,

16-bit, I/O expansion slots; ISA
compatible; two of the full-length slots are
also VESA local bus compatible

Speaker Internal

Mass Storage ActionPC:

Internal mount:
One

3%~inch

Externally accessible mounts:

One 3

&nch

and two

ActionTower:

Front internal mount:

One 3*h-inch wide, half-height drive

Rear

internal mounts:

Two

3%+inch

one

31/1-inch

Externally accessible mounts:

Two 31&inch wide, third-height drives

and two

Diskette drive
types

3.5-inch diskette drive, 720KB or 1.44MB
storage capacity; 5.25-inch diskette drive,

360KB or 1.2MB storage capacity; or
combination 3.5-inch/5.25-inch diskette
drive

Hard disk drive
types

5!&inch or

drive(s), up to half-height size; maximum
of two drives

Other devices

Half-height tape drive, CD-ROM drive,

optical drive, or other storage device;

5%nch,

Keyboard

Detachable, two-position height; 101 or
102 sculpted keys; country-dependent
main typewriter keyboard; numeric/
cursor control keypad; four-key cursor
control keypad; 12 function keys

Mouse

Detachable, two-button, PS/2 compatible

wide, one-inch high drive

wide, one-inch high drive

5%+inch

wide, half-height drives

wide, half-height drives or

wide, full-height drive

5’/4-inch

or

wide, half-height drives

3lh-inch

3%nch

form factor hard disk

with mounting frames

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SETUP Program

System security

Stored in ROM; accessible by pressing F2
during boot

User and Supervisor level passwords
(8 characters) available for system boot or

Virus protection

diskette
Write protection feature for the

access

drive boot sector; periodic reminder
message for running virus detection utility

Physical Characteristics

Dimension
Width
Depth
Height

1

Weight
*

With one diskette drive, without keyboard

ActionPC

16.8 inches (427 mm)

15.8 inches (401 mm)

4.4 inches (112 mm)

1

17.4 pounds (7.9 kg)*

ActionTower

7.125 inches (181 mm)

16.25 inches (413 mm)

13.25 inches (337 mm)

1

16.7 pounds (7.6 kg)*

Power Supply

Type

Input ranges 90-130 VAC or 180-260 VAC;

Maximum
outputs

Frequency
Cables

Option slot power limits

Output Voltage (MC) I

For all slots

200 Watt, UL/TUV/CSA listed, fan-cooled

switch-selectable

+5

VDC at 20 Amps, -5 VDC at 0.5 Amps

+12 VDC at 8 Amps, -12 VDC at 0.5 Amps
47 to 63Hz
Two to main system board, five to mass

storage devices; for more than five
devices, Y cables can be installed on the
existing cables

+5 Volts

I 12 Amps

-5 volts

+12 volts

I0.4~mp I4.0~mps I0.4Amp

hard

disk

-12 votts

Major Subassemblies

The following diagrams illustrate the major subassemblies in
the ActionPC 5000 and ActionTower 5000 systems.

ActionPC

1

sockets

tag RAM

external
cache
sockets

VESA

connector

ActionTower

option card
connector
board

-H
*

Jr-

microprocessor

1

external
cache sockets

0

drive

bracket

\

SIMM
sockets

mounting

I

video
memory
sockets

power
supply

I

drive bays

Environmental Requirements

Condition

Temperature

1

Humidity

1

(non-condensing)

1

Altitude

Maximum wet bulb

Operating range range
41° to 90°F

1

(5° to 32° C)

I 20% to 90% I 10% to 90%

I

1

(-20° to 60° C)1 (-20° to 60° C)

Non-operating

-4° to 140°F -4° to 140°F

Storage range

10% to 90% I

1

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drive bays

SIMM sockets

power
supply

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System Board Components

The diagram below illustrates the components on the ActionPC 5000/ActionTower 5000 system board. The table following it
describes these components.

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CN18

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