Samsung PCA-6189 User Manual

PCA-6189

Full-sized PCI/ISA-bus socket
479 Pentium® M/ Celeron® M
processor-based CPU card

User’s Manual

Copyright Notice

This document is copyrighted, 2005, by Advantech Co., Ltd. All rights
are reserved. Advantech Co., Ltd. reserves the right to make improve­ments to the products described in this manual at any time without notice.
No part of this manual may be reproduced, copied, translated or transmit­ted in any form or by any means without the prior written permission of
Advantech Co., Ltd. Information provided in this manual is intended to
be accurate and reliable. However, Advantech Co., Ltd. assumes no
responsibility for its use, nor for any infringements upon the rights of
third parties which may result from its use.
Acknowledgements

•AWARD is a trademark of Phoenix Technologies Ltd.

•IBM and PC are trademarks of International Business Machines Corpo­ration.

•Intel®, Pentium® M / Celeron® M are trademarks of Intel Corporation.

•WinBond is a trademark of Winbond Corporation.
All other product names or trademarks are the properties of their respec­tive owners.

Part No. 2002618900 4th Edition

Printed in Taiwan March 2005

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1.0.1 A Message to the Customer

Advantech customer services

Each and every Advantech product is built to the most exacting specifica­tions to ensure reliable performance in the harsh and
demanding conditions typical of industrial environments. Whether your
new Advantech equipment is destined for the laboratory or the factory
floor, you can be assured that your product will provide the reliability and
ease of operation for which the name Advantech has come to be known.
Your satisfaction is our primary concern. Here is a guide to
Advantech’s customer services. To ensure you get the full benefit of our
services, please follow the instructions below carefully.

Technical support

We want you to get the maximum performance from your products. So if
you run into technical difficulties, we are here to help. For the most fre­quently asked questions, you can easily find answers in your product doc­umentation. These answers are normally a lot more detailed than the ones
we can give over the phone.

So please consult this manual first. If you still cannot find the answer,
gather all the information or questions that apply to your problem, and
with the product close at hand, call your dealer. Our dealers are well
trained and ready to give you the support you need to get the most from
your Advantech products. In fact, most problems reported are minor and
are able to be easily solved over the phone.

In addition, free technical support is available from Advantech engineers
every business day. We are always ready to give advice on application
requirements or specific information on the installation and operation of
any of our products.

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Yes Yes Yes Yes

Table 1.1: PCA-6189 comparison table

Model PCA-6189VE-00A2 PCA-6189VG-00A2 PCA-6189G2-00A2 PCA-6189F-00A2

VGA: Intel 855GME

integrated

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Yes No No No

USB 2.0 port 2 2 4 4

LAN 1: Intel

82551QM 10/

100Base-T

No Yes Ye s Yes

LAN 1: Intel 82541

10/100/1000Base-T

No No Yes Yes

LAN 2: Intel 82541

10/100/1000Base-T

No No No Yes

Dual Channel Ultra

160 SCSI: Adaptec

7899

Table 1.2: PCA-6189 DDR memory compatibility table

Vendor Size Speed Type ECC Model Memory

Apacer 256MB DDR266 DDR N 77.10603

.112

Kingston 256MB DDR266 DDR N NA Nanya

256MB DDR266 DDR N "KVR256

X64C25/
256

Infineon
HYB25D25680B
T-7(32×8)

NT5DS32MBAT­6

"Kingston
D328DM­60(32×8)

512MB DDR266 DDR N KVR266

X64C25/
512

512MB DDR266 DDR N 9905006-

30.A00

Apacer 512MB DDR333 DDR N NA SAMSUNG

Transcend 256MB DDR333 DDR N TS32ML

Samsung
(DSL)

Kingston 512MB DDR333 DDR N KVR333

Apacer 512MB DDR400 DDR N 77.10736

Transcend 256MB DDR400 DDR N TS32ML

256MB DDR333 DDR N NA SAMSUNG

512MB DDR333 DDR N NA Nanya

512MB DDR400 DDR N TS64ML

D64V3F5

X64C25/
512

.19G

D64V4F3

D64V4F3

Kingston
D328DL­60(32×8)

Kingston
D328DP-75

K4H560838C­TCB3(32×8)

SAMSUNG
K4H560838D­TCB3(32×8)

K4H560838F­TCB3(32×8)

Kingston
D328DM­60(32×8)

NT5DS32MBAT­6

Infineon
HYB25D256807
BT-5(32×8)

MOSEL
V58C2256804SA
T5(32×8)

SAMSUNG
K4H560838F­TCCC(32×8)

Sam­sung(DSL)

Kingston 256MB DDR400 DDR N KVR400

UG 1GB DDR266 DDR N NA Hynix

Apacer 512MB DDR333 DDR N 77.10728

DSL 512MB DDR333 DDR N NA SAMSUNG

Transcend 1GB DDR333 DDR N NA SAMSUNG

Apacer 256MB DDR400 DDR N 77.10636

512MB DDR400 DDR N NA SAMSUNG

K4H560838F­TCCC(32×8)

Hynix
X64C3/
256

.56G

1GB DDR333 DDR N NA SAMSUNG

.115

256MB DDR400 DDR N 77.10636

.465

512MB DDR400 DDR N 77.10736

.114

512MB DDR400 DDR N 77.10736

.56G

512MB DDR400 DDR N 77.10736

.464

1GB DDR400 DDR N 77.11136

.464

HY5DU56822BT-

D43(32×8)

HY5DU128822A

T-H

Mosel

V58C2256804SA

T5B

K4H560838F-

TCB3

K4H510838B-

TCB3

K4H560438E-

TCB3

Infineon

HYB25D256800

BT-5

SAMSUNG

K4H560838E-

TCCC

Infineon

HYB25D256800

BT-5

Mosel

V58C2256804SA

T5B

SAMSUNG

K4H560838E-

TCCC

SAMSUNG

K4H510838B-

TCCC

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DSL 256MB DDR400 DDR N NA Hynix

HY5DU56822BT-

D43

256MB DDR400 DDR N NA SAMSUNG

K4H560838E-

TCCC

Kingston 256MB DDR400 DDR N KVR400

X72C3A/
256

Transcend 1GB DDR400 DDR N NA SAMSUNG

Apacer 512MB DDR333 DDR Y 77.10735

.114

512MB DDR333 DDR Y 77.10735

.464

1GB DDR333 DDR Y 77.11135

.464

Apacer 512MB DDR400 DDR Y 77.10738

.114

1GB DDR400 DDR Y 77.11138

.464

UG 512MB DDR400 DDR Y NA Hynix

Transcend 256MB DDR400 DDR Y NA Mosel

512MB DDR400 DDR Y NA Mosel

* PCA-6189 only supports DDR333 RAM. If DDR400 RAM is used, it will operate at the
speed of DDR333

Hynix

HY5DU56822CT

-D43

K4H510838B-

TCCC

Infineon

HYB25D256800

BT-6

SAMSUNG

K4H560838E-

TCB3

SAMSUNG

K4H510838B-

TCB3

Infineon

HYB25D256800

BT-5

SAMSUNG

K4H510838B-

TCCC

HY5DU56822CT

-D43

V58C22568004S

AT5

V58C22568004S

AT5

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1.0.1 Product warranty

Advantech warrants to you, the original purchaser, that each of its prod­ucts will be free from defects in materials and workmanship for two years
from the date of purchase.

This warranty does not apply to any products which have been repaired or
altered by persons other than repair personnel authorized by Advantech,
or which have been subject to misuse, abuse, accident or improper instal­lation. Advantech assumes no liability under the terms of this warranty as
a consequence of such events.

If an Advantech product is defective, it will be repaired or replaced at no
charge during the warranty period. For out-of-warranty repairs, you will
be billed according to the cost of replacement materials, service time and
freight. Please consult your dealer for more details.

If you think you have a defective product, follow these steps:

Step 1. Collect all the information about the problem encountered. (For

example, type of PC, CPU speed, Advantech products used,
other hardware and software used, etc.) Note anything abnormal
and list any on-screen messages you get when the problem
occurs.

Step 2. Call your dealer and describe the problem. Please have your man-

ual, product, and any helpful information readily available.

Step 3. If your product is diagnosed as defective, obtain an RMA (return

material authorization) number from your dealer. This allows us
to process your return more quickly.

Step 4. Carefully pack the defective product, a fully-completed Repair

and Replacement Order Card and a photocopy proof of purchase
date (such as your sales receipt) in a shippable container. A prod­uct returned without proof of the purchase date is not eligible for
warranty service.

Step 5. Write the RMA number visibly on the outside of the package and

ship it prepaid to your dealer.

1.0.2 Initial Inspection

Before you begin installing your single board computer, please make sure
that the following materials have been shipped:

1 PCA-6189 Pentium® M / Celeron® M processor-based single board
computer

1 PCA-6189 Startup Manual

1 CD with driver utility and manual (in PDF format)

1 FDD cable P/N: 1700340640

2 Ultra ATA 100 HDD cables P/N: 1701400452

2 Serial ATA HDD data cable P/N: 1700071000

2 Serial ATA HDD power cable P/N: 1703150102

1 ATX 12V power converter cable P/N: 170304015K

1 Printer (parallel) port & COM port cable kit P/N: 1701260305

1 Y cable for PS/2 keyboard and PS/2 mouse P/N: 1700060202

1 DVI cable P/N: 1700000821

1 Two USB ports cable P/N: 1700100170

1 Heat sink and fan P/N: 1960001631

If any of these items are missing or damaged, contact your distributor or
sales representative immediately.

We have carefully inspected the PCA-6189 mechanically and electrically
before shipment. It should be free of marks and scratches and in perfect
working order upon receipt.

As you unpack the PCA-6189, check it for signs of shipping damage.
(For example, damaged box, scratches, dents, etc.) If it is damaged or it
fails to meet the specifications, notify our service department or your
local sales representative immediately. Also notify the carrier. Retain the
shipping carton and packing material for inspection by the carrier. After
inspection, we will make arrangements to repair or replace the unit

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1.0.3 Release Note

Date Revision Description

December 2004 1st. Edition Initial Release

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Important Safety Information

SAFETY INSTRUCTIONS

This device complies with the requirements in part 15 of the FCC rules: Operation is sub­ject to the following two conditions:

1. This device may not cause harmful interference, and

2. This device must accept any interference received, including interference
that may cause undesired operation

This equipment has been tested and found to comply with the limits for a Class A digital
device, pursuant to Part 15 of the FCC Rules. These limits are designed to provide rea­sonable protection against harmful interference when the equipment is operated in a
commercial environment. This equipment generates, uses, and can radiate radio fre­quency energy and, if not installed and used in accordance with the instruction manual,
may cause harmful interference to radio communications. Operation of this device in a
residential area is likely to cause harmful interference in which case the user will be
required to correct the interference at his/her own expense. The user is advised that any
equipment changes or modifications not expressly approved by the party responsible for
compliance would void the compliance to FCC regulations and therefore, the user's
authority to operate the equipment.

CAUTION!!

There is a danger of a new battery exploding if it is incorrectly installed. Do not
attempt to recharge, force open, or heat the battery. Replace the battery only with
the same or equivalent type recommended by the manufacturer. Discard used bat­teries according to the manufacturer’s instructions.

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Contents

Chapter 1 Hardware Configuration .................................2

1.1 Introduction ....................................................................... 2

1.2 Features ............................................................................. 3

1.3 Specifications .................................................................... 3

1.3.1 System............................................................................. 3

1.3.2 Memory........................................................................... 4

1.3.3 Input/Output .................................................................... 4

1.3.4 VGA interface................................................................. 4

1.3.5 Ethernet LAN.................................................................. 5

1.3.6 Ultra 160 SCSI................................................................ 5

1.3.7 Industrial features ........................................................... 5

1.3.8 Mechanical and environmental specifications................ 5

1.4 Jumpers and Connectors.................................................... 5

Table 1.1:Jumpers ........................................................... 6

Table 1.2:Connectors...................................................... 6

Table 1.3:SCSI Daughter Board Connectors.................. 7

Table 1.4: On Board Switch ........................................... 7

1.5 Board Layout: Jumper and Connector Location ............... 8

Figure 1.1:Jumper and Connector locations ................... 8

Figure 1.2:I/O Connectors .............................................. 9

Figure 1.3:SCSI daughter board ..................................... 9

1.6 PCA-6189 Block Diagram .............................................. 10

Figure 1.4:Block Diagram ............................................ 10

1.7 Safety Precautions ........................................................... 11

1.8 Jumper Settings ............................................................... 12

1.8.1 How to set jumpers ....................................................... 12

1.8.2 CMOS clear (J1) ........................................................... 12

Table 1.5:CMOS (J1).................................................... 12

1.8.3 Watchdog timer output (J2) .......................................... 12

Table 1.6:Watchdog timer output (J2).......................... 13

1.9 System Memory .............................................................. 13

1.9.1 CPU FSB and memory speed ....................................... 14

Table 1.7:CPU FSB and memory speed ....................... 14

1.10 Memory Installation Procedures ..................................... 14

1.11 Processor Installation ...................................................... 14

Chapter 2 Connecting Peripherals .................................18

2.1 Introduction ..................................................................... 18

2.2 1st & 2nd (CN1, CN2) IDE Connectors ......................... 18

2.3 Floppy Drive Connector (CN3)....................................... 19

2.4 Parallel Port (CN4).......................................................... 20

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2.5 USB Ports CN6, CN31, and CN32 ................................. 21

2.6 VGA Connector CN7 ...................................................... 22

2.7 LVDS connector VCN2 .................................................. 22

2.8 DVI connector VCN3...................................................... 23

2.9 Ethernet Connector (CN8 and CN34) ............................. 23

2.10 Serial Ports (COM1 : CN9; COM2 : CN10 ) .................. 24

2.11 PS/2 Keyboard/Mouse Connector (CN11/CN33) ........... 24

2.12 External Keyboard Connector (CN12)............................ 25

2.13 CPU Fan Connector (CN14) ........................................... 25

2.14 Front Panel Connectors (CN16, 17, 18, 19, 21&29) ....... 26

2.14.1 Power LED (CN16) ...................................................... 26

2.14.2 External speaker (CN17) .............................................. 26

2.14.3 Reset (CN18) ................................................................ 27

2.14.4 HDD LED (CN19)........................................................ 27

2.14.5 ATX soft power switch (CN21).................................... 27

2.14.6 SM Bus Connector (CN29)........................................... 27

2.15 ATX feature connector (CN20)....................................... 28

2.16 AC-97 Audio interface (CN43)....................................... 28

2.17 Serial ATA interface (SA0 and SA1).............................. 29

2.18 Connecting to SNMP-1000 remote manager .................. 29

2.19 Auxiliary 4-pin power connector (ATX1) ...................... 30

Chapter 3 Award BIOS Setup.........................................32

3.1 Introduction ..................................................................... 32

3.1.1 CMOS RAM Auto-backup and Restore ....................... 32

3.2 Entering Setup ................................................................. 33

Figure 3.1:Award BIOS Setup initial screen ................ 33

3.3 Standard CMOS Setup .................................................... 33

Figure 3.2:Standard CMOS features screen ................. 33

3.4 Advanced BIOS Features ................................................ 34

Figure 3.3:Advanced BIOS features screen.................. 34

3.4.1 CPU Features ................................................................ 34

3.4.2 Hard Disk Boot Priority................................................ 34

3.4.3 Virus Warning............................................................... 34

3.4.4 CPU L1 & L2 Cache, CPU L3 Cache .......................... 34

3.4.5 Quick Power On Self Test ............................................ 35

3.4.6 First/Second/Third Boot Device .................................. 35

3.4.7 Boot Other Device ........................................................ 35

3.4.8 Swap Floppy Drive ...................................................... 35

3.4.9 Boot UP Floppy Seek ................................................... 35

3.4.10 Boot Up NumLock Status............................................. 35

3.4.11 Gate A20 Option........................................................... 35

3.4.12 Typematic Rate Setting................................................. 35

3.4.13 Typematic Rate (Chars/Sec) ......................................... 35

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3.4.14 Typematic Delay (msec) ............................................... 35

3.4.15 Security Option ............................................................. 36

3.4.16 APIC Mode................................................................... 36

3.4.17 MPS Version Control For OS ....................................... 36

3.4.18 OS Select For DRAM > 64MB .................................... 36

3.4.19 Report No FDD For WIN 95 ........................................ 36

3.4.20 Small Logo(EPA) Show ............................................... 36

3.5 Advanced Chipset Features............................................. 37

Figure 3.4:Advanced chipset features screen ............... 37

3.5.1 DRAM Timing Selectable ............................................ 37

3.5.2 CAS Latency Time ....................................................... 37

3.5.3 Active to Precharge Delay ............................................ 37

3.5.4 DRAM RAS# to CAS# Delay ..................................... 38

3.5.5 DRAM RAS# Precharge............................................... 38

3.5.6 DRAM Data Integrity Mode......................................... 38

3.5.7 System BIOS Cacheable............................................... 38

3.5.8 Video Bios Cacheable................................................... 38

3.5.9 Memory Hole At 15M-16M ......................................... 38

3.5.10 Delayed Transaction ..................................................... 38

3.5.11 Delay Prior to Thermal ................................................. 38

3.5.12 AGP Aperture Size (MB) ............................................. 39

3.5.13 Init Display First .......................................................... 39

3.5.14 On-Chip VGA............................................................... 39

3.5.15 On-Chip Frame Buffer Size.......................................... 39

3.5.16 Boot display .................................................................. 39

3.5.17 Panel Number ............................................................... 39

3.6 Integrated Peripherals...................................................... 40

Figure 3.5:Integrated peripherals .................................. 40

3.7 On-chip IDE Device........................................................ 40

Figure 3.6:On-Chip IDE Device ................................... 40

3.7.1 IDE DMA transfer access ............................................. 40

3.7.2 On-Chip IDE Device .................................................... 41

3.7.3 On-Chip Serial ATA ..................................................... 41

3.7.4 Serial ATA Port0/Port1 Mode ...................................... 41

3.7.5 IDE HDD Block Mode ................................................. 41

3.8 Onboard Device Menu .................................................... 41

Figure 3.7:Onboard Device........................................... 41

3.8.1 USB Controller ............................................................. 42

3.8.2 USB 2.0 Controller ....................................................... 42

3.8.3 USB Keyboard/Mouse Support .................................... 42

3.8.4 AC97 Audio .................................................................. 42

3.8.5 On-board LAN1 Control............................................... 42

3.8.6 On-board LAN2 Control............................................... 42

3.9 SuperIO Device ............................................................... 42

Figure 3.8:SuperIO Device ........................................... 42

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3.9.1 On-board FDC Controller ............................................. 43

3.9.2 On-board Serial Port 1 .................................................. 43

3.9.3 On-board Serial Port 2 .................................................. 43

3.9.4 UART Mode Select ...................................................... 43

3.9.5 RxD, TxD Active .......................................................... 43

3.9.6 IR Transmission Delay ................................................. 43

3.9.7 UR2 Duplex Mode ........................................................ 43

3.9.8 Use IR Pins ................................................................... 43

3.9.9 On-board Parallel Port .................................................. 43

3.9.10 Parallel Port Mode ........................................................ 43

3.9.11 EPP Mode Select .......................................................... 44

3.9.12 ECP Mode Use DMA ................................................... 44

3.9.13 PWRON After PWR-FAIL........................................... 44

3.10 Power Management Setup............................................... 44

Figure 3.9:Power management setup screen (1)........... 44

3.10.1 ACPI function ............................................................... 44

3.10.2 Power Management ...................................................... 44

3.10.3 Video Off Method......................................................... 45

3.10.4 Video Off In Suspend .................................................. 45

3.10.5 Suspend Type................................................................ 45

3.10.6 Modem Use IRQ........................................................... 45

3.10.7 Soft-Off by PWR-BTTN .............................................. 45

3.10.8 CPU THRM-Throttling................................................. 45

3.10.9 Power On by LAN ........................................................ 46

3.10.10 Power On by Modem .................................................... 46

3.10.11 Power On by Alarm ...................................................... 46

3.10.12 Primary IDE (0,1) and Secondary IDE (0,1) ................ 46

3.10.13 FDD, COM, LPT PORT ............................................... 46

3.10.14 PCI PIRQ [A-D]# ........................................................ 46

3.11 PnP/PCI Configurations .................................................. 46

Figure 3.10:PnP/PCI configurations screen.................. 46

3.11.1 PNP OS Installed .......................................................... 47

3.11.2 Reset Configuration Data.............................................. 47

3.11.3 Resources Controlled By .............................................. 47

3.11.4 PCI/VGA Palette Snoop ............................................... 47

3.12 PC Health Status.............................................................. 47

3.12.1 CPU Warning Temperature .......................................... 47

Figure 3.11:PC health status screen .............................. 47

3.12.2 Current System Temp ................................................... 48

3.12.3 Current CPU Temperature ............................................ 48

3.12.4 Current CPUFAN Speed............................................... 48

3.12.5 VCORE, VBAT(V), 5VSB(V) ..................................... 48

3.12.6 Shutdown Temperature................................................. 48

3.13 Frequency/Voltage Control ............................................. 48

Figure 3.12:Spread Spectrum Control screen ............... 48

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3.13.1 Auto-detect PCI CLK ................................................... 48

3.13.2 Spread Spectrum ........................................................... 48

3.14 Passwords and Settings ................................................... 49

3.14.1 Load Setup Defaults...................................................... 49

3.14.2 Set Supervisor Password............................................... 49

3.14.3 Set User Password ........................................................ 49

3.14.4 Save & Exit Setup......................................................... 49

3.14.5 Exit Without Saving...................................................... 49

Chapter 4 Chipset Software Install Utility.....................52

4.1 Before you begin ............................................................. 52

4.2 Introduction ..................................................................... 52

4.3 Windows XP Driver Setup .............................................. 53

Chapter 5 VGA Setup ......................................................58

5.1 Introduction ..................................................................... 58

5.2 Dynamic Video Memory Technology (DVMT) ............. 58

5.3 Windows XP Driver Setup .............................................. 59

Chapter 6 LAN Configuration ........................................64

6.1 Introduction ..................................................................... 64

6.2 Features ........................................................................... 64

6.3 Installation....................................................................... 65

6.4 Win XP Driver Setup (Intel 82541/82551) ..................... 65

Chapter 7 SCSI Setup & Configuration.........................70

7.1 Introduction ..................................................................... 70

7.2 Understanding SCSI....................................................... 71

7.3 SCSI IDs.......................................................................... 71

7.4 Terminating the SCSI Bus............................................ 72

7.5 Configuring the SCSI interface with SCSISelect............ 73

7.6 Starting SCSISelect ........................................................ 75

7.7 Using SCSI Disk Utilities ............................................... 79

7.8 Installation under Windows 2000 .................................. 80

7.9 Windows 9X Driver setup procedure.......................... 80

Chapter 8 USB 2.0 Configuration...................................86

8.1 Introduction ..................................................................... 86

8.2 Features ........................................................................... 86

8.3 Installation....................................................................... 86

Chapter 9 Onboard Security Setup ................................88

9.1 Introduction ..................................................................... 88

9.2 Windows XP Driver Setup .............................................. 89

9.3 Using the OBS Hardware Doctor Utility ........................ 91

Chapter 10 SATA RAID Setup .........................................94

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10.1 Introduction ..................................................................... 94

10.2 Entering Setup ................................................................. 94

Figure 10.1:RAID Setup initial screen ......................... 94

10.3 Array Configuration Utility............................................. 95

Figure 10.2:SATA RAID Setup Main Menu screen..... 95

10.3.1 Managing Arrays .......................................................... 95

10.3.2 Creating Arrays............................................................. 96

10.3.3 Adding/Removing a Bootable Array ............................ 96

10.3.4 Add/Delete Hotspares ................................................... 96

10.3.5 Initializing Disk Drives................................................. 96

10.3.6 Rebuilding Arrays......................................................... 97

10.4 Installing the driver ......................................................... 97

Appendix A Programming the watchdog .......................100

A.1 Programming the Watchdog Timer ............................... 100

A.1.1 Watchdog timer overview........................................... 100

A.1.2 Reset/ Interrupt selection ............................................ 100

A.1.3 Programming the Watchdog Timer ............................ 100

A.1.4 Example Program ....................................................... 103

Appendix B Pin Assignments ..........................................110

B.1 IDE Hard Drive Connector (CN1, CN2)....................... 110

Table B.1:IDE hard drive connector (CN1, CN2)...... 110

B.2 Floppy Drive Connector (CN3)..................................... 111

Table B.2:Floppy drive connector (CN3)................... 111

B.3 Parallel Port Connector (CN4) ...................................... 112

Table B.3:Parallel port connector (CN4) .................... 112

B.4 USB Connector (CN6) .................................................. 113

Table B.4:USB1/USB2 connector (CN6)................... 113

B.5 VGA Connector (CN7) ................................................. 113

Table B.5:VGA connector (CN7) ............................... 113

B.6 VCN2 LVD connector .................................................. 114

Table B.6:VCN2 LVDS connector............................. 114

B.7 VCN3 DVI connector.................................................... 115

Table B.7:VCN3 DVI connector ................................ 115

B.8 COM1/COM2 RS-232 Serial Port (CN9, CN10).......... 115

Table B.8:COM1/2 RS-232 serial port (CN9/10)....... 115

B.9 PS/2 Keyboard/Mouse Connector (CN11).................... 116

Table B.9:PS/2 keyboard/mouse connector (CN11)... 116

B.10 External Keyboard Connector (CN12).......................... 116

Table B.10:External keyboard connector (CN12) ...... 116

B.11 Power LED (CN16)....................................................... 116

Table B.11: CPU Fan Power Connector (CN14)........ 116

B.12 Power LED (CN16)....................................................... 117

Table B.12:Power LED (CN16) ................................. 117

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B.13 External Speaker Connector (CN17)............................. 117

Table B.13:External Speaker Connector (CN17) ....... 117

B.14 Reset Connector (CN18) ............................................... 118

Table B.14:Reset connector (CN18)........................... 118

B.15 ATX Feature Connector (CN20)................................... 118

Table B.15:HDD LED connector (CN19) .................. 118

B.16 ATX Feature Connector (CN20)................................... 119

Table B.16:ATX Feature Connector (CN20) ............. 119

B.17 ATX Soft Power Switch (CN21) .................................. 119

Table B.17:ATX soft power switch (CN21)............... 119

B.18 H/W Monitor Alarm (CN22)......................................... 120

Table B.18:H/W Monitor alarm (CN22) .................... 120

B.19 SM Bus Connector (CN29) .......................................... 120

Table B.19:SM bus onnector (CN29) ......................... 120

B.20 Audio Interface (CN43) ................................................ 121

Table B.20:Audio Interface(CN 43) ........................... 121

B.21 LCD Inverter power connectore (VP1)......................... 121

Table B.21:LCD inverter power connector (CN 20) .. 121

B.22 System I/O Ports............................................................ 122

Table B.22:System I/O ports ...................................... 122

B.23 DMA Channel Assignments.......................................... 123

Table B.23:DMA channel assignments ...................... 123

B.24 Interrupt Assignments ................................................... 123

Table B.24:Interrupt assignments ............................... 123

B.25 1st MB Memory Map.................................................... 124

Table B.25:1st MB memory map ............................... 124

B.26 PCI Bus Map ................................................................. 124

Table B.26:PCI bus map ............................................. 124

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General Information

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Chapter 1 Hardware Configuration

1.1 Introduction

The PCA-6189 is designed with Intel® 855GME chipset and 6300ESB
(I/O controller) to support the Intel® Pentium® M / Celeron® M proces­sor, high speed DDR333 memory, and high performance I/O functions
such as dual Gigabit Ethernet ports, Serial/parallel ATA ports, and a PCI­X (64-bit / 66Mhz) bus. With the compliance with PICMG 1.0 specifica­tion, PCA-6189 can be used with wide choice of existing PCI/ISA back­planes to meet versatile requirements of industrial applications.

The PCA-6189 is designed to deliver high performance but low thermal
profile best for industrial embedded applications. It uses Intel's long-life
855GME and 6300ESB chipset, with the socket 479 it can supports vary
on the Pentium® M and Celeron® M processor by different applications.
It has 2 DIMM sockets and supports ECC (error checking and correction)
function for best reliability. It accepts up to 2GB DDR 333/266 SDRAM
memory, enough for most of applications. PCA-6189 could support dual
Giga LAN with the Gigabit Ethernet ports controller -- Intel® 82541
which is connected to the 32-bit PCI bus of the 6300ESB I/O controller.
With the 855GME integrated graphic controller PCA-6189 provides one
VGA display connector one LVDS and one DVI interface for panel dis­play. Two serial ATA ports (up to 150MB/s)which can support RAID 0,1
functions and allows the use of thin and long SATA cables for storage
devices, eliminating the cabling issue inside an industrial grade chassis.
In addition, the PCA-6189 also provides most of the popular I/O inter­faces such as four USB 2.0 ports, AC-97 audio interface, 2 RS-232 ports,
one enhanced parallel port and floppy disk interface.

The PCA-6189 is designed with reliability considerations to be suitable
for industrial environments. A specially designed heat-sink is attached to
the main chips to keep them cool and to extend the operating temperature
to 60 degree Celsius. The CMOS data backup and restore function pro­tects the BIOS setup data from loss due to battery failure. A 256-level
watchdog timer prevents the system from hanging up if a program cannot
be executed normally. A remote management port allows users to moni­tor the system healthy status and control the system remotely through the
standard SNMP/HTTP protocols when used with Advantech's SNMP­1000 Intelligent System Manager.

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Note: Some of the features mentioned above are not

available with all models. For more information
about the specifications of a particular model,
see Table 1.1 : Comparison table and Section

1.3: Specifications.

1.2 Features

1. Supports FSB 400 MHz low thermal profile Intel® Pentium® M
processor or Intel® Celeron® M processor

2. Supports 2 Serial-ATA devices with Software RAID 0 or 1 func­tions

3. Supports DDR 200/266/333 SDRAM up to 2GB

4. Optional onboard Adaptec AIC-7899 dual channel Ultra160 SCSI
up to 160MB/sec.

5. Onboard integrated VGA controller supports LVDS and DVI inter­face

6. 64-bit, 66MHz PCI-X

7. Supports 10/100/1000Base-T Ethernet

8. Remote management with SNMP-1000-B1

1.3 Specifications

1.3.1 System

• CPU: Intel® socket 479 Celeron® M up to 1.5 GHz, Pentium® M up

to 2.0 GHz, FSB 400 MHz

• L2 Cache: CPU built-in 512/1024/2048 KB full-speed L2 cache

• BIOS: Award Flash BIOS (4Mb Flash Memory)

• System Chipset: Intel 855GME + 6300ESB

• SATA/EIDE hard disk drive interface: Supports up to two indepen-

dent Serial ATA hard drives (up to 150MB/s) with software RAID 0 or
1 functions, as well as two IDE hard disk drives, or four enhanced IDE
devices. Supports PIO mode 4 (16.67 MB/s data transfer rate) and ATA
33/66/100 (33/66/100MB/s data transfer rate.)

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• Floppy disk drive interface: Supports up to two floppy disk drives,

5¼" (360 KB and 1.2 MB) and/or 3½" (720 KB, 1.44 MB). BIOS
enabled/disabled

1.3.2 Memory

• RAM: Up to 2 GB in two 184-pin DIMM sockets. Supports DDR266/

333 SDRAM

1.3.3 Input/Output

• Bus interface: PICMG 1.0 compliant PCI/ISA bus interface

• Enhanced parallel port: Configurable to LPT1, LPT2, LPT3, or dis-

abled. Standard DB-25 female connector provided. Supports EPP/SPP/
ECP

• Serial ports: Two RS-232 ports with 16C550 UARTs (or compatible)

with 16-byte FIFO buffer. Supports speeds up to 115.2 Kbps. Ports can
be individually configured to COM1, COM2 or disabled

• Keyboard and PS/2 mouse connector: One 6-pin mini-DIN connector

is located on the mounting bracket for easy connection to a keyboard or
PS/2 mouse. An on board keyboard pin header connector is also avail­able

• ISA bus: Supports ISA without DMA. PCI-to-ISA bridge: ITE IT8888

• AC-97 Audio: PCA-6189 can provide audio function with the optional

audio extension module PCA-AUDIO-00A1

• USB ports: PCA-6189 supports up to four USB 2.0 ports with trans-

mission rates up to 480Mbps; available on the I/O bracket (dual layer
brackets only) or through the two-USB-port cable (P/N: 1700100170)
for single layer version. With the dual layer versions, users can choose
between CN32 on the I/O bracket or the on-board connector CN6,
depending on their applications. For example, users can link CN6 to
the front side panel thru the USB cable. Please note that users can't use
CN32 on I/O bracket and CN6 at the same time. Users must set S1 and
S2 (on the back side of the CPU card) correctly for the USB port con­figuration they are using. Please refer to section 2.5 for switch settings.

1.3.4 VGA interface

• Controller: Intel 855GME chipset integrated

• Display memory: Share system memory up to 64 MB, BIOS selectable

• Resolution: VGA port: 2048 x 1536, up to 75 Hz

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LVDS connector, dual channel: 25 MHz to 112 MHz

DVI connector: 2048 x 1536, 75 MHz

1.3.5 Ethernet LAN

• Supports single 10/100Base-T networking or single/dual10/100/

1000Base-T Ethernet networking

• Controller:

• Single 10/100Base-T: Intel 82551QM

• Single 10/100/1000Base-T: Intel 82541GI(PCI)

• Dual 10/100/1000Base-T: Two Intel 82541GI (PCI)

1.3.6 Ultra 160 SCSI

• Provides dual channel Ultra 160 SCSI interface

• Chipset: Adaptec AIC7899

1.3.7 Industrial features

• Watchdog timer: Can generate a system reset or IRQ11. The watch-

dog timer is programmable, with each unit equal to one second or one
minute (255 levels). You can find programming detail in Appendix A

1.3.8 Mechanical and environmental specifications

• Operating temperature: 0° ~ 60° C (32° ~ 140° F, depending on CPU)

• Storage temperature: -20°~ 70° C (-4° ~ 158° F)

• Humidity: 20 ~ 95% non-condensing

• Power supply voltage: +5 V, ±12 V

• Power consumption: Typical : +5V:6.53A, +12V:4.57A (Intel Pen-

tium® M 1.8 GHz with 400 MHz FSB, 512 MB DDR 333 SDRAM)

• Board size: 338 x 122 mm (13.3" x 4.8")

• Board weight: 0.5 kg (1.2 lb)

1.4 Jumpers and Connectors

Connectors on the PCA-6189 single board computer link it to external
devices such as hard disk drives and a keyboard. In addition, the board
has a number of jumpers used to configure your system for your applica­tion.

The tables below list the function of each of the board jumpers and con­nectors. Later sections in this chapter give instructions on setting jump-

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ers. Chapter 2 gives instructions for connecting external devices to your
single board computer.

Table 1.1: Jumpers

Label

J1 CMOS Clear

J2 Watchdog timer output selection

Function

Table 1.2: Connectors

Label

CN1 Primary IDE connector

CN2 Secondary IDE connector

CN3 Floppy drive connector

CN4 Parallel port

CN6 USB port (share with CN32)

CN7 VGA connector

VCN2 LVDS connector

VCN3 DVI connector

CN8 Ethernet connector 1

CN9 Serial port: COM1

CN10 Serial port: COM2

CN11 PS/2 keyboard and mouse connector

CN12 External keyboard connector

CN13 Reserved

CN14 CPU FAN connector

CN16 Power LED

CN17 External speaker

CN18 Reset connector

CN19 HDD LED connector

CN20 ATX feature connector

CN21 ATX soft power switch (PS_ON)

Function

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Table 1.2: Connectors

CN22 HW Monitor Alarm

Close: Enable OBS Alarm
Open: Disable OBS Alarm

CN27 Extension I/O board connector

CN28 Extension I/O board connector

CN29 SM BUS Connector

PIN1: SMB_DATA
PIN2: SMB_CLOCK

CN30 Extension PCI connector (for SCSI daughter board)

CN31 USB port 0,1

CN32 USB port 2,3

CN34 Ethernet connector 2

CN43 AC97 Link connector

CN44 CF Socket (On Back Side)

SA0 Serial ATA0

SA1 Serial ATA1

ATX1 ATX 12 V Auxillary power connector

VP1 LCD inverter power connector

Notice: The 4-pin ATX 12V power connector "ATX1" must be connected to the
power supply to provide adequate power to the CPU card. Otherwise system might
be unstable.

Table 1.3: SCSI Daughter Board Connectors

CN1 Channel A 68-pin Ultra 160 SCSI Connector

CN2 Channel B 68-pin Ultra 160 SCSI Connector

CN3 Channel B 50-pin Ultra Wide SCSI Connector

Table 1.4: On Board Switch

S1,S2 USB connector(CN6 or CN32) selection switch

SW1 PCI bus selection switch

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1.5 Board Layout: Jumper and Connector Location

Figure 1.1: Jumper and Connector locations

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Figure 1.2: I/O Connectors

68 Pin for Ultra 160

50 Pin for Ultra wide SCSI

Adaptec

AIC-7899

68 Pin for Ultra 160

Figure 1.3: SCSI daughter board

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1.6 PCA-6189 Block Diagram

Figure 1.4: Block Diagram

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1.7 Safety Precautions

Warning! Always completely disconnect the power cord

from your chassis whenever you work with the
hardware. Do not make connections while the
power is on. Sensitive electronic components
can be damaged by sudden power surges. Only
experienced electronics personnel should open
the PC chassis.

Caution! Always ground yourself to remove any static

charge before touching the single board com­puter. Modern electronic devices are very sen­sitive to static electric charges. As a safety
precaution, use a grounding wrist strap at all
times. Place all electronic components on a
static-dissipative surface or in a static-shielded
bag when they are not in the chassis.

Caution! The computer is provided with a battery-pow-

ered Real-time Clock circuit. There is a danger
of explosion if battery is incorrectly replaced.
Replace only with same or equivalent type rec­ommended by the manufacturer. Discard used
batteries according to manufacturer's instruc­tions.

Notice: Before install your PCA-6189 into a chassis, make sure that all components
on both sides of the CPU card do not touch any metal parts, especially the chassis
wall and add-on card at the adjacent slot.

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1.8 Jumper Settings

This section provides instructions on how to configure your single board
computer by setting the jumpers. It also includes the single board com­puter's default settings and your options for each jumper.

1.8.1 How to set jumpers

You can configure your single board computer to match the needs of your
application by setting the jumpers. A jumper is a metal bridge that closes
an electrical circuit. It consists of two metal pins and a small metal clip
(often protected by a plastic cover) that slides over the pins to connect
them. To “close” (or turn ON) a jumper, you connect the pins with the
clip. To “open” (or turn OFF) a jumper, you remove the clip. Sometimes
a jumper consists of a set of three pins, labeled 1, 2, and 3. In this case
you connect either pins 1 and 2, or 2 and 3. A pair of needle-nose pliers
may be useful when setting jumpers.

1.8.2 CMOS clear (J1)

The PCA-6189 single board computer contains a jumper that can erase
CMOS data and reset the system BIOS information. Normally this
jumper should be set with pins 1-2 closed. If you want to reset the CMOS
data, set J1 to 2-3 closed for just a few seconds, and then move the jumper
back to 1-2 closed. This procedure will reset the CMOS to its default set-

ting.

Table 1.5: CMOS (J1)

Function Jumper Setting

* Keep CMOS data

1 -2 closed

Clear CMOS data

2 3 closed

* default setting

1.8.3 Watchdog timer output (J2)

The PCA-6189 contains a watchdog timer that will reset the CPU or send
a signal to IRQ11 in the event the CPU stops processing. This feature
means the PCA-6189 will recover from a software failure or an EMI
problem. The J2 jumper settings control the outcome of what the com­puter will do in the event the watchdog timer is tripped.

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Table 1.6: Watchdog timer output (J2)

Function

Jumper Setting

IRQ11

* Reset

* default setting

1

1-2 closed

1

2-3 closed

Note: The interrupt output of the watchdog timer is a

low level signal. It will be held low until the
watchdog timer is reset.

1.9 System Memory

The PCA-6189 has two sockets for 184-pin dual inline memory modules
(DIMMs).

All these sockets use 2.5 V unbuffered double data rate synchronous
DRAMs (DDR SDRAM). They are available in capacities of 128, 256,
512 and 1024 MB. The sockets can be filled in any combination with
DIMMs of any size, giving a total memory size between 128 MB and 2
GB.

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1.9.1 CPU FSB and memory speed

The PCA-6189 can accept DDR SDRAM memory chips without parity.
Also note: The PCA-6189 accepts PC2100 (DDR266), PC2700 (DDR

333) and DDR SDRAM, depending on the CPU front side bus frequency

(FSB). Please refer to the table below for the relationship between the
CPU FSB and memory speed.

Table 1.7: CPU FSB and memory speed

Memory
Speed

DDR400 Pentium M or

DDR333 Pentium M or

DDR266 Pentium M or

Processor FSB frequency Memory speed

Outcome

400 MHz 333 MHz

Celeron M

400 MHz 333 MHz

Celeron M

400 MHz 266 MHz

Celeron M

The PCA-6189 supports ECC (error checking and correction), and mem­ory modules with 9 SDRAM chips/side support ECC.

1.10 Memory Installation Procedures

To install DIMMs, first make sure the two handles of the DIMM socket
are in the "open" position. i.e. The handles lean outward. Slowly slide the
DIMM module along the plastic guides on both ends of the socket. Then
press the DIMM module right down into the socket, until you hear a
click. This is when the two handles have automatically locked the mem­ory module into the correct position of the DIMM socket. To remove the
memory module, just push both handles outward, and the memory mod­ule will be ejected by the mechanism in the socket.

1.11 Processor Installation

The CPU on the board must have a fan or heat sink attached, to prevent
overheating.

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Warning: Without a fan or heat sink, the CPU will over-heat

and cause damage to both the CPU and the single
board computer. To install a CPU, first turn off your
system and remove its cover. Locate the processor
socket 479.

1. To open the socket, turn the socket screw clockwise as far as it will go.

2. Place the CPU in the empty socket and then follow the instructions that

came with the CPU. If you have no instructions, complete the following
procedure:

- Carefully align the CPU on top of the socket, making sure the

corner pin patterns of the CPU match the patterns on the socket.

- Gently place the CPU on top of the socket. It should insert easily.

If it does not insert easily, check that the socket screw is turned clockwise
as far as possible.

3. After the CPU has been inserted, turn the screw counter-clockwise as

far as it will go to lock the CPU into position. The top plate of the socket
should slide up into the locked position. You will feel some resistance
against the screw as the CPU pins tighten in the socket. This is normal
and will not damage the CPU. Turn the screw counter-clockwise as far as
it will go.

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2

CHAPTER

Connecting Peripherals

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Chapter 2 Connecting Peripherals

2.1 Introduction

You can access most of the connectors from the top of the board while it
is installed in the chassis. If you have a number of cards installed or have
a packed chassis, you may need to partially remove the card to make all
the connections.

2.2 1st & 2nd (CN1, CN2) IDE Connectors

CN1

CN2

You can attach up to four IDE (Integrated Drive Electronics) drives to the
PCA-6189’s built-in controller. The primary (CN1) and secondary (CN2)
connectors can each accommodate two drives.

Wire number 1 on the cable is red or blue and the other wires are gray.
Connect one end to connector CN1 or CN2 on the single board computer.
Make sure that the red/blue wire corresponds to pin 1 on the connector (in
the upper right hand corner). See Chapter 1 for help finding the connec­tor.

Unlike floppy drives, IDE hard drives can connect in either position on
the cable. If you install two drives to a single connector, you will need to
set one as the master and the other as the slave. You do this by setting the
jumpers on the drives. If you use just one drive per connector, you should
set each drive as the master. See the documentation that came with your
drive for more information.

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Connect the first hard drive to the other end of the cable. Wire 1 on the
cable should also connect to pin 1 on the hard drive connector, which is
labeled on the drive circuit board. Check the documentation that came
with the drive for more information.

Connect the second hard drive to the remaining connector (CN2 or CN1),
in the same way as described above.

2.3 Floppy Drive Connector (CN3)

CN3

You can attach up to two floppy disk drives to the PCA-6189's on board
controller. You can use 3.5" (720 KB, 1.44 MB) drives.

The single board computer comes with a 34-pin daisy-chain drive con­nector cable. On one end of the cable is a 34-pin flat-cable connector. On
the other end are two sets of 34-pin flat-cable connector (usually used for

3.5" drives). The set on the end (after the twist in the cable) connects to

the A: floppy drive. The set in the middle connects to the B: floppy drive.

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2.4 Parallel Port (CN4)

CN4

The parallel port is normally used to connect the single board computer to
a printer. The PCA-6189 includes an onboard parallel port, accessed
through a 26-pin flat-cable connector, CN4. The card comes with an
adapter cable which lets you use a traditional DB-25 connector. The cable
has a 26-pin connector on one end and a DB-25 connector on the other,
mounted on a retaining bracket. The bracket installs at the end of an
empty slot in your chassis, giving you access to the connector.

The parallel port is designated as LPT1, and can be disabled or changed
to LPT2 or LPT3 in the system BIOS setup.

To install the bracket, find an empty slot in your chassis. Unscrew the
plate that covers the end of the slot. Screw in the bracket in place of the
plate. Next, attach the flat-cable connector to CN4 on the CPU card. Wire
1 of the cable is red or blue, and the other wires are gray. Make sure that
wire 1 corresponds to pin 1 of CN4. Pin 1 is on the upper right side of

CN4.

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2.5 USB Ports CN6, CN31, and CN32

The PCA-6189 provides up to four ports for the USB (Universal Serial
Bus) interface, which gives complete Plug & Play and hot swapping for
up to 127 external devices.The USB interface complies with USB Speci­fication Rev. 2.0, supports transmission rate up to 480 Mbps and is fuse­protected. The USB interface can be disabled in the system BIOS setup.

Connector CN31 connects to USB ports 0 and 1, while CN6 and CN32
share ports 2 and 3. Users can choose to use either CN6 or CN32 for ports
2 and 3 by setting the hyper-miniature DIP switch .To set the switch, see
the note below.

CN6

Note: To enable CN6, turn on pins 3 and 4 of S1 and

S2, and also turn off pins 1 and 2. To enable
CN32 (for USB ports 3 and 4 of the dual layer
bracket) turn on pin 1 and 2 of S1 and S2, and
also turn off pins 3 and 4. Any other DIP switch
setup for the USB function will be unstable.

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2.6 VGA Connector CN7

CN7

The PCA-6189 includes a VGA interface that can drive conventional
CRT displays. CN7 is a standard 15-pin D-SUB connector commonly
used for VGA. Pin assignments for CRT connector CN7 are detailed in
Appendix B.

2.7 LVDS connector VCN2

The PCA-6189 provides a LVDS interface that supports 18-bit LCD pan­els. Pin assignments for the LVDS connector VCN2 are detailed in
Appendix B.

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2.8 DVI connector VCN3

The VCN3 provides a DVI interface that supports DVI display. This con­nector should be used with a 20-pin DVI cable (p/n: 1700000821) Pin
assignments for the VCN3 are detailed in Appendix B.

2.9 Ethernet Connector (CN8 and CN34)

The PCA-6189 is equipped with single/dual high-performance 32-bit
PCI-bus Ethernet interface, which is fully compliant with IEEE 802.3/u
10/100Mbps CSMA/CD and IEEE 802.3ab 1000Base-T standards. It is
supported by all major network operating systems and is 100% Novell
NE-2000 compatible. An onboard RJ-45 jack provides convenient 10/
100Base-T or 10/100/1000Base-T RJ-45 operation.

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2.10 Serial Ports (COM1 : CN9; COM2 : CN10 )

The PCA-6189 offers two serial ports, CN9 as COM1 and CN10 as
COM2. These ports can connect to serial devices, such as a mouse or a
printer, or to a communications network.

The IRQ and address ranges for both ports are fixed. However, if you
want to disable the port or change these parameters later, you can do this
in the system BIOS setup.

Different devices implement the RS-232 standard in different ways. If
you are having problems with a serial device, be sure to check the pin
assignments for the connector.

2.11 PS/2 Keyboard/Mouse Connector (CN11/CN33)

CN11

The 6-pin mini-DIN connector (CN11) on the card mounting bracket pro­vides connection to a PS/2 keyboard or a PS/2 mouse. CN11 can also be
connected to an adapter cable (P/N: 1700060202, available from Advan­tech) for connecting to both a PS/2 keyboard and a PS/2 mouse.

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2.12 External Keyboard Connector (CN12)

In addition to the PS/2 mouse/keyboard connector on the PCA-6189's
rear plate, there is also an extra onboard external keyboard connector.
This gives system integrators greater flexibility in designing their sys­tems.

2.13 CPU Fan Connector (CN14)

CN12

CN14

If fan is used, this connector supports cooling fans of 500mA (6W) or
less.

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2.14 Front Panel Connectors (CN16, 17, 18, 19, 21&29)

There are several external switches to monitor and control the PCA-6189

CN21
CN19
CN17
CN16

CN18
CN29

2.14.1 Power LED (CN16)

CN16 is a 5-pin connector for the power on LED. Refer to Appendix B
for detailed information on the pin assignments. If a PS/2 or ATX power
supply is used, the system's power LED status will be as indicated below:

Table 2.1: PS/2 or ATX power supply LED status

Power mode LED (PS/2 power) LED (ATX power)
System On On On
System Suspend Fast flashes Fast flashes
System Off Off Slow flashes

2.14.2 External speaker (CN17)

CN17 is a 4-pin connector for an external speaker. If there is no external
speaker, the PCA-6189 provides an onboard buzzer as an alternative. To
enable the buzzer, set pins 3-4 as closed

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2.14.3 Reset (CN18)

Many computer cases offer the convenience of a reset button. Connect the
wire from the reset button.

1

2.14.4 HDD LED (CN19)

You can connect an LED to connector CN19 to indicate when the HDD is
active.

1

2.14.5 ATX soft power switch (CN21)

If your computer case is equipped with an ATX power supply, you should
connect the power on/off button on your computer case to CN21. This
connection enables you to turn your computer on and off.

2.14.6 SM Bus Connector (CN29)

This connector is reserved for Advantech's SNMP-1000 HTTP/SNMP
Remote System Manager. The SNMP-1000 allows users to monitor the
internal voltages, temperature and fans from a remote computer through
an Ethernet network.

CN29 can be connected to CN19 of SNMP-1000. Please be careful about
the pin assignments, pin 1 must be connected to pin 1 and pin2 to pin 2 on
both ends of cable.

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2.15 ATX feature connector (CN20)

CN20

Connect to the CN1 on the Advantech backplane to enable the ATX func­tion, 5V stand-by.

2.16 AC-97 Audio interface (CN43)

CN43

The PCA-6189 provides AC-97 audio through PCA-AUDIO-00A1
module from Advantech.

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2.17 Serial ATA interface (SA0 and SA1)

SA0 & SA1

In addition to the two EIDE interfaces (up to four devices), the PCA-6189
features high performance serial ATA interface (up to 150MB/s) which
eases cabling to hard drives with thin and long cables.

2.18 Connecting to SNMP-1000 remote manager

Use the 6-pin to 8-pin cable to connect the single board computer to
SNMP-1000. This cable comes with the SNMP-1000.

PIN 1

CN21 CN18

CN19 CN29

CPU Card

CN19

PIN 1

SNMP-1000

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2.19 Auxiliary 4-pin power connector (ATX1)

To ensure the sufficiency of power supply for Pentium M or Celeron M
single board computer, one auxiliary 4 pin power connector is available
on PCA-6189. This connector must be connected to the power supply,
otherwise system might be unstable.

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Award BIOS Setup

CHAPTER

3

31 Chapter 3

Chapter 3 Award BIOS Setup

3.1 Introduction

Award’s BIOS ROM has a built-in setup program that allows you to mod­ify the basic system configuration. This type of information is stored in
battery-backed memory (CMOS RAM) so that it retains the setup infor­mation when the power is turned off.

3.1.1 CMOS RAM Auto-backup and Restore

The CMOS RAM is powered by an onboard button cell battery. When
you finish BIOS setup, the data in CMOS RAM will be automatically
backed up to Flash ROM. If operation in a harsh industrial environment
causes a soft error, BIOS will recheck the data in CMOS RAM and auto­matically restore the original data in Flash ROM to CMOS RAM for
booting.

Note: If you intend to change the CMOS setting with-

out restoring the previous backup, you have to
click on "DEL" within two seconds of the
"CMOS checksum error..." display screen mes­sage appearing. Then enter the "Setup" screen
to modify the data. If the "CMOS checksum
error..." message appears again and again,
please check to see if you need to replace the
battery in your system.

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3.2 Entering Setup

Turn on the computer and press <Del> to enter the BIOS setup.

Figure 3.1: Award BIOS Setup initial screen

3.3 Standard CMOS Setup

Choose the Standard CMOS Features option from the initial setup screen
menu to display the screen below. This menu allows you to configure sys­tem components such as date, time, hard disk drive, floppy drive, display,
and memory.

Figure 3.2: Standard CMOS features screen

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3.4 Advanced BIOS Features

The Advanced BIOS Features screen appears when you choose the
Advanced BIOS Features item from the initial setup screen menu. Use

this screen to configure the PCA-6189 according to your particular
requirements. Below are some major items that are provided in the
Advanced BIOS Features screen. A quick booting function is provided
for your convenience. Simply enable the Quick Booting item to save
yourself valuable time.

Figure 3.3: Advanced BIOS features screen

3.4.1 CPU Features

The CPU Features allows you to adjust the value of Thermal Monitors 1
and 2 with the BUS ratio and BUS VID settings. Using this setting, you
can choose to lower the CPU speed for a fixed length of time when the
CPU temperature gets too high. The choices are 4 Min, 8 Min, 16 Min,

and 32 Min.

3.4.2 Hard Disk Boot Priority

Use this setting to select the hard disk boot device priorities.

3.4.3 Virus Warning

Use this setting to enable virus warning. The choices are Enabled and
Disabled.

3.4.4 CPU L1 & L2 Cache, CPU L3 Cache

Enabling this feature speeds up memory access. The choices are Enabled
or Disabled.

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3.4.5 Quick Power On Self Test

This setting allows the system to skip certain tests while booting. This
will decrease the time needed to boot the system.

3.4.6 First/Second/Third Boot Device

The BIOS will load the OS with the devices in the sequence selected. The
sequence includes: Floppy, LS120, HDD-0, SCSI, CDROM, HDD-1,

HDD-2, HDD-3, ZIP100, USB-FDD, USB-ZIP, USBCDROM, USB­HDD, LAN, and Disabled.

3.4.7 Boot Other Device

Use this option to choose another device to boot. The choices are
Enabled or Disabled.

3.4.8 Swap Floppy Drive

If the system has two floppy drives, choose Enabled to assign physical
drive B to logical drive A and vice-versa. The choices are Enabled or Dis-

abled.

3.4.9 Boot UP Floppy Seek

Select the command Disabled to speed the boot up. Select Enabled to
search disk drives during boot up.

3.4.10 Boot Up NumLock Status

This feature selects the power on state for NumLock. The choices are Off
and On.

3.4.11 Gate A20 Option

Normal: A pin in the keyboard controller controls Gate A20.

Fast (Default): The chipset controls GateA20.

3.4.12 Typematic Rate Setting

The typematic rate is the rate key strokes repeat as determined by the key­board controller. The commands are Enabled and Disabled. Enabling
allows the typematic rate and delay to be selected.

3.4.13 Typematic Rate (Chars/Sec)

BIOS accepts the following input values (characters/second) for type­matic rate: 6, 8, 10, 12, 15, 20, 24, 30.

3.4.14 Typematic Delay (msec)

Typematic delay is the time interval between the appearance of two con­secutive characters, when holding down a key. The input values for this
category are: 250, 500, 750, 1000 (milliseconds).

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3.4.15 Security Option

Choose an option for this setting to have the system prompt for a pass­word every time the system boots or only when you enter setup.

System: 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 password is not entered at the prompt.

Note: To disable security, select “PASSWORD SET-

TING” in the main menu. At this point, you will
be asked to enter a password. Simply press
<Enter> to disable security. When security is
disabled, the system will boot, and you can
enter Setup freely.

3.4.16 APIC Mode

Use this setting to enable the APIC mode. The choices are Disabled or
Enabled.

3.4.17 MPS Version Control For OS

This function reports if an FDD is available for Windows 95. The selec­tions are 1.1 or 1.4.

3.4.18 OS Select For DRAM > 64MB

Select OS2 only if you are running OS/2 operating system with greater
than 64MB of RAM on the system. Commands are Non-OS2 or OS2.

3.4.19 Report No FDD For WIN 95

This setting determines if the BIOS should report the absence of a floppy
disk drive to Windows 95. When set to Ye s, the BIOS will assign IRQ 6 to
another device. This allows computers with no floppy disk drives to boot
into Windows 95 normally. When set to No, Windows 95 will detect the
absence of the floppy disk drive and halt the system with an error mes­sage. Please note that this BIOS feature has no relevance in other operat­ing systems. Only Windows 95 is affected. It does not matter what you set
this BIOS option to if you are using other operating systems.

3.4.20 Small Logo(EPA) Show

This setting controls whether or not the EPA logo is shown. The choices
are Disabled or Enabled.

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3.5 Advanced Chipset Features

By choosing the Advanced Chipset Features option from the Initial Setup
Screen menu, the screen below will be displayed. This sample screen
contains the manufacturer’s default values for the PCA-6189, as shown in
Figure 3-4:

Note: DRAM default timings have been carefully cho-

sen and should ONLY be changed if data is
being lost. Please first contact technical sup­port.

Figure 3.4: Advanced chipset features screen

3.5.1 DRAM Timing Selectable

This item allows you to control the DRAM speed. The selections are
Manual or By SPD.

3.5.2 CAS Latency Time

This controls the latency between DDR RAM read command and the
time that the data actually becomes available. Leave this on the default
setting. The options are 2 or 2.5.

3.5.3 Active to Precharge Delay

This item allows you to select the value in this field, depending on
whether the board has paged DRAMs or EDO (extended data output)
DRAMs. The choices are: 7, 6, and 5.

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3.5.4 DRAM RAS# to CAS# Delay

In order to improve performance, certain space in memory is reserved for
ISA cards. This memory must be mapped into the memory space below
16 MB. The choices are: 3 and 2.

3.5.5 DRAM RAS# Precharge

This controls the idle clocks after issuing a precharge command to
DRAM. You can leave this on the default setting. The choices are: 3 and

2.

3.5.6 DRAM Data Integrity Mode

System can auto-detect the SDRAM module whether the module sup­ports ECC or not. When using the ECC SDRAM module, users can
choose ECC or non-ECC according to the manual.

3.5.7 System BIOS Cacheable

Selecting Enabled allows caching of the system BIOS ROM at F0000h­FFFFFh, resulting in better system performance. However, if any pro­gram writes to this memory area, a system error may occur. The choices
are Enabled and Disabled.

3.5.8 Video Bios Cacheable

Selecting Enabled allows caching of the video BIOS, resulting in better
system performance. However, if any program writes to this memory
area, a system error may occur. The choices are Enabled and Disabled.

3.5.9 Memory Hole At 15M-16M

Enabling this feature reserves 15 MB to 16 MB memory address space
for ISA expansion cards that specifically require this setting. This makes
memory from 15 MB and up unavailable to the system. Expansion cards
can only access memory up to 16 MB. The default setting is Disabled.

3.5.10 Delayed Transaction

This setting allows the chipset’s embedded 32-bit posted write buffer to
support delayed transaction cycles. If the setting is "Enabled," all PCI-to­ISA writers are buffered and the PCI bus is released after writing to the
buffer. If setting is Disabled, the PCI bus will bypass the write buffer and
write directly to the ISA bus.

3.5.11 Delay Prior to Thermal

This setting controls the length of time to lower the CPU speed when
CPU temperature is too high. The choices are: 4 Min, 8 Min, 16 Min, and

32 Min.

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3.5.12 AGP Aperture Size (MB)

Use this setting to select the size of the Accelerated Graphics Port (AGP)
aperture. The aperture is a portion of the PCI memory address range ded­icated to graphics memory address space. Host cycles that hit the aperture
range are forwarded to the AGP without any translation. The choices are:
64, 128, and 256.

3.5.13 Init Display First

Choose the first display interface to initiate while booting. The choices
are PCI Slot and Onboard/AGP.

3.5.14 On-Chip VGA

The VGA controller is enabled by default. Disable the onboard VGA con­troller by selecting Disabled.

3.5.15 On-Chip Frame Buffer Size

Use this setting to select the frame buffer size. Options include 1, 4, 8, 16,
or 32 MB.

3.5.16 Boot display

You can select the display type for your computer equipment. Choices for
this option include: V B I OS D ef a ul t , C R T, LF P, CR T + L F P, E F P, and
CRT + EFP. EFP can be used for LCD displays.

3.5.17 Panel Number

This option allows you to set the resolution of your screen. Values include

640x480, 800x600, 1024x768, 1280x1024, and 1600x1200.

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3.6 Integrated Peripherals

Figure 3.5: Integrated peripherals

3.7 On-chip IDE Device

Figure 3.6: On-Chip IDE Device

3.7.1 IDE DMA transfer access

This setting controls the DMA function of hard disk drive. The choices
are Enabled or Disabled. Choose Enabled to assign the IDE DMA func­tion.

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3.7.2 On-Chip IDE Device

IDE Primary (Secondary) Master/Slave PIO/UDMA Mode (Auto) Each
channel (Primary and Secondary) has both a master and a slave, making
four IDE devices possible. Because each IDE device may have a different
Mode timing (0, 1, 2, 3, 4), it is necessary for these to be independent.
The default setting Auto will allow auto-detection to ensure optimal per­formance.

3.7.3 On-Chip Serial ATA

Choose the status of serial ATA. The default setting is Auto, which allows
the system to arrange all parallel and serial ATA resources automatically.
The value Disabled will disable the SATA controller. Combined Mode
will combine PATA and SATA, and max of 2 IDE drives in each channel.
Enhanced Mode will enable both SATA and PATA, and max of 6 IDE
drives are supported. The SATA Only means SATA is operating in legacy
mode.

3.7.4 Serial ATA Port0/Port1 Mode

Select the mode for SATA port0 and SATA port1. The choices are Pri­mary Master, Primary Slave, Secondary Master, Secondary Slave, SATA0
Master and SATA1 Master.

3.7.5 IDE HDD Block Mode

If your IDE hard drive supports block mode, select Enabled for automatic
detection of the optimal number of block read/writes per sector for the
drive.

3.8 Onboard Device Menu

Figure 3.7: Onboard Device

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3.8.1 USB Controller

Select Enabled if your system contains a Universal Serial Bus (USB)
controller and you have USB peripherals. The choices are Enabled or
Disabled.

3.8.2 USB 2.0 Controller

Use this option to disable/enable the USB 2.0 controller only. The BIOS
itself may/may not have high speed USB support. If the BIOS has high
speed USB support built in, the support will turn on automatically when a
high speed device is attached. The choices are Enabled or Disabled.

3.8.3 USB Keyboard/Mouse Support

Select Enabled if you plan to use an USB keyboard. The choices are
Enabled or Disabled.

3.8.4 AC97 Audio

Select Disable if you do not want to use AC-97 audio. The options are
Auto and Disabled.

3.8.5 On-board LAN1 Control

The options for this setting are Enabled and Disabled. Select Disable if
you don’t want to use the onboard LAN controller1.

3.8.6 On-board LAN2 Control

The options for this setting are Enabled and Disabled. Select Disable if
you don’t want to use the onboard LAN controller2.

3.9 SuperIO Device

Figure 3.8: SuperIO Device

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3.9.1 On-board FDC Controller

When enabled, this field allows you to connect your floppy disk drives to
the onboard floppy disk drive connector instead of a separate controller
card. If you want to use a different controller card to connect the floppy
disk drives, set this field to Disabled.

3.9.2 On-board Serial Port 1

The settings are 3F8/IRQ4, 2F8/IRQ3, 3E8/IRQ4, 2E8/ IRQ3, Auto, and
Disabled for the on-board serial connector.

3.9.3 On-board Serial Port 2

The settings are 3F8/IRQ4, 2F8/IRQ3, 3E8/IRQ4, 2E8/ IRQ3, Auto, and
Disabled for the on-board serial connector.

3.9.4 UART Mode Select

This item allows you to select the UART mode. The choices are IrDA,
ASKIR, and Normal.

3.9.5 RxD, TxD Active

This item allows you to determine the active mode of RxD/TxD. The
choices are: Hi/Hi, Lo/Lo, Lo/Hi, and Hi/Lo.

3.9.6 IR Transmission Delay

This item allows you to set the IR transmission delay. The choices are
Enabled and Disabled.

3.9.7 UR2 Duplex Mode

This item allows you to select the IR half/full duplex function. The
choices are Half and Full.

3.9.8 Use IR Pins

The choices are: RxD2, TxD2; IR-Rx2Tx2.

3.9.9 On-board Parallel Port

This field sets the address of the on-board parallel port connector. You
can select either 378/IRQ7, 278/IRQ5, 3BC/IRQ7, or Disabled. If you
install an I/O card with a parallel port, make sure there is no conflict in
the address assignments. The single board computer can support up to
three parallel ports, as long as there are no conflicts for each port.

3.9.10 Parallel Port Mode

This field allows you to set the operation mode of the parallel port. The
setting Normal allows normal speed operation, but in one direction only.
EPP allows bidirectional parallel port operation at maximum speed. ECP
allows the parallel port to operate in bi-directional mode and at a speed

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faster than the maximum data transfer rate. ECP+EPP allows normal
speed operation in a two-way mode.

3.9.11 EPP Mode Select

This field allows you to select EPP port type 1.7 or 1.9. The choices are:
EPP1.9 or EPP1.7.

3.9.12 ECP Mode Use DMA

This selection is available only if you select “ECP” or “ECP + EPP” in
the Parallel Port Mode field. In ECP Mode Use DMA, you can select
DMA channel 1, or DMA channel 3. Leave this field on the default set­ting.

3.9.13 PWRON After PWR-FAIL

This option allows you to set the system so that it reboots after a power
failure. Select Former-Sts to reboot the system with its former settings.

3.10 Power Management Setup

The power management setup controls the single board computer's
“green” features to save power. The following screen shows the manufac­turer’s defaults.

Figure 3.9: Power management setup screen (1)

3.10.1 ACPI function

The choices are Enabled and Disabled.

3.10.2 Power Management

This option allows you to select from Min Saving, Max Saving, or User
Defined to set the degree of power saving. If you select Min Saving or

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Max Saving, the values for HDD Power Down and Suspend Mode (the

following settings) are filled in automatically. If you select User Defined,
you must also enter values for HDD Power Down and Suspend Mode.

Table 3.1:

Min Saving For minimum power usage, sets Suspend Mode to 1

hour and set HDD Power Down to 15 minutes.

Max Saving For maximum power usage, sets Suspend Mode to 1

minute, and set HDD Power Down to 1 minute

User Defined
(Default)

Allows you to set each mode individually. When not
disabled, each of the ranges are from 1 minute to 1
hour except for HDD Power Down, which ranges from
1 minute to 15 minutes, and Disabled.

Power Management settings

3.10.3 Video Off Method

Use this setting to select a method to turn off the video. The choices are:
Blank Screen, V/H SYNC+ Blank, and DPMS.

3.10.4 Video Off In Suspend

If value of this setting is Ye s, the video will turn off when the system is
suspended. The choices are No and Yes .

3.10.5 Suspend Type

Use this option to set the suspension type: Stop Grant or PwrOn Suspend.

3.10.6 Modem Use IRQ

This determines the IRQ to be used by the MODEM. The choices are: 3,
4, 5, 7, 9, 10, 11, and NA.

3.10.7 Soft-Off by PWR-BTTN

If you select I then pushing the ATX soft power switch button once will
switch the system to System off power mode. Otherwise, you can choose
Delay 4 sec. If you do, then pushing the button for more than 4 seconds
will turn off the system, whereas pushing the button momentarily (for less
than 4 seconds) will switch the system to Suspend mode.

3.10.8 CPU THRM-Throttling

This field allows you to select the CPU THRM-Throttling rate. The
choices: 75.0%, 50.0%, and 25.0%.

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3.10.9 Power On by LAN

Choose Enabled to resume system function by LAN, or choose Disabled
to resume system function by PCI card.

3.10.10 Power On by Modem

This item allows you to wake up the system via a COM port from the
remote host. The choices are Enabled and Disabled.

3.10.11 Power On by Alarm

The choices are Enabled and Disabled.

3.10.12 Primary IDE (0,1) and Secondary IDE (0,1)

Choose Enabled to set the system to resume from suspend mode when
Primary IDE (0,1) or Secondary IDE (0,1) is active. The choices are
Enabled and Disabled.

3.10.13 FDD, COM, LPT PORT

Choose Enabled to set the system to resume from suspend mode if FDD,
COM port, or LPT port is active. The choices are Enabled, and Disabled.

3.10.14 PCI PIRQ [A-D]#

When this value is set to Enabled, the system will resume from suspend
mode if an interruption occurs. The choices are Enabled and Disabled.

3.11 PnP/PCI Configurations

Figure 3.10: PnP/PCI configurations screen

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3.11.1 PNP OS Installed

Set this option to Ye s if PNP OS is installed on your system. The default
value for this setting is No.

3.11.2 Reset Configuration Data

Default is Disabled. Select Enable to reset Extended System Configura­tion Data (ESCD) if you have installed a new add-on and system configu­ration has caused such a conflict that the OS cannot boot.

3.11.3 Resources Controlled By

The values for this option are Auto (ESCD) and Manual. If you choose
Manual, you will need to choose resources from the IRQ Resources sub-

menu. The Auto (ESCD) choice automatically configures all of the boot
and Plug and Play devices, but you must be using Windows 95 or above.

3.11.4 PCI/VGA Palette Snoop

The default value for this setting is Disabled.

3.12 PC Health Status

3.12.1 CPU Warning Temperature

This item will prevent the CPU from overheating. The choices are Dis­abled, 50°C/122°F, 53°C/127°F, 56°C/133°F, 60°C/140°F, 63°C/145°F,
66°C/151°F, and 70°C/158°F.

Figure 3.11: PC health status screen

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3.12.2 Current System Temp

This shows you the current temperature of system.

3.12.3 Current CPU Temperature

This shows you the current CPU temperature.

3.12.4 Current CPUFAN Speed

This shows you the current CPU fan operating speed.

3.12.5 VCORE, VBAT(V), 5VSB(V)

This shows you the voltage of VCORE, +1.5 V, 3.3 V, +5 V, +12 V, -12 V,

-5 V, VBAT(V), and 5VSB(V).

3.12.6 Shutdown Temperature

This option sets the temperature at which the system will shut down if the
CPU overheats. You can choose a value from 60
70

°C/158°F, 75°C/167°F, and Disabled.

°C/140°F, 65°C/149°F,

3.13 Frequency/Voltage Control

Figure 3.12: Spread Spectrum Control screen

3.13.1 Auto-detect PCI CLK

Use this function to reduce the occurrence of electromagnetic interfer­ence (EMI). If this option is set to Enabled, BIOS will check for comp­nents in PCI and DIMM slots, and then turn off clock pulses to empty
slots.

3.13.2 Spread Spectrum

Use this function to tune the PCI clock frequency. Setting this option to
Disabled will limit the clock signal spread, increase the consistency of the
frequency, but increase the EMI. Setting this option to Enabled will
decrease the EMI.

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3.14 Passwords and Settings

3.14.1 Load Setup Defaults

Choose the Load Setup Defaults selection from the initial setup screen. At
the prompt, enter Y to return system setup options to default values.

3.14.2 Set Supervisor Password

Choose the Set Supervisor Password selection from the initial setup
screen. At the ENTER PASSWORD: prompt, enter a password with up
to eight characters. Typing a password clears any previously entered pass­word form CMOS memory. Pressing the Enter key at this prompt without
supplying a password will disable the password function. At the CON-
FIRM PASSWORD: prompt, enter the password again. Press Esc at any
time to abort the process. The system will prompt for a password accord­ing to the Security Option value on the Avanced BIOS features menu.

3.14.3 Set User Password

Choose the Set User Password selection from the initial setup screen. At
the ENTER PASSWORD: prompt, enter a password with up to eight
characters. Typing a password clears any previously entered password
form CMOS memory. Pressing the Enter key at this prompt without sup­plying a password will disable the password function. At the CONFIRM
PASSWORD: prompt, enter the password again. Press <Esc> at any time
to abort the process. The system will prompt for a password according to
the Security Option value on the Avanced BIOS features menu.

3.14.4 Save & Exit Setup

Choose the Save & Exit Setup selection from the initial setup screen. At
the prompt, enter Y to save the setup values to the CMOS memory of the
chipset, or enter N to abort the exit The microprocessor will retrive these
values every time you turn your system on and compare this to what it
finds as it checks the system. This record is required for the system to
operate.

3.14.5 Exit Without Saving

Choose the Exit Without Saving selection from the initial setup screen. At
the prompt, enter Y to exit without saving new setup values to CMOS
memory, or enter N to abort the exit.

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4

CHAPTER

Chipset Software
Installation Utility

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Chapter 4 Chipset Software Install Utility

4.1 Before you begin

To facilitate the installation of the enhanced display device drivers and
utility software, you should read the instructions in this chapter carefully
before you attempt installation. The device drivers for the PCA-6189
board are located on the software installation CD. The auto-run function
of the driver CD will guide and link you to the utilities and device drivers
under a Windows system. The Intel Chipset Software Installation Utility
is not required on any systems running Windows NT 4.0. Updates are
provided via Service Packs from Microsoft.

Note: The files on the software installation CD are

compressed. Do not attempt to install the driv­ers by copying the files manually. You must use
the supplied SETUP program to install the driv­ers.

Before you begin, it is important to note that most display drivers need to
have the relevant software application already installed in the system
prior to installing the enhanced display drivers. In addition, many of the
installation procedures assume that you are familiar with both the rele­vant software applications and operating system commands. Review the
relevant operating system commands and the pertinent sections of your
application software’s user’s manual before performing the installation.

4.2 Introduction

The Intel Chipset Software Installation (CSI) utility installs to the target
system the Windows INF files that outline to the operating system how
the chipset components will be configured. This is needed for the proper
functioning of the following features:

• Core PCI and ISA PnP services.

• AGP support.

• IDE Ultra ATA 100/66/33 and Serial ATA interface support.

• USB 1.1/2.0 support (USB 2.0 driver needs to be installed separately

for Win98)

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• Identification of Intel chipset components in the Device Manager.

• Integrates superior video features. These include filtered sealing of

720 pixel DVD content, and MPEG-2 motion compensation for soft-

ware DVD

Note: This utility is used for the following versions of

Windows system, and it has to be installed
before installing all the other drivers: Windows
98SE Windows 2000, Windows ME, Windows
XP

4.3 Windows XP Driver Setup

1. Insert the driver CD into your system's CD-ROM drive. In a few
seconds, the software installation main menu appears. Move the
mouse cursor over the "Auto" button under the "CSI UTILITY"
heading, a message pops up telling you to install the CSI utility
before other device drivers, as shown in the following figure. Click
on this button. Taking Windows XP as example.

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2. Click "Next" when you see the following message.

3. Click "Yes" when you see the following message.

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4. Click "Next" when you see the following message.

5. When the following message appears, click "Finish" to complete
the installation and restart Windows.

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VGA Setup

CHAPTER

5

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Chapter 5 VGA Setup

5.1 Introduction

The PCA-6189 has VGA onboard, you need to install the VGA driver to
enable the function.

The Intel 855GME Chipset provides a highly integrated graphics acceler­ator delivering high performance 2D, 3D, and video capabilities. With its
interfaces to UMA using a DVMT configuration, an analog display, a

LVDS port, and two digital display ports (e.g. flat panel), the GMCH can
provide a complete graphics

solution.

The Intel 855GME also provides 2D hardware acceleration for block
transfers of data (BLTs). The BLT engine provides the ability to copy a
source block of data to a destination and perform raster operations
(e.g.,ROP1, ROP2, and ROP3) on the data using a pattern, and/or another
destination. Performing these

common tasks in hardware reduces CPU load, and thus improves perfor­mance.

High bandwidth access to data is provided through the system memory
interface. The GMCH uses

Tiling architecture to increase system memory efficiency and thus maxi­mize effective rendering bandwidth. The Intel 855GME Chipset
improves 3D performance and quality with 3D Zone rendering technol­ogy. The Intel 855GME GMCH also supports Video Mixer rendering,
and Bi-Cubic filtering.

5.2 Dynamic Video Memory Technology (DVMT)

The Intel 855GME supports DVMT in a non-graphics system memory
configuration. DVMT is a mechanism that manages system memory and
the internal graphics device for optimal graphics performance. DVMT
enabled software drivers, working with the memory arbiter and the oper­ating system, utilize the system memory to support 2D graphics and 3D
applications. DVMT dynamically responds to application requirements
by allocating the proper amount of display and texturing memory.

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5.3 Windows XP Driver Setup

Note: Before installing this driver, make sure the CSI

utility has been installed in your system. See
Chapter 4 for information on installing the CSI
utility

1. Insert the driver CD into your system's CD-ROM drive. In a few

seconds, the software installation main menu appears, as shown in the
following figure. Under the "VGA DRIVERS" heading, click on one of
the buttons (labeled "W2K XP" and "WIN NT" respectively) according to
the operating system you are using. The following installation procedure
is for Windows XP. For other operating systems, please follow the on­screen installation guide.

1. Please click on "Next" to continue the installation

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2. You will see a welcome window. Please chick on "Next" to con­tinue the installation.

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3. Click "Yes" when you see the following message.

4. Click on "Yes" to continue the installation

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5. Click "Finish" to complete the installation and restart the computer
now or later.

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6

CHAPTER

LAN Configuration

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Chapter 6 LAN Configuration

6.1 Introduction

The PCA-6189 features the 32-bit 10/100/1000 Mbps Ethernet network
interface. This interface supports bus mastering architecture and auto­negotiation features. Therefore standard twisted-pair cabling with RJ-45
connectors for 10 Mbps, 100 Mbps and 1000 Mbps connections can be
used. Extensive driver support for commonly-used network systems is
also provided.

6.2 Features

• Intel 82551 10/100Base-T Ethernet LAN controller

• Optional single/dual Intel 82541 10/100/1000 Base-T Ethernet LAN

controller

• Supports Wake-on-LAN remote control function.

• PCI Bus Master complies with PCI Rev. 2.2

• MAC & PHY (10/100/1000 Mbps) interfaces.

• Complies with 1000Base-T, 100Base-TX, and 10Base-T applications.

• Fully supports 1000Base-T, 100Base-TX, and 10Base-T operation.

• Single RJ-45 connector gives auto-detection of 10 Mbps, 100 Mbps, or

1000 Mbps network data transfer rates and connected cable types.

• Plug and Play.

• Enhancements on ACPI & APM.

• Complies with PCI Bus Power Management Interface Rev. 1.1,

• ACPI Rev. 2.0, and Device Class Power Management Rev. 1.0.

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6.3 Installation

Note: Before installing the LAN drivers, make sure the

CSI utility has been installed in your system.
See Chapter 4 for information on installing the
CSI utility.

The PCA-6189's onboard Ethernet interface supports all major network
operating systems. However, the installation procedure varies with differ­ent operating systems. In the following sections, refer to the one that pro­vides driver setup procedure for the operating system you are using.

6.4 Win XP Driver Setup (Intel 82541/82551)

1. Insert the driver CD into your system's CD-ROM drive. In a few
seconds, the software installation main menu appears, as shown in
the following figure. Under the "LAN Drivers" heading, click on
the "Manual" to open file manager, then click "SETUP.EXE" to
run the installation procedure

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2. Select "I accept the terms in the license agreement" and click
"Next" to continue.

3. Click "Next" to continue.

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4. Click "Install Software" to start the installation procedure.

5. The driver will be installed automatically and the LAN function
will be enabled after the installation

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SCSI Setup & Configuration

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Chapter 7 SCSI Setup & Configuration

7.1 Introduction

The PCA-6189 is equipped with an Adaptec AIC-7899 single-chip PCI­to-SCSI host adapter which provides a dual channel Ultra 160 multi­tasking interface between your computer.s PCI bus and SCSI devices
(disk drives, CD-ROM drives, scanners, tape backups, removable media
drives, etc.). Ultra 160 is a new generation of SCSI technology that
expands SCSI performance from 80 MBytes/sec to 160 MBytes/ sec. Up
to a total of 15 SCSI devices can be connected to each of the SCSI con­nectors.

The AIC-7899 combines this Ultra 160 SCSI technology with Adaptec.s
SpeedFlex. technology. SpeedFlex allows the Adaptec SCSI card to be
backwards compatible with previous generations of SCSI products, while
allowing newer Ultra 160 SCSI devices to operate at the higher 160
MBytes/sec rate.

There are 3 SCSI connectors on the CPU card: CN50 and CN51 for Ultra
160 devices, and CN52 for 50-pin SCSI devices. You can use Ultra 160
and Ultra wide devices simultaneously without compromising the perfor­mance.

If you need to configure the SCSI, the onboard SCSI Select configuration
utility allows you to change host adapter settings without opening the
computer or handling the board. The SCSI Select utility also contains a
utility to low-level format and verifies the disk media on your hard disk
drives.

Note: If any peripheral is running at SE mode, the

Ultra 160 SCSI segment will run at speeds up to
40 MBytes/sec only instead of 160 MBytes/sec.

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7.2 Understanding SCSI

SCSI (pronounced .scuzzy.) stands for Small Computer Systems Inter­face. SCSI is an industry standard computer interface for connecting
SCSI devices to a common SCSI bus.

A SCSI bus is an electrical pathway that consists of a SCSI interface
installed in a computer and one or more SCSI devices. SCSI cables are
used to connect the devices to the SCSI interface. For the SCSI bus to
function properly, a unique SCSI ID must be assigned to the SCSI inter­face and each SCSI device connected to it, and the SCSI bus must be
properly terminated.

7.3 SCSI IDs

Each device attached to the SCSI bus, as well as the SCSI controller
itself, must be assigned a unique SCSI ID number from 0 to 15. A SCSI
ID uniquely identifies each SCSI device on the SCSI bus and determines
priority when two or more devices are trying to use the SCSI bus at the
same time.

Refer o the device.s documentation to set the SCSI ID. Here are some
general guidelines for SCSI IDs:

• For internal SCSI devices, the SCSI ID usually is set by configuring a

jumper on the device.

• For external SCSI devices, the SCSI ID usually is set with a switch on

the back of the device.

• SCSI ID numbers don.t have to sequential, as long as the SCSI control-

ler and each device has a different number.

• For example, you can have an internal SCSI device with ID 0, and an

external SCSI device with ID 6.

• SCSI ID 7 has the highest priority on the SCSI bus. The priority of the

remaining IDs, in descending order, is 6 to 0, then 15 to 8.

• The on-boards SCSI interface is preset to SCSI ID 7 and should not be

changed. This gives it the highest priority on the SCSI bus.

• Most internal SCSI hard disk drives come from the factory pre-set to

SCSI ID 0.

• If you have 8-bit (or Narrow) SCSI devices, they must use SCSI IDs 0,

1, 2, 3, 4, 5, or 6. SCSI ID 0 is recommended for the first SCSI hard
disk drive.

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• If you are booting your computer from a SCSI hard disk drive con-

nected to the SCSI bus, the Boot SCSI ID setting in the SCSISelect
utility must correspond to the SCSI ID of the device from which you
are booting. By default, the Boot SCSI ID is set to 0. We recommend
that you do not change this setting.

• In Windows 95/98, you can use the Device Manager to determine

which SCSI ID is assigned to each installed SCSI device.

7.4 Terminating the SCSI Bus

To ensure reliable communication on the SCSI bus, the ends of the SCSI
bus must be properly terminated. This is accomplished when the device at
the end of the each cable, or the end of the cable itself, has a terminator
installed (or enabled). Terminators must be removed, or termination must
be disabled, on devices between the ends of each cable.

Since the method for terminating a SCSI device can vary widely, refer to
the device.s documentation for instructions on how to enable or disable
termination. Here are some general guidelines for termination:

• Internal Ultra 160 and Ultra 2 SCSI devices come from the factory with

termination disabled and cannot be changed. Proper termination for
internal Ultra 160 and Ultra2 SCSI devices is provided by a 68-pin
Internal LVD (low voltage differential) SCSI cable, which has a built­in terminator at its end.

• Termination on non-Ultra 160 and Ultra2 internal SCSI devices usually

is controlled by manually setting a jumper or a switch on the device, or
by physically removing or installing one or more resistor modules on
the device.

• Termination on most external SCSI devices is controlled by installing

or removing a SCSI terminator. However, termination on some exter­nal SCSI devices is enable or disabled by setting a switched on the
back of the SCSI device.

The last external Ultra160 or Ultra2 SCSI device must be terminated with
an LVD/SE (low voltage differential/single ended) terminator plug to
ensure that the device will operate at its maximum speed. If you use a dif­ferent kind of terminator plug, the data I/O rate will decrease.

By default, termination on the SCSI controller itself is set to Automatic
(the preferred method). We recommend that you do not change this
default setting.

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7.5 Configuring the SCSI interface with SCSISelect

SCSISelect, included with the CPU card, enables you to change SCSI set­tings without opening the computer. SCSISelect also enables you to low­level format or verify the disk media of your SCSI hard disk drives. The
following table lists the available and default settings for each SCSISelect
option.

Note: The default settings are appropriate for most

systems. Run SCSISelect if you need to
change or view current settings, or if you would
like to run the SCSI disk utilities.

SCSISelect Options Available Settings Default Setting

SCSI Bus Interface

Definitions:

Host Adapter SCSI ID0-15 7

SCSI Parity Checking Enable, Disabled Enabled

Host Adapter SCSI

Termination

LVD/SE Connectors Automatic Automatic

Enabled

Disabled

SE Connectors Automatic Automatic

Low On/High On

Low Off/High Off

Low Off/High On

Boot Device Options:

Boot SCSI ID 0-15 0

Boot LUN Number1 0-7 0

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SCSI Device Configuration:

Sync Transfer Rate (MBytes/sec)

160, 80.0, 53.4, 40.0, 160

32.0, 26.8, 20.0,

16.0, 13.4, 10.0

ASYN

Initiate Wide
Negotiation

Enable
Disconnection

Send Start Unit
Command

Enable Write Back
Cache2

BIOS Multiple
LUN Support2

Include in BIOS
Scan2

Advanced Configuration Options:

Reset SCSI Bus at IC
Initialization

Display <Ctrl><A>
Messages during
B IO S In i ti a li z at i on

Extended BIOS
Translation for DOS
Drives > 1 GByte

Verbose/Silent Mode Verbose, Silent Verbose

Host Adapter BIOS Enabled Enabled

Domain Validation2 Enabled, Disabled Enabled

Support Removable
Disks Under BIOS as
Fixed Disks2

Yes, No Yes (enabled)

Yes, No Yes (enabled)

Yes, No Yes (enabled)

N/C (No Change) N/C (No Change)

Yes, N o

Yes, No No (disabled)

Yes, No Yes (enabled)

Enabled, Disabled Enabled

Enabled, Disabled Enabled

Enabled, Disabled Enabled

Disabled : Not Scan

Disabled: Scan Bus

Disabled Disabled

Boot Only,

All Disks

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BIOS Support for
B o o t a b l e C D _ R O M 2

BIOS Support for
Int 13

Extensions2

1 Setting is valid only if Multiple LUN Support is enabled.

2 Settings are valid only if host adapter BIOS is enabled.

Enabled, Disabled Enabled

Enabled, Disabled Enabled

7.6 Starting SCSISelect

Follow these steps to start SCSISelect:

1. Turn on or restart your system. During the startup process, pay
careful attention to the messages that appear on your screen.

2. When the following message appears on your screen, press the
Ctrl-A keys simultaneously (this message appears for only a few
seconds): Press <Ctrl><A> for SCSISelect (TM) Utility!

3. From the menu that appears, use the arrow keys to move the cursor
to the option you want to select, then press ENTER.

Note: If you have difficulty viewing the display, press

F5 to toggle between color and monochrome
modes. (This feature may not work on some
monitors.)

Exiting SCSISelect

Follow these steps to exit SCSISelect:

1. Press ESC until a message prompts you to exit (if you changed any
settings, you are prompted to save the changes before you exit.)

2. At the prompt, select YES to exit, then press any key to reboot the
computer. Any changes you made in SCSISelect take effect after
the computer boots.

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Using SCSISelect Settings

To select an option, use the arrow keys to move the cursor to the option,
then press ENTER. In some cases, selecting an option displays another
menu. You can return to the previous menu at any time by pressing ESC.
To restore the original SCSISelect default values, press F6 from the main
SCSISelect screen.

SCSI Bus Interface Definitions

• Host Adapter SCSI ID-(Default: 7) Sets the SCSI ID for the SCSI

controller. The Adaptec SCSI controller AIC-7899 is set at 7, which
gives the highest priority on the SCSI bus. We recommend that you do
not change this setting.

• SCSI Parity Checking-(Default: Enabled) When set to Enabled, veri-

fies the accuracy of data transfer on the SCSI bus. Leave this setting
enabled unless any SCSI device does not support SCSI parity.

• Host Adapter SCSI Termination-(Default: Automatic) Determines

the termination setting for the SCSI card. The default setting for both
the LVD/SE (low voltage differential/single ended) connectors and SE
connectors is Automatic, which allows the SCSI card to adjust the ter­mination as needed depending on the configuration of the connected
SCSI devices. We recommend that you do not change these settings.

Boot Device Options

• Boot SCSI ID-(Default: 0) Specifies the SCSI ID of your boot

device. We recommend that you don’t change the default setting.

• Boot LUN Number-(Default: 0) Specifies which LUN (Logical Unit

Number) to boot from on your boot device. This setting is not valid
unless Multiple LUN Support is Enabled

SCSI Device Configuration

SCSI Device Configuration options can be set individually for each con­nected SCSI device.

Note: To configure settings for a SCSI device, you

must know it.s SCSI ID

• Sync Transfer Rate-(Default: 160) Determines the maximum syn-

chronous data transfer rate that the SCSI card supports. Use the maxi­mum value of 160 MBytes/sec.

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• Initiate Wide Negotiation-(Default: Yes) When set to Yes, the SCSI

card attempts 16-bit data transfer (wide negotiation.) When set to No,
the SCSI card uses 8-bit data transfer unless the SCSI device requests
wide negotiation.

Note: Set Initiate Wide Negotiation to NO if you are

using an 8-bit SCSI device that hangs or exhib­its other performance problems with 16-bit data
transfer rate enabled.

• Enable Disconnection-(Default: Yes) When set to Yes, allows the

SCSI device to disconnect from the SCSI bus. Leave the setting at
Yes if two or more SCSI device is connected, changing the setting to
No results in slightly better performance.

• Send Start Unit Command-(Default: Yes) When set to Yes, the Start

Unit Command is sent to the SCSI device at bootup.

The following three options have no effect if the SCSI Card BIOS is dis­abled. (The SCSI Cards BIOS is normally enabled by default.)

• Enable Write Back Cache-(Default: N/C) Can be used to enable or

disable the write-back cache on SCSI disk drives connected to the host
adapter. Leave this option at its default setting of N/C (no change),
which usually allow for optimum drive performance.

• BIOS Multiple LUN Support-(Default: No) Leave this setting at No if

the device does not have multiple Logical Unit Numbers (LUNs.)
When set to Yes, the SCSI card BIOS provides boot support for a SCSI
device with multiple LUNs (for example, a CD jukebox. device in
which multiple CDs can be accessed simultaneously.)

• Include in BIOS Scan-(Default: Yes) When set to Yes, the SCSI card

BIOS includes the device as part of its BIOS scan at bootup.

Advanced Configuration Options

Note: Do not change the Advanced Configuration

Options unless absolutely necessary.

• Reset SCSI Bus at IC Initialization-(Default: Enabled) When set to

Enabled, the SCSI card generates a SCSI bus reset during its power-on
initialization and after a hard reset.

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• Display <Ctrl> <A> Messages during BIOS Initialization-(Default:

Enabled) When set to Enabled, the SCSI card BIOS displays the Press
<Ctrl> <A> for SCSI Select (TM) Utility! message on your screen dur­ing system bootup. If this setting disabled, you can still invoke the
SCSISelect Utility by pressing <Ctrl> <A> after the SCSI card BIOS
banner appears.

• Extended BIOS Translation for DOS Drives > 1 GByte-(Default:

Enabled) When set to Enabled, provides an extended translation
scheme for SCSI hard disks with capacities greater than 1 GByte. This
setting is necessary only for MS-DOS 5.0 or above; it is not required
for other operating systems, such as NetWare of UNIX.

Caution: Changing the translation scheme destroys all

data on the drive. Be sure to back your disk
drives before changing the translation scheme.

Use the MS-DOS Fdisk command to partition a disk laster than 1GByte
controlled by the SCSI card BIOS, when using DOS, Windows 3.1.x, or
Windows 95/98.

• Verbose/Silent Mode-(Default: Verbose) When set to Verbose, the

SCSI card BIOS displays the host adapter model on the screen during
system buildup. When set to Silent, the message is not displayed dur­ing bootup.

• Host Adapter BIOS (Configuration Utility Reserves BIOS Space)-

(Default: Enabled) Enables or disables the SCSI card BIOS.

• Leave at Enabled to allow the SCSI card BIOS to scan and initialize all

SCSI devices.

• Set to Disabled: Not scan if the devices on the SCSI bus (for example,

CD-ROM drives) are controlled by software drivers and do not need
the BIOS, and you do not want the BIOS to scan the SCSI bus.

• Set to Disabled: Scan Bus if you do not need the BIOS, but you want it

to scan the SCSI devices on the bus and you need to spin up the
devices.

The following four options have no effect when the SCSI Card BIOS is
disabled. (The SCSI Card BIOS is normally enabled by default.)

• Domain Validation.(Default: Enabled) Determines the optimal transfer

rate for each device on the SCSI bus and sets transfer rates accordingly.
Displays the resulting data transfer rate.

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• Support Removable Disks Under BIOS as Fixed Disks. (Default:

Disabled) Determines which removable-media drives are supported by
the SCSI card BIOS. Choices are as follows:

• Disabled. No removable-media drives are treated as hard disk drives.

Software drivers are required because the drives are not controlled by
the BIOS.

• Boot Only.Only the removable-media drive designated as the boot

device is treated as a hard disk drive.

• All Disks.All removable-media drives supported by the BIOS are

treated as hard disk drives.

Caution: You may lose data if you remove a removable-

media cartridge from a SCSI drive controlled by
the SCSI card BIOS while the drive is on. If you
want to be able to remove the media while the
drive is on, install the removable-media soft­ware driver and set Support Removable Disks
Under BIOS as Fixed Disks to Disabled.

• BIOS Support for Bootable CD-ROMs.(Default: Enabled) When set

to Enabled, the SCSI card BIOS allows the computer to boot from a
CD-ROM drive.

• BIOS Support for Int 13 Extensions.(Default: Enabled) When set to

Enabled, the SCSI card BIOS supports Int 13h extensions as required
by Plug-and-Play. The setting can be either enabled or disabled if your
system is not Plug-and-Play.

7.7 Using SCSI Disk Utilities

To access the SCSI disk utilities, follow these steps:

1. Select the SCSI Disk Utilities option from the menu that appears
after starting SCSISelect. SCSISelect scans the SCSI bus (to deter­mine the devices installed) and displays a list of all SCSI

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7.8 Installation under Windows 2000

If you are only using SCSI hard drives without any IDE HDD drive
installed. Please follow these steps:

1. Insert Windows 2000 CD Disk.

2. Press F6 immediately when it displays: “Set up is inspecting your
computer’s hardware configuration.”

3. Then it enter SCSI installation. Please insert SCSI driver floppy
disk.

7.9 Windows 9X Driver setup procedure

1. In the window 9x screen, click on “start” and select “setting”. Then
click on the “Control Panel” icon to select .System.

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