Aaeon SBC-357, Manual

Page 1: ...SBC 357 Half size All in one 386SX 40 CPU card...

Page 2: ...E PURSUANT TO PART 15 OF THE FCC RULES THESE LIMITS ARE DESIGNED TO PROVIDE REASON ABLE PROTECTION AGAINTST HARMFUL INTERFER ENCE WHEN THE EQUIPMENT IS OPERATED IN A COMMERCIAL ENVIRONMENT THIS EQUIPM...

Page 3: ...emark of Advanced Micro Devices Inc AMI is a trademark of American Megatrends Inc AutoCAD and AutoShade are trademarks of Autodesk Inc CHIPS Logotype is a registered trademark Chips 65550 is a tradema...

Page 4: ...laneous parts If any of these items are missing or damaged contact your distribu tor or sales representative immediately Notice Dear Customer Thank you for purchasing the SBC 357 board The user manual...

Page 5: ...12 Removing SIMMs 12 IDE hard drive connector CN1 13 Floppy drive connector CN2 15 Connecting the floppy drive 15 Parallel printer connector CN3 16 Installing the retaining bracket 16 Display connecto...

Page 6: ...General information 32 Starting AMIBIOS setup 32 AMIBIOS main menu 32 Using a mouse with AMIBIOS setup 33 Using the keyboard with AMIBIOS setup 33 Standard CMOS setup 34 Advanced CMOS setup 36 Advanc...

Page 7: ...indows Setup 56 DOS 57 SOFTWARE UTILITIES 59 The CHIPSCPL utility program 59 Installing the utility 59 How to use the utility 59 A Watchdog Timer Demo Program 61 Watchdog timer Demo Program 62 B Insta...

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Page 9: ...Chapter 1 General Information 1 C H A P T E R 1 GeneraI Information This chapter provides background information for the SBC 357 Sections include Card specifications Board layout...

Page 10: ...d its low power consumption The DiskOnChip is available in capacities from 2MB to 72MB and fits in a standard 32 pin DIP socket The SBC 357 also features three high speed RS 232 serial ports and one R...

Page 11: ...stem and video BIOS shadow memory IDE hard disk drive interface Supports up to one IDE AT bus hard disk drives BIOS auto detect Floppy disk drive interface Supports up to two floppy disk drive 5 25 36...

Page 12: ...at panel simultaneously Resolution Option up to 1024 x 768 256 colors 1MB display memory Standard 1024 x 768 16 colors 512KB display memory SSD interface One 32 pin DIP socket supports M systems DiskO...

Page 13: ...Chapter 1 General Information 5 Board layout SBC 357 ITE 8661F CHIPS F65545 B2 DiskOnChip ITE UM8663F BAT ALI M6117C...

Page 14: ...6 SBC 357 User Manual Card dimensions 19 00 80 645 121 00 98 50 73 66 28 80 185 00 19 60...

Page 15: ...2 Installation This chapter describes how to set up the SBC 357 hardware including instruc tions on setting jumpers and connecting peripherals switches and indicators Be sure to read all safety precau...

Page 16: ...nector CN2 Flopp drive connector CN3 Parallel printer connector CN4 LCD connector CN5 IR connector CN6 Power connector CN7 RS 232 422 485 connector COM2 CN8 COM1 connector CN9 COM3 connector CN10 VGA...

Page 17: ...re Configuration 9 Locating jumpers and connectors ITE 8661F CHIPS F65545 B2 DiskOnChip ITE UM8663F BAT ALI M6117C CN3 CN2 JP5 JP6 CN14 CN6 CN10 CN8 JP2 CN5 CN4 CN1 JP4 JP7 JP8 JP3 CN7 CN11 CN9 CN12 C...

Page 18: ...u remove the clip Sometimes a jumper will have three pins labeled 1 2 and 3 In this case you would connect either pins 1 and 2 or 2 and 3 The jumper settings are schematically depicted in this manual...

Page 19: ...nts can be damaged by the sudden rush of power Only experienced electronics personnel should open the PC chassis Caution Always ground yourself to remove any static charge before touching the CPU card...

Page 20: ...nds of the socket until the module is upright and the retaining clips at both ends of the module click into place When positioned correctly the pins on top of the vertical posts should corre spond to...

Page 21: ...le to the IDE connector Make sure that the red or blue wire corresponds to pin 1 on the connector which is labeled on the board on the right side 2 Plug the other end of the cable to the Enhanced IDE...

Page 22: ...IDE Connector CN1 Pin Signal Pin Signal 1 Reset 2 GND 3 D7 4 D8 5 D6 6 D9 7 D5 8 D10 9 D4 10 D11 11 D3 12 D12 13 D2 14 D13 15 D1 16 D14 17 D0 18 D15 19 GND 20 N C 21 N C 22 GND 23 IOW 24 GND 25 IOR 26...

Page 23: ...board connector usually used for 5 25 drives Connecting the floppy drive 1 Plug the 34 pin flat cable connector into the CN2 connector 2 Attach the appropriate connector on the other end of the cable...

Page 24: ...It provides an external port that gives your parallel peripheral access to the card s parallel port connector 1 Find an empty slot in your chassis 2 Unscrew the plate that covers the end of the slot 3...

Page 25: ...features an LCD connector CN4 which allows you to connect various flat panel displays The following table lists their pin assignments SVGA connector CN10 Pin Signal 1 Red video 2 Green video 3 Blue vi...

Page 26: ...ND 5 5 VDC 6 5 VDC 7 ENA VEE 8 GND 9 P0 10 P1 11 P2 12 P3 13 P4 14 P5 15 P6 16 P7 17 P8 18 P9 19 P10 20 P11 21 P12 22 P13 23 P14 24 P15 25 P16 26 P17 27 P18 28 P19 29 P20 30 P21 31 P22 32 P23 33 GND 3...

Page 27: ...nector CN6 In single board computer non passive backplane applications you will need to connect the power directly to the SBC 357 board using CN6 This connector is fully compatible with the standard P...

Page 28: ...t holds COM1 CN8 the DB 9 serial port connector for the first port The COM port connectors on the SBC 357 board are CN7 COM2 CN9 COM3 CN11 COM4 The COM2 can be assigned as RS 232 I F or RS 422 485 I F...

Page 29: ...22 485 connector CN7 If COM2 CN7 is assigned as RS 422 485 it s a dual in line box header connector RS 232 422 485 connector CN7 Pin Signal 1 DCD 2 RX 3 TX 4 DTR 5 GND 6 DSR 7 RTS 8 CTS 9 RI 10 NC 11...

Page 30: ...passive backplane applications A second 6 pin mini DIN keyboard and PS 2 mouse connector CN12 on the card mounting bracket supports single board computer applications Keyboard connector CN12 Pin Funct...

Page 31: ...yboard In this state the PC will not respond to any input This is useful if you don t want anyone to change or stop a running program Simply connect the switch between Pins 4 and 5 The pin assignments...

Page 32: ...ents for this jumper are as follows IDE LED JP1 Pin Signal 1 R W IDE 2 Vcc RS 232 422 485 setting select JP2 COM2 can also be assigned as RS 422 or RS 485 I F Setting JP2 to assign CN7 COM2 as RS 422...

Page 33: ...the internal buzzer Buzzer or External Speaker JP3 Buzzer External Speaker default Buzzer or External speaker JP3 Pin Function 1 Vcc 2 N C 3 Buzzer in 4 Speaker output 5 Speaker output LCD SHF ASHF cl...

Page 34: ...the system enter Green function mode System management interrupt JP5 SMI mode default Hardware Reset JP6 You can connect an external switch to easily reset your computer This switch restarts your comp...

Page 35: ...ardware Configuration 27 COM3 COM4 IRQ select JP7 COM3 COM4 IRQ select JP7 COM3 IRQ5 COM4 IRQ10 COM3 IRQ11 COM4 IRQ10 COM3 IRQ10 COM4 IRQ5 COM3 IRQ10 COM4 IRQ11 COM3 IRQ11 COM4 IRQ5 COM3 IRQ5 COM4 IRQ...

Page 36: ...Step 1 Install the DiskOnChip in U15 Step 2 Set SW1 for the memory address of the DiskOnChip memory SW1 determines the memory adddress of the DiskOnChip memory If you have another add on card in the s...

Page 37: ...hapter 2 Hardware Configuration 29 LCD driving voltage select JP9 JP10 You can select LCD connector CN4 driving voltage by setting JP9 JP10 LCD driving voltage select JP9 JP10 5V 3 3V Default JP9 JP10...

Page 38: ...MB unformatted In order to manage the disk the DiskOnChip 2000 includes the TrueFFS M Systems Flash File System proprietary software The DiskOn Chip 2000 package is pin to pin compatible with standard...

Page 39: ...C H A P T E R 3 AMIBIOS Setup This chapter describes how to set the BIOS configuration data...

Page 40: ...ollows AMIBIOS SETUP BIOS SETUP UTILITIES C 1995 American Megatrends Inc All Rights Reserved Standard CMOS Setup Advanced CMOS Setup Advanced Chipset Setup Power Management Setup Peripheral Setup Chan...

Page 41: ...troke Function tab Move to the next window or field Move to the next field to the right left above or below ENTER Select the current field Increments a value Decrements a value ESC Close the current o...

Page 42: ...om Sec Mode Mode Mode Mode Pri Master AUTO On On AUTO Off Pri Slave AUTO On On AUTO Off Boot Sector Virus Protection Disabled Month Jan Dec Esc Exit Sel Day 01 31 PgUp PgDn Modify Year 1901 2099 F2 F3...

Page 43: ...and or 1 44 MB 3 The settings have not been pre installed Master Disk Slave Disk Select the appropriate values to configure the hard disk type you are using for the master and the slave Available type...

Page 44: ...atible Mode Disabled Wait For F1 if error Enabled System BIOS Cacheable Enabled Hard disk Delay Disabled C000 32k Shadow Enabled C800 32k Shadow Disabled D000 32k Shadow Disabled D800 32k Shadow Disab...

Page 45: ...READY signal from the IDE hard disk drive If a READY signal is not received immediately from the IDE drive AMIBIOS does not configure that drive AMIBIOS does not wait for 5 seconds after sending a RES...

Page 46: ...d The default setting is Enabled System Keyboard This option specifies that a keyboard is attached to the computer The settings are Present or Absent The default setting is Present Primary Display Thi...

Page 47: ...ettings are Enabled or Disabled The default setting is Disabled d n a r B e m a n e m a n l e d o M t a m r o F 7 5 3 C B S p r a h S T F T N T S D r o l o C t i b 6 1 0 8 4 x 0 4 6 P 8 0 C 4 6 M L S...

Page 48: ...s Enabled System BIOS cacheable When this option is set to Enabled the contents of the F0000h system memory segment can be read from or written to L2 cache memory The contents of the F0000h memory seg...

Page 49: ...e available to the local bus The settings are Setting Description Shadow The contents of C0000h C3FFFh are written to the same address in system memory RAM for faster execution Enabled If an adapter R...

Page 50: ...f Refresh Disable Slow Refresh 15 us RAS Precharge time 2 5T RAS Active Time Insert wait Enabled CAS Precharge Time Insert Wait Enabled Memory Write Insert Wait Disabled PCLK 2 8 Memory Miss Read Inse...

Page 51: ...f Refresh Disabled Enabled Slow Refresh 15 s 60 s 120 s RAS Precharge Time 2 5T 1 5T 3 5T RAS Active Time Insert Wait Disabled Enabled CAS Precharge Time Insert Wait Disabled Enabled Memory Write Inse...

Page 52: ...ry Hole At 15 16M Disabled Enabled I O Recovery Enabled Disabled I O Recovery Peried 0 s 0 25 s 0 50 s 0 75 s 1 00 s 1 25 s 1 50 s 1 75 s 2 00 s 2 25 s 2 50 s 2 75 s 3 00 s 3 25 s 3 50 s 16 Bit ISA In...

Page 53: ...ings and Exit Exit Without Saving Standard CMOS setup for changing time date hard disk type etc ESC Exit Sel F2 F3 Color F10 Save Exit AMIBIOS SETUP ADVANCED CHIPSET SETUP C 1995 American Megatrends I...

Page 54: ...xception of Disabled SMI selections have fixed mode settings Therefore when PM is set to Disabled some items which are predefined will become unmodifiable Power down HDD in When enabled and after the...

Page 55: ...system goes into power saving mode power management will skip to the next mode in the sequence if this is disabled Suspend mode timeout This sets the period of system inactivity after which the syste...

Page 56: ...Port 4 IRQ IRQ_B Available Options Disabled Enabled ESC Exit Sel PgUp PgDn Modify F2 F3 Color Onboard IDE This option specifies the onboard IDE controller channels that will be used The settings are D...

Page 57: ...llel Port EPP specification EPP uses the existing parallel port signals to provide asymmetric bidirectional data transfer driven by the host device ECP The parallel port can be used with devices that...

Page 58: ...r own password AMIBIOS SETUP BIOS SETUP UTILITIES C 1995 American Megatrends Inc All Rights Reserved Standard CMOS Setup Advanced CMOS Setup Advanced Chipset Setup Power Management Setup Peripheral Se...

Page 59: ...re loaded automatically AMIBIOS SETUP BIOS SETUP UTILITIES C 1995 American Megatrends Inc All Rights Reserved Standard CMOS Setup Advanced CMOS Setup Advanced Chipset Setup Power Management Setup Peri...

Page 60: ...tem is behaving erratically AMIBIOS SETUP BIOS SETUP UTILITIES C 1995 American Megatrends Inc All Rights Reserved Standard CMOS Setup Advanced CMOS Setup Advanced Chipset Setup Power Management Setup...

Page 61: ...required for the system to operate AMIBIOS SETUP BIOS SETUP UTILITIES C 1995 American Megatrends Inc All Rights Reserved Standard CMOS Setup Advanced CMOS Setup Advanced Chipset Setup Power Management...

Page 62: ...ds Inc All Rights Reserved Standard CMOS Setup Advanced CMOS Setup Advanced Chipset Setup Power Management Setup Peripheral Setup Change User Password Change Supervisor Password Change Language Settin...

Page 63: ...A Setup C H A P T E R The SBC 357 features an onboard flat panel SVGA interface This chapter provides instructions for installing and operating the software drivers on the included display driver disk...

Page 64: ...ENTER key or click OK to begin the installation At this point the setup program locates the directory where Windows is installed For proper operation the drivers must be installed in the Windows subd...

Page 65: ...ectly Then exit from Windows 2 Place the Supporting CD ROM into yur CD ROM drive Type cd rom drive ENTER to make this the default drive 3 Type CD ROM model name sbc 357 357 vga driver setup ENTER to r...

Page 66: ...ows with the new display driver Changing Display Drivers from DOS To change display drivers from DOS change to the Windows directory and run Setup repeating steps 4 and 5 from the previous page Beside...

Page 67: ...a Windows based utility to select resolutions and color depth It is a Control Panel Applet with its own icon that is automatically installed when installing the CHIPS Windows 3 1 linear drivers The C...

Page 68: ...f colors from the following 16 4 bits per pixel 256 8 bpp 32K 15 bpp 64K 16 bpp 16M 24 bpp If you select color depth first the allowable resolution choices will automatically be shown DPI ALT P allows...

Page 69: ...A Watchdog Timer Sample Programs A P P E N D I X The following sample programs illustrates the programming steps required to enable set and disable the watchdog timer...

Page 70: ...d on the chipset ALI M6117C If you want to use it you have to know how to read write the configuration register of M6117C Following is the basic procedure 1 Open the chip 2 Write Read data to from reg...

Page 71: ...etting by index 38h bit 7 4 Index 3Bh 3Ah 39H Index 38h h B 3 h A 3 h 9 3 0 D 7 D 0 D 7 D 0 D 7 D r e t n u o c MSB LSB 4 7 D l a n g i s t u o e e m i t 0 0 0 0 d v r e s e R 1 0 0 0 3 Q R I 0 1 0 0...

Page 72: ...reset IO_Delay MACRO jcxz 2 jcxz 2 ENDM Open_Chip MACRO push ax mov al 013h out 22h al IO_Delay mov al 0c5h out 23h al IO_Delay pop ax ENDM Close_Chip MACRO push ax mov al 13h out 22h al IO_Dealy mov...

Page 73: ...data and al 10111111b set bit6 0 to disable timer mov ah al mov al 37h call Write_To_Chip mov ah 33 1 msec 33x30 5u sec mov al 39h call Write_To_Chip mov ax 003ah call Write_To_Chip mov ax 003bh call...

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Page 75: ...Appendix B Installing PC 104 Modules B 67 APPENDIX B Installing PC 104 Modules This appendix gives instructions for installing PC 104 Modules...

Page 76: ...15B PCMCIA Module two slot PCM 3200 PC 104 Sound Module PCM 3420 PC 104 Fast SCSI Module PCM 3521 Advanced Flat Panel CRT VGA Module PCM 3522 LCD Panel Adapter PCM 3600 PC 104 Fax Modem Module PCM 361...

Page 77: ...y mentioned above Step2 Make any jumper or link changes required to the CPU card now Once the PC 104 module is mounted you may have difficulty in accessing these Step3 Mount the PC 104 module onto the...

Page 78: ...B 70 SBC 357 User Manual 0 200 0 0 0 200 3 350 3 550 0 200 3 575 3 250 0 300 3 775 3 575 PC 104 module dimensions inches 5...