Acrosser Technology AR-B1896, User Manual

Page 1: ...AR B1896 User s Guide AR B1896 Fanless and Dustproof Pentium M embedded system with TV DVI and 6 serial ports Edition 1 0 Book Number AR B1896 06 09 11 ...

Page 2: ... or documentation even if advised of the possibility of such damages This document contains proprietary information protected by copyright All rights are reserved No part of this manual may be reproduced by any mechanical electronic or other means in any form without prior written permission of the manufacturer Trademarks AR B1896 is registered trademarks X Fire Acrosser IBM PC is a registered tra...

Page 3: ...s Layout 7 2 2 Power Button Setting 9 2 3 CMOS Reset 9 2 4 Power Connector 9 2 4 Jumper description 10 Connection 11 3 1 Ultra ATA33 66 100 IDE Disk Drive Connector 11 3 2 Serial Ports 12 3 3 Keyboard Mouse Connector 13 3 4 USB Port Connector 14 3 5 Fan Connector 14 3 6 LAN RJ45 Connector 14 3 7 VGA Connector 15 3 8 Compact Flash Storage Card Socket 15 3 9 PCI Slot 17 3 10 Mini PCI Slot 17 3 11 DD...

Page 4: ...ial ports 4 3 12 GPIO 18 3 13 Internal Buzzer 18 3 14 Reset Button 18 Award BIOS Setup 19 4 1 Introduction 19 4 2 Starting Setup 19 4 3 Using Setup 20 4 4 Main Menu 21 4 5 Advanced BIOS Features 23 4 6 PnP PCI Configuration Setup 25 4 7 Peripheral 26 4 8 PC Health 27 4 9 Boot 27 4 10 Exit Selecting 28 ...

Page 5: ...DVI support up to 165Mpixel s Ultra DMA 133 IDE Interface Two PCI Enhance IDE channel CompactFlash TM interface Supports CompactFlash TM Type II socket for Compact Flash Disk or IBM Micro Drive Series ports six high speed 16C550 compatible UARTs ports USB port Support four USB 2 0 compatible ports PCI Interface Two Mini PCI and one PCI slot Parallel port One port Floppy One port GPIO 8 pin TTL com...

Page 6: ...2562EZ One ports IEEE 802 3u Auto Negotiation support for 10 100 Power Consumption 12V 2A Temperature Use Compact Flash 20 o C 60 o C use Hard Disk 2 5 0 45 o C 1 2 What You Have In addition to this User s Manual the AR B1896 package includes the following items AR B1896 board One IDE Cable VGA cable Keyboard Mouse Adapter Y Cable Two RS 232 serial ports Cable with bracket One power button cable O...

Page 7: ... 6 serial ports 7 2 Installation This chapter describes how to install the AR B1896 At first the layout of AR B1896 is shown and the unpacking information that you should be careful is described The jumpers and switches setting for the AR B1896 s configuration 2 1 AR B1896 s Layout Top Placement ...

Page 8: ...AR B1896 User s Guide AR B1896 Fanless and Dustproof Pentium M embedded system with TV DVI and 6 serial ports 8 Bottom Placement ...

Page 9: ...with TV DVI and 6 serial ports 9 2 2 Power Button Setting Place power button cable on CN3 pin 9 10 use Mechanical Power Button JRFT1 pin 9 10 Power Button Connector 2 3 CMOS Reset JBAT1 CMOS pin header 2 4 Power Connector DCIN2 Power connector Pin Description 1 12 V Power 2 Ground ...

Page 10: ... 1 2 4 Jumper description J1 Banias or Dothan CPU JP1 CPU Power start setting JP1 Description open Normal start CPU Power default close Soft start CPU Power JRS1 COM2 for RS 232 RS 422 RS 485 JRS2 Description 1 2 RS 232 3 4 RS 422 5 6 RS 485 J1 Description Close Support Banias CPU default Open Support Dothan CPU JRS1 2 1 6 5 ...

Page 11: ...rd disk drives to the AR B1896 IDE controller IDE 1 Primary IDE Connector 40 Pins PIN NO DESCRIPTION PIN NO DESCRIPTION 1 RESET 2 GROUND 3 DATA 7 4 DATA 8 5 DATA 6 6 DATA 9 7 DATA 5 8 DATA 10 9 DATA 4 10 DATA 11 11 DATA 3 12 DATA 12 13 DATA 2 14 DATA 13 15 DATA 1 16 DATA 14 17 DATA 0 18 DATA 15 19 GROUND 20 N C 21 N C 22 GROUND 23 IOW 24 GROUND 25 IOR 26 GROUND 27 N C 28 BALE DEFAULT 29 N C 30 GRO...

Page 12: ...4 DATA 13 15 DATA 1 16 DATA 14 17 DATA 0 18 DATA 15 19 GROUND 20 N C 21 N C 22 GROUND 23 IOW 24 GROUND 25 IOR 26 GROUND 27 N C 28 BALE DEFAULT 29 N C 30 GROUND DEFAULT 31 INTERRUPT 32 IOCS16 DEFAULT 33 SA1 34 N C 35 SA0 36 SA2 37 HDC CS0 38 HDC CS1 39 HDD ACTIVE 40 GROUND 41 5V LOGIC 42 5V MOTOR 43 GROUND 44 TYPE 3 2 Serial Ports The AR B1896 offers 6 high speeds NS16C550 compatible UARTs with Rea...

Page 13: ...D CTS 9 RING INDICATOR RI COM2 COM6 10 pin Connector PIN NO DESCRIPTION 1 DATA CARRIER DETECT DCD 2 DATA SET READY DSR 3 RECEIVE DATA RXD 4 REQUEST TO SEND RTS 5 TRANSMIT DATA TXD 6 CLEAR TO SEND CTS 7 DATA TERMINAL READY DTR 8 RING INDICATOR RI 9 GROUND 10 NC 3 3 Keyboard Mouse Connector The AR B1896 provides PS 2 Mouse Keyboard Connector PS 2 Mouse KeyBoard 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 KBM1 PS2KBM...

Page 14: ...5 USB2 6 USB3 7 GROUND 8 GROUND 9 GROUND 10 GROUND 3 5 Fan Connector The AR B1896 provides 2 connectors for CPU cooling fan system fan they can be controlled by Super I O Chip CPUF2 CPUF3 Fan Connector for CPU System PIN NO DESCRIPTION 1 Sense 2 12 V 3 Ground 3 6 LAN RJ45 Connector AR B1896 is equipped with built in 4 x 10 100Mbps Ethernet Controller You can connect it to your LAN through RJ45 LAN...

Page 15: ...Link LED Act LED 3 7 VGA Connector VGA1 10 pin Connector PIN NO DESCRIPTION 1 RED R 2 GROUND 3 GREEN G 4 GROUND 5 BLUE B 6 GROUND 7 VERTICAL SYNCHRON VS 8 CLOCK CLK 9 HORIZONTAL SYNCHRON HS 10 DATA SDATA 3 8 Compact Flash Storage Card Socket The AR B1896 configures Compact Flash Storage Card in IDE Mode This type II Socket is compatible with IBM Micro Drive CFD1 Compact Flash Storage Card Socket p...

Page 16: ...5 29 D13 5 D6 30 D14 6 D7 31 D15 7 CS1 32 CS3 8 N C 33 N C 9 GROUND 34 IOR 10 N C 35 IOW 11 N C 36 PULL HIGH 12 N C 37 IRQ15 13 VCC 38 VCC 14 N C 39 MASTER SLAVE 15 N C 40 N C 16 N C 41 RESET 17 N C 42 IORDY 18 A2 43 N C 19 A1 44 PULL HIGH 20 A0 45 ACTIVE 21 D0 46 PDIAG 22 D1 47 D8 23 D2 48 D9 24 N C 49 D10 25 CARD DETECT2 50 GROUND Note If IDE2 CFD1 both in used CFD1 must be as Master IDE2 is as ...

Page 17: ...ide AR B1896 Fanless and Dustproof Pentium M embedded system with TV DVI and 6 serial ports 17 3 9 PCI Slot PCI1 3 10 Mini PCI Slot MPCI1 MPCI2 3 11 DDR SODIMM Socket SODIMM1 SODIMM2 1 123 124 2 B62 A62 A1 B1 1 2 199 200 ...

Page 18: ... Pentium M embedded system with TV DVI and 6 serial ports 18 3 12 GPIO CN4 PIN NO DESCRIPTION PIN NO DESCRIPTION 1 GPIO1 6 GPIO7 2 GPIO5 7 GPIO4 3 GPIO2 8 GPIO8 4 GPIO6 9 GROUND 5 GPIO3 10 VCC 3 13 Internal Buzzer BZ1 3 14 Reset Button RST_BTN1 10 9 2 1 ...

Page 19: ...up program can be activated in one of two ways 1 By pressing Del immediately after switching the system on or 2 By pressing the Del key when the following message appears briefly at the bottom of the screen during the POST Power On Self Test Press DEL to enter SETUP If the message disappears before you respond and you still wish to enter Setup restart the system to try again by turning it OFF then...

Page 20: ...ow Move to the item on the right menu bar Esc Main Menu Quit without saving changes Submenus Exit Current page to the next higher level menu Move Enter Move to the item you desired PgUp key Increase the numeric value or make changes PgDn key Decrease the numeric value or make changes key Increase the numeric value or make changes key Decrease the numeric value or make changes Esc key Exit Menu Qui...

Page 21: ...on Date MM DD YYYY Set the system date Time HH MM SS Set the system time IDE Primary Master Options are in its sub menu described in Table 3 Press Enter to enter the sub menu of detailed options IDE Primary Slave Options are in its sub menu described in Table 3 Press Enter to enter the sub menu of detailed options IDE Secondary Master Options are in its sub menu described in Table 3 Press Enter to...

Page 22: ...lays the amount of conventional memory detected during boot up Extended Memory N A Displays the amount of extended memory detected during boot up Total Memory N A Displays the total memory available in the system Table 1 Main Menu Selections IDE Adapters The IDE adapters control the hard disk drive Use a separate sub menu to configure each hard disk drive Figure 2 shows the IDE primary master sub ...

Page 23: ...emaining fields on this screen Selects the type of fixed disk User Type will let you select the number of cylinders heads etc Note PRECOMP 65535 means NONE Capacity Auto Display your disk drive size Disk drive capacity Approximated Note that this size is usually slightly greater than the size of a formatted disk given by a disk checking program Access Mode CHS LBA Large Auto Choose the access mode...

Page 24: ... bootloader program is run from the hard disk drive The Choice Enabled Disabled Baud Rate This item allows you to setup the data transfer rate for the console port The choice 9600 19200 38400 57600 and 115200 Agent After Boot This item allows you to enable or disable the agent after boot The Choice Enabled Disabled Swap Floppy Drive If the system has two floppy drives choose enable to assign physi...

Page 25: ...by The Award Plug and Play BIOS has the capacity to automatically configure all of the boot and Plug and Play compatible devices However this capability means absolutely nothing unless you are using a Plug and Play operating system such as Windows 95 If you set this field to manual choose specific resources by going into each of the sub menu that follows this field a sub menu is preceded by a The ...

Page 26: ...irst and second serial ports The choice 3F8 IRQ4 2E8 IRQ3 3E8 IRQ4 2F8 IRQ3 Disabled Auto UART Mode Select Select the Function Mode for UART The choice IrDA ASKIR Normal Onboard Parallel Port Select 3BC IRQ7 to enable On Board Parallel Port as first Parallel Interface The choice Disable 378 IRQ7 278 IRQ5 3BC IRQ7 USB Controller Select Enabled if your system contains a Universal Serial Bus USB cont...

Page 27: ... This Entry is for disable enable EHCI 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 be automatically turn on when high speed device were attached The Choice Enabled Disabled 4 8 PC Health Figure 5 H W Monitor menu 4 9 Boot Figure 6 Boot menu ...

Page 28: ...f Pentium M embedded system with TV DVI and 6 serial ports 28 First Second Third Other Boot Device The BIOS attempts to load the operating system from the devices in the sequence selected in these items The Choice 4 10 Exit Selecting Figure 8 Exit menu ...

Page 29: ...system operations While Award has designed the custom BIOS to maximize performance the factory has the right to change these defaults to meet their needs When you press Enter on this item you get a confirmation dialog box with a message similar to Load Optimized Defaults Y N N Pressing Y loads the default values that are factory settings for optimal performance system operations Exit Without Savin...

Page 30: ... Fanless and Dustproof Pentium M embedded system with TV DVI and 6 serial ports 30 with a message similar to Load Fail Safe Defaults Y N N Pressing Y loads the default values that are factory settings for Fail Safe system operations ...