Commell FS-A70, User Manual

Page 1: ...FS A70 PICMG1 3 Full size CPU Card User s Manual Edition 1 00 2007 07 04...

Page 2: ...d trademarks contains in this document are property of their respective owners Disclaimer The company shall not be liable for any incidental or consequential damages resulting from the performance or...

Page 3: ...card x 1 Cable Kit 4 pin to 3 pin ATX cable x 1 PS 2 Keyboard Mouse Cable x 1 SATA Cable x 6 Floppy flat cable x 1 Audio Port Cable x 1 DB25 DB9 cable x 1 USB cable x 3 COM Port Cable x 1 FS A70G2 On...

Page 4: ...or Reference 13 2 3 1 Internal Connectors 13 2 3 2 External Connectors 13 2 4 CPU and Memory Setup 14 2 4 1 CPU installation 14 2 4 2 Memory installation 15 2 5 CMOS Setup 16 2 6 Serial ATA installati...

Page 5: ...36 3 4 Video Memory Setup 37 Chapter 4 BIOS Setup 39 Appendix A I O Port Pin Assignment 41 A 1 Serial ATA Port 41 A 2 IrDA Port 41 A 3 VGA Port 42 A 4 LAN Port 42 Appedix B System Resources 43 Appedi...

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Page 7: ...mes with a new form factor with 775 pin PLGA package for 533 800 1066MHz front side bus 4MB L2 cache and for 65nm manufacturing technology the PLGA processor without pin header on solder side can make...

Page 8: ...ut value Real Time Clock Intel ICH8DO built in RTC with lithium battery Serial ATAII Intel ICH8DO integrates 6 Serial ATA II interface RAID 0 1 5 10 Intel Matrix Storage Technology supported Multi I O...

Page 9: ...r for CD IN Expansive Interface Mini PCI One Mini PCI socket TYPE III A 32 bit 33MHz Power supply 3 3V 5V 3VSB PCI Express One X16 and one X4 or four X1 on PICMG 1 3 Interface PCI Four PCI bus master...

Page 10: ...Q965 2 x 240 pin DDR2 533 667 800MHz up to 3GB Mini PCI slot 6 x USB2 0 ports HD Audio ICH8DO 6 x Serial ATAII ports Intel 82573L 2 x GLAN BIOS SPI W83627THG 2 x Serial ports 8 bit GPIO 1 x Parallel...

Page 11: ...FS A70 User s Manual 10 1 4 Mechanical Drawing Measurement inch...

Page 12: ...2 RJ45_2 RJ45_1 CRT PS2 COM1 RJ45_1 CRT Chapter 2 Hardware Setup 2 1 Connector Location CN_12V NBFAN S_ATA1 6 CN_IR FDD CN_DIO SYSFAN CN_AUDIO CDIN CN_PS DC_IN CN_COM1 2 CPUFAN CN_USB1 3 JFRNT MINIPCI...

Page 13: ...FS A70 User s Manual 12 JPESEL 2 2 Jumper Reference Jumper Function JRTC CMOS Operating Clear Setting JPESEL For set x4 or x1 PCI Express JRTC...

Page 14: ...CN_PS 3 pin ATX function connector DC_IN 4 pin power supply connector CN_DIO 6 x 2 pin digital I O connector CN_USB1 2 3 10 pin USB connector CPUFAN 4 pin CPU cooler fan connector SYSFAN 3 pin system...

Page 15: ...If CPU socket internal pin damage we could not provide warranty Intel Core 2 Duo Quad processor Package type 775 pin PLGA L2 Cache 4 MB FSB 533 800 1066MHz 266MHz x 4 Manufacturing 65nm 90nm Intel Hyp...

Page 16: ...has two 240 pin DDR2 DIMM support up to 3GB of memory capacity The memory frequency supports 533 667 800MHz Only Non ECC memory is supported DDRIIA B 112 pin 128 pin Please check the pin number to ma...

Page 17: ...can be setting in BIOS If the board refuses to boot due to inappropriate CMOS settings here is how to proceed to clear reset the CMOS to its default values Jumper JRTC Type Onboard 3 pin jumper JRTC M...

Page 18: ...on of RAID 0 1 5 and 10 The main features of RAID on ICH8DO are listed below 1 Supports for up to RAID volumes on a single two hard drive RAID array 2 Supports for two two hard drive RAID arrays on an...

Page 19: ...FS A70 User s Manual 18 2 7 LAN Interface The Intel 82573L supports triple speed of 10 100 1000Base T with IEEE802 3 compliance and Wake On LAN supported LAN...

Page 20: ...Based on Intel Q965 chipset with built in graphics the board provides one DB15 connector on real external I O port 2 8 1 Analog Display Please connect your CRT or LCD monitor with DB15 male connector...

Page 21: ...inition Audio it offers more vivid sound and other advantages than former HD audio compliance The main specifications of ALC260 are High performance DACs with 100dB S N ratio Compatible with HD Meets...

Page 22: ...5 header pitch 2 54mm Pin Description Pin Description 1 MIC_L 2 Ground 3 MIC_R 4 ACZ_DET 5 Speaker_R 6 MIC Detect 7 SENSE 8 N C 9 Speaker_L 10 Speaker Detect Connector CDIN Type 4 pin header pitch 2 5...

Page 23: ...rogrammable 8 bit digital I O interface for control panel application Connector CN_DIO Type onboard 2 x 6 pin header pitch 2 0mm Pin Description Pin Description 1 Ground 2 Ground 3 GP10 4 GP14 5 GP11...

Page 24: ...ntel ICH8DO contains two Enhanced Host Controller Interface EHCI and five Universal Host Controller Interfaces UHCI it can determine whether your connected device is for USB1 1 or USB2 0 and change th...

Page 25: ...connector and the board provides one 4 pin fan connector supporting smart fan for CPU cooler and two 3 pin cooler fan connectors for system and Northbridge chip The 8 pin CN_12V additional power conn...

Page 26: ...ption Pin Description 1 12V 2 Ground 3 Ground 4 5V Connector CN_PS Type 3 pin ATX function connector Pin Description Pin Description Pin Description 1 5V Standby 2 Ground 3 Power On Connector CPUFAN T...

Page 27: ...rial ports The jumper JCSEL1 JCSEL2 can let you configure the communicating modes for COM2 Connector CN_COM1 2 Type 10 pin 5 x 2 2 54mm x 2 54mm pitch header for COM2 Pin Description Pin Description 1...

Page 28: ...FS A70 User s Manual 27 Jumper JCSEL1 JCSEL2 Type On bond 12 Pin and 8 Pin jumper JCSEL1 JCSEL2 SIR RS 422 RS 485 RS 232 8 2 7 1 2 1 12 11...

Page 29: ...etc Please check well before you connecting the cables on the chassis Connector JFRNT Type onboard 14 pin 2 x 7 2 54 pitch header Function Signal PIN Signal Function HDLED 1 2 PWDLED IDE LED HDLED 3...

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Page 31: ...Chapter 3 System Configuration 3 1 SATA configuration SATA Mode This option can let you select whether the Serial ATA hard drives would work under normal IDE mode or RAID mode The RAID mode need more...

Page 32: ...was lost from a single drive which increases fault tolerance The data and parity are striped across all the hard drives in the array The parity is striped in a rotating sequence to reduce bottlenecks...

Page 33: ...AID under operation system for Microsoft Windows XP SP1 or Windows 2000 SP4 version please install the Intel Application Accelerator Ver 4 5 later to support RAID configuration with Intel Matrix Stora...

Page 34: ...70 User s Manual 33 2 Select Actions to Create RAID Volume Demo configuration for 2 SATA Drives and set as Intel Matrix Storage Technology set Rename the Volume name Select RAID Level as 0 Left as def...

Page 35: ...RAID volume 4 Specify the Volume size 5 Repeat the step 1 to create second volume as RAID Level 1 Tune this bar to specify the volume size if you specify the volume size lower than maximum you can cre...

Page 36: ...FS A70 User s Manual 35 For other configuration set please click Help on tool bar...

Page 37: ...ALC260 codec It can support 2 channel sound under system configuration Please follow the steps below to setup your sound system 1 Install REALTEK HD Audio driver 2 Lunch the control panel and Sound Ef...

Page 38: ...tup On Chip Frame Buffer Size This item can let you select video memory which been allocated for legacy VGA and SVGA graphics support and compatibility The available option is 1MB and 8MB Fixed Memory...

Page 39: ...g System Memory On Chip Frame Buffer Size Fixed Memory Size DVMT Memory Size Total Graphic Memory 1MB 128MB 0MB 128MB 1MB 0MB 128MB 128MB 8MB 128MB 0MB 128MB 256MB 511MB 8MB 0 128MB 128MB 1MB 128MB 0...

Page 40: ...ormation when the power is turned off If the battery runs out of the power then the settings of BIOS will come back to the default setting The BIOS section of the manual is subject to change without n...

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Page 42: ...1 Serial ATA Port Connector S_ATA1 2 3 4 5 6 Type 7 pin wafer connector 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 GND RSATA_TXP1 RSATA_TXN1 GND RSATA_RXN1 RSATA_RXP1 GND A 2 IrDA Port Connector CN_IR Type 5 pin header for SIR Po...

Page 43: ...escription 1 RED 6 Ground 11 N C 2 GREEN 7 Ground 12 DDC_DA 3 BLUE 8 Ground 13 HSYNC 4 N C 9 5V 14 VSYNC 5 Ground 10 Ground 15 DDC_CLK A 4 LAN Port Connector RJ451 2 Type RJ45 connector with LED on br...

Page 44: ...FS A70 User s Manual 43 Appedix B System Resources B1 I O Port Address Map...

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Page 46: ...FS A70 User s Manual 45 B2 Memory Address Map...

Page 47: ...FS A70 User s Manual 46 B3 System IRQ Resources...

Page 48: ...below TUhttp www award comUT TT File name of the tool is awdflash exe it s the utility that can write the data into the BIOS flash ship and update the BIOS C 2 Flash Method 1 Please make a bootable fl...

Page 49: ...87 o 4E 07 o 4F 09 enable GPIO function o 4E 30 o 4F 02 enable GPIO configuration o 4E F0 o 4F xx set GPIO as input output set 1 for input 0 for output o 4E F1 o 4F xx if set GPIO s as output in this...

Page 50: ...y program Timeout Value Range 1 to 255 Second or Minute Program Sample Watchdog timer setup as system reset with 5 second of timeout 4E 87 4E 87 4E 07 4F 08 Logical Device 8 4E 30 Activate 4F 01 4E F5...