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Chapter 3 BIOS Setup 

This chapter describes the BIOS setup.   

Overview 

BIOS are a program located on a Flash memory chip on a circuit board.  It is used 
to initialize and set up the I/O peripherals and interface cards of the system, which 

includes time, date, hard disk drive, the ISA bus and connected devices such as 

the video display, diskette drive, and the keyboard.  This program will not be lost 
when you turn off the system.   

The BIOS provides a menu-driven interface to the console subsystem.  The console 

subsystem contains special software, called firmware that interacts directly with the 
hardware components and facilitates interaction between the system hardware 

and the operating system. 

The BIOS default values ensure that the system will function at its normal capability. 
In the worst situation the user may have corrupted the original settings set by the 

manufacturer.   

All the changes you make will be saved in the system RAM and will not be lost after 
power-off. 

When you start the system, the BIOS will perform a self-diagnostics test called Power 

On Self Test (POST) for all the attached devices, accessories, and the system.  Press 
the [Del] key to enter the BIOS Setup program, and then the main menu will show 

on the screen. 

 

Note: Change the parameters when you fully understand their functions and 

subsequence.   

 

Summary of Contents for Fanless Series FX5403

Page 1: ...i FabiaTech Corporation IPC Solution Website http www fabiatech com Email support fabiatech com Small Cube System Fanless Series FX5403 User Manual JULY 2007 Version 1 2 Part Number FX5403 ...

Page 2: ...rnishing performance or use of this document Trademarks Trademarks brand names and products names mentioned in this publication are used for identification purpose only and are the properties of their respective owners Technical Support If you have problems or difficulties in using the system or setting up the relevant devices and software that are not explained in this manual please contact our s...

Page 3: ...d Mini PCI Socket for WLAN Modules 10 Installing Memory DIMM Socket for DDR Modules 10 LED Indicators On the Front Panel 11 Connecting the Monitor Keyboard Mouse 11 Connecting the COM ports 12 Connecting the LAN ports and USB Ports 12 LED Indicators On the Front Panel 13 Connecting the Audio Microphone In Line Out 14 Connecting the DC Power and Power Switch 14 Chapter 3 BIOS Setup 17 Overview 17 B...

Page 4: ...ency 26 CAS Latency 26 Video Memory Size 27 Onboard Audio 27 Peripheral Setup 28 OnChip Primary IDE Channel 1 28 Master Slave Drive PIO mode 28 IDE Primary Master Slave UDMA 28 IDE HDD Block Mode 29 OnBoard UART IRQ Port 1 2 3 4 29 Serial Port 2 Mode Select 29 LAN1 2 Controller 29 Onboard LAN Boot ROM 29 Power Management 30 Power Management 30 PCI Plug and Play 31 PNP O S Installed 31 Reset Config...

Page 5: ...abled 39 Watchdog Timer Trigger 39 Watchdog Timer Disabled 40 Programming RS 485 41 Chapter 5 Technical Reference 45 Trouble Shooting for Post Beep and Error Messages 45 POST BEEP 45 Error Message 45 Technical Reference 48 Physical and Environmental 48 Real Time Clock and Non Volatile RAM 48 CMOS RAM Map 50 I O Port Address Map 51 Interrupt Request Lines IRQ 52 DMA Channel Map 53 DMA Controller 2 ...

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Page 8: ...de Processor Able to support 500 MHz CPU this system supports dual 10 100 1000M interface network port audio 1 DIMM socket with 256MB DDR RAM mini PCI socket for wireless LAN Four USB2 0 ports and a VGA controller Each FX5403 has four ports for I O communications Four RS 232C ports are available The FX5403 is perfect for Internet Router VPN Gateway firewall Mail Server WBT and small Embedded Contr...

Page 9: ...MHz Chipset AMD Geode CS5536 1 184 Pin DIMM Max 256MB 1GB CRT VGA Yes Watchdog Timer Yes Multi I O Four RS232C Enhanced IDE One CF Compare Flash Socket One USB2 0 Four Audio MIC In Line Out Mini PCI Socket One RJ45 Ethernet 100 1000M Base TX Dual Dimensions Unit mm 130 0 D x 200 0 W x 44 2 H ...

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Page 11: ...orts MIC In Line Out connectors One Mini PCI Socket for Wireless LAN module One DC In plug connector and terminal block with power switch One power LED and hard disk Compact Flash access LED and two LAN LEDs One push button reset switch Storage Bay One Compact Flash slot for Compare Flash Module or Micro Drivers One 2 5 hard disk space Power requirement 12 24V DC with 15 tolerance 16VA maximum wit...

Page 12: ... compatible with the FX5403 system Note after you install the FX5403 it is recommended that you keep the diskette or CD that contains drivers and document files and keep the document copies or unused cables in the carton for future use The following lists the accessories that may be included in your FX5403 package Some accessories are optional items that are only shipped upon order One FX5403 embe...

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Page 14: ...wing descriptions 1 Before removing the cover shut down the operation System and disconnect power switch to off and unplug AC to DC Adapter cable 2 Install or unplug any connector Compact Flash and hard disk be sure that the power is disconnected or power switch to off from the system If not this may damage the system 3 The ESD Electricity Static Discharge may be created from human body that touch...

Page 15: ...2 5 HDD inside the FX5403 and how to install the FX5403 fixers Note Use caution when handling the hard disk to prevent damage to IDE connector as you insert hard disk Be careful with the pin orientation when installing connectors and the cables A wrong connection can easily destroy your hard disk CN3 is used to connect a 2 5 HDD with included 44 pin flat cable or 44 pin DiskOnModule directly ...

Page 16: ... on FX5403 Please refer to the left side figure for installing the FX5403 with L type universal fixers Note The Compact Flash socket supports 3 3V Compact Flash and Micro Drives The JP10 is used to select master slave device of this socket and default is slave close Be sure to avoid the same master slave setting with which connects to IDE connector if you use CF and IDE hard disk simultaneous ...

Page 17: ...ct the antenna cable from backside antenna hole to Mini PCI WLAN the auxiliary board Release the screws on the bottom of the unit Please see the spots circled Installing Memory DIMM Socket for DDR Modules You may extend additional memory to FX5403 by removing the bottom cover See as following figure and rear pictures The DIMM socket supports 128MB to 1GB of DDR RAM modules ...

Page 18: ... s Green indicate on line access status of LAN1 and LAN2 respectively Connecting the Monitor Keyboard Mouse To connector the peripheral control devices and monitor to the FX5403 refer to the following procedure 1 2 Antenna 4 2 3 1 DC12 24V ON OFF 1 A VGA connector is provided for CRT display DB15 Signal 1 Red 2 Green 3 Blue 13 Hsync 14 Vsync 12 DDC Data 15 DDC Clock 5 10 Digital Ground 6 7 8 Analo...

Page 19: ...onnections of these connectors Connecting the LAN ports and USB Ports The RJ45 connector with 2 LED s for LAN The right side LED orange indicates data is being accessed and the left side LED green indicates on line status On indicates on line and off indicates off line DB 9 RS 232 Signal 1 DCD2 6 DSR2 2 RXD2 7 RTS2 3 TXD2 8 CTS2 4 DTR2 9 RI2 5 Ground Case Case Ground LAN1 LAN2 Signal LAN1 LAN2 Sig...

Page 20: ...r for system reset Push and release the button will cause hardware reset of FX5403 and restart system booting LED Indicators On the Front Panel The Power LAN and HDD LED have two distinctive statuses Off for inactive operation and blinking light for activity USB 1 4 Signal 1 USBV 2 USBD 3 USBD 4 USBG 1 4 The following lists the pin assignment of USB port LED1 Power LED Green LED2 HDD LED Red LED3 ...

Page 21: ...section for information about AC DC power input voltage See following figure and a side pictures DC Power Jack Use External AC DC power adapter DC12 24V ON OFF Since the switch does include a power switch plugging its power adapter into a power outlet then switch power to on when you final installed system hardware device Mic In Up Side Line Out Down Side DC 12 24V 15 tolerance 30VA minimum On Pow...

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Page 24: ...led firmware that interacts directly with the hardware components and facilitates interaction between the system hardware and the operating system The BIOS default values ensure that the system will function at its normal capability In the worst situation the user may have corrupted the original settings set by the manufacturer All the changes you make will be saved in the system RAM and will not ...

Page 25: ...d 10 Set User Password 11 Load Optimized Default to auto configure the system according to optimal setting with pre defined values This is also the factory default setting of the system when you receive the board 12 Load Fail Safe Default to configure the system in fail safe mode with predefined values 13 Save Settings and Exit perform this function when you change the setting and exit the BIOS Se...

Page 26: ...nd manage the menu Item Function ESC To exit the current menu or message Page Up Page Down To select a parameter F10 Save and exit F1 General Help F2 Item Help F5 Previous Values F6 Fail Safe Defaults F7 Optimized Defaults F9 Menu in BIOS UP Down Arrow Keys To go upward or downward to the desired item ...

Page 27: ...UTOEXEC BAT file For information on how to create this file please refer to the MS DOS manual Hard Disk Setup The BIOS supports various types for user settings The BIOS supports Pri Master Pri Slave so the user can install up to two hard disks For the master and slave jumpers please refer to the hard disk s installation descriptions and the hard disk jumper settings You can select AUTO under the T...

Page 28: ... error the system will be stopped and you will be prompted All But Keyboard The system boot will not stop for a keyboard error it will stop for all other errors All But Diskette The system boot will not stop for a disk error it will stop for all other errors All But Disk KeyThe system boot will not stop for a keyboard or disk error it will stop for all other errors Memory This option is display on...

Page 29: ...ess space This is memory that can be used for different applications DOS uses this area to load device drivers to keep as much base memory free for application programs Most use for this area is Shadow RAM Total Memory System total memory is the sum of basic memory extended memory and other memory ...

Page 30: ...the boot sector or partition table of the hard disk drive will halt the system and the following error message will appear in the mean time you can run an anti virus program to locate the problem Available Options Disabled Enabled Default setting Disable CPU Internal Cache This functions speeds up memory access The CPU has an internal cache Available options Disabled Enabled Default setting Enable...

Page 31: ...able options On Off Default setting On Gate A20 Option This item is chosen as Normal the A20 signal is controlled by keyboard controller or chipset hardware The selection is Fast Port 92 or a chipset specific method controls means the A20 signal Available options Normal Fast Default setting Normal Typematic rate Setting This function specifies the keystroke repeat rate when a key is pressed and he...

Page 32: ... setting 250 Security Option This field enables password checking every time the computer is powered on or every time the BIOS Setup is executed If Always is chosen a user password prompt appears every time and the BIOS Setup Program executes and the computer is turned on If Setup is chosen the password prompt appears if the BIOS executed Available options Setup Always Default setting Setup ...

Page 33: ...ault setting Auto Memory Frequency This Select equates are used for determining the DDR RAM Memory Clock frequency SPD represents Serial Presence Detect It is an 8 bit 2048 bits EEPROM built on the SDRAM for different frequencies Available Options Auto 100 MHz 133 MHz 166 MHz and 200 MHz Default setting 100 MHz CAS Latency This field specifies the latency for the DDR RAM system memory signals Avai...

Page 34: ...ory You can select either Video memory on the VGA There are setting share onboard memory Available Options None M 8MB 16MB 32MB 64MB 128MB and 254MB Default setting 8MB Onboard Audio This field specifies the internal Audio Control Available Options Disable Enable Default setting Enable ...

Page 35: ...ect a transfer to or from the disk drive PIO allows the BIOS to tell the controller what it wants and then let the controller and the CPU perform the complete task by them This is simpler and more efficient and faster Your system supports five modes numbered from 0 to 4 which primarily differ in timing When Auto is selected the BIOS will select the best available mode IDE Primary Master Slave UDMA...

Page 36: ... 3F8 IRQ4 2F8H IRQ3 and 3E8H IRQ5 2E8H IRQ9 Serial Port 2 Mode Select These fields item can select RS 232 RS 422 and RS 485 of select port 2 Available Options RS 232 RS 422 and RS485 Default setting RS 232 Note Referenced the Chapter_5 RS485 and RS422 Hardware Setup LAN1 2 Controller This field specifies the Enable or Disable of the onboard LAN chip Available Options Disabled Enable Default settin...

Page 37: ...field determines how much power consumption is needed for the system after selecting the below items Standby Mode This field defines the continuous idle time before the system enters Standby Mode If any item defined is enabled active Standby timer will be reloaded ...

Page 38: ...tion Data ESCD when you exit setup is you have installed a new add on and the system reconfiguration has caused such a serious conflict that the operation operating system cannot boot Available Options Enable Disable Default setting Disable Resources Controlled By Auto Manual If you select Auto all the interrupt request IRQ DMA assignment and Used DMA fields disappear as the BIOS automatically ass...

Page 39: ...liant with Plug and play standard whether designed for PCI or Reserved Memory Source Resources Controlled By Auto Manual Select a base address for the memory area used by any peripheral that requires high memory Available Options N A C800 CC00 D000 D400 D800 and DC00 Default setting N A PCI VGA Palette Snoop This option must be set to Enabled if any ISA adapter card installed in the computer requi...

Page 40: ...onitor the system temperature CPU voltage and battery Voltage System Hardware Monitor In this field you can monitor or detect the followings items These items are view only and cannot be changed CPU VCORE 2 500V 3 300V 5 0000V VBAT V CPU Temperature System Temperature VBAT On board Battery ...

Page 41: ...he Supervisor password is set up 4 Enter Advanced CMOS Setup screen and point to the Password Checkup field 5 Select Always or Setup Always a visitor who attempts to enter BIOS or operating system will be prompted for password Setup a visitor who attempts to the operating system will be prompted for user password You can enter either User password or Supervisor password 6 Point to Save Settings an...

Page 42: ...ick on System button Select Hardware click on Device Manager 4 Click on Video Controller VGA Compatible Update Driver Select Specify a location Browse Select lX_win file from CF 5 Click on OK Next Yes Finish 6 In the WINDOWS XP you can find the DISPLAYL icon located in the CONTROL PANEL group 7 Adjust the Resolution and Color LAN Utility Driver 1 To install the LAN utility OR driver insert the CD ...

Page 43: ...quipped with a CD ROM device copy the AES driver from the CD ROM to a CF 2 On the target LX processor computer running Windows XP open the device manager 3 Find the question mark on Entertainment Encryption Decryption Device in Other Devices 4 Pick Install from a list or specific location and click next Pick Don t search I will choose the driver to install and click next Pick Show All Devices wait...

Page 44: ...use of a system hang up it will generate a reset signal to reset the system The time out period can be programmed to be set from 1 to 255 seconds or minutes The CD ROM includes a Watch Dog demo file In the file there are 3 execution programs written in different forms The sub directories of the file are 1 WATCHDOG ASSEMBLE Library and Test Program written in Assembly Language 2 WATCHDOG TURBOC Lib...

Page 45: ...ery time before it times out After you trigger the watchdog timer it will be set to non zero value to watchdog counter and start to count down again If your program fails to trigger the watchdog timer before time out it will generate a reset pulse to reset the system The factor of the watchdog timer time out constant is approximately 1 second The period for the watchdog timer time out is between 1...

Page 46: ...Watchdog Timer Trigger After you enable the watchdog timer your program must write the same factor as enabling to the watchdog register at least once every time out period to its previous setting You can change the time out period by writing another timer factor to the watchdog register at any time and you must trigger the watchdog before the new time out period in the next trigger Below is a Turb...

Page 47: ...ation 40 Watchdog Timer Disabled To disable the watchdog timer simply write a 00H to the watchdog register include stdio H include WDLIB H main InitWD equWdUnitS printf Disable Watch Dog Disable watch dog DisWD WD_TIME ...

Page 48: ...ty Step 4 Disable TXC Note Please refer to the section of the Serial Ports in the Chapter 5 Technical Reference for the detail description of the COM ports register Initialize COM port Step 1 Initialize COM port in the receiver interrupt mode and or transmitter interrupt mode All of the communication protocol buses of the RS 485 are in the same Step 2 Disable TXC transmitter control the bit 0 of t...

Page 49: ...ut one block data Transmit the data more than two characters Step 1 Enable TXC signal and the bit 0 of the address of offset 4 just sets 1 Step 2 Send out the data Write all data to the offset 0 of the current COM port address Step 3 Wait for the buffer s data empty Check transmitter holding register THRE bit 5 of the address of offset 5 and transmitter shift register TSRE bit 6 of the address of ...

Page 50: ... 80 OUT H3FC INP H3FC AND HEF 90 RETURN c Receive one character from COM1 10 REM Check COM1 receiver buffer 20 IF LOF 1 256 THEN 70 30 REM Receiver buffer is empty 40 INPSTR 50 RETURN 60 REM Read one character from COM1 buffer 70 INPSTR INPUT 1 1 80 RETURN NOTE The example of the above program is based on COM1 I O Address 3F8h The RS 485 of the FX5403 uses COM2 If you want to program it and hardwa...

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Page 52: ...re all the components and connectors are in proper position and firmly attached If the errors still exist please contact with your distributor for maintenance POST BEEP Currently there are two kinds of beep codes in BIOS setup One indicates that a video error has occurred and the BIOS cannot initialize the video screen to display any additional information This beep code consists of a single long ...

Page 53: ...and firmly attached 3 The correct hard drive type is selected in BIOS Setup ERROR INITIALIZING HARD DISK CONTROLLER When this error occurs ensure the following things 1 The cord is exactly installed in the bus 2 The correct hard drive type is selected in BIOS Setup 3 Whether all of the jumpers are set correctly in the hard drive FLOPPY DISK CONTROLLER ERROR OR NO CONTROLLER PRESENT When you cannot...

Page 54: ...ory fields MEMORY VERIFYING ERROR It indicates an error verifying a value is already written to memory Use the location along with your system s memory map to locate the bad chip OFFENDING ADDRESS MISSING This message is used in connection with the I O CHANNEL CHECK and RAM PARITY ERROR messages when the segment that has caused the problem cannot be isolated REBOOT ERROR When this error occurs tha...

Page 55: ...tment that maintains the date and time in addition to storing configuration information about the computer system It contains 14 bytes of clock and control registers and 114 bytes of general purpose RAM Because of the use of CMOS technology it consumes very little power and can be maintained for long periods of time using an internal Lithium battery The contents of each byte in the CMOS RAM are li...

Page 56: ...type byte drive C 12 Fixed disk type byte drive D 13 Reserved 14 Equipment byte 15 Low base memory byte 16 High base memory byte 17 Low expansion memory byte 18 High expansion memory byte 19 2D Reserved 2E 2F 2 byte CMOS checksum 30 Low actual expansion memory byte 31 High actual expansion memory byte 32 Date century byte 33 Information flags set during power on 34 7F Reserved for system BIOS ...

Page 57: ...sabled 1 Enabled 15h Base Memory in 1KB increments Low Byte 16h Base Memory in 1KB increments High Byte 17h IBM compatible memory in 1KB increments Low Byte 18h IBM compatible memory in 1KB increments High Byte max 15 MB 19h 2Dh Vaires 2Eh Standard CMOS RAM checksum high byte 2Fh Standard CMOS RAM checksum low byte 30h IBM compatible Extended Memory Low Byte POST in KB 31h IBM compatible Extended ...

Page 58: ...1 040h 05Fh Timer 060h 06Fh Keyboard Controller 070h 071h Real Time Clock NMI 078h 07Bh TTL I O 080h 09Fh DMA Page Register 0A0h 0BFh Interrupt Controller 2 0C0h 0DFh DMA Controller 2 0F0h Clear Math Coprocessor Busy Signal 0F1h Reset Math Coprocessor 1F0h 1F7h IDE Interface 2E8h 2EFh Serial Port 4 COM4 2F8h 2FFh Serial Port 2 COM2 2B0 2DF Graphics adapter Controller 378h 3FFh Parallel Port 1 LPT1...

Page 59: ... the service required The following table shows the IRQ used by the devices on the Industrial CPU Card Level Function IRQ0 System Timer Output IRQ1 Keyboard IRQ2 Interrupt Cascade IRQ3 Serial Port 2 IRQ4 Serial Port 1 IRQ5 AUDIO IRQ6 Floppy Disk Controller IRQ7 Parallel Port 1 IRQ8 Real Time Clock IRQ9 Reserved IRQ10 LAN 1 IRQ11 LAN 2 IRQ12 PS2 Mouse IRQ13 FPU IRQ14 Primary IDE IRQ15 USB ...

Page 60: ...rvention The two DMA controllers are internally cascaded to provide four DMA channels for transfers to 8 bit peripherals DMA1 and three channels for transfers to 16 bit peripherals DMA2 DMA2 channel 0 provides the cascade interconnection between the two DMA devices thereby maintaining IBM PC AT compatibility The following is the system information of DMA channels DMA Controller 1 DMA Controller 2 ...

Page 61: ...n the ACE a completed MODEM control capability and a processor interrupt system that may be software tailored to the computing time required to handle the communications link The following table is a summary of each ACE accessible register DLAB Port Address Register Receiver buffer read 0 Base 0 Transmitter holding register write 0 Base 1 Interrupt enable X Base 2 Interrupt identification read onl...

Page 62: ...errupt Identification Register IIR Bit 0 0 if Interrupt Pending Bit 1 Interrupt ID Bit 0 Bit 2 Interrupt ID Bit 1 Bit 3 Must be 0 Bit 4 Must be 0 Bit 5 Must be 0 Bit 6 Must be 0 Bit 7 Must be 0 Line Control Register LCR Bit 0 Word Length Select Bit 0 WLS0 Bit 1 Word Length Select Bit 1 WLS1 WLS1 WLS0 Word Length 0 0 5 Bits 0 1 6 Bits 1 0 7 Bits 1 1 8 Bits Bit 2 Number of Stop Bit STB Bit 3 Parity ...

Page 63: ... 6 Must be 0 Bit 7 Must be 0 Line Status Register LSR Bit 0 Data Ready DR Bit 1 Overrun Error OR Bit 2 Parity Error PE Bit 3 Framing Error FE Bit 4 Break Interrupt BI Bit 5 Transmitter Holding Register Empty THRE Bit 6 Transmitter Shift Register Empty TSRE Bit 7 Must be 0 MODEM Status Register MSR Bit 0 Delta Clear to Send DCTS Bit 1 Delta Data Set Ready DDSR Bit 2 Training Edge Ring Indicator TER...

Page 64: ...ivisor Latch LS MS LS MS Bit 0 Bit 0 Bit 8 Bit 1 Bit 1 Bit 9 Bit 2 Bit 2 Bit 10 Bit 3 Bit 3 Bit 11 Bit 4 Bit 4 Bit 12 Bit 5 Bit 5 Bit 13 Bit 6 Bit 6 Bit 14 Bit 7 Bit 7 Bit 15 Desired Baud Rate Divisor Used to Generate 16x Clock 300 384 600 192 1200 96 1800 64 2400 48 3600 32 4800 24 9600 12 14400 8 19200 6 28800 4 38400 3 57600 2 115200 1 ...

Page 65: ...Serial ports provide power source will driver the RI signal pin if JP8 JP6 for COM3 COM4 and JP7 JP5 for COM1 COM2 were located on the power output position DB 9 RS 232 RS 422 RS 485 1 DCD 6 DSR 2 RXD RX 485 7 RTS TX 3 TXD RX 485 8 CTS TX 4 DTR 9 RI 5 Ground Metal Case Ground Note Changing the setting in BIOS setup program 3 2 1 Pin 1 2 Close Terminator Enabled JP11 Pin 2 3 Close Terminator Disabl...

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