ICP Electronics ROCKY-P218BXA Pentium II & Creative Sound, User Manual

Page 1: ... 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 ROCKY P218BXA is registered trademarks of ICP Electronics Inc IBM PC is a registered trademark of International ...

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Page 3: ...OCKY P218BXA 9 2 4 BIOS Flash Type Setting 9 2 5 System Memory DRAM 9 2 6 Watch Dog Timer 10 2 7 DiskOnChip Flash Disk 10 2 8 Clear CMOS Setup 11 2 9 Creative Sound Function 11 2 10 PS 2 MOUSE 11 3 Connection 12 3 1 Floppy Disk Drive Connector 12 3 2 PCI E IDE Disk Drive Connector 13 3 3 Parallel Port 14 3 4 Serial Ports 14 3 5 Keyboard Mouse Connector 15 ...

Page 4: ... CMOS Setup 21 4 4 Advanced Chipset Setup 23 4 5 Power Management Setup 25 4 6 PCI PLUG AND PLAY Setup 26 4 7 Peripheral Setup 27 4 8 Hardware Monitor Setup 29 4 9 Change User Supervisor Password 30 4 10 Auto Detect Hard Disks 31 4 11 Auto Configuration with Optimal Settings 31 4 12 Auto Configuration with Fail Safe Settings 32 4 13 Save Settings and Exit 32 4 14 Exit Without Saving 32 5 E 2 Key F...

Page 5: ...k User can use any DOS command without any extra software utility The DOC currently is available from 2MB to 72MB There also have PROMDISK Chip can be used in the same DOC socket as an alternative solution An advanced high performance super AT I O chip Winbond W83977TF is used in the ROCKY P218BXA board Both on chip UARTs are compatible with the NS16C550 The parallel port and IDE interface are com...

Page 6: ... memory 512KB Pipelined Burst SRAM in CPU Ultra DMA 33 IDE Interface up to four PCI Enhance IDE hard drives The Ultra DMA 33 IDE can handle data transfer up to 33MB s The best of all is that is new technology is compatible with existing ATA 2 IDE specifications So there is no need to do any change for customer s current accessory Floppy disk drive interface two 2 88 MB 1 44MB 1 2MB 720KB or 360KB ...

Page 7: ...h DOS command no need any extra software utility Keyboard connector Mouse PS 2 Mouse Port on board Power Consumption 5V 7 5A Pentium II 300MHz 32MB EDO RAM 12V 240mA 12V 40mA Operating Temperature 0 55 C CPU needs Cooler 1 2 What You Have In addition to this User s Manual the ROCKY P218BXA package includes the following items ROCKY P218BXA Single Board Computer Printer RS 232 Cable FDD HDD Cable 6...

Page 8: ...CKY P218BXA is shown Please read the Unpacking information on page 8 before you install it The jumpers and switches setting for the ROCKY P218BXA s configuration such as CPU type selection system clock setting and watch dog timer are also included 2 1 ROCKY P218BXA s Layout Please refer to next page ...

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Page 10: ...ti static wristband grounded at the same point as the anti static mat Inspect the cardboard carton for obvious damage Shipping and handling may cause damage to your board Be sure there are no shipping and handing damages on the board before processing After opening the cardboard carton exact the system board and place it only on a grounded anti static surface component side up Again inspect the bo...

Page 11: ...x ON ON ON OFF 6 5 x ON ON OFF OFF CPU Frequency CPU Clock x Multiplier for example Pentium II 266MHz 66MHz CPU Clock x 4 0 2 4 BIOS Flash Type Setting There are two kind of Flash Chips that can be used as BIOS ROM one is 12V programming and the other is 5V JP10 is designed to handle the setting JP10 Flash Type Setting JP10 DESCRIPTION 2 3 5V Flash 1 2 12V Flash 2 5 System Memory DRAM There are th...

Page 12: ...ive Type Setting JP9 DESCRIPTION 2 3 RESET WHEN WDT TIME OUT 1 2 ACTIVATE NMI TO CPU WHEN WDT TIME OUT OPEN DISABLE WDT JP11 WDT Time Out Period PERIOD 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 1 sec OFF OFF ON OFF 2 sec OFF OFF ON ON 10 sec OFF ON OFF OFF 20 sec OFF ON OFF ON 110 sec ON OFF OFF OFF 220 sec ON OFF OFF ON 2 7 DiskOnChip Flash Disk The DiskOnChip Flash Disk Chip DOC is produced by M Systems Because the DOC i...

Page 13: ...CMOS Set it back to normal operation mode by closing pin 1 2 JP5 Clear CMOS Setup PIN NO DESCRIPTION 1 2 Normal Operation 2 3 Clear CMOS Setup 2 9 Creative Sound Function The on board Creative Sound provides a 100 Sound Blaster 16 compatible function You can use the JP6 to enable or disable the sound function JP6 Enable Disable on board Sound function JP6 DESCRIPTION ON Enable Sound Function OFF D...

Page 14: ...ONNECTOR PIN NO DESCRIPTION PIN NO DESCRIPTION 1 GROUND 2 REDUCE WRITE 3 GROUND 4 N C 5 GROUND 6 N C 7 GROUND 8 INDEX 9 GROUND 10 MOTOR ENABLE A 11 GROUND 12 DRIVE SELECT B 13 GROUND 14 DRIVE SELECT A 15 GROUND 16 MOTOR ENABLE B 17 GROUND 18 DIRECTION 19 GROUND 20 STEP 21 GROUND 22 WRITE DATA 23 GROUND 24 WRITE GATE 25 GROUND 26 TRACK 0 27 GROUND 28 WRITE PROTECT 29 GROUND 30 READ DATA 31 GROUND 3...

Page 15: ...ector 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 IDE DRQ 22 GROUND 23 IOW 24 GROUND 25 IOR 26 GROUND 27 IDE CHRDY 28 GROUND 29 IDE DACK 30 GROUND DEFAULT 31 INTERRUPT 32 N C 33 SA1 34 N C 35 SA0 36 SA2 37 HDC ...

Page 16: ... 7 10 ACKNOWLEDGE 11 BUSY 12 PAPER EMPTY 13 PRINTER SELECT 14 AUTO FORM FEED 15 ERROR 16 INITIALIZE 17 PRINTER SELECT LN 18 GROUND 19 GROUND 20 GROUND 21 GROUND 22 GROUND 23 GROUND 24 GROUND 25 GROUND 26 NC 3 4 Serial Ports The ROCKY P218BXA offers two high speed NS16C550 compatible UARTs with Read Receive 16 byte FIFO serial ports CN11 Serial Port DB 9 Connector COM1 PIN NO DESCRIPTION 1 DATA CAR...

Page 17: ...EIVE DATA RXD 3 TRANSMIT DATA TXD 4 DATA TERMINAL READY DTR 5 GROUND GND 6 DATA SET READY DSR 7 REQUEST TO SEND RTS 8 CLEAR TO SEND CTS 9 RING INDICATOR RI 10 GROUND GND 3 5 Keyboard Mouse Connector The ROCKY P218BXA provides two keyboard mouse connectors CN9 5 pin PS 2 Mouse Connector PIN NO DESCRIPTION 1 MOUSE DATA 2 N C 3 GROUND 4 5V 5 MOUSE CLOCK ...

Page 18: ...Keyboard Connector PIN NO DESCRIPTION 1 KEYBOARD CLOCK 2 KEYBOARD DATA 3 N C 4 GROUND 5 5V CN12 6 pin Mini DIN Keyboard Connector PIN NO DESCRIPTION 1 KEYBOARD DATA 2 MOUSE DATA 3 GROUND 4 5V 5 KEYBOARD CLOCK 6 MOUSE CLOCK ...

Page 19: ...1 SPEAKER 2 VCC 3 N C 4 N C 5 N C 6 GND 7 VCC 8 KEYLOCK 9 RESET SW 10 GND 11 GND 12 GND 13 VCC 14 N C 15 IDE LED 16 ATX Power Control 17 ATX Power Button 18 ATX 5VSB 19 ATX 5VSB 20 ATX 5VSB 3 7 USB Port Connector The ROCKY P218BXA has two built in USB ports for the future new I O bus expansion CN5 2 ports USB Connector Pin 1 4 for USB 0 Pin 5 8 for USB 1 PIN NO DESCRIPTION PIN NO DESCRIPTION 1 VCC...

Page 20: ... IR TX 6 CIRRX 3 9 Fan Connector The ROCKY P218BXA provides three cooling fan connectors These connectors can supply 12V 500mA to the cooling fan In the connector there is a rotation pin The rotation pin gets the fan s rotation signal to system So the system BIOS can recognize the fan speed Please note that only specified fan offers the rotation signal CN14 15 16 Fan Connector PIN NO DESCRIPTION 1...

Page 21: ...OUND 13 JRC3 6 JRC1 14 JOYF3 7 JOYF1 15 MIDI IN 8 5V 16 NC J2 WAVE TABLE UPGRADE PIN NO DESCRIPTION 1 EMUR 2 GND 3 EMUL 4 GND 5 NC 6 GND 7 GND 8 GND J3 CD AUDIO IN SONY PIN NO DESCRIPTION 1 GROUND 2 JCD L 3 GROUND 4 JCD R J4 CD AUDIO IN MITSUMI PIN NO DESCRIPTION 1 JCD L 2 GND 3 GND 4 JCD R J5 MIC INPUT J6 LINE IN J9 LINE OUT ...

Page 22: ...er requirements This chapter is written to assist you in the proper usage of these features 4 1 Getting Start When the system is turned on the BIOS will enter the Power On Self Test routines These routines will be executed for system test initialization and system configuration verification After the POST routines are completed the following message appears Hit DEL if you want to run SETUP To acce...

Page 23: ...your keyboard to select one of the fields Months Date or Year then press either PgUp or PgDn to set it to the current Months Date and Year Do the same steps for Time setting For IDE hard disk drive setup please check the following possible setup procedure 1 Use the Auto setting for detection during boot up 2 Use the Auto Detect Hard Disk option in the main menu the computer will automatically dete...

Page 24: ... select Advanced CMOS Setup You can change the value of each options by using PgUp and PgDn key The available values are shown on the right screen Quick Boot Enabled this will enable the BIOS to boot quickly when you turn on your computer The BIOS will only check the first 1MB of the system memory Quick Boot Disabled the BIOS will test all system memory when it boots up It will spend about 40 seco...

Page 25: ...hen you boot If you turn it off the arrow keys on the numeric keypad can be used just as the other set of arrow keys on the keyboard and vice versa Floppy Drive Swap this function enables you to swap the floppy disk drives via software or without moving the hardware Floppy Drive Seek when this option is turned Enabled BIOS will perform a Seek command on floppy drive A before boot up PS 2 Mouse Sup...

Page 26: ...nced Chipset Setup These setup functions are working mostly for Chipset Intel 440BX These options are used to change the Chipset s registers Please carefully change any default setting otherwise the system will run unstably Configure SDRAM Timing by SPD Enabled will select predetermined optimal values of chipset parameters When Disabled chipset parameters return to setup information stored in CMOS...

Page 27: ...uffer USWC to specify whether or not a caching of the PCI VGA frame buffer is allowed USWC Write Post to Enable or Disable the use of Uncacheable Speculatable Write Combined memory Graphics Aperture Size to define the size of Graphics Aperture Search for MDA Resources to allow the BIOS to search for MDA resources or not 8bit I O Recovery Time to define the length of time for 8 bit I O recovery 16b...

Page 28: ...ify the power state of the monitor after the specified period of display idle has ended Video Power Down Mode to specify the power state of the VESA VGA video subsystem after the specified period of display idle has ended Hard Disk Power Down Mode to specify the power state of the hard disk after the specified period of hard drive idle has ended ...

Page 29: ...o specify the speed of system clock under power saving state The figure is a ratio between power conserving and normal state CPU clock Modem Use IO Port to assign a port for modem Modem Use IRQ to assign an IRQ for modem Display Activity to specify if BIOS has to monitor display activity or not Device X to monitor specified device IRQ or Ignore Power Button Function to specify how the power button...

Page 30: ...DE Card to specify if an offboard PCI IDE card is installed in your computer or not You must specify the slot number on the board which will be used for the card Offboard PCI IDE Primary Secondary IRQ to specify the PCI interrupt that is assigned to the Primary Secondary IDE channel on the offboard PCI IDE controller PCI Slot 1 2 3 4 IRQ Priority to specify the IRQ priority to be used by the PCI d...

Page 31: ...that is connected to the IR port IrDA Protocol to specify the function mode if an IrDA mode is selected Onboard Parallel Port to specify the I O port address of the parallel port Parallel Port Mode to specify the mode of parallel port The options are Normal normal parallel port mode Bi Dir supports bidirectional transfer EPP supports devices that comply with the Enhanced Parallel Port specificatio...

Page 32: ...condary Both and Disabled 4 8 Hardware Monitor Setup There is a LM78 chip on your board which can monitor on board system voltage and fan speed The voltage monitoring will cover 5V 12V 12V and 5V Note normal CPU Fan RPM is over than 5000 RPM If your CPU Fan RPM is less than that figure something is wrong and ...

Page 33: ...is correct 4 9 Change User Supervisor Password This option sets a password that is used to protect your system and Setup Utility Supervisor Password has higher priority than User Password Once you setup the password the system will always ask you to key in password every time you enter the ...

Page 34: ...e HDD sector cylinder head etc automatically and will put the parameters into the Standard CMOS Setup screen Up to 4 IDE drives can be detected and the parameters will be listed in the box Press Y if you accept these parameters Press N to skip the next IDE drives Note If your IDE HDD was formatted in previous older system incorrect parameters may be detected In this case you need to enter the corr...

Page 35: ...h Fail Safe Settings This option lets you load the Fail Safe default settings when something happens to your computer so that it cannot boot normally These settings are not the most optimal settings but are the most stable settings ...

Page 36: ...want to exit the Setup without saving the changes that you made Just simply press Enter key and you will exit the BIOS SETUP without saving the changes 5 E 2 Key Function The ROCKY P218BXA provides an outstanding E 2 KEY function for system integrator Based on the E 2 KEY you could free to store the ID Code Pass Word or Critical Data in the 1Kbit EEPROM Because the EEPROM is nonvolatile memory you...

Page 37: ... compiled in C format Please check the following statement then you will know how to implement it easily unsigned int read_e2key unsigned int address This function will return the E2KEY s data at address The address range is from 0 to 63 Return data is one word 16 bits void write_e2key unsigned int address unsigned data This function will write the given data to E 2 KEY at address The address rang...

Page 38: ...CPU to crash This condition may have occurred by external EMI or a software bug When the CPU stops working correctly hardware on the board will either perform a hardware reset cold boot or a non maskable interrupt NMI to bring the system back to a known state The Watch Dog Timer is controlled by two I O ports 443 hex Read Enable the refresh the Watch Dog Timer ...

Page 39: ...atch Dog Timer must be periodically refreshed by reading the same I O port 433H This must be done within the time out period that is selected by jumper group JP11 A tolerance of at least 30 must be maintained to avoid unknown routines within the operating system DOS such as disk I O that can be very time consuming Therefore if the time out period has been set to 10 seconds the I O port 443H must b...