Pentium ROCKY-548TX, Manual

Page 1: ...f advised of the possibility of suchdamages 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 548TX is registered trademarks of Acquire Inc IBM PC is a registered trademark of International...

Page 2: ...nnector 16 3 3 Parallel Port 17 3 4 Serial Ports 17 2 3 5 Keyboard Connector 18 3 6 External Switches and Indicators 18 3 7 PS 2 Mouse 6 Pin Mini DINConnector 19 3 8 External Battery Connector 20 3 9 USB Port Connector 20 3 10 IrDA Infrared Interface Port 20 3 11 Fan Connector 21 3 12 5V Standby Connector for ATX Power Supply 21 3 13 ATX Power Switch Soft Power Switch Connector 22 4 AWARD BIOS Set...

Page 3: ...wing specification CPU Pentium MMX up to 233Mhz AMD K6 processor up to 300MHz Cyrix6x86MX processor Bus ISA bus and PCI 32 bit local bus PCI 2 1 standard DMAchannels 7 Interrupt levels 15 Chipset Intel 430TX Real time clock calendar in 430TX chipset backup by industrial Li battery 3V 850mAH RAMmemory up to 256MB SDRAM supported Second Cache memory 512KB Pipelined Burst SRAMon board Ultra DMA 33 ID...

Page 4: ...ble If any of these items is missing or damaged contact the dealer from whom you purchased the product Save the shipping materials and carton in case you want to ship or store the product in the future 6 2 Installation This chapter describes how to install the ROCKY 548TX At first the layout of ROCKY 548TX is shown and the unpacking information that you should be careful is described The jumpers a...

Page 5: ...nti 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 b...

Page 6: ...2 8V This kind of CPU design will enhance the low power consumption capability As for the general Pentium CPU is one voltage for I O and Core 3 3V 3 4V or 3 5V 10 JP12 CPU Core Voltage Setting CPU Core Voltage JP12 1 2 JP12 3 4 JP12 5 6 JP12 7 8 3 5V P54C CS VRE CLOSE CLOSE CLOSE CLOSE 3 4V P54C CS STD OPEN CLOSE CLOSE CLOSE 3 3V CLOSE OPEN CLOSE CLOSE 3 2V OPEN OPEN CLOSE CLOSE 3 1V CLOSE CLOSE O...

Page 7: ...able for PS 2 Mouse Operating OPEN PS 2 Mouse Disable IRQ12 to bus 2 5 Watch Dog Timer The Watch Dog Timer is enabled by reading port 443H It should be triggered before the time out period ends otherwise it will assume the program operation is abnormal and will issue a reset signal to start again or activate NMI to CPU The Watch Dog Timer is disable by reading port 043H JP13 Watch Dog Active Type ...

Page 8: ...back to normal operation mode close pin 1 2 JP1 Clear CMOS Setup Reserve Function JP1 DESCRIPTION 1 2 Normal Operation 2 3 Clear CMOS Setup 2 8 BatteryBackup for CMOS Setup There have one 4 pin header CN8 using for battery backup function When close the pin 1 2 will use the on board battery When use external battery you should take off the jumper and use the connector as external battery connector...

Page 9: ...TOR 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 16 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 32 ...

Page 10: ...D ACTIVE 40 GROUND 18 3 3 Parallel Port This port is usually connected to a printer The ROCKY 548TX includes an on board parallel port accessed through a 26 pin flat cable connector CN3 CN3 Parallel Port Connector PIN NO DESCRIPTION PIN NO DESCRIPTION 1 STROBE 2 DATA 0 3 DATA 1 4 DATA 2 5 DATA 3 6 DATA 4 7 DATA 5 8 DATA 6 9 DATA 7 10 ACKNOWLEDGE 11 BUSY 12 PAPER EMPTY 13 PRINTER SELECT 14 AUTO FOR...

Page 11: ... GROUND 4 5V 5 KEYBOARD CLOCK 6 N C 3 6 External Switches and Indicators There are many external switches and indicators for monitoring and controlling your CPU board 20 JP3 External Switches and Indicators PIN NO DESCRIPTION PIN NO DESCRIPTION 1 SPEAKER SIGNAL 2 5V POWER LED 3 N C 4 N C 5 N C 6 GROUND 7 5V 8 KEYLOCK SIGNAL 9 RESET 10 GROUND 11 GROUND 12 GROUND 13 HDD ACTIVE 14 15 5V 16 SUSPEND CO...

Page 12: ...d IR ASKIR interface When use the IrDA port have to set SIR or ASKIR model in the BIOS s Peripheral Setup s COM2 Then the normal RS 232 COM2 will be disabled 22 CN5 IrDA connector PIN NO DESCRIPTION 1 VCC 2 FIR RX 3 IR RX 4 Ground 5 IR TX 6 CIRRX 3 11 Fan Connector The ROCKY 548TX provides CPU cooling fan connector chassis fan connector These connectors can supply 12V 500mA to the cooling fan In t...

Page 13: ...und 13 5V 14 Suspend Control 15 Ground 16 Ground 17 3 3V 18 12V 19 3 3V 20 3 3V 3 13 ATX Power Switch Soft Power Switch Connector When use the ATX power supply the system power is controlled by a momentary switch connected to this connector Push the button once will switch the system between ON and SLEEP Pushing the switch while in the ON mode for more than 4 seconds will turn the system OFF The s...

Page 14: ...e completed the following message appears Hit DEL if you want to run SETUP To access AWARD PCI ISA BIOS Setup program press Del key The following screen will be displayed at this time When choose Load BIOS Defaults will load the minimized settings for Troubleshooting The performance should be very poor when use this setting When choose Load Setup Defaults will load optimized defaults for regular u...

Page 15: ...p is designed for customer s tuning best performance of the ROCKY 548TX board As for normal operation customers don t have to change any default setting The default setting is pre set for most reliable operation BootUp Sequence You could set the sequence of A C and CDROM Video BIOS Shadow C000 32K Enable Will increase the video speed Shadow C8000 CFFFF D0000 D7FFF D8000 DFFFF When the installed ad...

Page 16: ...15MB and up will be unavailable to the system because expansion cards can only access memory up to 16MB CPU Warring Temperature Disable 50 There have a LM75 temperature sensor under the bottom of CPU when set the CPU Warring Tempture to a certain limit which will help customer secure the system not burn out because of fan failed or other accident Hardware Monitoring Customer could see the working ...

Page 17: ...ement APM have to be installed to keep the system time updated when the computer enters suspend mode activated by the Power Management Under DOS environment you need to add DEVICE C DOS POWER EXE in your CONFIG SYS Under Windows 3 x and Windows 95 you have to install Windows with APM feature A battery and power cord icon labeled Power Will appear in the Control Panel 32 4 7 PNP PCI Configuration T...

Page 18: ... library function for user to integrate their application with E 2 KEY function These library read_e2key and write_e2key are written and 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 E 2 KEY s data at address The address range is from 0 to 63 Return data is one word ...

Page 19: ...rom I O port 443H must be performed This will enable and activate the countdown timer which will eventually time out and either reset the CPU or cause an NMI depending on the setting of JP13 To ensure that this reset condition does not occur the Watch 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 g...