Rugged Computing ATLAS slim 14, Assembly Manual

Page 1: ...Rugged Industrial Portable Computer System Assembly Manual A Technical Manual for System Integrators and Service Technicians ...

Page 2: ... may result from its use This information is subject to change without notice This manual is divided into 5 parts 1 Getting Started 2 Opening to Chassis 3 Assemble the System 4 Using the System Controls 5 Appendix Each part may be referenced individually however it is highly recommended for first time users to go through all parts sequentially to obtain an overall understanding of the system 1 ...

Page 3: ...el Side Views 8 Front View 10 Detaching the Keyboard 11 Opening the Chassis 12 Removing the Back Cover 13 Identifying the Internal Parts 14 Removing the Drive Carriers 14 Removing the Power Supply 16 Removing the PICMG backplane board 17 Removing the Slot Positioner metal bracket 18 Assemble the System 19 Installing the PICMG and CPU card 19 Installing CPU card with the PICMG backplane into the ca...

Page 4: ... 29 Installing Parallel and Serial connector 33 Keep Cleanness Area to prevent conflict with back Fan 34 Cover the Back case 35 Using the System Controls 36 Starting your System 37 OSD Controls 37 Adjusting the OSD Parameters 38 Appendix 39 Specifications 40 General Features 40 Display Selection 40 Environment 40 Dimensions Weight 40 Troubleshooting Techniques 41 3 ...

Page 5: ...Connections 6 Ventilation 6 Care for the LCD 6 Tools and Supplies Needed 7 Subassembly Contents 7 Parts Contents 7 Identifying Parts and Controls 8 Opening the Side Access Covers 8 Removing Side Covers 8 Side View 10 Front View 11 Detaching the Keyboard 11 4 ...

Page 6: ...alf size 175mm X 118 or 1 ISA Max length 338 X 118mm Power Supply Keyboard Ventilation fans Internal Speaker To complete the System you must add a PICMG CPU board and peripheral devices Before adding these devices it is important to follow certain basic safety precautions You should become familiar with the chassis both externally and internally And you should also have the right tools available t...

Page 7: ... OFF switch you must first press the switch to the ON position to use power up down button located on the front Note The power up down button located on the front of the chassis DOES NOT turn off AC power You must unplug the AC power cord from the AC outlet or the chassis to remove AC power from your system Ventilation The chassis comes with one intake fan one exhaust fan and one power supply exha...

Page 8: ...peaker and keyboard with integrated pointing device An PICMG backplane board with 2 PCI slots or 1 ISA slot Power cord Carrying case Parts for installing the motherboard and drives See Appendix for technical specifications Parts Contents The subassembly parts kit contains the following hardware for installing boards and drives Type Specification 1 M3x0 5x8 Nylok 2 M3x0 5x6 Nylok 3 M3x0 5x8 Nylok 4...

Page 9: ...covers provide side impact protection for the I O ports and drive bays The access covers must be opened to access I O connectors Turn the thumbscrew in the counter clockwise direction to open the access covers The covers are hinged to the chassis and will swing open Side Views 8 ...

Page 10: ...sembled system Your subassembly has only knockout holes instead On the left side of the chassis you will find the following 1 Filtered Intake Fan 2 Keyboard latch 3 Internal Speaker 4 Power connector 5 External Power Switch On the right side of the chassis you will find the following 1 Keyboard latch 2 Slim CD ROM Drive Bay 3 Keyboard 4 Internal Speaker 5 3 5 FDD Drive 6 Expansion slot outlet 9 ...

Page 11: ...wn and simultaneously pulling the top part of the keyboard away from the chassis The keyboard is still hinged on the bottom by latch bolts Lay down the keyboard If you wish you may use the tilt up feet located on the bottom of the chassis Note The keyboard will fall down once the latch tabs have been released You MUST support the keyboard when releasing the latches Chassis Front View 10 ...

Page 12: ...tch bolts until they slide out of the slots Pull the keyboard away from the chassis and release the pegs To reattach the keyboard push the latch bolts in as indicated below Then insert the keyboard in the chassis and release the latch bolts The latch bolts should lock in the chassis Note Once the keyboard has been removed from the chassis you can use the keyboard tilt up feet to tilt the keyboard ...

Page 13: ...Chassis Removing the Back Cover 13 Identifying the Internal Parts 14 Removing the Drive Carriers 14 Removing the Power Supply 16 Removing the PICMG backplane board 17 Removing the Slot Positioner metal bracket 18 12 ...

Page 14: ...assis Position the chassis so that the back is facing you Remove all the release screws as shown below There are 8 screws along the perimeter of the back cover that secures it to the chassis Once you have removed all 8 screws you can now remove the back cover from the chassis CAREFUL The back cover fan may be connected to a chassis power supply connector Make sure you disconnect the fan from this ...

Page 15: ... are following main parts need to be move out 1 Power Supply 2 PICMG backplane 3 Drive Bay Carrier 4 Slot Positioner metal bracket A Removing the Drive Carrier The chassis contains one drive carrier which supports 3 5 FDD drives a hard drive and a Slim Type CD ROM Remove all 4 screws as shown at right picture There are 4 screws inside the case that secures it to the chassis as shown at right pictu...

Page 16: ...ou have removed all 4 screws you can now remove the Driver Carrier from the chassis 3 screw refer to page 7 To remove the Driver Carrier from the chassis move Carrier as the arrow Sign 1 to let it s right side apart from the case to move it out complete from the case just move the Carrier down as shown Sign 2 arrow shown at the picture 15 ...

Page 17: ...o page 7 There are also have 2 screws along the bottom side of case that secures the power supplier to the chassis as shown at left picture The picture show 1 2 and 3 screws but normally it only have screws 1 2 or 2 3 depends on the power supplier s model Once you have removed all these screws you can now remove the Power Supplier from the chassis 3 screw refer to page 7 Bottom view 16 ...

Page 18: ...ard There is a PICMG backplane board which already on a metal Carrier You need to remove the Carrier out by unscrew all the 6 screws as following picture But keep the PICMG board mounted on the metal Carrier 5 screw refer to page 7 17 ...

Page 19: ...e removed before install the PICMG board To remove this bracket check with left picture There are 4 screws at the left side of the case And 1 screw inside the case need to be removed Once you have removed all 5 screws you can now remove the Slot Positioner metal bracket from the chassis 3 screw is hole1 4 5 screw is hole 5 refer to page 7 A Clean and empty case ready to install all parts 18 ...

Page 20: ...pplier And All Cables From CPU card H Installing the Drivers I Installing Parallel and Serial Connector J Keep Cleanness Area to prevent conflict with back Fan K Cover the Back case A Preassemble the PICMG board CPU card and Slot Positioner into a module Keep the PICMG board with the board Carrier together and plug the PICMG CPU card into the PICMG slot After CPU board is plugged screw the Slot Po...

Page 21: ...dge should slide into the card holder as shown at left picture do not left the cpu card dangling as right side picture You also can move this cpu card holder to another position in case have conflict with cpu card you could find another screw hole at left or right around 4 inch 100mm good not good sing 6X M3X4 screws to mount the PICMG CPU module to the case as shown at elow U b 20 ...

Page 22: ...need to be screwed to the chasis there are 5 screws1 4 at left side of the case use M3X8 screw and 1 inside the case use M3X4 screw as shown at below left picture refer to page 7 When the Slot Positioner is screw make sure the sound cable is away from the Positioner as shown at below 21 ...

Page 23: ...ight then screw down use screw 5 refer to page 7 Power Enable cable This cable should use to connect from cpu board to the PICMG backplane board as shown as below D Installing ATX Power Enable cable To enable the Window to shut down your computer you need to install the ATX The header at CPU card to connect this cable has 5 pin but the arrangement of the pin ignal may different from different CPU ...

Page 24: ...nal arrangement Then arrange the pin arrangement of cable so to make it same as the picture shown at below The arrangement of the cable should be like following picture This arrangement may different from the CPU card connector please refer the CPU card docum cp re 23 ...

Page 25: ...d to screw to the case See following picture at right hand side there is a small piece of expansion part screw it with the interface card as shown in the picture use 7screw refer to page 7 After the CPU module is installed you could install the interface card now Install it at the opposite side of the cpu card as shown at following pictures 24 ...

Page 26: ...d to be supported by a Support parts otherwise the interface rt driver you need to use this to adjust the Support 25 A card will be easily fall down The Support is a piece of plastic with slide as shown at pa 12 in following picture If the part is too wide to use then you should cut it to fit you requirement In the following picture part 13 is a Hexagon screw ...

Page 27: ...ottom see picture at below which will move the Support up or down to support the interface card 10 or 11 screw refer to page 7 If the part is too wide to use then you should cut it to fit you requirement Also there are two screws hole for your convenience to choice Then adjust the Support using 26 ...

Page 28: ...lier And All Cables From CPU card onnect all the power cord with the u card and all necessary cable nnection Fans and one special ble to LCD screen as next picture C cp co ca and install the Power supplier as left picture 27 ...

Page 29: ...r to page 7 Bottom View All the cables from CPU card including IDE cable FDD cable Parallel cable Serial USB cables need to be connected to cpu board at this time otherwise the cpu board will be covered by the storage driver mention at next section page 7 are locate at the right side o case 1 2 or 2 3 shown as following Installing the USB connector 28 ...

Page 30: ...ew a piece of slim metal attachment to the RIGHT side of the slim CD Rom as shown at below this slim metal attachment will be use to mount the CD Rom to the Carrier see next next picture at screw 3 and 4 9 screw refer to page 7 f CD Rom and another 2 at other side of the Carrier Just remember the orientation of the CD Rom See T C b Then mount the CD Rom to the Carrier with 4 screws 2 at side o pic...

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Page 32: ...c Install the HDD drive with 4 screws as following picture Install the FDD cable adapter board as following picture the FDD flex cable also need to be connected now d 31 ...

Page 33: ...er the cpu card Then install the Drive module follow the picture as below first move the module down to let the whole Carrier goes into the case after it goes into the case move the Module slightly up as Arrow 2 then complete it as Arrow 3 lso there are 6 screws need to install for the Driver module 4 shown at below picture at is inside the case and 2 screws shown at below picture that is at left ...

Page 34: ...etal panel for 4 Serial port outlet and 1 Parallel port outlet connect all the erial and parallel cable with cpu card these cable should already connected to the cpu oard before the Drive Carrier is installed and mount to this metal panel first I T s b 33 ...

Page 35: ... boss at the Driver Carrier which is used to mount this I O panel The circle area at below picture need to be keep clean from any cable go around that area any cable there will be possible touch the back fan and cause an unpleasant noise a J Keep Cleanness Area to prevent conflict with back Fan 34 ...

Page 36: ...K Cover the Back case efore cover the back case the back case Fan need to connect to Power supplier as elow B b 35 ...

Page 37: ... Using the System Controls SD Controls 37 djusting the OSD Parameters 38 4 Starting your System 37 O A 36 ...

Page 38: ...on the front panel of your chassis If the system does not power on make sure all internal panel connections have been made and the external power supply switch is set to the ON position SD Controls 1 Power Switch 2 Reset Switch 3 System Power Indicator 4 LCD Signal Active Indicator 5 LCD Power Switch 6 Increase Parameter or enter submenu O 7 Decrease Parameter or enter submenu 8 Up 9 Down 10 Enter...

Page 39: ...glish German French Italian Spanish DOS GFX Press or to switch ON or OFF Color Temperature Press or to set the color temperature Note that you can only use the Contrast Menu with Color Temperature set to USER Speaker Volume not used Speaker Mute note used Brightness Press or to set the LCD brightness 0 brightest 108 darkest Y enu Auto Adjustment The AD Card auto Contrast Menu Auto Balance Automati...

Page 40: ...5 Appendix Specifications 40 40 imen ions 40 41 General Features 40 Display Selection Environment 40 D s Weight Troubleshooting Techniques 39 ...

Page 41: ...chable 104 105 key keyboard different languages available Built in keyboard pointing device Nylon carrying bag Display Selection Model 14 15 Display Type Active Matrix TFT Display Colors 16 7 Million 16 7 Million Size 14 1 15 Resolution 1024x768 1024x768 Brightness 200 cd m2 500 cd m2 Response Time 20ms 16ms Contrast Ratio 250 1 400 1 Environment Operating temperature 5 C to 40 C 10 80 humidity St...

Page 42: ... no shorts have occurred If all else No Screen after pressing the fr supply fan not spin Check power source Check power cord connection Check if all power connectors inside connected Check main power switch on Check the voltage selection if there is o Check to see if the front power switch connector the motherboard we supply fan is spinning and the for details ower s Check if le is properly conn I...

Page 43: ...ernal CRT monitor shows similar garbage characters then yo have a bad video card en works fine in Windows but acts funny when running certain o games The built in Intellig adjust the screen to the proper resolution to fill the entire di However certain programs or display modes might cause the AD board to not align or sync properly Check if the program that you are running is running und manually ...