VarTech Systems VTPC150P, User Manual

Page 1: ...olutions for Demanding Applications VARTECH S Y S T E M S I N C 19 0 Panel Mount PC Model VTPC190P PSS User s Guide Read these instructions completely before attempting to operate your new Panel Mount PC ...

Page 2: ...ue 10 13 08 01 Revised panel mounting drawing 6 7 10 09 02 Revised Detail A connector view system spec 4 6 7 5 27 10 03 Corrected DC power rating misprint 5 8 15 12 04 Updated LCD Display Specs 4 8 15 12 04 Updated Computer Specs 4 8 15 12 04 Updated Power Specs 5 8 15 12 04 Added Bios Section 10 42 ...

Page 3: ...re are to allow for ventilation To prevent overheating these openings should not be blocked or covered If the system does not operate normally in particular if there are any unusual sounds or smells coming from it disconnect it immediately Do not put pressure on the LCD LED panel screen because it is very fragile Always handle the system with care when moving it Take care that the system is dispos...

Page 4: ...ive 500 GB 5400 RPM SATA Optional 8 16 32 64 128 and 256GB SSD Operating System Microsoft XP Professional SP3 for Embedded Systems Optional Windows 7 Professional 32 or 64 bit Windows Embedded Standard 2009 Expansion Slots PCIe x 16 Optional I O Ports Back Front 1 x PS 2 Keyboard 1 x PS 2 Mouse 2x RS 232 with 5V 12V powered 1 x RS 232 422 485 COM 1 with 5V 12V powered 4 x Rear USB 2 x Front USB 2x...

Page 5: ...mperature Operational 32 F to 140 F 0 C to 60 C Storage 4 F to 176 F 20 C to 80 C Humidity Operational 20 to 40 C 90 RH NC Storage 5 to 65 C 28 RH NC Installation of Your Panel PC Packaged with each carton will be 1 VTPC190P PSS 1 AC Power Cable Not included with DC option 1 10 32 Mounting Hardware 1 Users Guide Printed or on CD BEFORE MAKING ANY CONNECTIONS OR APPLYING POWER FIRST READ THROUGH TH...

Page 6: ...ng the lock nuts and washers supplied with the unit behind the holes running along the sides and the top and bottom of the cutout in the panel Extra lock nuts and washers are provided NOTE Use 10 32 nuts for mounting 4 Tighten all mounting hardware to a torque of 24 inch pounds ATTENTION Mounting nuts must be tightened to a torque of 24 inch pounds to provide a proper panel seal and avoid potentia...

Page 7: ...19 0 Panel Mount PC 486 0010 01 02 7 Panel Mount Drawing Detail A Connections to the Panel Mount PC Bottom Rear View Connector Panel Power Connection Power In ...

Page 8: ...USB 2 0 connectors located on the bottom front panel of the system VGA Port The 15 pin female VGA connector can be used to connect to any analog VGA monitor IEEE1394a Firewire The Panel PC is supplied with two IEEE1394a ports which feature high speed high bandwidth which are hot pluggable to connect with IEEE1394 devices and peripherals Turning the system On and Off Before connecting the Panel Mou...

Page 9: ...ervice and performance with minimal maintenance including the occasional external cleaning For cleaning the Panel Mount PC enclosure follow the suggested guidelines General NEVER use abrasive cleaners or solvent based cleaners Use a clean soft cloth The Panel Mount PC should only be opened and serviced by a qualified technician Keep the area around the Panel Mount PC clear and free of excessive di...

Page 10: ...he system doesn t boot an error message will pop out to prompt you the following information PRESS F1 TO CONTINUE CTRL ALT ESC OR DEL TO ENTER SETUP Control Keys Up arrow Move cursor to the previous item Down arrow Move cursor to the next item Left arrow Move cursor to the item on the left hand Right arrow Move to the item in the right hand Esc key Main Menu Quit and delete changes into CMOS Statu...

Page 11: ...ility the Main Menu appears on the screen In the Main Menu there are several Setup functions and a couple of Exit options for your selection Use arrow keys to select the Setup Page you intend to configure then press Enter to accept or enter its sub menu NOTE If your computer cannot boot after making and saving system changes with Setup the Award BIOS will reset your system to the CMOS default sett...

Page 12: ...ate format is day date month year Press F3 to show the calendar day It is determined by the BIOS and read only from Sunday to Saturday date It can be keyed with the numerical function key from 1 to 31 month It is from January to December year It shows the current year of BIOS Time This item shows current time of your system with the format hour minute second The time is calculated based on the 24 ...

Page 13: ...ine your own drive type If selecting Type User you will be asked to enter related information in the following items Directly key in the information and press Enter This information should be provided in the documentation from your hard disk vendor or the system manufacturer If the HDD interface controller supports ESDI select Type 1 If the HDD interface controller supports SCSI select None If the...

Page 14: ...never BIOS detects a non fatal error the system will stop and you will be prompted All But Keyboard The system booting will not stop for a keyboard error it will stop for other errors All But Diskette The system booting will not stop for a disk error it will stop for other errors All But Disk Key The system booting will not stop for a keyboard or disk error it will stop for other errors Press Esc ...

Page 15: ...19 0 Panel Mount PC 486 0010 01 02 15 Advanced BIOS Features This section allows you to configure and improve your system to set up some system features according to your preference ...

Page 16: ...eature Scroll to this item and press Enter to view the CPU Feature sub menu Hard Disk Boot Priority Scroll to this item and press Enter to view the sub menu to decide the disk boot priority Press Esc to return to the Advanced BIOS Features page ...

Page 17: ...d Enable Quick POST Disabled Normal POST First Second Third Boot Device These items let you select the 1st 2nd and 3rd devices that the system will search for during its boot up sequence The wide range of selection includes Floppy LS120 ZIP100 HDD0 3 SCSI and CDROM Boot Other Device This item allows users to enable or disable the boot device not listed in the First Second Third boot devices option...

Page 18: ...aracters per second 10 10 characters per second 12 12 characters per second 15 15 characters per second 20 20 characters per second 24 24 characters per second 30 30 characters per second Typematic Delay Msec This option defines how many milliseconds must elapse before a held down key begins generating repeat characters The default value is 250 250 250 msec 500 500 msec 750 750 msec 1000 1000 msec...

Page 19: ...PS Version Control For OS This item specifies the version of the Multiprocessor Specification MPS Version 1 4 has extended configuration tables to improve support for multiple PCI bus configurations and provide future expandability Small Logo EPA Show If enabled the EPA logo will appear during system booting up if disabled the EPA logo will not appear Press Esc to return to the Main Menu page ...

Page 20: ...rdware System BIOS Cacheable Selecting Enabled allows caching of the system BIOS ROM at F0000h FFFFFh resulting in better system performance However if any program writes to this memory area a system error may result The default value is Disabled Memory Hole At 15M 16M Enabling this feature reserves 15MB to 16MB memory address space to ISA expansion cards that specifically require this setting Thi...

Page 21: ...Express graphics card is installed or not If a PCI Express graphics card is detected the board will boot up using that card Otherwise it is defaulted to the onchip graphics processor PEG Force X1 This BIOS feature allows you to convert a PCI Express X16 slot into a PCI Express X1 slot When this item is enabled the PCI Express X16 slot will be forced to run in the PCI Express X1 mode When this item...

Page 22: ... is to select Display Device that the screen will be shown Panel Scaling This item shows the setting of panel scaling and operates the scaling function that the panel output can fit the screen resolution connected to the output port Panel Number This item is to select panel resolution that you want TV Standard This item is to select the output mode of TV Standard TV Connector This item is to selec...

Page 23: ...19 0 Panel Mount PC 486 0010 01 02 23 Integrated Peripherals This section allows you to configure your SuperIO Device IDE Function and Onboard Device ...

Page 24: ...drive supports block mode most new drives do select Enabled for automatic detection of the optimal number of block read writes per sector the drive can support IDE DMA transfer access Automatic data transfer between system memory and IDE device with minimum CPU intervention This improves data throughput and frees CPU to perform other tasks LEGACY Mode Support Legacy mode support allows devices to ...

Page 25: ...ces that the onboard IDE interface supports Modes 0 to 4 provide successively increased performance In Auto mode the system automatically determines the best mode for each device IDE Primary Secondary Master Slave UDMA Select the mode of operation for the IDE drive Ultra DMA 33 66 100 133 implementation is possible only if your IDE hard drive supports it and the operating environment includes a DM...

Page 26: ...onding interrupt for the third serial port Onboard Serial Port 4 This item assigns which I O address to access onboard serial port 4 Serial Port 4 Use IRQ This item selects a corresponding interrupt for the fourth serial port Onboard Paralellel Port This item allows you to determine the I O address for onboard parallel port Options are 378H IRQ7 278H IRQ5 3BC IRQ7 and Disabled Parallel Port Mode S...

Page 27: ...el controller is added USB 2 0 Controller Enable this item if you are using the EHCI USB2 0 controller in the system USB Keyboard Function Enable this item if the system has a Universal Serial Bus USB controller and you have a USB keyboard USB Mouse Function Enable this item to boot the hard drive by a USB mouse USB Storage Function Use this item to enable or disable Legacy suppor of USB Mass Stor...

Page 28: ...f your operating system supports ACPI such as Windows 98SE Windows ME and Windows 2000 you can choose to enter the Standby mode in S1 POS or S3 STR fashion through the setting of this field Options are S1 POS The S1 sleep mode is a low power state In this state no system context is lost CPU or chipset and hardware maintains all system contexts S3 STR The S3 sleep mode is a lower power state where ...

Page 29: ...deo power management values Blank Screen The System only writes blanks to the video buffer Video Off In Suspend This item defines if the video is powered down when the system is put into suspend mode Suspend Type If this item is set to the default Stop Grant the CPU will go into Idle Mode during power saving mode Moden Use IRQ If you want an incoming call on a modem to automatically resume the sys...

Page 30: ...on is switched to OFF Delay 4 Sec Upon the system s turning OFF through the power switch this option will delay the complete system power OFF sequence approximately 4 seconds Within this delay period the system will temporarily enter into the Suspend Mode enabling you to restart the system at once Power On by Ring This option allows the system to resume or wake up upon detecting any ring signals c...

Page 31: ...l boot and Plug and Play compatible devices If you select Auto all interrupt request IRQ DMA assignment and Used DMA fields disappear as the BIOS automatically assigns them The default value is Manual IRQ Resources When resources are controlled manually assign each system interrupt to one of the following types in accordance with the type of devices using the interrupt 1 Legacy ISA Devices complia...

Page 32: ... When using DDR SDRAM and Buffer size selection another consideration in designing a payload memory is the size of the buffer for data storage Maximum Payload Size defines the maximum TLP Transaction Layer Packet data payload size for the device Press Esc to return to the Main Menu page ...

Page 33: ...current system1 temperature Current CPU Temperature The current system CPU temperature will be automatically detected by the system Current GMCH Temperature The current GMCH temperature will be automatically detected by the system Current CPU FAN Speed These optional and read only items show current speeds in RPM Revolution per Minute for the CPU fan and chassis fan as monitored by the hardware mo...

Page 34: ...control the CPU frequency and Supply Voltage DIMM OverVoltage and AGP voltage Auto Detect PCI Clk The item enables or disables the auto detection of the PCI clock Spread Spectrum This item is to adjust extreme values of the pulse for EMI test Press Esc to return to the Main Menu page ...

Page 35: ...timized Defaults This option allows you to load your system configuration with default values These default settings are optimized to enable high performance features To load CMOS SRAM with SETUP default values please enter Y If not please enter N ...

Page 36: ...press Esc to abort this selection and not enter a password To disable the password just press Enter when you are prompted to enter a password A message will confirm the password is getting disabled Once the password is disabled the system will boot and you can enter Setup freely PASSWORD DISABLED When a password is enabled you have to type it every time you enter the Setup It prevents any unauthor...

Page 37: ...0 01 02 37 Save Exit Setup This section allows you to determine whether or not to accept your modifications Type Y to quit the setup utility and save all changes into the CMOS memory Type N to bring you back to the Setup utility ...

Page 38: ... 38 Exit Without Saving Select this option to exit the Setup utility without saving changes you have made in this session Type Y and it will quit the Setup utility without saving your modifications Type N to return to the Setup utility ...

Page 39: ...r can be set up in the system reset mode by program Using the Watchdog Function Start Un Lock WDT O 2E 87 Un lock super I O O 2E 87 Un lock super I O Select Logic device O 2E 07 O 2F 08 Activate WDT O 2E 30 O 2F 01 Set Second or Minute O 2E F5 O 2F N N 00 or 08 See below table Set base timer O 2E F6 O 2F M 00 01 02 FF Hex Value 0 to 255 WDT counting re set timer O 2E F6 O 2F M M 00 01 02 FF See be...

Page 40: ...able WDT O 2E 30 O 2F 00 Can be disable at any time Timeout Value Range 1 to 255 Minute Second Program Sample 2E 87 2E 87 2E 07 2F 08 Logical Device 8 2E 30 Activate 2F 01 2E F5 2F N Set Minute or Second N 08 Min 00 Sec 2E F6 2F M Set Value M 00 FF ...

Page 41: ...ltiplexed pin to GPIO Function O 2E 2A O 2F FF Select Logic device O 2E 07 O 2F 07 Activate Logic Device O 2E 30 O 2F 01 Select GPI Function O 2E F0 O 2F E0 for 3 IN 5 OUT When set to a 1 respective GPIO port is programmed as an input port When set to a 0 respective GPIO port is programmed as an output port Read Data O 2E F1 I 2F XX XX is input Data if no input source the value is FF ...

Page 42: ...ic Device O 2E 30 O 2F 01 Select GPO Function O 2E F0 O 2F E0 for 3 IN 5 OUT When set to a 1 respective GPIO port is programmed as an input port When set to a 0 respective GPIO port is programmed as an output port Output Data O 2E F1 O 2F XX 00 01 02 FF XX is Output Data For Additional Assistance Contact Your VarTech Sales Representative Vartech Systems Inc 11529 Sun Belt Ct Baton Rouge LA 70809 8...