Vox Technologies ROCKY 538TXV, Manual

Page 1: ...advised of 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 538TXV is registered trademarks of Acquire Inc IBM PC is a registered trademark of International...

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Page 3: ...2 3 Setting the CPU of ROCKY 538TXV 9 2 4 System Memory DRAM 11 2 5 Watch Dog Timer 12 2 6 DiskOnChip Flash Disk 12 2 7 Clear CMOS Setup 14 2 8 Battery Backup for CMOS Setup 14 3 Connection 15 3 1 Floppy Disk Drive Connector 15 3 2 PCI E IDE Disk Drive Connector 16 3 3 Parallel Port 17 3 4 Serial Ports 17 3 5 Keyboard Connector 18 ...

Page 4: ... 3 13 Fan Connector 21 3 14 Chassis Open Alarm Connector 22 3 15 5V Standby Connector for ATX Power Supply 22 3 16 ATX Power Switch Soft Power Switch Connector 23 4 AWARD BIOS Setup 24 4 1 Getting Start 24 4 2 Standard CMOS Setup 25 4 3 BIOS Features Setup 27 4 4 Chipset Features Setup 28 4 5 Integrated Peripherals 29 4 6 Power Management Setup 30 4 7 PNP PCI Configuration 31 5 E 2 Key Function 32...

Page 5: ...xtra 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 538TXV board Both on chip UARTs are compatible with the NS16C550 The parallel port and IDE interface are compatible with IBM PC AT and XT architecture s ...

Page 6: ...TX chipset backup by industrial Li battery 3V 850mAH RAM memory 2MB to 256MB SDRAM EDO and standard DRAM supported Second Cache memory 512KB Pipelined Burst SRAM on board 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 ...

Page 7: ... Space Reclamation will let customer to use the Flash Disk with DOS command no need any extra software utility Keyboard connector Mouse PS 2 Mouse Port on board Power Consumption 5V 4 6A Pentium MMX 200 16MB EDO RAM 12V 70mA 12V 20mA Operating Temperature 0 55 C CPU needs Cooler 1 2 What You Have In addition to this User s Manual the ROCKY 538TXV package includes the following items ROCKY 538TXV P...

Page 8: ...f ROCKY 538TXV is shown and the unpacking information that you should be careful is described The jumpers and switches setting for the ROCKY 538TXV s configuration such as CPU type selection system clock setting and watch dog timer are also included 2 1 ROCKY 538TXV s Layout reference next page ...

Page 9: ...7 2 2 Unpacking ...

Page 10: ...ic 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 board for...

Page 11: ...2 5x CLOSE CLOSE OPEN 3 x OPEN CLOSE OPEN 3 5 x OPEN OPEN OPEN CPU Frequency CPU Clock x Multiplier for example Pentium 200MHz 66MHz CPU Clock x 3 CPU Core Voltage Selection Please check the CPU Core Voltage before you install the CPU Right now new Intel MMX CPU is dual voltages for core and I O the I O is 3 3V but the core is 2 8V This kind of CPU design will enhance the low power consumption cap...

Page 12: ...0V OPEN CLOSE OPEN CLOSE 2 9V CLOSE OPEN OPEN CLOSE 2 8V OPEN OPEN OPEN CLOSE 2 7V CLOSE CLOSE CLOSE OPEN 2 6V OPEN CLOSE CLOSE OPEN 2 5V CLOSE OPEN CLOSE OPEN 2 4V OPEN OPEN CLOSE OPEN 2 3V CLOSE CLOSE OPEN OPEN 2 2V OPEN CLOSE OPEN OPEN 2 1V CLOSE OPEN OPEN OPEN 2 0V OPEN OPEN OPEN OPEN Dual Single CPU Voltage setting Vcore VIO JP11 JP12 JP13 JP14 Pentium P54C CLOSE CLOSE OPEN OPEN Pentium MMX A...

Page 13: ... Rating Table dual voltage Product Name Core Freq Vcore Bus MHz Multiplier AMD K6 233 233MHz 3 2V 66 3 5x AMD K6 200 200MHz 2 9V 66 3x AMD K6 166 166MHz 2 9V 66 2 5x 2 4 System Memory DRAM There are four 72 pin SIMM sockets to accept Paged EDO 1MB 2MB 4MB 8MB 16MB 32MB or 64MB memory modules The total capacity is from 2MB to 256MB Customers have to install at least 2pcs RAM module on board SIMM So...

Page 14: ...N OPEN 20 sec OPEN CLOSE OPEN CLOSE 110 sec CLOSE OPEN OPEN OPEN 220 sec CLOSE OPEN OPEN CLOSE 2 6 DiskOnChip Flash Disk The DiskOnChip Flash Disk Chip DOC is produced by M Systems Because the DOC is 100 compatible to hard disk and DOS Customer don t need any extra software utility It is just plug and play easy and reliable Right now the DOC is available from 2MB to 72MB There also have PROMDISK C...

Page 15: ...Pin 11 12 close U15 CE000H Pin 13 14 close 2 JP15 Pin 3 4 Close main address D0000H Flash Chip Address U18 D0000H Pin 7 8 close U18 D4000H Pin 9 10 close U15 D2000H Pin 11 12 close U15 D6000H Pin 13 14 close 3 JP15 Pin 5 6 Close main address D8000H Flash Chip Address U18 D8000H Pin 7 8 close U18 DC000H Pin 9 10 close U15 DA000H Pin 11 12 close U15 DE000H Pin 13 14 close ...

Page 16: ...Setup Reserve Function JP17 DESCRIPTION 1 2 Normal Operation 3 4 Clear CMOS Setup 2 8 Battery Backup for CMOS Setup There have one 4 pin header J9 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 J9 Battery Backup Function J9 DESCRIPTION 1 2 CLOSE 3 4 O...

Page 17: ...ECTOR 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 32 S...

Page 18: ...or 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 N C 22 GROUND 23 IOW 24 GROUND 25 IOR 26 GROUND 27 N C 28 BALE DEFAULT 29 N C 30 GROUND DEFAULT 31 INTERRUPT 32 IOCS16 DEFAULT 33 SA1 34 N C 35 SA0 36 SA2 37 HDC C...

Page 19: ...INTER 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 3 4 Serial Ports The ROCKY 538TXV offers two high speed NS16C550 compatible UARTs with Read Receive 16 byte FIFO serial ports CN3 Serial Port DB 9 Connector ACE0 PIN NO DESCRIPTION 1 DATA CARRIER DETECT DCD 2 RECEIVE DATA RXD 3 TRANSMIT DATA TXD...

Page 20: ...ESCRIPTION 1 KEYBOARD CLOCK 2 KEYBOARD DATA 3 N C 4 GROUND 5 5V CN4 6 pin Mini DIN Keyboard Connector PIN NO DESCRIPTION 1 KEYBOARD DATA 2 N C 3 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 JP8 KeyLock and Power LED PIN NO DESCRIPTION 1 5V 2 N C 3 Ground 4 KeyLock Signal 5 Groun...

Page 21: ...ternal Speaker The ROCKY 538TXV has its own buzzer you also can connect to the external speaker through the connector CN2 CN2 Speaker Connector PIN NO DESCRIPTION 1 5V 2 Speaker Signal 3 8 PS 2 Mouse 6 pin Mini DIN Connector CN1 PS 2 Mouse Connector PIN NO DESCRIPTION 1 MS DATA 2 NC 3 GROUND 4 5V 5 MS CLOCK 6 NC ...

Page 22: ...Battery Connector PIN NO DESCRIPTION 1 External Battery 2 NC 3 N C 4 Ground 3 10 USB Port Connector The ROCKY 538TXV built in two USB ports for the future new I O bus expansion J3 USB 0 J4 USB 1 1 VCC 2 DATA 3 DATA 4 GROUND 3 11 IrDA Infrared Interface Port The ROCKY 538TXV built in a IrDA port which support Serial Infrared SIR or Amplitude Shift Keyed IR ASKIR interface When use the IrDA port hav...

Page 23: ...LUE 4 NC 5 GROUND 6 GROUND 7 GROUND 8 GROUND 9 NC 10 GROUND 11 NC 12 NC 13 HSYNC 14 VSYNC 15 NC JP3 10 pin Header Connector 1 RED 2 GROUND 3 GREEN 4 GROUND 5 BLUE 6 GROUND 7 HSYNC 8 GROUND 9 VSYNC 10 GROUND 3 13 Fan Connector The ROCKY 538TXV provides CPU cooling fan connector chassis fan connector These connectors can supply 12V 500mA to the cooling fan In the connector there have a rotation pin ...

Page 24: ... open chassis signal A high level signal will go to the Chassis Open Alarm Connector when the chassis is opened J11 Chassis Open Alarm Connector PIN NO DESCRIPTION 1 5V 2 Chassis Open Signal 3 Ground 3 15 5V Standby Connector for ATX power supply If you use the ATX power supply then you could connect the 5V standby connector to the power supply connector s 5V standby signal Then the standby functi...

Page 25: ...d 17 3 3V 18 12V 19 3 3V 20 3 3V 3 16 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 botton 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 system power LED shows the status of the system ...

Page 26: ...r On Self Test routines These routines will be executed for system test and initialization and system configuration verification After the POST routines are 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 settin...

Page 27: ...Setup is used for basic hardware system configuration The main function is for Date Time setting and Floppy Hard Disk Drive setting Please refer the following screen for this setup For IDE hard disk drive setup please check the following possible ...

Page 28: ... the drive specifications 3 Manually enter the specifications by yourself from the User option Halt On All Errors You could choose All Errors No Errors All but Keyboard All but Diskette and All but Disk Key As for some embedded system which don t need keyboard and monitor in application then you could choose No Errors 4 3 BIOS Features Setup ...

Page 29: ...uld 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 add on card s ROM address is as above address you could enable the shadow to get higher operation performance When you enable the shadow function it will also reduce the memory available by between 640KB and 1024KB 4 4 Chipset Features ...

Page 30: ...e Memory Hole at 15M 16M Enable or Disable This setting reserve 15MB to 16MB memory address space for ISA expansion cards that specifically require this setting Memory from 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 Te...

Page 31: ...O Chip W83977F These options are used to change the ChipSet s registers Please carefully change any default setting to meet your application need perfectly The only special concern is Onboard Serial Port2 If you are using the IrDA port you have to set this port accordingly ...

Page 32: ...activity period Min Saving is almost the same as Max Saving except that the inactivity period is longer User Defined allows you to set power saving options according to your requirement Note Advanced Power Management 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 POW...

Page 33: ... All PCI bus slots on the system use INTA thus all installed PCI slots must be set to this value PNP OS Installed Yes or No When PNP OS is installed interrupts may be reassigned by the OS when the setting is Yes When a non PNP OS is installed or to prevent reassigning of interrupt settings select setting to No ...

Page 34: ... each word at any time When you start to use the E 2 KEY you should have the utility in the package The software utility will include four files as follows README DOC E2KEY OBJ EKEYDEMO C EKEYDEMO EXE The E2KEY OBJ provides two 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 th...

Page 35: ...ess range is from 0 to 63 The data value is from 0 to 0xffff To easy start to use the function please refer the include EKEYDEMO C code at first Please note the E 2 KEY function is based on the working of parallel port So you should enable the ROCKY 618V s parallel port otherwise will be not working Appendix A Watch Dog Timer ...

Page 36: ...from 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 JP6 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...