MS-98F3 Safety Instructions ■ Always read the safety instructions carefully. ■ Keep this User’s Manual for future reference. ■ Keep this equipment away from humidity. ■ Lay this equipment on a reliable flat surface before setting it up. ■ The openings on the enclosure are for air convection hence protects the equipment from overheating.
Chemical Substances Information In compliance with chemical substances regulations, such as the EU REACH Regulation (Regulation EC No. 1907/2006 of the European Parliament and the Council), MSI provides the information of chemical substances in products at: https://www.msi.com/html/popup/csr/evmtprtt_pcm.html Battery Information European Union: Batteries, battery packs, and accumulators should not be disposed of as unsorted household waste.
MS-98F3 CE Conformity Hereby, Micro-Star International CO., LTD declares that this device is in compliance with the essential safety requirements and other relevant provisions set out in the European Directive. FCC-A Radio Frequency Interference Statement This equipment has been tested and found to comply with the limits for a Class A digital device, pursuant to Part 15 of the FCC Rules.
Preface CONTENTS Copyright and Trademarks Notice ..............ii Revision History .................... ii Technical Support ..................ii Safety Instructions ..................iii Chemical Substances Information ............... iv Battery Information ..................iv CE Conformity ....................v FCC-A Radio Frequency Interference Statement ......... v WEEE Statement ..................v 1.
Overview Thank you for choosing the MS-98F3, an excellent industrial computer board. Based on the innovative Intel Broadwell ULT i3-5010U processor, the ® MS-98F3 is engineered to provide reliable performance for a wide variety of industrial applications. 1-1-1...
Overview Specifications Processor ■ Intel Broadwell ULT i3-5010U processor Memory ■ 1 x DDR3L 1600 MHz SO-DIMM slot ■ Up to 8GB Network ■ LAN1: Intel I218LM Gigabit Fast Ethernet PHY controller (with iAMT support) ■ LAN2: Intel I210-AT Gigabit Fast Ethernet controller (Co-Lay I211-AT) Storage ■...
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MS-98F3 Internal I/O ■ 1 x DC power connector ■ 1 x system fan connector ■ 2 x SATA 6Gb/s ports ■ 1 x SATA power connector ■ 1 x USB 2.0 connector ■ 1 x front panel connector ■ 1 x front audio connector ■...
Overview Layout M.2 Slot SMBus Connector Keyboard/Mouse Connector Front Audio Amplifier LPC Debug System Fan Connector Connector Port Connector Connector COM Port Connector COM Port COM Port Power Jumper Power Jumper GPIO Connector SATA Power Connector Mini-PCIe/ Front Panel mSATA Slot Connector SATA 3.0 USB 2.0...
Hardware Setup This chapter provides you with the information about hardware setup procedures. While doing the installation, be careful in holding the com- ponents and follow the installation procedures. For some components, if you install in the wrong orientation, the components will not work prop- erly.
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Hardware Setup Component Reference Guide Memory ....................2-3 Power Supply ..................2-4 DC Power Connector: JPWR2 ..............2-4 SATA Power Connector: JPW1 ..............2-4 Rear Panel I/O ...................2-5 Connector ..................2-6 Fan Power Connector: SYSFAN1 ..............2-6 GPIO Connector: JGPIO1 ................2-6 Serial ATA Connector: SATA1, SATA2 ............2-6 Front Panel Connector: JFP1 ..............2-7 LPC Debug Port Connector: JDP1 .............2-7 USB 2.0 Connector: JUSB1 ...............2-7...
MS-98F3 Memory The SO-DIMM slot is intended for memory modules. 1. Locate the SO-DIMM slot. Align the notch on the DIMM with the key on the slot and insert the DIMM into the slot. 2. Push the DIMM gently down- wards until the slot levers click and lock the DIMM in place.
Hardware Setup Power Supply DC Power Connector: JPWR2 This connector allows you to connect a 12V/ 19V/ 24V DC power adapter. SATA Power Connector: JPW1 This connector is used to provide power to SATA devices. Important Make sure that all power connectors are connected to the power supply to ensure stable operation of the motherboard.
MS-98F3 Rear Panel I/O USB 2.0 USB 3.0 Port Port GbE RJ45 Port HDMI Port VGA Port USB 2.0 Port The USB (Universal Serial Bus) port is for attaching USB devices such as key- board, mouse, or other USB-compatible devices.
Hardware Setup Connector Fan Power Connector: SYSFAN1 The fan power connector supports system cooling fans with +12V. When con- necting the wire to the connectors, always note that the red wire is the positive and should be connected to the +12V; the black wire is Ground and should be connected to GND.
MS-98F3 Front Panel Connector: JFP1 This front panel connector is provided for electrical connection to the front panel switches & LEDs and is compliant with Intel Front Panel I/O Connectivity Design Guide. LPC Debug Port Connector: JDP1 This connectoris LPC debug port.
Hardware Setup LVDS Inverter Connector: JINVDD1 The connector is provided for LCD backlight options. LVDS Connector: JLVDS1 The LVDS (Low Voltage Differential Signal) connector provides a digital interface typically used with flat panels. After connecting an LVDS interface flat panel to the JLVDS1, be sure to check the panel datasheet and set the LVDS jumper to proper power voltage.
MS-98F3 Serial Port Connector: COM1 ~ COM4 This connector is a 16550A high speed communications port that sends/receives 16 bytes FIFOs. You can attach a serial device to it. COM1 supports RS-232/ 422/ 485. COM2~4 support RS-232. COM1 RS-232 SIGNAL...
Hardware Setup Audio Amplifier Pinheader: JAMP1 The JAMP1 is used to connect audio amplifiers to enhance audio performance. Front Audio Connector: JAUDIO1 This connector allows you to connect the front panel audio and is compliant with Intel Front Panel I/O Connectivity Design Guide. PS/2 Keyboard/Mouse Connector: JKBMS1 This connector is provided to connect a keyboard and a mouse.
MS-98F3 Jumper Important Avoid adjusting jumpers when the system is on; it will damage the motherboard. Clear CMOS Jumper: JCMOS1 There is a CMOS RAM onboard that has a power supply from an external battery to keep the data of system configuration. With the CMOS RAM, the system can automatically boot OS every time it is turned on.
Hardware Setup Serial Port Power Jumper: JCOMP1, JCOMP2 This jumper specifies the operation voltage of the serial ports. JCOMP1 (for COM1 ~ 2) +12V JCOMP2 (for COM3 ~ 4) +12V LAN Configure Jumper: JLAN2 Use this jumper to specify the operation for LAN2 controlled by Intel I210-AT chipset.
MS-98F3 LVDS Power Jumper: JVDD1 Use this jumper to specify the operation voltage of the LVDS interface flat panel. LVDS Inverter Power Jumper: JINV1 Use this jumper to specify the operation voltage of the interver interface flat panel. +12V Intel ME Jumper: JME1 This jumper is used to enable/disable the Intel ME function.
Hardware Setup Slot Mini-PCIe (Peripheral Component Interconnect Express) Slot The Mini-PCIe slot is provided for 3G module, wireless LAN card, TV tuner card, Robson NAND Flash card and mSATA devices. M.2 Slot (Key E, 2230) Please install the Wi-Fi/ Bluetooch card into the M.2 slot as shown below. Important When adding or removing expansion cards, make sure that you unplug the power supply first.
BIOS Setup This chapter provides information on the BIOS Setup program and allows users to configure the system for optimal use. Users may need to run the Setup program when: ■ An error message appears on the screen at system startup and re- quests users to run SETUP.
BIOS Setup Entering Setup Power on the computer and the system will start POST (Power On Self Test) process. When the message below appears on the screen, press <DEL> or <F2> key to enter Setup. Press <DEL> or <F2> to enter SETUP If the message disappears before you respond and you still wish to enter Setup, restart the system by turning it OFF and On or pressing the RESET button.
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MS-98F3 Control Keys ← → Select Screen ↑ ↓ Select Item Enter Select Change Option General Help Previous Values Optimized Defaults Save & Reset Exit Getting Help After entering the Setup menu, the first menu you will see is the Main Menu.
BIOS Setup The Menu Bar ▶ Main Use this menu for basic system configurations, such as time, date, etc. ▶ Advanced Use this menu to set up the items of special enhanced features. ▶ Boot Use this menu to specify the priority of boot devices. ▶...
MS-98F3 Main ▶ System Date This setting allows you to set the system date. The date format is <Day>, <Month> <Date> <Year>. ▶ System Time This setting allows you to set the system time. The time format is <Hour> <Min- ute>...
BIOS Setup Advanced ▶ Full Screen Logo Display This BIOS feature determines if the BIOS should hide the normal POST messag- es with the motherboard or system manufacturer’s full-screen logo. When it is enabled, the BIOS will display the full-screen logo during the boot-up sequence, hiding normal POST messages.
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MS-98F3 ▶ CPU Configuration ▶ Hyper-Threading The processor uses Hyper-Threading technology to increase transaction rates and reduces end-user response times. The technology treats the two cores inside the processor as two logical processors that can execute instructions simultaneously. In this way, the system performance is highly improved. If you disable the function, the processor will use only one core to execute the instructions.
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BIOS Setup ▶ Super IO Configuration ▶ Serial Port 1/ 2/ 3/ 4 This setting enables/disables the specified serial port. ▶ Change Settings This setting is used to change the address & IRQ settings of the specified serial port. ▶ Mode Select Select an operation mode for the specified serial port.
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MS-98F3 ▶ H/W Monitor These items display the current status of all monitored hardware devices/ components such as voltages, temperatures and all fans’ speeds. ▶ Smart Fan Configuration ▶ SYSFAN This setting enables/disables the Smart Fan function. Smart Fan is an...
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BIOS Setup ▶ PCI/PCIE Device Configuration ▶ EHCI This setting disables/enables the USB EHCI controller. The Enhanced Host Controller Interface (EHCI) specification describes the register-level interface for a Host Controller for the Universal Serial Bus (USB) Revision 2.0. ▶ XHCI Mode This setting disables/enables the USB XHCI controller.
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MS-98F3 ▶ GPIO Group Configuration ▶ GPO0 ~ GPO3 These settings control the operation mode of the specified GPIO. 3-11...
BIOS Setup Boot ▶ Boot Option Priorities This setting allows users to set the sequence of boot devices where BIOS at- tempts to load the disk operating system. 3-12...
MS-98F3 Security ▶ Administrator Password Administrator Password controls access to the BIOS Setup utility. ▶ User Password User Password controls access to the system at boot and to the BIOS Setup utility. ▶ PCH-FW Configuration 3-13...
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BIOS Setup ▶ ME FW Version, ME Firmware Mode/ Type/ SKU These settings show the firmware information of the Intel ME (Management Engine). ▶ ME Unconfig on RTC Clear State This setting enables/disables ME Firmware Un-configure on RTC clear state. ▶...
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MS-98F3 ▶ Intel(R) Anti-Theft Technology Configuration Intel Anti-Theft Technology is hardware-based technology that can lock a lost or stolen system so that personal confidential information is protected and inacces- sible by unauthorized users. ▶ AMT Configuration Intel Active Management Technology (AMT) is hardware-based technology for remotely managing and securing PCs out-of-band.
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BIOS Setup ▶ Serial Port Console Redirection ▶ Console Redirection Console Redirection operates in host systems that do not have a monitor and keyboard attached. This setting enables/disables the operation of console redirection. When set to [Enabled], BIOS redirects and sends all contents that should be displayed on the screen to the serial COM port for display on the terminal screen.
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MS-98F3 ▶ Terminal Type To operate the system’s console redirection, you need a terminal support- ing ANSI terminal protocol and a RS-232 null modem cable connected be- tween the host system and terminal(s). This setting specifies the type of terminal device for console redirection.
BIOS Setup Chipset ▶ VT-d Intel Virtualization Technology for Directed I/O (Intel VT-d) provides the capability to ensure improved isolation of I/O resources for greater reliability, security, and availability. ▶ DVMT Pre-Allocated This setting defines the DVMT pre-allocated memory. Pre-allocated memory is the small amount of system memory made available at boot time by the system BIOS for video.
MS-98F3 Power ▶ Restore AC Power Loss This setting specifies whether your system will reboot after a power failure or interrupt occurs. Available settings are: [Power Off] Leaves the computer in the power off state. [Power On] Leaves the computer in the power on state.
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BIOS Setup ** Advanced Resume Events Control ** ▶ USB from S3/S4 The item allows the activity of the USB device to wake up the system from S3/ S4 sleep state. ▶ OnChip GbE from S5 This field specifies whether the system will be awakened from power saving modes when activity or input signal of onchip LAN is detected.
MS-98F3 Save & Exit ▶ Save Changes and Reset Save changes to CMOS and reset the system. ▶ Discard Changes and Exit Abandon all changes and exit the Setup Utility. ▶ Discard Changes Abandon all changes. ▶ Load Optimized Defaults Use this menu to load the default values set by the motherboard manufacturer specifically for optimal performance of the motherboard.
MS-98F3 Abstract Abstract In this document, code examples based on C programming language are provided for customer interest. Inportb, Outportb, Inportl and Outportl are basic functions used for access IO ports and defined as following. Inportb: Read a single 8‐bit I/O port. Outportb: Write a single byte to an 8‐bit port. Inportl: Reads a single 32‐bit I/O port. Outportl: Write a single long to a 32‐bit port. ...
GPIO WDT BKL Programming General Purposed IO 1. General Purposed IO – GPIO/DIO The GPIO port configuration addresses are listed in the following table: Name IO Port IO address Name IO Port IO address N_GPI0 0xA03 Bit 0 N_GPO0 0xA03 Bit 4 N_GPI1 0xA03 Bit 1 N_GPO1 0xA03 Bit 5 N_GPI2 0xA03 Bit 2 N_GPO2 0xA03 Bit 6 N_GPI3 0xA03 Bit 3 N_GPO3 0xA03 Bit 7 ...
MS-98F3 Watchdog Timer 2. Watchdog Timer – WDT The base address (WDT_BASE) of WDT configuration registers is 0xA10. Set WDT Time Unit val = Inportb (WDT_BASE + 0x05); // Read current WDT setting val = val | 0x08; // minute mode. val = val & 0xF7 if second mode Outportb (WDT_BASE + 0x05, val); // Write back WDT setting Set WDT Time Outportb (WDT_BASE + 0x06, Time); // Write WDT time, value 1 to 255. Enable WDT val = Inportb (WDT_BASE + 0x0A); // Read current WDT_PME setting val = val | 0x01; // Enable WDT OUT: WDOUT_EN (bit 0) set to 1. ...
GPIO WDT BKL Programming LVDS Backlight Brightness Control 3. LVDS Backlight Brightness Control The LVDS controller support 17 level of backlight brightness value from 0 (30%) to 16 (100%) and it is accessible through SMBus. The associated access method (SMBus_ReadByte, SMBus_WriteByte) are provided in part 4. Set the Level of LVDS Backlight 1. Write 0xED into address 0x7F on SMBus device 0x42. 2. Write desired backlight level from 0x0 (30%) to 0x10 (100%) into address 0x6E on SMBus device 0x42. Example: Set LVDS backlight level to 0x10 (100%) SMBus_WriteByte (0x42, 0x7F, 0xED); SMBus_WriteByte (0x42, 0x6E, 0x10); // Set brightness to 100% Read the Level of LVDS Backlight 1.Write 0xED into address 0x7F on SMBus device 0x42. 2.Read current backlight level from address 0x6E on SMBus device 0x42. Example: Get LVDS backlight level SMBus_WriteByte (0x42, 0x7F, 0xED); BKL_Value = SMBus_ReadByte (0x42, 0x6E); ...
MS-98F3 SMBus Access 4. SMBus Access The base address of SMBus must be known before access. The relevant bus and device information are as following. #define IO_SC 0xCF8 #define IO_DA 0xCFC #define PCIBASEADDRESS 0x80000000 #define PCI_BUS_NUM 0 #define PCI_DEV_NUM 31 #define PCI_FUN_NUM 3 ...