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PEAK 6320A Single Board Computer User′s Guide All brand names are registered trademarks of their owners.
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@Copyright 2000 All Rights Reserved Manual edition 1, January 2000 The information in this document is subject to change without prior notice in order to improve reliability, design and function and does not represent commitment on the part of the manufacturer. In no event will the manufacturer be liable for direct, indirect, special, incidental, or consequential damages arising out of the use or the possibility of such damages.
Table of Contents How to Use This Guide Chapter 1. Introduction 1.1 Specifications..............…..…1-3 1.2 W h a t y o u h a v e f r o m t h e p a c k a g e ………………………………… 1-6 Chapter 2.
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How to use this guide This manual is written to help you use Peak 6320A. It describes how to arrange various settings on the Pentium CPU board to meet your requirements. It is briefed as follows: Chapter 1, “Introduction” gives an overview of the product‘s specifications. It also tells you what are included in the product package.
Peak 6320A User's Guide Chapter 2 Switches and Connectors This chapter gives the definitions and shows where to locate the positions of switches and connectors. 2-1 Switches Switches on the CPU board are used to select options for different functions used.
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Peak 6320A User's Guide Switch Setting Table (*: default setup) CPU Frequency S1.1 S1.2 S1.3 S1.4 S1.5 S1.6 S1.7 *100 CPU Pipelined S1.8 *Enabled Disabled M-System Disk On Chip S2.1 S2.2 S2.3 Disabled C0000 C8000 D0000 *D8000 BIOS Fresh S2.4...
Peak 6320A User's Guide Pin definitions of connectors • J1, J8: CPU Fan Header Connector PIN No. Description +12V Sense • J7: Speaker Connector PIN No. Description Speaker Signal Ground Ground • J9: Reset Connector PIN No. Description Reset Ground...
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Peak 6320A User's Guide • J10, J11: HDD Connector PIN No. Description PIN No. Description Reset# Ground Data 7 Data 8 Data 6 Data 9 Data 5 Data 10 Data 4 Data 11 Data 3 Data 12 Data 2 Data 13...
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Peak 6320A User's Guide • JP5: IR Connector PIN No. Description IRRXH IRRX Ground IRTX • JP7: LAN Speed LED PIN No. Description 100# • JP8: LAN Active LED PIN No. Description ACTIVE# • JP10: IDE Active LED PIN No.
You can also use the DIMM with parity check. The ECC (Error Checking and Correction) could be turned on if parity DIMMS are used. The ECC will correct one bit error and report two bit errors. Please be noted that the PEAK 6320A only supports the SDRAM.
Peak 6320A User's Guide Installing DIMM To install the DIMM’s, first make sure the two handles of the DIMM socket are in the “open” position, i.e. the handles stay outward. Slowly slide the DIMM modules along the plastic guides in the both ends of the socket. Then press the DIMM module down right into the socket, until a click is heard.
DRAM ECC, please check with your vendor for various Pentium II models. Figure 3-2 Memory Banks The level 2 cache of the Peak 6320A is built in the Celeron/Coppermine current Celerons have 128 KB on die L2 Cache which is very fast because it’s running at the CPU speed.
Peak 6320A User's Guide 3-3 Change CPU To change the CPU, pull the handling bar of the socket upward to the other end to loosen the socket's openings. Carefully lift the existing CPU up to remove it from the socket.
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Peak 6320A User's Guide Place the new CPU on the middle of the socket, orienting its beveled corner to line up with the socket's beveled corner. Make sure the pins of the CPU fit evenly to the socket openings. Replace the handling bar to fasten the CPU to the socket.
PEAK 6320A User’s Guide Chapter 4 AWARD BIOS Setup Award's BIOS ROM has a built-in Setup program that allows users to modify the basic system configuration. This type of information is stored in battery-backed RAM (CMOS RAM) so that it retains the Setup information when the power is turned off.
PEAK 6320A User’s Guide Control Keys Up arrow Move to previous item Down arrow Move to next item Left arrow Move to the item in the left hand Right arrow Move to the item in the right hand Esc key...
PEAK 6320A User’s Guide Getting Help Main Menu The on-line description of the highlighted setup function is displayed at the bottom of the screen. Status Page Setup Menu/Option Page Setup Menu Press F1 to pop up a small help window that describes the appropriate keys to use and the possible selections for the highlighted item.
PEAK 6320A User’s Guide The Main Menu Once you enter Award BIOS CMOS Setup Utility, the Main Menu (Figure 1) will appear on the screen. The Main Menu allows you to select from ten setup functions and two exit choices. Use arrow keys to select among the items and press <Enter> to accept or enter the sub-menu.
PEAK 6320A User’s Guide Chipset features setup This setup page includes all the items of chipset special features. See Page 4-16 to Page 4-20 for details. Power Management setup This category determines how much power consumption for system after selecting below items.
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PEAK 6320A User’s Guide IDE HDD auto detection Automatically configure hard disk parameters. See Page 4-32 to Page 4-35. Save & Exit Setup Save CMOS value changes to CMOS and exit setup. Exit without saving Abandon all CMOS value changes and exit setup.
PEAK 6320A User’s Guide Standard CMOS Setup Menu The items in Standard CMOS Setup Menu are divided into 10 categories. Each category includes no, one or more than one setup items. Use the arrow keys to highlight the item and then use the <PgUp> or <PgDn> keys to select the value you want in each item.
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PEAK 6320A User’s Guide Time The time format is <hour> <minute> <second>. which accepts both function key or numerical key The time is calculated based on the 24-hour military-time clock. For example, 1 p.m. is 13:00:00. Primary Master/Primary Slave The categories identify the types of drives that have been installed in the computer.
PEAK 6320A User’s Guide Drive A type/Drive B type The category identifies the types of floppy disk drive A or drive B that have been installed in the computer. None No floppy drive installed 360K, 5.25 in 5-1/4 inch PC-type standard drive; 360 kilobyte capacity 1.2M, 5.25 in...
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PEAK 6320A User’s Guide Error Halt The category determines whether the computer will stop if an error is detected during power up. No errors Whenever the BIOS detects a non-fatal error the system will be stopped and you will be prompted.
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PEAK 6320A User’s Guide System total memory is the sum of basic memory, extended memory, and other memory. BIOS Setup...
PEAK 6320A User’s Guide BIOS Features Setup Menu ROM PCI/ISA BIOS (PEAK-6320A) BIOS FEATURES SETUP AWARD SOFTWARE, INC. Virus Warning : Disabled Video BIOS Shadow : Enabled CPU Internal Cache : Enabled C8000-CBFFF Shadow : Disabled External Cache : Enabled...
PEAK 6320A User’s Guide Disabled No warning message to appear when anything attempts to access the boot sector or hard disk partition table. ote: This function is available only for DOS and other OSes that do not trap INT13. CPU Internal Cache/External Cache These two categories speed up memory access.
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PEAK 6320A User’s Guide Disabled BIOS w ill not search for the type of floppy disk drive by track number. Note that there will not be any warning message if the drive installed is 360K. Boot Up NumLock Status The default value is On.
PEAK 6320A User’s Guide 1000 1000 msec Security Option This category allows you to limit access to the system and Setup, or just to Setup. System The system will not boot and access to Setup will be denied if the correct password is not entered at the prompt.
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PEAK 6320A User’s Guide Disabled Video shadow is disabled BIOS Setup...
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PEAK 6320A User’s Guide C8000 - CFFFF Shadow/D8000 - DFFFF Shadow These categories determine whether optional ROM will be copied to RAM by 16K byte or 32K byte per/unit and the size depends on chipset. Enabled Optional shadow is enabled...
PEAK 6320A User’s Guide Chipset Features Setup Menu Since the features in this section are related to the chipset in the CPU board and all are optimized, you are not recommended to change the default settings in the setup table, unless you know very detailed of the chipset features.
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PEAK 6320A User’s Guide NOTE: This chapter describes all fields offered by Award Software in this screen. Your system board designer may omit or modify some fields. Auto Configuration Auto Configuration selects predetermined optimal values of chipset parameters. When Disabled, chipset parameters revert to setup information stored in CMOS. Many fields in this screen are not available when Auto Configuration is Enabled.
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PEAK 6320A User’s Guide SDRAM CAS latency Time You can select CAS latency time in HCLKs of 2/2 or 3/3. The system board designer should set the values in this field, depending on the DRAM installed. Do not change the values in this field unless you change specifications of the installed DRAM or the installed CPU.The choice: 2, 3.
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PEAK 6320A User’s Guide delayed to allow for the completion of the I/O. This item allows you to determine the recovery time allowed for 8 bit I/O. Choices are from NA, 1 to 8 CPU clocks. 16 Bit I/O Recovery Time This item allows you to determine the recovery time allowed for 16 bit I/O.
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PEAK 6320A User’s Guide Spread Spectrum Modulated The Clock Generator generates a clock that is frequency modulated in order to increase the bandwidth that is occupies. By increasing the bandwidth of the fundamental and its harmonics, the amplitudes of the radiated electromagnetic emissions are reduced.
PEAK 6320A User’s Guide Power Management Setup The Power management setup will appear on your screen like this: ROM PCI/ISA BIOS (PEAK-6320A) POWER MANAGEMENT SETUP AWARD SOFTWARE, INC. ACPI function : Disabled ** Reload Global Timer Events ** Power Management...
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PEAK 6320A User’s Guide Item Options Descriptions A.Power Management 1. Disable Global Power Management will be disabled 2. User Define Users can configure their own power management 3. Min Saving Pre-defined timer values are used such that all timers are in their MAX value 4.
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PEAK 6320A User’s Guide 1. Break The External Suspend Switch is “Break” . Switch Function 2. Wake The External Suspend Switch is “Wake” 2. 1 Min Defines the continuous idle time before the 2 Min system entering DOZE mode. 4 Min 6 Min if any item defined in (J) is enabled &...
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PEAK 6320A User’s Guide H. Doze 1. Disable System will never enter STANDBY mode (*) Remark 1 2. 1 Min Defines the continuous idle time before the 2 Min system entering STANDBY mode. 4 Min 6 Min if any item defined in (J) is enabled & active,...
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PEAK 6320A User’s Guide PnP/PCI Configuration This section describes configuring the PCI bus system. PCI, or Peripheral Component Interconnect, is a system which allows I/O devices to operate at speeds nearing the speed the CPU itself uses when communicating with its own special components. This section covers some very technical items and it is strongly recommended that only experienced users should make any changes to the default settings.
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PEAK 6320A User’s Guide PNP OS Installed This item allows you to determine install PnP OS or not. Choices are Yes and No. Resource Controlled by The Award Plug and Play BIOS has the capacity to automatically configure all of the boot and Plug and Play compatible devices.
PEAK 6320A User’s Guide Integrated Peripherals ROM PCI / ISA BIOS (PEAK-6320A) INTEGRATED PERIPHERALS AWARD SOFTWARE, INC. IDE HDD Block Mode : Enabled MART 2 Duplex Mode : Half IDE Primary Master PIO : Auto RXD, TXD Active : Hi, Lo...
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PEAK 6320A User’s Guide 4 provide successively increased performance. In Auto mode, the system automatically determines the best mode for each device. IDE Primary/Secondary Master/Slave UDMA Ultra DMA/33 implementation is possible only if your IDE hard drive supports it and the operating environment includes a DMA driver (Windows 95 OSR2 or a third-party IDE bus master driver).
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PEAK 6320A User’s Guide Duplex Select This item allows you to select the IR function when your select the UART 2 Mode is IrDA1.0, ASK-IR, IrDA1.1 Choices are Half, Full. TxD, RxD Active This item allows you to determine the active of RxD, TxD.
PEAK 6320A User’s Guide Supervisor/User Password Setting You can set either supervisor or user password, or both of then. The differences between are: supervisor password : can enter and change the options of the setup menus. user password : just can enter but do not have the right to change the options of the setup menus.
PEAK 6320A User’s Guide IDE HDD Auto Detection The Enhance IDE features was included in all Award BIOS. Below is a brief description of this feature. 1. Setup Changes <I> Auto-detection BIOS setup will display all possible modes that supported by the HDD including NORMAL, LBA &...
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PEAK 6320A User’s Guide Secondary None Master: Secondary Slave None When HDD type is in ‘user’ type, the “MODE” option will be opened for user to select their own HDD mode. (2) HDD Modes The Award BIOS supports 3 HDD modes : NORMAL, LBA & LARGE...
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PEAK 6320A User’s Guide The maximum HDD size supported by LBA mode is 8.4 Gigabytes which is obtained by the following formula: no. Cyclinder ( 1024) x no. Head ( 255) x no. Sector x bytes per sector ( 512) 8.4 Gigabytes...
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PEAK 6320A User’s Guide (3) Remarks To support LBA or LARGE mode of HDDs, there must be some softwares involved. All these softwares are located in the Award HDD Service Routine(INT 13h). It may be failed to access a HDD with LBA (LARGE) mode selected if you are running under a Operating System which replaces the whole INT 13h.
PEAK 6320A User’s Guide Power-On Boot After you have made all the changes to CMOS values and the system cannot boot with the CMOS values selected in Setup, restart the system by turning it OFF then ON or Pressing the "RESET" button on the system case. You may also restart by simultaneously press <Ctrl>, <Alt>, and <Delete>...
PEAK 6320A User’s Guide BIOS Reference - POST Message During the Power On Self Test (POST), if the BIOS detects an error requiring you to do something to fix, it will either sound a beep code or display a message.
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PEAK 6320A User’s Guide DISK BOOT FAILURE, INSERT SYSTEM DISK AND PRESS ENTER No boot device was found. This could mean that either a boot drive was not detected or the drive does not contain proper system boot files. Insert a system disk into Drive A: and press <Enter>.
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PEAK 6320A User’s Guide ERROR ENCOUNTERED INITIALIZING HARD DRIVE Hard drive cannot be initialized. Be sure the adapter is installed correctly and all cables are correctly and firmly attached. Also be sure the correct hard drive type is selected in Setup.
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PEAK 6320A User’s Guide Memory parity Error at ... Indicates a memory parity error at a specific location. You can use this location along with the memory map for your system to find and replace the bad memory chips. MEMORY SIZE HAS CHANGED SINCE LAST BOOT Memory has been added or removed since the last boot.
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PEAK 6320A User’s Guide RAM PARITY ERROR - CHECKING FOR SEGMENT ... Indicates a parity error in Random Access Memory. Should Be Empty But EISA Board Found PLEASE RUN EISA CONFIGURATION UTILITY A valid board ID was found in a slot that was configurated as having no board ID.
PEAK 6320A User’s Guide BIOS Reference - POST Codes Note: EISA POST codes are typically output to port address 300h. ISA POST codes are output to port address 80h. POST Description (hex) 1. Turn off OEM specific cache, shadow... 2. Initialize all the standard devices with default values standard devices...
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PEAK 6320A User’s Guide a This POST code is for boot block POST Description (hex) 1. Turn off OEM specific cache, shadow... 2. Initialize all the standard devices with default values standard devices includes: -DMA controller (8237) -Programmable Interrupt Controller (8259)
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PEAK 6320A User’s Guide a This page is for Non-Compressed Version only 01-02 Reserved Turn off OEM specific cache, shadow... 1. Initialize EISA registers (EISA BIOS only) 2. Initialize all the standard devices with default values Standard devices includes: -DMA controller (8237)
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PEAK 6320A User’s Guide a The following POST Codes are for all of Compress Version & Non-Compress Version POST Description (hex) 1. Verify the RTC time is valid or not 2. Detect bad battery 3. Read CMOS data into BIOS stack area 4.
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PEAK 6320A User’s Guide 1. Test Base Memory from 256K to 640K 2. Test Extended Memory from 1M to the top of memory BIOS Setup...
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PEAK 6320A User’s Guide 1. Display the Award Plug & Play BIOS Extension message (PnP BIOS only) 2. Program all onboard super I/O chips (if any) including COM ports, LPT ports, FDD port... according to setup value 33-3B Reserved Set flag to allow users to enter CMOS Setup Utility 1.
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PEAK 6320A User’s Guide POST(hex) Description Try to turn on Level 2 cache Note: Some chipset may need to turn on the L2 cache in this stage. But usually, the cache is turn on later in POST 61h Try to turn on Level 2 cache Note: Some chipset may need to turn on the L2 cache in this stage.
PEAK 6320A User’s Guide BIOS Default Drive Table This is a current list of the drive type table contained in Setup. Type Size Cylinders Heads Sectors Write Land Example (MB) Precomp Zone Model TEAC SD510, MMI 112, 5412 Seagate ST225,...
PEAK 6320A Series User’s Guide Appendix 1 Watch Dog Timer Watch Dog Timer Working Procedure The Watch Dog Timer (WDT) is the special hardware device. The WDT function is to monitor the computer system whether work normally, otherwise, it will have some measures to fix up the system.
PEAK 6320A Series User’s Guide Watch Dog Timer Control Register The Watch Dog Timer Control Register is to control the WDT working mode. You can write the value to WDT Configuration Port. The following is the Control Register bit definition.
PEAK 6320A Series User’s Guide Watch Dog Timer Programming Procedure • Power on or reset the system The initial value of WDT Control Register (D4~D0) is zero, when power is on or reset the system. The following means the initial value of WDT ( 00000000b ) :...
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PEAK 6320A Series User’s Guide • Clear the WDT Repeatedly read WDT Configuration Port and the interval cannot be longer than the preset time, otherwise, the WDT will generate NMI or Reset signal for the system. The following is an example of clear the WDT program in Intel 8086 assembly language.
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PEAK 6320A Series User’s Guide i.e. D3=0, Disable the WDT al, 11110111b ; Disable the WDT i.e. D3=1, Enable the WDT al, 00001000b ; Enable the WDT After finishing the above setting, you must be output for the Control Register’s value to the WDT Configuration Port.
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