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ICP Electronics ROCKY–P258BX User Manual

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ROCKY – P258BX (Ver. 5.x)
600MHz Pentium
Single Board Computer
©Copyright 1999 by ICP Electronics Inc. All Rights Reserved. Manual
second edition Aug.01, 1999.
The information in this document is subject to change without prior notice
in order to improve reliability, design and function and does not represent
a 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 inability to
use the product or documentation, even if 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.
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ROCKY-P258BX is a registered trademark of ICP Electronics Inc. IBM PC
is a registered trademark of International Business Machines Corporation.
Intel is a registered trademark of Intel Corporation. AMI is a registered
trademark of American Megatrends, Inc. Other product names mentioned
herein are used for identification purposes only and may be trademarks
and/or registered trademarks of their respective companies.
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  • Page 1 Trademarks ROCKY-P258BX is a registered trademark of ICP Electronics Inc. IBM PC is a registered trademark of International Business Machines Corporation. Intel is a registered trademark of Intel Corporation. AMI is a registered trademark of American Megatrends, Inc.

  • Page 3: Table Of Contents

    Contents 1. Introduction ...............3 Specifications ................4 What You Have ................5 2. Installation.................6 ROCKY-P258BX's Layout ............7 Unpacking Precautions………………………………………………...8 Setting the CPU of ROCKY-P258BX ........... 9 Voltage Setting for PCI Reset............ 10 Watch-Dog Timer ..............10 DiskOnChip™ Flash Disk ............11 Clear CMOS Setup ..............
  • Page 4 Getting Start ................19 Standard CMOS Setup .............. 20 Advanced CMOS Setup ............. 21 Advanced Chipset Setup............23 Power Management Setup ............25 PCI/PLUG AND PLAY Setup............26 Peripheral Setup ................ 27 Hardware Monitor Setup ............29 Change Supervisor/User Password……………………………......

  • Page 5: Introduction

    Introduction ® Welcome to the ROCKY-P258BX Pentium II / III Single Board Computer. The ROCKY-P258BX is a PICMG bus form factor ® board. It is equipped with high performance Pentium II / III Processor and advanced high performance multi-mode I/O, designed for the system manufacturers, integrators, or VARs that want to provide all the performance, reliability, and quality at a reasonable price.

  • Page 6: 1.1 Specifications

    1.1 Specifications : • ® Processor: Single Slot 1 socket supports Intel Pentium II/III up to 600Mhz Processor • System Memory : four 168-pin DIMM sockets, support up to 1GB SDRAM • Chipset: Intel AGPset 82443BX Host Bridge, provides a Host-to- PCI bridge, optimized DRAM controller &...

  • Page 7: What You Have

    • ISA PLUS : designed to enhance the ISA bus drive capability • (optional): A special designed 1-Kbit EEPROM provided to accept read/write data by customer’s program. Because of it’s nonvolatile characteristic, It is very useful to store system ID, Password, Critical Data, etc.

  • Page 8: Installation

    Installation This chapter describes how to install the ROCKY-P258BX. The layout of ROCKY-P258BX is shown on the next page and the Unpacking Precautions that you should be careful with are described on the following page. Also included is the jumpers and switches setting for this board’s configuration, such as: CPU type selection, system clock setting and Watchdog timer.

  • Page 9: 2.1 Rocky-P258Bx's Layout

    2.1 ROCKY–P258BX's Layout...

  • Page 10: 2.2 Unpacking Precautions

    2.2 Unpacking Precautions Some components on ROCKY-P258BX SBC are very sensitive to static electric charges and can be damaged by a sudden rush of power. To protect it from unintended damage, be sure to follow these precautions: ü Ground yourself to remove any static charge before touching your ROCKY-P258BX SBC.

  • Page 11: Setting The Cpu Of Rocky-P258Bx

    Setting the CPU of ROCKY-P258BX • JP4, JP3 : CPU FREQUENCY SELECT FREQUENCY 66MHz 100MHz • JP2 : CPU Multiplier Setting : Ratio 3.0 x 3.5 x 4.0 x 4.5 x 5.0 x 5.5 x 6.0 x 6.5 x...

  • Page 12: Voltage Setting For Pci Reset

    Voltage Setting for PCI Reset • JP5 : PCI Reset Voltage (This is factory setting jumper) PIN NO. DESCRIPTION 3.3 V Watch-Dog Timer The Watch-Dog Timer is enabled by reading port 443H. It should be triggered before the time-out period ends, otherwise it will assume the program operation is abnormal and will issue a reset signal to reboot or activate NMI to CPU.

  • Page 13: Diskonchip™ Flash Disk

    DiskOnChip™ Flash Disk The DOC is software compatible to hard disk and DOS. Customer doesn‘t need an y extra software utility. The DOC occupies 8KB of memory address. It is just “plug and play”, easy and reliable. Right now, the DOC is available from 2MB to 72MB. •...

  • Page 14: Connection

    Connection This chapter describes how to connect peripherals, switches and indicators to the ROCKY- P258BX board. Floppy Disk Drive Connector ROCKY-P258BX board is equipped with a 34-pin daisy-chain driver connector cable. • CN8 : FDC CONNECTOR PIN NO. DESCRIPTION PIN NO. DESCRIPTION GROUND REDUCE WRITE GROUND...

  • Page 15: Pci E-Ide Disk Drive Connector

    PCI E-IDE Disk Drive Connector You can attach four IDE (Integrated Device Electronics) hard disk drives to the ROCKY-P258BX IDE controller. • CN7/CN6 : Primary/Secondary IDE Interface Connector PIN NO. DESCRIPTION PIN NO. DESCRIPTION RESET# DATA 7 DATA 8 DATA 6 DATA 9 DATA 5 DATA 10...

  • Page 16: Parallel Port

    Parallel Port This port is usually connected to a printer. ROCKY-P258BX includes an on-board parallel port, accessed through a 26-pin flat-cable connector CN10. • CN10 : Parallel Port Connector PIN NO. DESCRIPTION PIN NO. DESCRIPTION STROBE# DATA 0 DATA 1 DATA 2 DATA 3 DATA 4...

  • Page 17: Serial Ports

    Serial Ports The ROCKY-P258BX offers two high speed NS16C550 compatible UARTs with Read/Receive 16 byte FIFO serial ports (COMA/COMB) and one additional 10-pin Header (COMB) • CN17/CN14 : Serial Port DB-9 Connector (COMA/COMB) PIN NO. DESCRIPTION DATA CARRIER DETECT (DCD) RECEIVE DATA (RXD) TRANSMIT DATA...

  • Page 18: External Switches And Indicators

    • CN13 : 5-pin Header External Keyboard Connector PIN NO. DESCRIPTION KB CLOCK KB DATA • CN12 : 5-pin Header External Mouse Connector PIN NO. DESCRIPTION MS CLOCK MS DATA External Switches and Indicators There are several external switches and indicators for monitoring and controlling your CPU board.

  • Page 19: Usb Port Connector

    USB Port Connector The ROCKY- P258BX has one built-in USB port and one connector for the future new I/O bus expansion. • CN15: USB Connector • CN16: USB Port CN15 Description CN16 Description SBD1- SBD0- SBD1+ SBD0+ IrDA Infrared Interface Port ROCKY-P258BX built-in IrDA port supports Serial Infrared (SIR) or Amplitude Shift Keyed IR (ASKIR) interface.

  • Page 20: Fan Connector

    Fan Connector The ROCKY-P258BX provides one CPU cooling fan connector and one system fan connector. These connectors can supply 12V/500mA to the cooling fan. The connector has a “rotation” pin which supplies the fan’ s rotation signal to the system, so the system BIOS knows the fan speed.

  • Page 21: Ami Bios Setup

    AMI BIOS Setup The ROCKY-P258BX uses the AMI PCI/ISA BIOS for system configuration. The AMI BIOS setup program is designed to provide maximum flexibility in configuring the system by offering various options which selected end-user requirements. This chapter is written to assist you in the proper usage of these features.

  • Page 22: Standard Cmos Setup

    Standard CMOS Setup The standard CMOS Setup is used for basic hardware system configuration. The main function is for Date/Time setting and Floppy/Hard Disk setting. Please refer to the following screen for this setup To set the Date , for example, press either the arrow or <Enter> button on your keyboard to select one of the fields (Months, Date or Year) then press either <PgUp>...

  • Page 23: Advanced Cmos Setup

    Advanced CMOS Setup This Advanced CMOS Setup is designed for tuning the best performance of the ROCKY-P258BX board. As for normal operation customers don‘t have to change any default setting. The default setting is pre-set for most reliable operation. The following screen will be displayed if you select Advanced CMOS Setup: You can change the value of each options by using <PgUp>...
  • Page 24 Try Other Boot Devices > the BIOS will try to boot from any other available device in the system if the 1 and 3 device fails to boot. Floppy Access Control > to define the read/write access which is set when booting from a floppy drive. Hard Disk Access Control >...

  • Page 25: Advanced Chipset Setup

    enable it then the BIOS will be executed from the RAM. Each option allows 16KB segment to be shadowed to the RAM. Advanced Chipset Setup This setup functions are working mostly for Chipset (Intel 440BX). These options are used to change the Chipset‘s registers.
  • Page 26 Memory Hole : to specify the location of a memory hole in the CMOS RAM. This setting reserves 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.

  • Page 27: Power Management Setup

    Power Management Setup Power Management/APM > to enable or disable the Advanced Power Management feature. Green PC Monitor Power State > to specify the power state of the monitor after the specified period of display-idle has ended. Video Power Down Mode > to specify the power state of the VESA VGA video subsystem after the specified period of display-idle has ended.

  • Page 28: Pci/Plug And Play Setup

    Device X > to monitor specified device IRQ or Ignore. PCI / PLUG AND PLAY Setup The setup help user handles the ROCKY-P258BX board‘s PCI function. All PCI bus slots on the system use INTA#, thus all installed PCI slots must be set. Plug and Play Aware O/S >...

  • Page 29: Peripheral Setup

    Offboard PCI IDE Card > to specify if an offboard PCI IDE card is installed in your computer or not. You must specify the slot number on the board which will be used for the card. Offboard PCI IDE Primary (/Secondary) IRQ > to specify the PCI interrupt that is assigned to the Primary (/Secondary) IDE channel on the offboard PCI IDE controller.
  • Page 30 Onboard FDC > to enable the FDC on your board. If you set it Auto, the BIOS will decide if the FDC should be enabled, automatically). Onboard Serial Port A (/B) > to specify the I/O port address of the serial port 1(/2). If you set it Auto, the BIOS will decide the correct I/O port address, automatically.

  • Page 31: Hardware Monitor Setup

    Hardware Monitor Setup There is a LM78 chip on your board which can monitor on board system voltage and fan speed. The voltage monitoring will cover Vtt, Vcore, Vio, +5V,+12V,-12V,and –5V. Note: normal CPU Fan RPM is over than 5000 RPM. If your CPU Fan RPM is less than that figure, something is wrong and the CPU will be in overheat condition.

  • Page 32: Change Supervisor/User Password

    Change Supervisor / User Password This option sets a password that is used to protect your system and Setup Utility. Supervisor Password has higher priority than User Password. Once you setup the password, the system will always ask you to key-in password every time you enter the BIOS SETUP.

  • Page 33: Auto-Detect Hard Disk

    4.10 Auto-Detect Hard Disk This option detects the parameters of an IDE hard disk drive (HDD sector, cylinder, head, etc) automatically and will put the parameters into the Standard CMOS Setup screen. Up to 4 IDE drives can be detected and the parameters will be listed in the box.

  • Page 34: Auto Configuration With Fail Save Settings

    4.12 Auto Configuration with Fail Save Settings This option lets you load the Fail Safe default settings when something happens to your computer and causes it cannot boot normally. These settings are not the most optimal settings but are the most stable settings. 4.13 Save Settings and Exit Select this option when you finish setting all the parameters and...

  • Page 35: E 2 Key Function

    Key™ Function (optional) The ROCKY-P258BX provides an optional outstanding E KEY™ function for system integrator. Based on the E KEY™, you can free to store the ID Code, Password or Critical Data in the 1Kbit EEPROM. Because the EEPROM is nonvolatile memory, you don’t have to worry for losing very important data.
  • Page 36 /* This function will write the given data to E KEY™ at certain address. The address range is from 0 to 63. The data value is from 0 to 0xffff. */ To easily start to use the function, please refer to the included EKEYDEMO.C code at first.

  • Page 37: Appendix A. Watch-Dog Timer

    Appendix A. Watch-Dog Timer The WatchDog Timer is provided to ensure that standalone systems can always recover from catastrophic conditions that cause the CPU to crash. This condition may have occurred by external EMI or a software bug. When the CPU stops working correctly, hardware on the board will either perform a hardware reset (cold boot) or a Non-Maskable Interrupt (NMI) to bring the system back to a known state.

  • Page 38: Appendix B. Atx Power Supply

    Appendix B. ATX Power Supply The following notes show how to connect ATX Power Supply to the backplanes and the ROCKY-P258BX. Please, disconnect the AC cord of the Power Supply from the AC source when you plug-in DC connector to prevent sudden electric surge to the board.

  • Page 39: Appendix C. I/O Information

    Appendix C. I/O Information IO Address Map I/O address Range Description 000-01F DMA Controller #1 020-021 Interrupt Controller #1, Master 040-05F 8254 timer 060-06F 8042 (Keyboard Controller) Real time Clock, NMI (non-maskable 070-07F interrupt) Mask 080-09F DMA Page Register 0A0-0BF Interrupt Controller #2 0C0-0DF DMA Controller #2...
  • Page 40 MB Memory Address Map Memory address Description 00000-9FFFF System memory A0000-BFFFF VGA buffer C0000-CBFFF VGA BIOS * D6000-D7FFF DOC 2000 E0000–FFFFF System BIOS 1000000- Extend BIOS *Default Setting IRQ Mapping Chart IRQ0 System Timer IRQ8 RTC Clock IRQ1 Keyboard IRQ9 Unused IRQ2 Cascade to IRQ...

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