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Order Information Part Number Description ® ® ECS-9710-505M ECS-9700, Quad Core Intel Xeon E3-1505M v5, 6 GigE LAN w/ 4 PoE , 2 SSD Tray, 1 PCIe x16, 6 USB 3.0, 4 COM, 4 SIM, 32 Isolated DIO ® ECS-9710-820Q ECS-9700, Quad Core Intel Core™...
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Order Accessories Part Number Description DDR4 16G Certified DDR4 16GB 2133MHz RAM DDR4 8G Certified DDR4 8GB 2133MHz RAM DDR4 4G Certified DDR4 4GB 2133MHz RAM PWA-280WB-WT 280W, 24V, 85V AC to 264V AC Power Adaptor with 3-pin Terminal Block (7.62mm pitch), Wide Temperature -30°C to +70°C PWA-160WB-WT 160W, 24V, 85V AC to 264V AC Power Adaptor with 3-pin...
1.4 Supported CPU List 1.5 Mechanical Dimension 1.5.1 Dimensions of ECS-9710/9701 1.5.2 Dimensions of ECS-9610/9601 CHAPTER 2 GETTING TO KNOW YOUR ECS-9700/9600 2.1 Packing List 2.2 Front Panel I/O & Functions 2.3 Rear Panel I/O & Functions 2.4 Main Board Expansion Connectors 2.5 Main Board Jumper &...
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3.5 Installing SIM Card 3.6 Installing PCI/ PCIe Card 3.7 Installing SSD/ HDD 3.8 Mounting Your ECS-9700/9600 CHAPTER 4 BIOS SETUP 4.1 Entering BIOS SETUP 4.2 Main 4.3 Advanced 4.4 Chipset 4.5 Security 4.6 Boot 4.7 Save & Exit APPENDIX A : Isolated DIO Guide...
HD Graphics P530/ 530 graphics engine supports DirectX 12, OpenGL 4.2 and OpenCL 2.0 API, onboard dual DisplayPort and DVI-I display interface support up to Ultra HD 4K resolution, ECS-9700/9600 offers up to 22% improved graphics performance than the former generation; Multiple SATA III (6Gbps), USB 3.0 (5Gbps), PoE (1Gbps) LAN and wireless connections make high-speed...
1.4 Supported CPU List Processor No. Cache Max. Frequency Embedded ® Xeon E3-1575M v5 Up to 3.00 GHz ® Xeon E3-1545M v5 Up to 2.90 GHz ® Xeon E3-1535M v5 Up to 2.80 GHz ® Xeon E3-1515M v5 Up to 2.80 GHz ®...
2.1 Packing List Item Description ECS-9700/9600 Expandable Fanless Embedded System (According to the configuration you order, the ECS-9700/9600 series may contain SSD/HDD and DDR4 SO-DIMM. Please verify these items if necessary.) ECS-9700-Accessory box, which contains ● Vecow Drivers & Utilities DVD ●...
S3, S5 Suspend to RAM, System off with standby power To power on ECS-9700, press the power button and then the blue LED is lightened. To power off ECS-9700, you can either command shutdown by OS operation, or just simply press the power button.
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SIM 2 WLAN CFast LAN 2 It is a hardware reset switch. Use this switch to reset ECS-9700 without power off. Press the Reset Switch for a few seconds, then reset will be enabled. 2.2.3 CFast Card SIM 1 SIM 3...
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HDD LED/ Yellow: A Hard Disk/ CFast LED. If the LED is on, it indicates ECS- 9700 storage is functional. If it is off, it indicates ECS-9700 storage is not functional. If it is flashing, it indicates data access activities.
Onboard Display Port supports auxiliary channel dual mode and the connection supports up to 4096x2304 resolution at 60 Hz. Multi-Stream Transport Display Resolutions Table: Multi-Stream Transport Display Max. Resolution One panel Display 4096x2304@60Hz Two panel Displays concurrently 2880x1800@60Hz Three panel Displays concurrently 2304x1440@60Hz GETTING TO KNOW YOUR ECS-9700/ 9600...
There are 4 USB 3.0 connections available supporting up to 5GB per second data rate in the front side of ECS-9700/9600. It is also compliant with the requirements of Super Speed (SS), high speed (HS), full speed (FS) and low speed (LS).
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SIM 2 WLAN CFast LAN 2 There are 2 audio connectors, Mic-in and Line-out, in the front side of ECS-9700. Onboard Realtek ALC892 audio codec supports 5.1 channel HD audio and fully ® complies with Intel High Definition Audio (Azalia) specifications.
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CFast LAN 2 HDD 1 HDD 2 There are 2 front-access 2.5” SSD/ HDD trays in the front side of ECS-9700. Just trigger to open the SSD/ HDD tray, up to 8TB is available. HDD Tray MB Connector MB Power Connector...
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There are 2 USB 3.0 connections available supporting up to 5GB per second data rate in the front side of ECS-9700. It also compliant with the requirements of Super Speed (SS), high speed (HS), full speed (FS) and low speed (LS).
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PIN 1 ~ 8 PIN 11 ~ 18 PIN 1 ~ 8 PIN 11 ~ 18 On | Off COM 1 COM 4 COM 3 Optional for PCIEx16 FHHL add on card or PCI card. GETTING TO KNOW YOUR ECS-9700/ 9600...
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This pin header can be used as a backup for following functions, such as hard drive LED indicator, reset button, power LED indicator, and power-on/ off button, which already can be accessed by front panel and top panel. The pin-outs of Miscellaneous port are listed in following table: GETTING TO KNOW YOUR ECS-9700/ 9600...
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2.4.5 BIOS Socket If the BIOS needs to be changed, please contact the Vecow RMA service team. 2.4.6 SATA Connector Standard 7 PIN SATA Connector There are 4 onboard high performance Serial ATA III. It supports higher storage capacity with less cabling effort and smaller required space. SATA4 is only for BOM option, default without function.
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2.4.8 Internal USB2.0 Standard Vertical USB2.0 Connector. ECS-9700 main board provides one expansion USB port using plug-and-play for dongle key or LCD touch panel. The USB interface supports 480 Mbps transfer rate complied with high speed USB specification Rev. 2.0.
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Pin No. Definition Pin No. Definition USB +VCC (+V5/Max. 0.5A) DATA- DATA+ Ground 2.4.9 SUMIT A, SUMIT B This system has standard SUMIT A and SUMIT B for SUMIT type add on cards. SUMITB SUMITA GETTING TO KNOW YOUR ECS-9700/ 9600...
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Panasonic BR2032 190mAh lithium battery. It is recommended that you do not have to get the lithium battery on your own. If the battery needs to be changed, please contact the Vecow RMA service team. 2.4.12 FAN Header Fan power connector supports for additional thermal requirements. The pin...
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2.4.13 LPC Port 80 Header ECS-9700 provides a LPC Port 80 Header for debug card. Pin out: Pin No. Function Pin No. Function SERIRQ LFRAME# +3.3V LAD0 RESET# Ground LAD1 CLOCK LAD2 Ground 2.4.14 LAN IEEE 1588 Header ECS-9700 provides a LAN header for IEEE 1588.
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2.4.15 COM Port Header ECS-9700 provides 4 COM port headers for internal COM port cable. CN27 CN28 Pin out: CN27: CN28: Pin No. Description Port Pin No. Description Port Ground_Frame COM3 Ground_Frame COM4 Ground COM3 Ground COM4 COM3 COM4 COM3...
CN12 CFast SUMITA The figure below is the top view of ECS-9700 board, and it shows the location of the jumpers and the switches. You may configure your card to match the needs of your application by setting jumpers. A jumper is a metal bridge used to close an electric circuit. It consists of two metal pins and a small metal clip (often protected by a plastic cover) that slides over the pins to connect them.
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Non Wake Up support As front plane, red mark Supported Wake Up (Default) As front plane, red mark Non Wake Up support As rear plane, green mark Supported Wake Up (Default) As rear plane, green mark GETTING TO KNOW YOUR ECS-9700/ 9600...
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COM2 / SW3-2 Disable COM RS-422/485 COM / DIP Switch ON / OFF Receiver Terminator *Enable COM3 / SW4-1 Disable COM RS-422/485 COM / DIP Switch ON / OFF Receiver Terminator *Enable COM4 / SW4-2 Disable GETTING TO KNOW YOUR ECS-9700/ 9600...
2.6.1 Adjust Ignition Control Modes ECS-9700 series provides 16 modes of different power on/ off delay periods adjustable via SW5 switch. The default rotary switch is set to 0 in ATX/ AT power mode.
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Note: 1. DC power source and IGN share the same ground. 2. ECS-9700/9600 supports 6V~36V wide range DC power input in ATX/AT mode. In Ignition mode, the input voltage is fixed to 12V/24V for car battery scenario.
3.2 Installing DDR4 SO-DIMM Modules Step 1 DDR4 RAM module into SO-DIMM slot. Step 2 Make sure the RAM module is locked by the memory slot. HARDWARE INSTALLATION...
3.4 Installing CFast Card Step 1 Remove 2 pcs F-M3x4 screws on CFast & SIM Card. Step 2 Before Inserting CFast & SIM Card, make sure ECS-9700 power is not plugged. Step 3 Insert CFast card and push to lock.
3.5 Installing SIM Card Step 1 Remove 2 pcs F-M3x4 screws on CFast & SIM Card. Step 2 Before Inserting CFast & SIM Card, make sure ECS-9700 power is not plugged. Step 3 Insert CFast card and push to lock.
3.7 Installing SSD/ HDD Step 1 Trigger and open SSD/HDD tray. Step 2 Insert 2.5” SSD/HDD in the tray and fasten two F-M3x4 screws. HARDWARE INSTALLATION...
3.8 Mounting Your ECS-9700/9600 3.8.1 Wall Mount Bracket Step 1 Ensure the screw holes on the right and left side of the upper case match the ones on ECS-9700/9600 wall mount bracket. HARDWARE INSTALLATION...
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3.8.2 VESA Mount Step 1 ECS-9700/9600 and VESA Mount. Step 2 Take ECS-9700/9600 and VESA Mount with fasten 4pcs KHS#6-32 screws. HARDWARE INSTALLATION...
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3.8.3 Din Rail Kit Step 1 ECS-9700/9600 and Din Rail Kit. Step 2 Take ECS-9700/9600 and Din Rail Kit and fasten four KHS#6-32 screws in the four marked corners. HARDWARE INSTALLATION...
BIOS SETUP 4.1 Entering BIOS SETUP Figure 4-1: Entering Setup Screen BIOS provides an interface for users to check and change system configuration. The BIOS setup program is accessed by pressing the <Del> key when POST display output is shown. BIOS AND DRIVER SETTING...
4.3.1 Trusted Computing Figure 4 3-1: Trusted Computing Control the TPM device status and display related information if TPM chip is present. 4.3.2 ACPI Settings Figure 4 3-2: ACPI Settings Enable Hibernation Enables or disables system's ability to hibernate (OS/S4 sleep state). This option may not be effective with some OS.
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4.3.6 IT8786 Super IO Configuration Figure 4-3-6-1: Super IO Settings Figure 4-3-6-2: Serial Port Settings Serial Port 1 to port 4 Configuration Options for Serial Port 1 to Serial Port 4. Entering the corresponding Port option then end user can change the settings such as I/O resource and UART mode.
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4.3.9 CPU Configuration Figure 4 3-9: CPU Function Settings Hyper-threading Enabled for Windows XP and Linux (OS optimized for Hyper-Threading Technology) and disabled for other OS (OS not optimized for Hyper-Threading Technology). When disabled only one thread per core is enabled. Active Processor Cores Number of cores to enable in each processor package.
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SATA Controller(s) Enable or disable SATA Device. SATA Mode Selection Determines how SATA controller(s) operate. Software Feature Mask Configuration RAID OROM/RST driver will refer to the SWFM configuration to enable or disable the storage features. Aggressive LPM Support Enable PCH to aggressively enter link power state. SATA Controller Speed Indicates the maximum speed the SATA controller can support.
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4.3.14 USB Configuration Figure 4 3-14: USB Settings Legacy USB Support Enables Legacy USB support. AUTO option disables Legacy support if no USB devices are connected. DISABLE option will keep USB devices available only for EFI applications. XHCI Hand-off This is a workaround for OS-es without XHCI hand-off support. The XHCI ownership change should be claimed by XHCI driver.
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4.4.2 Graphics Configuration of System Agent (SA) Figure 4-4-2: Graphics Settings Graphics Turbo IMON Current Graphics turbo IMON current values supported (14-31). Skip Scaning of External Gfx Card If Enable, it will not scan for External Gfx Card on PEG and PCH PCIE Ports. Primary Display Select which of IGFX/PEG/PCI Graphics device should be Primary Display Or select SG for Switchable Gfx.
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PCH LAN Controller Enable or disable onboard NIC. Wake on LAN Enable or disable integrated LAN to wake the system. (The wake On LAN cannot be disabled if ME is on at Sx state.) Serial IRQ Mode Configure serial IRQ mode. State After G3 Specify what state to go to when power is re-applied after a power failure (G3 state).
4.5 Security Figure 4-5: BIOS Security Menu Administrator Password Set administrator password. User Password Set user password. 4.5.1 HDD Security Configuration Figure 4-5-1: HDD Security Settings Set User Password Set HDD user password. *** Advisable to power cycle system after setting hard disk passwords *** Discard or save changes option in setup does not have any impact on HDD when password is set or removed.
4.7 Save & Exit Figure 4-7: Bios Save and Exit Menu Save Changes and Exit Exit system setup after saving the changes. Discard Changes and Exit Exit system setup without saving any changes. Save Changes and Reset Reset the system after saving the changes. Discard Changes and Reset Reset system setup without saving any changes.
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A.2 Function Description The ECS-9700 offers two 16-bit DIO (8-DI/ 8-DO) 20-pin terminal block connector. Each bit of DI and DO equipped with a photo-coupler for isolated protection. All IO pins are fixed by Hardware design and cannot change in/out direction in runtime process.
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A.4 Software Package contain There are two folders with the following inside: ● Driver folder includes x32 & x64 versions ● Runtime folder includes DLL and header file for software developer or system integration ● Sample folder includes sample program A.5 Driver Install In Driver folder, you can find the files below inside.
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A.6 DIO Demo Tool Execute DIO demo tool (ECS9K7.exe). Operation on DIO demo tool utility. Operation on DIO / WDT / PoE Demo tool utility. Click “Read” Button to get value; Input any number in Write and Write Mask textbox, and click “Write” Button to set value. On DIO Panel, Check the DO circuit for “NPN”...
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Return: if success return 1; else return 0. int Set_WDT(unsigned long time); Description: Set WDT Time for WDT. Return: if success return 1; else return 0. int Get_POE(unsigned short *POEI, unsigned short *Func); Description: Get POE Data. Return: if success return 1; else return 0. Mask [bit]=0 for disable;...
Please select SATA device to RAID mode on BIOS menu. Advanced → SATA Configuration → SATA Mode Selection C.2 OS Installation ECS-9700/9600 is featured with eight SATA, option 1: include four internal SATA, three mSATA and one CFast. Option 2: include three internal SATA, four mSATA and one CFast.
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C.6 Create RAID Volume on “Rapid Storage Technology” Software ECS-9700/9600 is featured with four SATA HDDs for RAID volume, so there are three options for choose on this page. Let’s take RAID 1 as example, please select ”RAID 1”.
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C.9 Recovery and Auto Re-build When Use the SAME RAID HDD C.10 Recovery and Auto Re-build When Use DIFFERENT RAID HDD There is a warning will pop-up to ask you if the disk is not a member of original RAID volume. If you press “Rebuild”, it will replace the broken SATA HDD to the last one SATA HDD of RAID volume.
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D.1 Intel® Xeon® E3-1505M v5 (8M Cache, 2.80 GHz) Power on and boot to Win 7 64-bit Idle Status : Standby Mode Sleep Mode CPU usage less 3% Power Input Current Consumption Current Consumption Current Consumption ® Xeon 0.650A 03.90W 0.770A 04.62W 3.800A...
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D.3 Intel® Core™ i5-6440EQ (6M Cache, 2.70 GHz) Power on and boot to Win 7 64-bit Idle Status : Standby Mode Sleep Mode CPU usage less 3% Power Input Current Consumption Current Consumption Current Consumption Core™ i5- 0.630A 03.78W 0.800A 04.80W 3.730A 22.38W...
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