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Preface Warranty This product is warranted to be in good working order for a period of two years from the date of purchase. Should this product fail to be in good working order at any time during this period, we will, at our option, replace or repair it at no additional charge except as set forth in the following terms.
Introduction 1.1 The Product The EmETXe-i91M0 is a space-conscious CPU board of 125 mm x 95 mm to take up only small footprint in your system. By the architecture of Type 6, the board has two high-performance connectors to promise stable data passing rate.
Introduction 1.3 Specifications System ® Soldered onboard 8 Generation Intel Core™ i7-8850H 2.6GHz(Base)/4.3GHz(Turbo) or i5-8400H 2.5GHz(Base)/ 4.2GHz(Turbo) or i3-8100H 3.0GHz (Base) processor ® Chipset Intel QM370 Memory 2 x DDR4 SO-DIMM sockets BIOS AMI UEFI BIOS Watchdog Timer 1~255 levels reset 12 x USB ports: USB Port - 8 x USB 2.0 ports...
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Before you begin installing your single board, please make sure that the following materials have been shipped: 1 x EmETXe-i91M0 COM Express CPU Module 1 x Quick Installation Guide If any of the above items is damaged or missing, contact your vendor immediately.
2 x COM Flat cables 1.6 Driver(7.3A) Installation To install the drivers,please visit our website at www.arbor.technology.com and download the driver pack from the product page. Windows 10 64-bit Driver Path Chipset \EmETXe-i91M0\Chipset Graphic \EmETXe-i91M0\Graphic\win64 Audio \EmETXe-i91M0\Audio\Win10_Win8.1_Win8_Win7_WHQLx64 Ethernet \EmETXe-i91M0\Ethernet \EmETXe-i91M0\ME...
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Module Type 1 and 10 support single connector with two rows (220 pins). Module Type 2, 3, 4, 5 and 6 support two connectors with four rows (440 pins). EmETXe-i91M0 is a Type-6 module. Difference between Standard Type 6 and EmETXe-i91M0 is listed as below: Module Type Standard Type 6...
Board Overview 2.4 Connector Pin Definition Being a most commonly-used Type 6, the EmETXe-i91M0 features two board- to-board connectors on bottom side. Top Side FAN1 FAN1 FAN1 SO-DIMM Sockets Bottom Side COM Express AB Connector COM Express CD Connector FAN1: Fan connctor Connector type: Wafer 3-pin 1.25mm 85204-03X0L...
Installation & Maintenance 3.1 Installing the Heatsink Prepare the heat sink in the optional accessories and follow the steps below to install the heat sink. 1. Connect the fan cable of the heat sink to the fan connector on the CPU module.
Prepare the carrier board in the optional accessories and follow the steps below to install the CPU module to the carrier board. 1. Mount the Embed EmETXe-i91M0 into PBE-1705 via COM Express connectors as below; that is, COM Express AB to AB and CD to CD.
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Aptio Setup Utility - Copyright (C) 2019 American Megatrends, Inc. Advanced Chipset Security Boot Save & Exit Main Set the Date. Use Tab BIOSName EmETXe-i91M0 to Switch between Date BIOS Version 1.00 elements. Build Date and Time 05/16/2019 13:42:11 EC Version 1.21...
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BIOS Set the system time. Use Tab to switch between Time elements. System Time The time format is: Hour: 00 to 23 ► Minute: 00 to 59 Second: 00 to 59 Key Commands BIOS Setup Utility is mainly a key-based navigation interface. Please refer to the following key command instructions for navigation process.
BIOS 4.2 Advanced Aptio Setup Utility - Copyright (C) 2019 American Megatrends, Inc. Main Chipset Security Save & Exit Boot Advanced CPU Configuration ► CPU Configuration Parameters ► Power & Performance ► AMT Configuration ► Trusted Compuing ► ACPI Settings ►...
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BIOS Super IO Configura- See section 4.2.11 Super IO Configuration on page tion S5 RTC Wake Set- See section 4.2.12 S5 RTC Wake Settings on page tings Serial Port Console See section 4.2.13 Serial Port Console Redirection Configuration page Network Stack See section 4.2.14 Network Stack Configuration Configuration...
BIOS 4.2.1 CPU Configuration Aptio Setup Utility - Copyright (C) 2019 American Megatrends, Inc. Advanced CPU Configuration Enabled for Windows XP Type Intel(R) Core(TM) and Linux (OS i3-8100U CPU @ 3.00GHz optimized for Hyper- 0x906EA Threading Technology) 3000 MHz Speed and Disabled for other OS (OS not optimized 32 KB x 4...
BIOS 4.2.2 Power & Performance Aptio Setup Utility - Copyright (C) 2019 American Megatrends, Inc. Advanced Power & Performance CPU - Power Management Control Options ► CPU- Power Management Control →←: Select Screen ↓↑: Select Item Enter: Select +/-: Change Opt. F1: General Help F2: Previous Values F3: Optimized Defaults...
BIOS Setting Description Set the performance state that the BIOS will set be- Boot performance fore the OS handoff. Mode ► Options: Max Non-Turbo Performance (default), Max Battery and Turbo Performance Intel (R) Speed Step Enable (default) / Disable Intel SpeedStep (tm) CPU C States Enable / Disable (default) CPU C States...
BIOS 4.2.4 Trusted Computing Aptio Setup Utility - Copyright (C) 2019 American Megatrends, Inc. Advanced TPM20 Device Found Enables or Disables BIOS support for Firmware Version 402.1 security device. O.S. Vendor: will not show Security Device. TCG EFI Security Device Suppoert [Enable] protocol and INT1A TPM 20 InterfaceType...
BIOS 4.2.5 ACPI Settings Aptio Setup Utility - Copyright (C) 2019 American Megatrends, Inc. Advanced ACPI Settings Enables or Disables System ability to Enable Hibernation Hibernate (OS/S4 Sleep [Enabled] ACPI Sleep State State). This option [S3 (Suspend to RAM)] may be not effective with some OS.
BIOS 4.2.7 PCI Subsystem Settings Aptio Setup Utility - Copyright (C) 2019 American Megatrends, Inc. Advanced PCI Bus Driver Version A5.01.11 Value to be programmed into PCI Latency Timer Regiser. PCI Device Common Setttings: PCI Latency Timer [32 PCI Bus Clocks] PCI-X Latency Timer [64 PCI Bus Clocks] Above 4G Decoding...
BIOS 4.2.9 USB Configuration Aptio Setup Utility - Copyright (C) 2012 American Megatrends, Inc. Aptio Setup Utility - Copyright (C) 2019 American Megatrends, Inc. Advanced USB Configuration Enables Legacy USB support. AUTO option disables legacy USB Module Version support if no USB devices are connected.
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BIOS Enables/Disables (default) I/O port 60h/64h emulation support. This should be enabled for the complete USB Port 60/64 Emulation keyboard legacy support. USB keyboard legacy support for non-USB aware OSes. Options: Enabled and Disabled (default). ► USB hardware delay and time-out Use this item to set the time-out value for control, bulk, USB Transfer time- and interrupt transfers.
BIOS 4.2.10 Hardware Monitor Aptio Setup Utility - Copyright (C) 2012 American Megatrends, Inc. Aptio Setup Utility - Copyright (C) 2019W American Megatrends, Inc. Advanced Pc Health Status CPU Tempreture : +37 Fan1 Speed : N/A VCORE : +0.858 V VCCDU : +1.189 V : +11.942 V...
BIOS 4.2.11 Super IO Configuration Aptio Setup Utility - Copyright (C) 2012 American Megatrends, Inc. Aptio Setup Utility - Copyright (C) 2019 American Megatrends, Inc. Advanced Super IO Configuration Set Parameters of Serial Port 1 (CON1) Super IO Chip IT8528 ►...
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BIOS Serial Port 1/2/3/4 Configuration Setting Description Serial Port Enable (default) or Disable Serial Port (COM). Select an optimal setting for Super IO device. Options for Serial Port 1: ► Auto; IO=3E8h; IRQ=11 (default) ; IO=3E8h; IRQ=5, 7, 10, 11, 12; IO=2E8h;...
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BIOS Parallel Port Configuration Setting Description Enable (default) or Disable Parallel Port (LPT/LPTE). Parallel Port Select an optimal setting for Super IO device. Options: ► Auto IO=378h; IRQ=7 (default) Change Settings IO=378h; IRQ=5, 7, 12; IO=278h; IRQ=5, 7, 12; IO=3BCh; IRQ=5, 7, 12; Change the Printer Port mode.
BIOS 4.2.12 S5 RTC Wake Settings Aptio Setup Utility - Copyright (C) 2015 American Megatrends, Inc. Advanced Enables or disables [Disabled] Wake system from S5 system wake on alarm event. When enabled, system will wake on the hr::min::sec specified. Select Dynamic Time, System will wake on the current time...
BIOS 4.2.13 Serial Port Console Redirection Select this submenu to configure the serial port console redirection configura- tion. Aptio Setup Utility - Copyright (C) 2019 American Megatrends, Inc. Main Advanced Chipset Boot Security Save & Exit COM0 Console Redirection Enable or Console Redirection [Disabled] Disable.
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BIOS When Bootloader is selected, then Legacy Console Redirection is disabled before booting to legacy OS. When Always Enable is selected, then Legacy Con- sole Redirection is enabled for legacy OS. Default settinf for this option is set to Always Enable Redirect After POST Options available are: Always Enable(default): set the Redirection to...
BIOS 4.2.14 Network Stack Configuration Aptio Setup Utility - Copyright (C) 2019 American Megatrends, Inc. Advanced Network stack Enable/Disable UEFI [Disabled] network stack →←: Select Screen ↓↑: Select Item Enter: Select +/-: Change Opt. F1: General Help F2: Previous Values F9: Optimized Defaults F10: Save and Exit ESC: Exit...
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BIOS Enables (default) /disables IPSEC certificate for IPSEC Certificate Ikev. Setup PXE boot wait time to press ESC key to PXE boot wait time about the PXE boot. Default: 0 Setup wait time in sec to detect media. Media detect time Default: 1 - 42 -...
BIOS 4.3.1 System Agent (SA) Configuration Aptio Setup Utility - Copyright (C) 2019 American Megatrends, Inc. Main Advanced Boot Security Save & Exit Chipset VT-d capability System Agent (SA) Configuration SA PCIe Code Version 7.0.56.48 VT-d Supported VT-d [Enabled] Above 4GB MMIO BIOS assignment [Disabled] ►...
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BIOS Configuring LFP usage Active LFP Options: No eDP (default), and eDP ► Port-A Access this submenu to view the memory con- Memory Configuration figuration. PEG Port Configuration Enable or Disable (default) the Root Port. Options: Auto (default), Disabled and Enable Root Port ►...
BIOS 4.3.2 PCH-IO Configuration Aptio Setup Utility - Copyright (C) 2019 American Megatrends, Inc. Main Advanced Boot Security Save & Exit Chipset PCI Express PCH-IO Configuration Configuration Settings ► PCI Express Configruation ► SATA Configruation ► USB Configruation ► HD Audio Configuration ►...
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BIOS 4.3.2.1 PCI Express Configuration Setting Description PCIE3/1/2 & Enable (default) or disable PCIE3/1/2 and MC1/2. MC1/2 Identify the SATA Topology if it is default or ISATA or Flex or DirectConnect or M2. Topology Options: Board specific, Unknown, x1, x4(default), Sata Express and M2 Disable or set the ASPM level.
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BIOS 4.3.2.3 USB Configuration Setting Description Options to disable Compliance Mode. Default XHCI Disable Compli- is FALSE (default) to not disable Compliance ance Mode Mode. Set TRUE to disable Compliance Mode. Enable/disable (default) xDCI (USB OTG xDCI Support Device). Enable/disable (default) xDCI (USB OTG USB2 PHY Sus Well Device).
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BIOS 4.3.3 HD Audio Configuration Setting Description Control Detection of the HD-Audio device. Options available are: ► Disabled: HDA will be unconditionally HD Audio Configuration disabled Enabled (default): HDA will be uncondi- tionally Enabled 4.3.2.4 LAN Configuration Setting Description Enables/Disables onboard NIC. Options: Enabled (default)
BIOS 4.4 Security The Security menu sets up the administrator password. Aptio Setup Utility - Copyright (C) 2019 American Megatrends, Inc. Boot Main Advanced Chipset Save & Exit Security Set Administrator Password Description Password Minimum length Maximum length Administrator Password →←: Select Screen ↓↑: Select Item Enter: Select...
BIOS 4.6 Save & Exit Aptio Setup Utility - Copyright (C) 2019 American Megatrends, Inc. Main Advanced Chipset Security Boot Save & Exit Exit system setup Save Options after saving the Save Changes and Exit changes. Discard Changes and Exit Default Options Restore Defaults Lauch EFI Shell from filesystem device...
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Appendix Appendix A: I/O Port Address Map Each peripheral device in the system is assigned a set of I/O port addresses which also becomes the identity of the device. The following table lists the I/O port addresses used. Address Device Description 03F8-03FF Communications Port (COM1) 02F8-02FF...
Appendix Appendix B: Interrupt Request Lines (IRQ) Peripheral devices use interrupt request lines to notify CPU for the service required. The following table shows the IRQ used by the devices on board. Level Function IRQ0 System timer IRQ1 PS/2 Keyboard IRQ3 Communications Port (COM2) IRQ4...
Appendix Appendix C: Watchdog Timer (WDT) Setting WDT is widely used for industry application to monitor the activity of CPU. Ap- plication software depends on its requirement to trigger WDT with adequate timer setting. Before WDT time out, the functional normal system will reload the WDT.
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Appendix outportb(0x66,0xBA); /* Enable Watch Dog */ delay(2000); outportb(0x62, WDTCount); /* Number is Watch Dog Down count number */ delay(2000); outportb(0x62, 0x00); /* Minute is 1 count unit by minute */ /* Minute is 0 count unit by second */ - 59 -...
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