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Artisan Technology Group is your source for quality new and certified-used/pre-owned equipment SERVICE CENTER REPAIRS WE BUY USED EQUIPMENT • FAST SHIPPING AND DELIVERY Experienced engineers and technicians on staff Sell your excess, underutilized, and idle used equipment at our full-service, in-house repair center We also offer credit for buy-backs and trade-ins •...
Preface How to Use This Manual The manual describes how to configure your ROBO-8712E series system to meet various operating requirements. It is divided into five chapters, with each chapter addressing a basic concept and operation of Single Board Computer.
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(1996) EN 61000-4-4 (1995) EN 61000-3-2 (1995) EN 61000-3-3 (1995) The following manufacturer is responsible for this declaration : Portwell, Inc. (Company Name) 3F, No.88, Sec.1, Nei-Hu Rd., Taipei, Taiwan, R.O.C. (Company Address) Taipei, R.O.C. Place Date Legal Signature of Authorized Person Artisan Technology Group - Quality Instrumentation ...
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Preface WARNING Remove Processor Caution: Do not pull out processor without opening socket handle! High viscosity thermal grease between processor and cooler will lead the processor be pulled out from socket when taking cooler off. This action may damage processor socket, which will cause poor contact between CPU & socket.
Echo to the request, ROBO-8712EVG2A provides two Gigabit Ethernet ports on bracket. The ROBO-8712E series support six USB 2.0 ports; two on bracket for external keyboard and mouse; four internal for extension to front or rear side of system.
System Overview Check List The ROBO-8712E series package should cover the following basic items: One ROBO-8712E series single board computer One serial port kit with two COM ports One IDE cable One Floppy cable One Parallel port cable kit One 4-pin ATX power control cable for backplane connection...
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Support six USB (Universal Serial Bus) ports for high-speed I/O peripheral devices Two on bracket (dedicated for keyboard & mouse); four with pin header ROBO-8712E Series User’s Manual Artisan Technology Group - Quality Instrumentation ... Guaranteed | (888) 88-SOURCE | www.artisantg.com...
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Remark “*” - 800MHz front side bus is over clocking over Intel 845GV chipset, customers must to validate your own application before adopt this feature. ROBO-8712E Series User’s Manual Artisan Technology Group - Quality Instrumentation ... Guaranteed | (888) 88-SOURCE | www.artisantg.com...
1 3 .7 0 1 1 8 .8 4 System Architecture The system architecture of ROBO-8712E series includes two main Intel chips, Intel 845GV chipset supports Pentium-4/Celeron (D)/Mobile Pentium 4-M/Mobile Celeron processor, DDR-SDRAM, 2D/3D graphic display, and ICH4 supports PCI bus interface, APM, ACPI compliant power management, USB ports, SMBus communication, and Ultra DMA/33/66/100 IDE Master.
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System Overview ROBO-8712E System Block Diagram ROBO-8712E Series User’s Manual Artisan Technology Group - Quality Instrumentation ... Guaranteed | (888) 88-SOURCE | www.artisantg.com...
This chapter gives the definitions and shows the positions of jumpers, headers and connector. All of the configuration jumpers on ROBO-8712E series are in the proper position. The default settings shipped from factory are marked with a star ( ).
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RS232 5-6,9-11,10-12,15-17,16-18 RS485 1-2,7-9,8-10,19-20 RS422 3-4,7-9,8-10,13-15,14-16,21-22 J32 : Mobile Pentium 4/Northwood(Prescott) Selection Process Selection Open Normal Support Short Mobile Pentium 4 MPM Support ROBO-8712E Series User’s Manual Artisan Technology Group - Quality Instrumentation ... Guaranteed | (888) 88-SOURCE | www.artisantg.com...
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Data 8 Data 9 Data 10 Ground J4: PS/2 Keyboard/Mouse Connector PIN No. Signal Description Mouse Data Mouse Clock Keyboard Data Ground Keyboard Clock ROBO-8712E Series User’s Manual Artisan Technology Group - Quality Instrumentation ... Guaranteed | (888) 88-SOURCE | www.artisantg.com...
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PIN No. Signal Description 5VSB J11: 4 Pin Header Backplane 5VSB, PS_ON, and ATX PWROK PIN No. Signal Description ATX Power Ok 5VSB PS_ON# ROBO-8712E Series User’s Manual Artisan Technology Group - Quality Instrumentation ... Guaranteed | (888) 88-SOURCE | www.artisantg.com...
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PIN No. Signal Description 5VSB Power On J15: Reset Header PIN No. Signal Description Reset J16: External Speaker Header PIN No. Signal Description Speaker ROBO-8712E Series User’s Manual Artisan Technology Group - Quality Instrumentation ... Guaranteed | (888) 88-SOURCE | www.artisantg.com...
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IRTX J20: External SMBus Header PIN No. Signal Description SMBCLK SMBDATA J21/23: Bracket Side USB Connector PIN No. Signal Description Vcc (Stand By) ROBO-8712E Series User’s Manual Artisan Technology Group - Quality Instrumentation ... Guaranteed | (888) 88-SOURCE | www.artisantg.com...
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MDI_0P MDI_0N +1.8V MDI_2N MDI_3P MDI_1P MDI_1N MDI_3N ACT# LINK# LINK100# LINK1000# J22/26: Ethernet Link LED Header PIN No. Signal Description ACT# LINK# ROBO-8712E Series User’s Manual Artisan Technology Group - Quality Instrumentation ... Guaranteed | (888) 88-SOURCE | www.artisantg.com...
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LINE OUT Left AGND LINE OUT Right J30: D-SUB 15 VGA Connector PIN No. Signal Description GREEN BLUE DDC DATA HSYNC VSYNC DDC CLK ROBO-8712E Series User’s Manual 2-10 Artisan Technology Group - Quality Instrumentation ... Guaranteed | (888) 88-SOURCE | www.artisantg.com...
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Initialization# Data 2 Printer Select IN# Data 3 Data 4 Data 5 Data 6 Data 7 Acknowledge# Busy Paper Empty Printer Select ROBO-8712E Series User’s Manual 2-11 Artisan Technology Group - Quality Instrumentation ... Guaranteed | (888) 88-SOURCE | www.artisantg.com...
478. Note: You should know Pentium 4 processor need extra 12V power source. DON’T FORGET TO CONNECT 4pin 12V connector to J1! ROBO-8712E Series User’s Manual Artisan Technology Group - Quality Instrumentation ... Guaranteed | (888) 88-SOURCE | www.artisantg.com...
4) Follow the steps of installing a CPU to change to another one or place handling bar to close the opened socket. Configuring System Bus ROBO-8712E series will automatically detect the CPU used. CPU speed of Intel P4 can be detected automatically. Main Memory ROBO-8712E series provides two DDR-SDRAM DIMM sockets to support DDR- SDRAM as main memory.
3.3.1 Chipset Component Driver The chipset on ROBO-8712E series is a new chipset that a few old operating systems might not be able to recognize. To overcome this compatibility issue, for Windows Operating Systems such as Windows 98SE /2000 /XP / Server 2003, please install its INF before any of other Drivers are installed.
Using GMCH High performance graphic integrated chipset is aimed to gain an outstanding graphic performance. Shared 8 accompany it to 64MB system DDR- SDRAM with Intel DVMT. This combination makes ROBO-8712E series an excellent piece of multimedia hardware. With no additional video adaptor, this onboard video will usually be the system display output.
Drivers Support Please find Intel ICH4 LAN & Intel 82541GI Gigabit LAN driver in /Ethernet directory of ROBO-8712E series CD-title. The drivers support Windows-98 / 98SE / NT4.0 / 2000 / XP, and only Windows 95 for ICH4 LAN. LED Indicator (for LAN status) ROBO-8712EVLA provides three LED indicators to report 82551QM Fast Ethernet interfaces status.
System Installation 3.3.4 On-board AC-97 Audio Device Please find Realtek AC’97 Audio driver of ROBO-8712E series CD-title. The drivers support Windows-95 / NT4.0 / 98SE / ME / 2000 / XP, and AC97 Utility. Clear CMOS Operation The following table indicates how to enable/disable CMOS Clear Function hardware circuit by putting jumpers at proper position.
ROBO-8712E series allows users control WDT through dynamic software programming. The WDT starts counting when it is activated. It sends out a signal to system reset or to non-maskable interrupt (NMI), when time-out interval ends. To prevent the time-out interval from running out, a re-trigger signal will need to be sent before the counting reaches its end.
2) 0x01~0xFF -- Value for counting down On-Board USB 2.0 Controller Drivers Support Please find Intel ICH4 USB driver in /USB20 directory of ROBO-8712E series CD- title. The drivers support Windows-2000 and Windows-XP. ROBO-8712E Series User’s Manual Artisan Technology Group - Quality Instrumentation ... Guaranteed | (888) 88-SOURCE | www.artisantg.com...
3.7.2 Programming Guide There are 8 GPIO pins on ROBO-8712E series. These GPIO pins are from SUPER I/O (W83627HF) GPIO pins, and can be programmed as Input or Output direction. J5 pin header is for 8 GPIO pins and its pin assignment as following: J5_Pin1=GPIO1: from SUPER I/O_GPIO10 with Ext.
// Assign Pin121-128 to be GPIO port 1 outp(0x002E, 0x2A); outp(0x002F, inp(0x002F) | 0x84); // Select Logic Device 7 outp(0x002E, 0x07); outp(0x002F, 0x07); ROBO-8712E Series User’s Manual 3-10 Artisan Technology Group - Quality Instrumentation ... Guaranteed | (888) 88-SOURCE | www.artisantg.com...
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If a port is assigned to be an output port, then its respective bit can be read/written. If a port is assigned to be an input port, then its respective bit can be read only. ROBO-8712E Series User’s Manual 3-11 Artisan Technology Group - Quality Instrumentation ... Guaranteed | (888) 88-SOURCE | www.artisantg.com...
Chapter 4 BIOS Setup Information ROBO-8712E series is equipped with the AWARD BIOS stored in Flash ROM. These BIOS has a built-in Setup program that allows users to modify the basic system configuration easily. This type of information is stored in CMOS RAM so that it is retained during power-off periods.
BIOS Setup Information Main Menu Once you enter ROBO-8712E series AWARD BIOS CMOS Setup Utility, you should start with the Main Menu. The Main Menu allows you to select from eleven setup functions and two exit choices. Use arrow keys to switch among items and press <Enter>...
IDE Secondary Options are in its sub Press <Enter> to enter the next page Master menu for detail hard drive settings ROBO-8712E Series User’s Manual Artisan Technology Group - Quality Instrumentation ... Guaranteed | (888) 88-SOURCE | www.artisantg.com...
Sector ↑↓→←: Move Enter: Select +/-/PU/PD: Value F10: Save ESC: Exit F1: General Help F5: Previous Values F6: Fail-Safe Defaults F7: Optimized Defaults ROBO-8712E Series User’s Manual Artisan Technology Group - Quality Instrumentation ... Guaranteed | (888) 88-SOURCE | www.artisantg.com...
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Landing zone Min = 0 **** Max = 65535 Sector Min = 0 Number of sectors per track Max = 255 ROBO-8712E Series User’s Manual Artisan Technology Group - Quality Instrumentation ... Guaranteed | (888) 88-SOURCE | www.artisantg.com...
[Disabled] ↑↓→←: Move Enter: Select +/-/PU/PD: Value F10: Save ESC: Exit F1: General Help F5: Previous Values F6: Fail-Safe Defaults F7: Optimized Defaults ROBO-8712E Series User’s Manual Artisan Technology Group - Quality Instrumentation ... Guaranteed | (888) 88-SOURCE | www.artisantg.com...
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“Enabled” for Windows XP and Linux 2.4.X (OS optimized for Hyper-Threading Technology and “Disabled” for other OS (OS not optimized for Hyper-Threading Technology). The choice: Enabled, Disabled. ROBO-8712E Series User’s Manual Artisan Technology Group - Quality Instrumentation ... Guaranteed | (888) 88-SOURCE | www.artisantg.com...
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Keystrokes repeat at a rate determined by the keyboard controller – When enabled, the typematic rate and typematic delay can be selected. The choice: Enabled, Disabled. ROBO-8712E Series User’s Manual Artisan Technology Group - Quality Instrumentation ... Guaranteed | (888) 88-SOURCE | www.artisantg.com...
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Specify Baud Rate of console redirection. The choice: 9600, 19200, 38400, 57600, and 115200. Agent Connect via Connection modes: NULL – Direct connection Agent wait time (min). ROBO-8712E Series User’s Manual Artisan Technology Group - Quality Instrumentation ... Guaranteed | (888) 88-SOURCE | www.artisantg.com...
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The choice: 1, 2, 4, and 8. Agent after boot Keep Agent running after OS boot. The choice: Enabled, Disabled. Small Logo (EPA) Show The choice: Enabled, Disabled. ROBO-8712E Series User’s Manual 4-10 Artisan Technology Group - Quality Instrumentation ... Guaranteed | (888) 88-SOURCE | www.artisantg.com...
DRAM chips installed so that greater delays may be required to preserve the integrity of the data held in the slower memory chips. ROBO-8712E Series User’s Manual 4-11 Artisan Technology Group - Quality Instrumentation ... Guaranteed | (888) 88-SOURCE | www.artisantg.com...
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Memory Frequency For Users are recommended to use Auto for memory frequency selection; Use DDR400 selects Auto. The choice: DDR266, DDR333, Auto. ROBO-8712E Series User’s Manual 4-12 Artisan Technology Group - Quality Instrumentation ... Guaranteed | (888) 88-SOURCE | www.artisantg.com...
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Users can set the display memory size that shared from main memory. The choice: 1MB, 8MB. On board AC97 Control Users can disable on board AC97 Audio function. The choice: Enabled, Disabled. ROBO-8712E Series User’s Manual 4-13 Artisan Technology Group - Quality Instrumentation ... Guaranteed | (888) 88-SOURCE | www.artisantg.com...
↑↓→←: Move Enter: Select +/-/PU/PD: Value F10: Save ESC: Exit F1: General Help F5: Previous Values F6: Fail-Safe Defaults F7: Optimized Defaults ROBO-8712E Series User’s Manual 4-14 Artisan Technology Group - Quality Instrumentation ... Guaranteed | (888) 88-SOURCE | www.artisantg.com...
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This item allows you to enable USB keyboard function under POST, BIOS setup menu, DOS, or Windows-NT with no USB driver loaded. The choice: Enabled, Disabled. ROBO-8712E Series User’s Manual 4-15 Artisan Technology Group - Quality Instrumentation ... Guaranteed | (888) 88-SOURCE | www.artisantg.com...
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In the event of “Power On Function” being configured as “Hot Key”, this item will be enabled for tuning. The choice: Ctrl-F1 to Ctrl-F12. ROBO-8712E Series User’s Manual 4-16 Artisan Technology Group - Quality Instrumentation ... Guaranteed | (888) 88-SOURCE | www.artisantg.com...
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The available choices are full duplex mode and half duplex mode The choice: Full, Half. Use IR Pins The available choices are IR-Rx2Tx2/ RxD2, TxD2. The choice: IR-Rx2Tx2 / RxD2, TxD2. ROBO-8712E Series User’s Manual 4-17 Artisan Technology Group - Quality Instrumentation ... Guaranteed | (888) 88-SOURCE | www.artisantg.com...
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This BIOS testing option is able to reset the system according to the selected table. The choice: Disabled, 10 Sec, 20 Sec, 30 Sec, 40 Sec, 1 Min, 2 Min, 4 Min. ROBO-8712E Series User’s Manual 4-18 Artisan Technology Group - Quality Instrumentation ... Guaranteed | (888) 88-SOURCE | www.artisantg.com...
F7: Optimized Defaults ACPI Function This item allows you to enable/disable the Advanced Configuration and Power Management (ACPI). The choice: Enabled, Disabled. ROBO-8712E Series User’s Manual 4-19 Artisan Technology Group - Quality Instrumentation ... Guaranteed | (888) 88-SOURCE | www.artisantg.com...
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This allows user to enable/disable video off in Suspend Mode. The choice: Yes, No. Suspend Type Two options are available: Stop Grant and PwrOn Suspend. The choice: Stop Grant, PwrOn Suspend. ROBO-8712E Series User’s Manual 4-20 Artisan Technology Group - Quality Instrumentation ... Guaranteed | (888) 88-SOURCE | www.artisantg.com...
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When select “Enabled”, a system that is at soft-off mode will be alert to Wake-On- Modem signal. The choice: Enabled, Disabled. USB KB Wake-up From S3 The choice: Enabled, Disabled. ROBO-8712E Series User’s Manual 4-21 Artisan Technology Group - Quality Instrumentation ... Guaranteed | (888) 88-SOURCE | www.artisantg.com...
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This option can be used to detect PCI device activities. If they are activities, the system will go into sleep mode. The choice: Enabled, Disabled. ROBO-8712E Series User’s Manual 4-22 Artisan Technology Group - Quality Instrumentation ... Guaranteed | (888) 88-SOURCE | www.artisantg.com...
(ESCD) when you exit Setup if you have installed a new add-on and the system reconfiguration has caused such a serious conflict that the OS cannot boot. The choice: Enabled, Disabled. ROBO-8712E Series User’s Manual 4-23 Artisan Technology Group - Quality Instrumentation ... Guaranteed | (888) 88-SOURCE | www.artisantg.com...
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PCI/VGA Palette Snoop The choice: Enabled, Disabled. Assign IRQ For VGA To enable VGA IRQ assignation by selecting enabled. The choice: Enabled, Disabled. ROBO-8712E Series User’s Manual 4-24 Artisan Technology Group - Quality Instrumentation ... Guaranteed | (888) 88-SOURCE | www.artisantg.com...
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Devices (S) using this INT: USB 2.0 EHCI Cntrlr – Bus 0 Dev 29 Func 7. The choice: Auto, 3, 4, 5, 7, 9, 10, 11, 12, 14, and 15. ROBO-8712E Series User’s Manual 4-25 Artisan Technology Group - Quality Instrumentation ... Guaranteed | (888) 88-SOURCE | www.artisantg.com...
Load Optimized Defaults (Y/N) ? N Pressing ‘Y’ loads the default values that are factory settings for optimal performance system operations. ROBO-8712E Series User’s Manual 4-27 Artisan Technology Group - Quality Instrumentation ... Guaranteed | (888) 88-SOURCE | www.artisantg.com...
Setup. If set to “Setup”, prompting only occurs when trying to enter Setup. ROBO-8712E Series User’s Manual 4-28 Artisan Technology Group - Quality Instrumentation ... Guaranteed | (888) 88-SOURCE | www.artisantg.com...
This allows you to exit Setup without storing in CMOS any change. The previous selections remain in effect. This exits the Setup utility and restarts your computer. ROBO-8712E Series User’s Manual 4-29 Artisan Technology Group - Quality Instrumentation ... Guaranteed | (888) 88-SOURCE | www.artisantg.com...
Chapter 5 Troubleshooting This chapter provides you a few useful tips to quickly get your ROBO-8712E series running with no failure. As basic hardware installation has been addressed in Chapter 3, this chapter will basically focus on system integration issues, in terms of backplane setup, BIOS setting, and OS diagnostics.
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Step 3: Please adjust AT/ATX Jumper on JP3 to short 3-5, 4-6 pins, then it can support ATX power scheme. (Figure 5-4) Figure 5-4 ROBO-8712E Series User’s Manual Artisan Technology Group - Quality Instrumentation ... Guaranteed | (888) 88-SOURCE | www.artisantg.com...
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Step 4: Please check the connection of the 12V Power to CPU supplementary Power Connector properly (J1, and J2), which shows on Figure 5-1. Step 5: Connect TOGGLE SWITCH with J14 connector on ROBO-8712E series (Figure 5-5), which is used to power on ATX Power Supply. Generally, the TOGGLE SWITCH is located on the chassis of front panel.
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Note: If you currently used ATX mode, please clean CMOS first before adjusting Power setting to AT mode. Otherwise, system might not boot up properly. ROBO-8712E Series User’s Manual Artisan Technology Group - Quality Instrumentation ... Guaranteed | (888) 88-SOURCE | www.artisantg.com...
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If you are using AT power supply, you can simply turn on the power on AT power supply to boot up the system. Figure 5-10 ROBO-8712E Series User’s Manual Artisan Technology Group - Quality Instrumentation ... Guaranteed | (888) 88-SOURCE | www.artisantg.com...
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PCI device, Backplane, and so on. If the system still cannot boot up, please fill out RMA form which is provides on Portwell website, and then send back to Portwell Inc. as a RMA goods. Besides, you also visit RMA site (http://www.portwell.com.tw/rma/login.asp) to check RMA report if necessary.
Also, Please check the “Clock Latency” value of the DDR DIMM. Please check the “Clock Latency” value to meet the specification of the DDR DIMM in the BIOS setting. ROBO-8712E Series User’s Manual Artisan Technology Group - Quality Instrumentation ... Guaranteed | (888) 88-SOURCE | www.artisantg.com...
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Also, Users may adopt PS/2 keyboard and mouse over the J4 connector interface on ROBO-8712E. The PS/2 extension cable is the optional device for the ROBO- 8712E, which is only made for ROBO-8712EVG2A. ROBO-8712E Series User’s Manual Artisan Technology Group - Quality Instrumentation ... Guaranteed | (888) 88-SOURCE | www.artisantg.com...
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A: Compact-Flash is occupied with the master device of IDE Secondary channel. If there is any device occupying this Secondary IDE Master channel, please remove it or set it as a slave device. ROBO-8712E Series User’s Manual Artisan Technology Group - Quality Instrumentation ... Guaranteed | (888) 88-SOURCE | www.artisantg.com...
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Besides, when install the Microsoft series OS; please click “F6” hotkey to Install the SCSI driver from the beginning. You must install the SCSI driver properly, and then the function can fully active. ROBO-8712E Series User’s Manual 5-10 Artisan Technology Group - Quality Instrumentation ... Guaranteed | (888) 88-SOURCE | www.artisantg.com...
BIOS setting that Portwell has highly endorsed. As a matter of fact, users can load the default BIOS setting any time when system appears to be unstable in boot up sequence.
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If IRQ resource is not enough, please disable some devices listed above to release further IRQ numbers. The IRQ list will show on the Post sequences as system hardware checking. ROBO-8712E Series User’s Manual 5-12 Artisan Technology Group - Quality Instrumentation ... Guaranteed | (888) 88-SOURCE | www.artisantg.com...
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Video ROM CB40 – D549 Unused D54A – DFFF High RAM E000 – EFFF Unused F000 – FFFF System ROM First 64K Extended ROBO-8712E Series User’s Manual Artisan Technology Group - Quality Instrumentation ... Guaranteed | (888) 88-SOURCE | www.artisantg.com...
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System ROM IBM Mouse Event IRQ 13 System ROM Coprocessor Error IRQ 14 System ROM Hard Disk Event IRQ 15 [Unassigned] Usable IRQ ROBO-8712E Series User’s Manual Artisan Technology Group - Quality Instrumentation ... Guaranteed | (888) 88-SOURCE | www.artisantg.com...
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