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  • Page 1 Www.nexcom.com TheDigitalInfrastructure EBC 572 Series User Manual This manual serves to all EBC572series:EBC572,EBC572A 2004-03Edition...

  • Page 2: Disclaimer

    This publication, inc luding all photographs , illustrations and software, is prot ected under international copyright laws, with all rights reserved. No part of this manual maybe reproduced, copied, translat ed or transmitt ed in any form or by any means without the prior written c onsent from NEXCOM International Co., Ltd.

  • Page 3: Safety Information

    WARNINGS Read and adhere to all warnings, cautions, and notic es in this guide and the documentation supplied with the chassis, power supply, and accessory modules. If the instructions for the chassis and power supply are inconsis- tent with these instructions or the instructions for accessory modules, con- tact the supplier to find out how you can ensure that your computer meets safety and regulat ory requirements.

  • Page 4: Table Of Contents

    Table of Contents Preface ..............................1 Copyright ..............................1 Disclaimer ..............................1 Acknowledgements ..........................1 Regulatory Compliance Statements .......................1 FEDERAL COMMUNICATIONS COMMISSION (FCC) FOR CLASS A DEVICES .........1 CE CERTIFICATION ..........................1 Safety Information ...........................2 WARNINGS .............................2 CAUTION ..............................2 Table of Contents ..........................3 Chapter 1 General Information ......................5 1.1 Feat ure ..............................6 1.2 Specification ............................6...
  • Page 5 4.12 PnP/PCI Configurations ........................48 4.13 PC Health Status ..........................50 4.14 Load Fail-Safe Defaults ........................51 4.15 Load Optimized Defaults ........................51 4.16 Set Supervisor/User Password ......................52 4.17 Save & Exit Setup ..........................52 4.18 Exit Without Saving ........................52 Chapter 5 Driver Installation ......................53 5.1 Installation CD ..........................54 5.2 Installing Drivers for EBC572 series ....................54 5.3 Installing Intel Chipset ........................55...

  • Page 6: Chapter 1 General Information

    Chapter 1 General Information...

  • Page 7: Feature

    1.1 Feature EBC 572(A) is a member of NEXCOM’ s Pentium-M based Embedded CPU Board c omputer family. The features of this series are as follows: ® Support Intel Pentium-M (LV/ ULV) Proc essor Support DDR200/266MHz S DRAM Internal Graphics Features...
  • Page 8 ® Intel 855GM(E) chipset integrated with graphics cont roller Fully PC98 and PC99 compliant On-board LVDS transmit ter 2.0mm pin header CRT connector/DF 13-20DP, 20-pin connector x 2 for LVDS panel output Up to 64MB of dynamic video memory allocation Hardware motion compensation assist for software MPEG/DVD dec oder I/O interface LAN: RJ45 (90/180) with LE D connector x 2...

  • Page 9: Checklist

    Power Requirements Power consumption (ATX power) running HCT 9.5 in Windows 2000 server. +12V +5V +3.3V +5Vsb Pentium-M 1.6GHz 0.15A 5.14A 0.44A 0.3A Pentium-M 1.1GHz 0.1A 1.95A 0.26A 0.9A Environments Operating temperatures: 0 o C to 60 o C Storage temperatures –20 o C to 80 o C Relat ive humidity: 10% to 90% (Non-condensing) Certification 1.3 Checklist...

  • Page 10: Board Layout

    1.4 Board Layout Figure 1.1 : Birdeye’s View of the EBC572 EBC572 User’ s Manual Chapter 1...

  • Page 11: Board Dimensions

    1.5 Board Dimensions Physical Dimensions: 203mm (L) x 146mm (W) This concludes Chapter 1. The next chapter c overs setting up the EBC572(A). EBC572 User’ s Manual Chapter 1...

  • Page 12: Chapter 2 Jumper Setting

    Chapter 2 Jumper Setting...

  • Page 13: Before You Begin

    This c hapter of the User’ s Manual des cribes how to set jumpers. Note: The procedures that follow are g eneric for all of the EBC572(A) models 2.1 Before You Begin Ensure you have a stable, clean working environment. Dust and dirt can get into components and cause a malfunc tion.

  • Page 14: Setting Jumpers

    2.3 Setting Jumpers A jumper is the simplest kind of electric switch. It consists of two metal pins and a cap. When setting the jumpers, ensure that the jumper caps are placed on the correct pins. When the jumper cap is placed on both pins, the jumper is SHORT .

  • Page 15: Location Of Jumpers

    2.4 Location of Jumpers Figure 2-1 : Jumper Location 2.5 Function of Jumpers User c an use jumpers to set configuration options. The table below defines function of each jumper: Jumper Function Panel 2 Power Select Panel 1 Power Select CMOS Status Select PCI 2.1 or PCI 2.2 Select Serial Port 2 RS232/422/485 Select...
  • Page 16 JP1 (Panel 2 Power Select) : PIN HEADER 1 x 3 2.0mm Pin No. Status Function Short +5V Input 2-3* Short +3.3V Input means default setting JP2 (Panel 1 Power Select) : PIN HEADER 1 x 3 2.0mm Pin No. Status Function Short...

  • Page 17: Location Of Connectors

    2.6 Location of Connectors Figure 2-2 : Connector Location EBC572 User’ s Manual Chapter 2...

  • Page 18: Functions Of Connectors

    2.7 Functions of Connectors Jumper Function CPU Fan Connector CPU Fan Connector TV-OUT Connector Heat Sink Holder LVDS B Channel 2 Connector LVDS B Channel 1 Connector Heat Sink Holder LVDS A Channel 2 Connector Panel B Back Light Connector VGA Connector 32-bit PCI Slot LVDS A Channel 1 Connector...
  • Page 19 J1/J2 (CPU Fan Connector) : 1 x 3 2.54mm standard FAN connector Pin No. Description Pin No. Description Ground +12V FAN speed sense J3 (TV-OUT Connector) : Pin Header 2 x 6 2.0mm DIP Pin No. Description Pin No. Description TV Video TV GND S- Video C...
  • Page 20 RX3+ RX0- RX1+ RXCLK+ RX1- RXCLK- BACKLIGHT Power +12V RX2+ BACKLIGHT Power +12V RX2- J8 (LVDS) A Channel 2 Connectors): LCD Panel CON, LVDS, 20P, DF13-20DP-1.25V, 1.25mm (4NCLM02001) Pin No. Description Pin No. Description DDCPCLK DDVPDATA RX4+ RX7+ RX4- RX7- RX5+ RXCLK+ RX5-...
  • Page 21 Pull-Up DDC Data Horizontal Sync. Vertical Sync. DDC Clock J12 (LVDS) A Channel 1Connector): LCD Panel CON, LVDS, 20P, DF13-20DP-1.25V, 1.25mm (4NCLM02001) Pin No. Description Pin No. Description DDCPCLK DDVPDATA RX0+ RX3+ RX0- RX3- RX1+ RXCLK+ RX1- RXCLK- BACKLIGHT Power +12V RX2+ BACKLIGHT Power +12V RX2-...
  • Page 22 J15 (SMbus External Connector) : Pin Header 1 x 2 2.0mm Pin No. Description Pin No. Description Data Clock J19 (IrDA Connector) : Pin Header 1x5 2.0mm Pin No. Description Pin No. Description No Connect Data Receive Ground Data Transmit J20 (USB2) : JST 6-pin Header 2.0mm Pin No.
  • Page 23 J23 (AC’ 97 Connector) : Pin Header 2 x 5 2.0mm Pin No. Description Pin No. Description AC SDOUT VCC5 AC RST# AC SYNC +12V AC SDIN0 AC SDIN1 AC BTCLK ICH SPKR J24 (LAN1 Speed LED Connector) : Pin Header 1 x 2 2.0mm Pin No.
  • Page 24 J30 (ATX Power Button Connector) : Pin Header 1 x 2 2.0mm Pin No. Description Pin No. Description Power On (From ATX) Ground J31 (Reset Button Connector) : Pin Header 1 x 2 2.0mm Pin No. Description Pin No. Description Ground H/W Reset J33 (+5V Power Connector for IDE) : JST 2-pin Header 2.0mm...

  • Page 25: Chapter 3 Capability Expanding

    Chapter 3 Capability Expanding...

  • Page 26: System Memory

    3.1 System Memory Your s ystem memory is provided by DIMM’ s (Dual In-Line Memory Modules) on the CPU board. The board contains two memory banks: Bank 0 and 1, corresponds to connector DIMM1, DIMM2. The table below s hows possible DIMM Configurat ions for the memory banks . Pleas e notic e that t he EBC572(A) support Double Data Rate Ram (DDR266).

  • Page 27: Installing Dimm

    3.2 Installing DIMM To install DIMM 1. Mak e s ure the two handles of t he DIMM soc ket s are in the “open” posit ion, i.e. the handles st ay outward. Figure3-1: How to Install DIMM (1) 2. Slowly slide the DIMM modules along the plastic guides in the both ends of the socket. Figure 3-2: How to Install DIMM (2) EBC572 User’...
  • Page 28 3. Then press the DIMM module down right into t he soc ket, until a click is heard. That means the two handles automatically locked the memory modules into the right position of t he DIMM socket. Figure 3-3: How to Install DIMM (3) 4.

  • Page 29: Installing Compact Flash

    3.3 Installing Compact Flash 1. To install a Compact Flash memory card into EBC572(A), align t he notc hes on the c ard wit h t he Compact Flash socket in the EBC572(A). Then firmly insert the card into the socket until it is completely seated.

  • Page 30: Installing Intel Pentium-M Cpu And Fan Heatsink

    3.4 Installing Intel Pentium-M CPU and Fan Heatsink EBC572(A) support full range of Intel® Pentium® -M processors. Below is the installation instruction: Note: Prepare a slot type screwdriver before starting the installation process. 1. Be sure to have the CPU socket in “open” position by using the screwdriver to open. The indicator Figure 3-7: How to Instal l CPU (1) 2.
  • Page 31 3. Use the slot type sc rewdriver to close the CPU socket by turning t o the “Close” position. Figure 3-9: How to Instal l CPU (3) 4. Place the fan heatsink from the package onto the CPU socket. Fasten four screws. Figure 3-10: How to Install fan heatsink (1) 5 Ins ert the fan power connect or onto J2 on the EBC572(A) embedded CPU board.

  • Page 32: Chapter 4 Award Bios Setup

    Chapter 4 Award BIOS Setup...

  • Page 33: About The Bios

    , which may c hange by the B IOS modification in the fut ure. User can download any major updated items or reversion from NEXCOM web site htt p://www.nexc om. com. tw. If any unclear message occurs, please contact NE XCOM customer service representative for help or log onto http://www.nexcom.com.t w/contact/contact.htm.

  • Page 34: Entering Setup

    4.3 Entering Setup When the syst em is powered on, the BIOS will ent er the Power-On Self Test (POS T) routines. These routines perform various diagnostic checks; if an error is encountered, the error will be reported in one of two different ways: If the error occurs before the display device is initialized, a series of beeps will be transmitted.

  • Page 35: Getting Help

    Advanced Chipset Features Use this menu to change the values in the chipset registers and optimize the system’ s performance Integrated Peripherals Use this menu to specify your settings for integrated peripherals Power Management Setup Use this menu to specify your settings for power management. PnP/PCI Configurations This entry appears if your system supports Plug and Play and PCI Configuration PC Health Status...

  • Page 36: Control Keys

    4.6 Control Keys The table below lists the keys that help you navigate the setup program. Up arrow Move to previous item Down arrow Move to next item Left arrow Move to the item to the left Right arrow Move to the item to the right Main Menu: Quit without saving changes to CMOS Esc key Status/Option Page Setup Menus: Exit current page...

  • Page 37: Standard Cmos Features

    4.7 Standard CMOS Features Selecting Standard CMOS Features on the main program screen displays the following menu: Figure 4-2: BIOS – Standard CMOS Features The Standard CMOS S etup utility is used to c onfigure the following features: Date (mm: dd:yy) The BIOS determines the day of the week from the other data information.
  • Page 38 Figure 4-3: BIOS – IDE Primary Master IDD HDD Auto Detection Pres s <Enter> while this item is highlighted if you want the S etup Utility t o automat ically detect and configure a hard disk drive on the IDE channel. If your system has an IDE hard drive, you can use this utility to detect its parameters and enter them into the Standard CMOS Setup automatically.
  • Page 39 Refer to your drive’ s documentation or look on the drive if you need to obtain this information. If no device is installed, change the value to None. Access Mode This item defines some special way s that can be used t o access IDE hard disks such as LBA (Logical Block Addressing).

  • Page 40: Advanced Bios Features

    Base/Extended/Total Memory This category is display-only. The cont ents are det ermined by t he P OST (Power-On Self-Test) of the BIOS. You cannot make changes to these fields. Base Memory: Also c alled conventional memory. The DOS operating system and conventional applica- tions use this area.
  • Page 41 Enabled: Ac tivates automatically when the system boots up causing the following warning message to appear when anything attempts to access the boot sector or hard disk partition table: !W ARNING! Disk boot sector is to be modified Type “Y” to accept write or “N” to abort write Award Software, Inc.
  • Page 42 Typematic Rate Setting If set to Enabled, enables y ou t o s et the Typematic Rat e and Typemat ic Delay. When Disabled, t he following t wo it ems (Typemat ic Rate and Typematic Delay) are irrelevant. Key stroke repeat s at a rate determined by the keyboard controller in your system.

  • Page 43: Advanced Chipset Features

    4.9 Advanced Chipset Features 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 understand the chipset features.
  • Page 44 Video BIOS Cacheable Selecting Enabled allows caching of the video BIOS ROM at C0000h, resulting in better video performance. However, if any program writes to this memory area, a system error may result. The choices: Enabled, Disabled. Memory Hole At 15M – 16M In order to improve performance, certain space in memory is reserved for ISA cards;...

  • Page 45: Integrated Peripherals

    Video Connector The video connector field selec ts the video connector as Automatic, Composite, Component, or Both. After you have made your selections in the Advanced Chipset Features setup, press <ESC> to go back to the main screen. 4.10 Integrated Peripherals Figure 4-6: BIOS –...
  • Page 46 On-Chip Primary/Secondary PCI IDE The system c hipset c ontains a PCI IDE interface with support for two IDE channels. Selec t Enabled to activate the primary and/or secondary IDE interface. Select Disabled to deactivate this interface, if you install a primary and/or secondary add-in IDE int erface. IDE Primary/Secondary Master/Slave PIO The four IDE PIC (Programmable Input/Output) fields let you set a PIC mode (0-1) for each of the four IDE devices t hat the onboard IDE interface supports.
  • Page 47 AC97 Modem Selecting Auto will enable the AC’ 97 modem, if it is detec ted onboard. Onboard LAN (1, 2) Enables and disables the onboard LAn modules. Onboard LAN boot ROM Decides whether t o invok e the boot ROM of the onboard LAN chip. The available choices are LAN1, LAN2, LAN3 and Dis abled.

  • Page 48: Power Management Setup

    Parallel Port Mode Select an operat ing mode for the onboard parallel (printer) port. There are four options: SPP (Standard Parallel Port), EPP (Enhanced Parallel Port), ECP (Extended Capabilities Port) and ECP+EPP. ECP Mode Use DMA When the on-board parallel port is set to ECP mode, the parallel port can use DMA3 or DMA1. After you have made your selections in the Integrated Peripherals setup, press the <ESC>...
  • Page 49 Selecting Power Management Setup on the main program sc reen displays this menu: Figure 4-8: BIOS – Power Management Setup ACPI Function The ACPI st andard (Advanced Configuration and Interface power) allows t he operating system directly to check the functions of energy saving and the PnP (P lug and Play) functionality. The A CPI functions are normally activated by the BIOS.
  • Page 50 Blank Screen: This option only writes blanks to the video buffer. DPMS Support: Select this option if your monitor supports the Display Power Management signaling (DP MS) standard of the Video Electronics Standard to select video power management values. Video Off In Suspend This determines the manner in which the monitor is blanked.

  • Page 51: Pnp/Pci Configurations

    Reload Global Timer Events Primary/Secondary IDE 0/1 FDD, COM, LPT Port PCI PIRQ [A-D]# The events are I/O events whos e occurrence can prevent the system from entering a power s aving mode or can awak en t he s ystem from such a mode. In effect, the syst em remains alert for anyt hing, which occurs to a device, which is configured as Enabled, even when the system is in a power down mode.
  • Page 52 Reset Configuration Data Normally , you leave this field Dis abled, Select Enabled to reset Extended S ystem Configurat ion Data (ESCD) when you exit Setup if you have installed a new add-on Card and the s ystem reconfiguration has caused s uch a serious c onflic t that the operating syst em can not boot .

  • Page 53: Pc Health Status

    4.13 PC Health Status When main boards support hardware monitoring, t his it em lets you monitor the parameters for critical voltages, critical t emperatures, and fan speeds. These are the read only items. Selecting PC Health Status on the main program screen displays this menu: Figure 4-10: BIOS –...

  • Page 54: Load Fail-Safe Defaults

    4.14 Load Fail-Safe Defaults Figure 4-11: BIOS – Load Fail-Safe Defaults This option opens a dialog box that lets you install fail-safe defaults for all appropriate items in the whole setup utility. Press t he <Y> k ey and then <Enter> to install the defaults. Press the <N> key and then <Enter>...

  • Page 55: Set Supervisor/User Password

    This option opens a dialog box that lets you install optimized defaults for all appropriate items in the whole setup utility. Press t he <Y> k ey and then <Enter> to install the defaults. Press the <N> key and then <Enter>...

  • Page 56: Chapter 5 Driver Installation

    Chapter 5 Driver Installation...

  • Page 57: Installation Cd

    LAN and Audio drivers. These drivers may be updated or re-vers ioned without any further notice. Please visit NEXCOM web site http:// www.nexcom.c om.tw frequently for new informat ion. Note: The installation instructions in this manual are based on Windows 2000 operation system.

  • Page 58: Installing Intel Chipset

    5.3 Installing Intel Chipset The chips et patch updates the chipset and enables user to adjust the advanced chipset components. Step 5.3.1 Point to the infinst_autol folder. Double click to open it. Step 5.3.2 Double click to open the Setup icon. It will start running the installation program.

  • Page 59: Installing Audio Driver

    5.3.6 The program updates your computer driver files, and you are prompted to restart your computer. Click Yes, I want to restart my computer now and then click Finish button to reboot. 5.4 Installing Audio Driver After installing Intel Chipset driver, repeat steps 5.1.1 and 5.1.2 to open Audio folder. Note: Install this audio driver only when you connect an audio card into EBC572.

  • Page 60: Installing The On-Board Vga Driver

    5.4.4 The welcome screen appears, click Next button to continue. 5.4.5 Click Yes to continue the installation process. The setup program copies files into your computer. 5.4.6 The program updates your computer driver files, and you are prompted to restart your computer, Click Yes, I want to restart my computer now and then click Finish button to reboot.
  • Page 61 5.5.2 Double click to open win2k_xp131 icon. Note: Click on the correct icon according to your computer operation system. 5.5.3 The InstallShield Wizard starts, click Next button to continue. 5.5.4 The Welcome Screen appears. Click Next button to continue. 5.5.5 Read the License Agreement.

  • Page 62: Installing The On-Board Usb Driver

    5.6 Installing the On-board USB Driver After installing VGA driver, repeat steps 5.1.1 and 5. 1.2 to open USB folder. 5.6.1 Right click the “ My Computer ” Icon on the desktop. 5.6.2 Open the Hardware page, then click Device Manager button.
  • Page 63 5.6.7 Click CD-ROM drives for system to search for driver. Click Next to continue. 5.6.8 Insert the NEXCOM driver CD into the computer CD-ROM driver. After point to the correct folder, click OK to continue. 5.6.9 The Wizard found a suitable driver. Click Next button.

  • Page 64: Installing The On-Board Lan Driver

    5.7 Installing the On-Board LAN Driver After installing USB driver, repeat steps 5.1.1 and 5.1.2 to open LAN folder. 5.7.1 Double click to open the LAN folder. 5.7.2 Point to the right folder according to your computer operation system. Double click to open the folder.
  • Page 65 5.7.6 The Installation Instruction window prompts up, click Install Now button. 5.7.7 After setup program finish coping files into your computer, click Finish button to complete the installation process. This concludes Chapt er 5. The folloings are t he Appendix A and B. EBC572 User’...

  • Page 66: Appendix A Watchdog Timer

    Appendix A Watchdog Timer...

  • Page 67: Watchdog Timer Working Procedure

    The EB C572(A) features a wat chdog timer that reset the CPU or generates an interrupt if the processor stops operat ing for any reason. This feature ensures sys tem reliability in industrial s tandalone or un- manned environment s. A.1 Watchdog Timer Working Procedure The Watchdog Timer (WDT) is a s pec ial hardware devic e that monitors the computer syst em during normal operation.

  • Page 68: Watchdog Timer Control Register

    A.2 Watchdog Timer Control Register The W atc hdog Timer Cont rol Regis ter controls the EDT working mode. Write the value to the WDT Configuration P ort. The following table des cribes the Control Register bit definition. Table A-2: Control Register Bit Definition A.3 Watchdog 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 t he sy stem.
  • Page 69 Clear the WDT The WDT counter int ernal cannot be longer than the preset time, otherwise, the WDT generates a NMI (Non Maskable Interrupt) or sends a reset signal to the system. Note: Before running WDT, clear the WDT to make sure th e initial value is zero before enabling the WDT. WDT Control Register (Write to WDT configuration port) Note: This register writes to the WDT configuration port.

  • Page 70: Appendix Bgpi/O Programming

    Appendix B GPI/O Programming...
  • Page 71 This appendix provides definitions for the four GPI/ O pins in the E BC572(A). GPI/ O (General Purpose Input/ Output) pins are provided for cus tom system design. The pin programming as input mode (GPI) or output mode (GPO) is depending on t he c onfiguration. The pin definit ions are shown in the following table: Default Default...

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