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User Manual MIC-7420 19”, 2U Fanless System with ® Intel 6th Gen Core™ i Processor...
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This document is copyrighted 2018, by Advantech Co., Ltd. All rights are reserved. Advantech Co., Ltd. reserves the right to alter the products described in this manual at any time without notice. No part of this manual may be reproduced, copied, trans- lated or transmitted in any form or by any means without the prior written permission of Advantech.
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Because of Advantech’s high quality-control standards and rigorous testing, most of our customers never need to use our repair service. If an Advantech product is defec- tive, it will be repaired or replaced at no charge during the warranty period. For out- of-warranty repairs, you will be billed according to the cost of replacement materials, service time and freight.
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Message to the Customer Advantech Customer Services Every Advantech product is built with the most exact specifications to ensure reliable performance in the harsh and demanding conditions typical of industrial environ- ments. Whether your new Advantech equipment is destined for a laboratory or fac- tory floor, be assured that your product can provide the reliability and ease of operation for which the name Advantech is renowned.
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There is a danger of a new battery exploding if it is incorrectly installed. Replace the battery only with the same or equivalent type recom- mended by the manufacturer. Discard used batteries according to the manufacturer's instructions. Note! Notes provide optional additional information. MIC-7420 User Manual...
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The sound pressure level at the operator's position according to IEC 704-1:1982 is no more than 70 dB (A). DISCLAIMER: This set of instructions is given according to IEC 704-1. Advantech disclaims all responsibility for the accuracy of any statements contained herein.
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Modern electronic devices are very sensitive to static electric charges. Use a grounding wrist strap at all times. Place all electronic components on a static-dissipative surface or in a static- shielded bag. MIC-7420 User Manual...
Introduction ® MIC-7420 is a 19”, 2U Fanless system with Intel 6th Gen Core™ i Processor. Based on Core i7 Quad-core processor, it is a comprehensive monitoring and communica- tion management system. The powerful computing platform supports 7/24 operation. Specification ®...
The following table provides detailed information of LED definition. Item Status Color Description Alarm LED System exception. Flash Orange Receiving/transferring data. HDD LED No data is being received/transferred. Green System power on Power LED Orange System power off MIC-7420 User Manual...
2.3.1 Jumper Description You may configure the MIC-7420 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.
M.2 Slot LPT1 JCMOS1 GPIO1 SATA3.0 SATA PWR PSON1 Mini PCIe Slot Figure 2.3 Jumper and Connector Location on Main Board Table 2.1: Jumpers Name Function JCMOS1 Clear CMOS settings PSON1 Start-up mode selection VCCGPIO1 GPIO voltage selection MIC-7420 User Manual...
I/O Connector 2.4.1 COM Connector MIC-7420 provides two DB9 connectors for RS-232/422/485. Table 2.5: COM Connectors RS-232 RS-422 RS-485 Signal Name Signal Name Signal Name DATA- DATA+ 2.4.2 DVI-D Connector Table 2.6: DVI-D Connector Signal Signal T.M.D.S. Data2- Hot Plug Detect T.M.D.S.
2.4.5 USB 3.0 Connector MIC-7420 provides two USB 3.0 connectors which are USB UHCI Rev. 3.0 compliant and can be disabled via BIOS setup. Table 2.9: USB 3.0 Pin Assignment Signal Signal +V5(VCC) StdA_SSRX+ GND_DRAIN StdA_SSTX- StdA_SSTX+ StdA_SSRX- 2.4.6 Audio-in Connector MIC-7420 provides one integrated Mic-in/speaker out audio connector.
2.4.7 LAN Connector MIC-7420 provides two RJ-45 Ethernet connectors, which are compliant with IEEE 802.3, IEEE802.3u, IEEE 802.3ab, with LEDs indicating network status. Table 2.10: LAN Connector Signal Name A1/B1 MDIO0+ A2/B2 MDIO0- A3/B3 MDIO1+ A4/B4 MDIO2+ A5/B5 MDIO2- A6/B6...
3.1.1 Installing mainboard mini-PCIe and M.2 cards MIC-7420 mainboard has a mini-PCIe slot and a M.2 slot. Each one has a label for users to distinguish them. Insert a mini-PCIe card and M.2 card to the respective slot and fix with screws.
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Figure 3.2 Installing HDD Module MIC-7420 User Manual...
Please refer to the following instructions to install the top cover. Insert the top cover towards the front panel and make sure it's installed firmly. Fix the top cover with two screws. Figure 3.3 Installing the Top Cover MIC-7420 User Manual...
Installing the add-on card Please refer to the following instructions to install the add-on card. Undo the two screws and open the chassis cover of MIC-7420. Undo the five screws and uninstall the expansion card module. Install a PCIe or PCI card into the expansion card module.
Introduction This chapter introduces how to configure the AMI BIOS for MIC-7420. With the AMI- BIOS Setup program, you can modify BIOS settings and control the special features of your computer. The Setup program uses a number of menus forsaking changes and turning the special features on or off.
System Date using the <Arrow> keys. Enter new values through the keyboard. Press the <Tab> key or the <Arrow> keys to move between fields. The date must be entered in MM/DD/YY format. The time must be entered in HH:MM:SS format. MIC-7420 User Manual...
4.2.2 Advanced BIOS Features Setup Select the Advanced tab from the MIC-7420 setup screen to enter the Advanced BIOS Setup screen. You can select any of the items in the left frame of the screen, such as CPU Configuration, to go to the sub menu for that item. You can display an Advanced BIOS Setup option by highlighting it using the <Arrow>...
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4.2.2.1 Trusted Computing Figure 4.4 Trusted Computing Security Device Support Enable or Disable TPM. 4.2.2.2 AMT Configuration Figure 4.5 AMT Configuration Intel AMT Enable or Disable AMT. BIOS Hotkey Pressed MIC-7420 User Manual...
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Enable or disable USB provisioning of AMT. PET Process Enable or disable PET process. SOL Enable Enable or disable serial over LAN function WatchDog Enable or disable AMT watchdog. 4.2.2.3 PCH-FW Configuration Figure 4.6 PCH-FW Configuration MIC-7420 User Manual...
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Figure 4.7 F81866 Super IO Configuration Figure 4.8 Serial Port Configuration Serial Port Enable or disable serial port. Default: Enable. Device Settings Indicates the current IO port and IRQ value of the serial port. Change settings MIC-7420 User Manual...
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This item is used for hardware monitoring. The BIOS will display the current system temperature, CPU temperature, and related voltage values. The values of the param- eters listed above should not exceed the corresponding value ranges. 4.2.2.6 Serial Port Console Redirection Figure 4.10 Serial Port Console Redirection MIC-7420 User Manual...
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Console redirection Enable or disable serial port console redirection. Legacy Serial Redirection Port Choose the redirection port 4.2.2.7 CPU Configuration Figure 4.11 CPU Configuration MIC-7420 User Manual...
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Intel(R) Speed shift Technology Enable or disable Intel(R) Speed shift Technology. Intel(R) Speedstep (tm) Enable or disable Intel(R) Speedstep function Turbo mode Enable or disable CPU turbo mode CPU C States Enable or disable C-State. MIC-7420 User Manual...
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Enable or disable SATA controller. SATA Mode Selection Select SATA mode (AHCI or RAID). SATA Port 0/1/2 Enable or disable SATA port 0/1/2. Hot plug Enable or disable hot plug support for the SATA port. MIC-7420 User Manual...
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When network stack is enabled, the users will have to configure the following param- eters (as shown in the figure above): Ipv4 PXE Support Enable or disable IPV4 PXE support. Ipv6 PXE Support Enable or disable IPV6 PXE support. PXE boot wait time MIC-7420 User Manual...
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Storage Selects the optional ROM execution of UEFI/legacy for storage. Video Selects the optional ROM execution of UEFI/legacy for video. Other PCI devices Selects the optional ROM execution of UEFI/legacy for other PCI devices. MIC-7420 User Manual...
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Enable or disable emulation support for port 60/64. For OS which do not support USB, this option should be enabled. USB transfer time-out Sets the time of USB transfer time-out. Device power-up delay Sets the delay time of command execution for USB storage device. MIC-7420 User Manual...
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4.2.2.12 PCIE COM Port Configuration Configure the corresponding PCIE serial port card. Serial Port Mode Configure the serial port mode to RS232, RS422 or RS485. MIC-7420 User Manual...
4.2.3 Advanced Chipset Features Setup VT-d Enable or disable VT-d technology. Above 4GB MMIO BIOS assignment Enable or disable BIOS assignment for MMIO above 4GB. MIC-7420 User Manual...
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GTT size Set GTT size. Aperture size Sets aperture size. DVMT Pre-Allocated Sets the video memory size pre-allocated by DVMT5.0. DVMT Total GFX Mem Sets the total size of video memory allocated by DVMT5.0. MIC-7420 User Manual...
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LCD control Please refer to the following screen. Primary IGFX Boot Display Select the display device in POST phase. MIC-7420 supports HDMI, DVI, screen and VGA display. eDP LVDS Panel Type MIC-7420 doesn't support eDP Panel Scaling Enable or disable automatic screen scaling.
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Figure 4.15 PEG Port Configuration Enable Root Port Enable or disable the port. Max Link Speed Configure the max link speed of PEG port. Detect Non-Compliance Device Enable or disable non-compliance device detection. PCH-IO Configurations MIC-7420 User Manual...
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Enable or disable the high precision timer. Restore AC Power Loss Select the AC power state after restoring. I219/I210 LAN PXE Control Enable or disable LAN PXE control for I210/I219. PCI Express Configuration Select the PCIE port to be controlled. MIC-7420 User Manual...
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PCI Express Root Port Enable or disable the current port. Hot plug Enable or disable hot-plug support for PCIE device. PCIe speed Sets the speed of the PCIe port. Detect Non-Compliance device Are incompatible devices detected? MIC-7420 User Manual...
“Enabled”, BIOS will show OEM icon rather than POST information. Fast Boot This item allows the BIOS to skip some testing procedures during boot so as to reduce system boot-up time. The default setting is “Disabled”. MIC-7420 User Manual...
Security Setup Figure 4.18 Setup Security Menu Administrator Password This item is used to set Administrator Password. User Password This item is used to set User Password. MIC-7420 User Manual...
BIOS setup and reboot the computer so the new system configu- ration parameters can take effect. 1.Select Save Changes and Reset and press <Enter>. The following message appears: Save configuration and Reset? [Yes] [No] 2.Select Ok or Cancel. MIC-7420 User Manual...
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This item allows users to restore the user defaults to all the options. Boot Override This item allows users to set boot device. Launch EFI Shell from file system device This item allows to boot EFI shell from system file device MIC-7420 User Manual...
C++ Builder and Borland Delphi. Driver Installation Insert the driver CD into your system’s CD-ROM drive. You can see the driver folder items. Please choose the correct folder by your OS version. MIC-7420 uses the same driver CD with ITA-2231. MIC-7420 User Manual...
Chipset Windows Driver Setup Navigate to the "Chipset" folder and click "SetupChipset.exe" to complete the instal- lation of the driver. 5.2.2 Windows Driver Setup Navigate to the "VGA" folder and click "win64_154510.4542.exe" to complete the installation of the driver. MIC-7420 User Manual...
LAN windows Driver Setup Navigate to the "LAN" folder and click "PROWinx64.rar" to complete the installation of the driver. 5.2.4 AUDIO windows Driver Setup Navigate to the "Audio" folder and click "0006-64bit_Win7_Win8_Win81_Win10_R279.exe" to complete the installation of the driver. MIC-7420 User Manual...
ME windows Driver Setup Navigate to the "ME" folder and click "SetupME.exe" to complete the installation of the driver. 5.2.6 RST windows Driver Setup Navigate to the "RST" folder and click "SetupRST.exe" to complete the installation of the driver. MIC-7420 User Manual...
5.2.7 Serial IO windows Driver Setup Insert the driver CD into your system’s CD-ROM drive. You can see the MIC-7420 driver folder. Navigate to the "Serial IO" folder and click "SetupSerialIO.exe" to complete the installation of the driver. MIC-7420 User Manual...
Navigate to the "USB 3.0" folder and click "SetupAdaptationDriver.exe" to complete the installation of the driver. Note: In Win10, MIC-7420 can directly use the USB 3.0 driver included in Win10 OS, instead of installing USB 3.0 driver additionally.
This section describes the operation of the watchdog timer and how to pro- gram it. A.1.1 Watchdog Timer Overview The watchdog timer is built into the super I/O controller MIC-7420. It provides the fol- lowing user-programmable functions: Can be enabled or disabled via user program ...
Out dx,al ;----------------------------------------------------------- Generate a time-out signal without timer counting ;----------------------------------------------------------- Mov dx,A68h ; Select register 68h, watchdog timer I/O port address 680h+ register shifts 68h In al,dx Or al,4h ; Generate a time-out signal Out dx,al ;----------------------------------------------------------- MIC-7420 User Manual...