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  • Page 1 Peak 550/PISA 550 Single Board Computer User′s Guide All brand names are registered trademarks of their owners.
  • Page 2 Trademarks Peak 550 and PISA 550 are registered trademarks of Nexcom International Co., Ltd., IBM PC is a registered trademark of International Business Machines Corporation. Intel and Pentium are registered trademarks of Intel Corporation. Award is registered trademarks of Award Software, Inc.

  • Page 3: Table Of Contents

    Table of Contents How to Use This Guide Chapter 1. Introduction 1.1 Specifications................1-2 1.2 What you have................…1-6 Chapter 2. Jumpers and Connectors 2.1 Jumpers..................2-1 2.2 Connectors..................2-5 Chapter 3. Capability Expanding 3.1 System Memory................3-1 3.2 Cache Memory ................…3-3 3.3 Change CPU……………………………………………………...3-3 Chapter 4.

  • Page 4: Chapter 2. Jumpers And Connectors

    How to use this guide This manual is written to help you use Peak 550/PISA 550. The manual d escribes how to arrange various settings on the Pentium CPU board to meet your requirements. It’s briefed as follows: Chapter 1, “Introduction” gives an overview of the product’s specifications. It also tells you what are included in the product package.
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  • Page 20: 3-1 System Memory

    Peak 550/PISA 550 User's Guide Chapter 3 Capability Expanding This chapter explain how you can expand capability of your CPU board in such aspects as system memory, cache memory, and CPU. 3-1 System Memory Your system DRAM is provided by SIMM's (Single In-line Memory Modules) on the CPU board.
  • Page 21 Peak 550/PISA 550 User's Guide The SIMM used could be either FP memory (Fast Page Mode) or EDO memory (Extended Data Out). For the FP memory, the speed should be no slower than 70 ns. Figure 3-1 Installing SIMM SIMM...

  • Page 22: Cache Memory

    3.3 Change CPU The Peak 550 uses the 321 pin PGA socket rather than the ZIF socket, so it needs force to push or pull the CPU into or out from the socket. Normally, you have to use some tool to pull the CPU out from the socket.

  • Page 23: Chapter 4. Award Bios Setup

    Peak 550 User’s Guide Chapter 4 AWARD BIOS Setup Award's BIOS ROM has a built-in Setup program that allows users to modify the basic system configuration. This type of information is stored in battery-backed RAM (CMOS RAM) so that it retains the Setup information when the power is turned off.
  • Page 24 Peak 550 User’s Guide Control Keys Up arrow Move to previous item Down arrow Move to next item Left arrow Move to the item in the left hand Right arrow Move to the item in the right hand Esc key...
  • Page 25 Peak 550 User’s Guide Getting Help Main Menu The on-line description of the highlighted setup function is displayed at the bottom of the screen. Status Page Setup Menu/Option Page Setup Menu Press F1 to pop up a small help window that describes the appropriate keys to use and the possible selections for the highlighted item.

  • Page 26: The Main Menu

    Peak 550 User’s Guide The Main Menu Once you enter Award BIOS CMOS Setup Utility, the Main Menu (Figure 1) will appear on the screen. The Main Menu allows you to select from ten setup functions and two exit choices. Use arrow keys to select among the items and press <Enter> to accept or enter the sub-menu.
  • Page 27 Peak 550 User’s Guide This setup page includes all the items of Award special enhanced features. See Page 4-11 to Page 4-15 for details. BIOS Setup...

  • Page 28: Chipset Features Setup

    Peak 550 User’s Guide Chipset features setup This setup page includes all the items of chipset special features. See Page 4-16 for details. Power Management setup This category determines how much power consumption for system after selecting below items. Default value is Disable. See Page 4-17 to Page 4-20 for details.
  • Page 29 Peak 550 User’s Guide IDE HDD auto detection Automatically configure hard disk parameters. See Page 4-27 to Page 4-30 for details. HDD low level format Hard disk low level format utility. See Page 4-31 to Page 4-32 for details. Save & exit setup Save CMOS value changes to CMOS and exit setup.
  • Page 30 Peak 550 User’s Guide Standard CMOS Setup Menu The items in Standard CMOS Setup Menu are divided into 10 categories. Each category includes no, one or more than one setup items. Use the arrow keys to highlight the item and then use the <PgUp> or <PgDn> keys to select the value you want in each item.
  • Page 31 Peak 550 User’s Guide Time The time format is <hour> <minute> <second>. which accepts both function key or numerical key The time is calculated based on the 24-hour military-time clock. For example, 1 p.m. is 13:00:00. Primary Master/Primary Slave The categories identify the types of drives that have been installed in the computer.
  • Page 32 Peak 550 User’s Guide Drive A type/Drive B type The category identifies the types of floppy disk drive A or drive B that have been installed in the computer. None No floppy drive installed 360K, 5.25 in 5-1/4 inch PC-type standard drive; 360 kilobyte capacity 1.2M, 5.25 in...
  • Page 33 Peak 550 User’s Guide Error halt The category determines whether the computer will stop if an error is detected during power up. No errors Whenever the BIOS detects a non-fatal error the system will be stopped and you will be prompted.
  • Page 34 Peak 550 User’s Guide System total memory is the sum of basic memory, extended memory, and other memory. BIOS Setup...
  • Page 35 Peak 550 User’s Guide BIOS Features Setup Menu ROM PCI/ISA BIOS (2A5IIN09) BIOS FEATURES SETUP AWARD SOFTWARE, INC. Virus Warning : Disabled Video BIOS Shadow : Enabled CPU Internal Cache : Enabled C8000-CBFFF Shadow : Disabled External Cache : Enabled...
  • Page 36 Peak 550 User’s Guide ote: This function is available only for DOS and other OSes that do not trap INT13. CPU Internal Cache/External Cache These two categories speed up memory access. However, it depends on CPU/chipset design. The default value is Enable. If your CPU without Internal Cache then this item “CPU Internal Cache”...
  • Page 37 Peak 550 User’s Guide Disabled BIOS will not search for the type of floppy disk drive by track number. Note that there will not be any warning message if the drive installed is 360K. BIOS Setup...
  • Page 38 Peak 550 User’s Guide Boot Up NumLock Status The default value is On. Keypad is number keys Keypad is arrow keys Boot Up System Speed It selects the default system speed - the speed that the system will run at immediately after power up.
  • Page 39 Peak 550 User’s Guide 30 characters per second Typematic Delay (Msec) When holding a key, the time between the first and second character displayed. 250 msec 500 msec 750 msec 1000 1000 msec Security Option This category allows you to limit access to the system and Setup, or just to Setup.
  • Page 40 Peak 550 User’s Guide Video BIOS Shadow It determines whether video BIOS will be copied to RAM, however, it is optional from chipset design. Video Shadow will increase the video speed. Enabled Video shadow is enabled Disabled Video shadow is disabled...
  • Page 41 Peak 550 User’s Guide Chipset Features Setup Menu 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 know very detailed of the chipset features.

  • Page 42: Power Management Setup

    Peak 550 User’s Guide Power Management Setup The Power management setup will appear on your screen like this: ROM PCI/ISA BIOS (2A5IIN09) POWER MANAGEMENT SETUP AWARD SOFTWARE, INC. : Disabled Power Management : Disable VGA Activity PM Control by APM...
  • Page 43 Peak 550 User’s Guide Item Options Descriptions A.Power Management 1. Disable Global Power Management will be disabled 2. User Define Users can configure their own power management 3. Min Saving Pre-defined timer values are used such that all timers are in their MAX value 4.
  • Page 44 Peak 550 User’s Guide E. Switch Function 1. Break The External Suspend Switch is “Break” 2. Wake The External Suspend Switch is “Wake” 2. 1 Min Defines the continuous idle time before the 2 Min system entering DOZE mode. 4 Min 6 Min if any item defined in (J) is enabled &...
  • Page 45 Peak 550 User’s Guide mode puts the system into low speed or 8 MHz, clock is stopped, screen may be off depend on (E) BIOS Setup...
  • Page 46 Peak 550 User’s Guide H. HDD Power down (#) 1. Disable HDD’s motor will not off Remark 2 2. 1 Min Defines the continuous HDD idle time before 2 Min the HDD entering power saving mode 3 Min (motor off)
  • Page 47 Peak 550 User’s Guide the global power management is disabled! PnP/PCI Configuration This section describes configuring the PCI bus system. PCI, or Peripheral Component Interconnect, is a system which allows I/O devices to o perate at speeds nearing the speed the CPU itself uses when communicating with its own special components.
  • Page 48 Peak 550 User’s Guide DMA-0 assigned : PCI/ISA DMA-1 assigned : PCI/ISA ↑ ↓ → ←: Select Item DMA-3 assigned : PCI/ISA ESC : Quit DMA-5 assigned : PCI/ISA F1 : Help PU/PD/+/- : Modify DMA-6 assigned : PCI/ISA : Old Values...
  • Page 49 Peak 550 User’s Guide PCI IDE IRQ Map to This allows you to configure your system to the type of IDE disk controller in use. By default, Setup assumes that your controller is an ISA (Industry Standard Architecture) device rather than a PCI controller. The more apparent difference is the type of slot being used.

  • Page 50: Integrated Peripherals

    Peak 550 User’s Guide Integrated Peripherals ROM PCI / ISA BIOS (2A5IIN09) INTEGRATED PERIPHERALS AWARD SOFTWARE, INC. Internal PCI/IDE : Primary Watch Dog Timer : Disabled IDE Primary Master PIO : Auto WDT Time Out Active For : Reset IDE Primary Slave PIO...
  • Page 51 Peak 550 User’s Guide controllers--a primary and a secondary--so you have to ability to install up to four separate hard disks. PIO means Programmed Input/Output. Rather than have the BIOS issue a series of commands to effect a transfer to or from the disk drive, PIO allows the BIOS to tell the controller what it wants and then let the controller and the CPU perform the complete task by themselves.
  • Page 52 Peak 550 User’s Guide If you have additional PIO on the add-on card, make sure to assign different address. In the IBM PC compatible system, 3 PIO in total are allowed to install. On board Printer Mode The on board printer mode could be set as below:...

  • Page 53: Password Setting

    Peak 550 User’s Guide Supervisor/User Password Setting You can set either supervisor or user password, or both of then. The differences between are: supervisor password : can enter and change the options of the setup menus. user password : just can enter but do not have the right to change the options of the setup menus.

  • Page 54: Ide Auto Detection

    Peak 550 User’s Guide IDE HDD Auto Detection The Enhance IDE features was included in all Award BIOS. Below is a brief description of this feature. 1. Setup Changes <I> Auto-detection BIOS setup will display all possible modes that supported by the HDD including NORMAL, LBA &...
  • Page 55 Peak 550 User’s Guide Secondary None M aster: Secondary Slave None When HDD type is in ‘user’ type, the “MODE” option will be opened for user to select their own HDD mode. (2) HDD Modes The Award BIOS supports 3 HDD modes : NORMAL, LBA & LARGE...
  • Page 56 Peak 550 User’s Guide The maximum HDD size supported by LBA mode is 8.4 Gigabytes which is obtained by the following formula: no. Cyclinder ( 1024) x no. Head ( 255) x no. Sector x bytes per sector ( 512) 8.4 Gigabytes...
  • Page 57 Peak 550 User’s Guide (3) Remarks To support LBA or LARGE mode of HDDs, there must be some softwares involved. All these softwares are located in the Award HDD Service Routine(INT 13h). It may be failed to access a HDD with LBA (LARGE) mode selected if you are running under a Operating System which replaces the whole INT 13h.

  • Page 58: Hard Disk Low Level Format Utility

    Peak 550 User’s Guide Hard Disk Low Level Format Utility This Award Low-Level-Format Utility is designed as a tool to save your time formatting your hard disk. The Utility automatically looks for the necessary information of the drive you selected. The Utility also searches for bad tracks and lists them for your reference.
  • Page 59 Peak 550 User’s Guide BIOS Setup...
  • Page 60 Peak 550 User’s Guide BAD TRACK LIST Auto scan bad track The utility will automatically scan bad tracks and list the bad tracks in the window at the right side of the screen. Add bad track Directly type in the information of the known bad tracks in the window at the right side of the screen.

  • Page 61: Power On Boot

    Peak 550 User’s Guide Power-On Boot After you have made all the changes to CMOS values and the system cannot boot with the CMOS values selected in Setup, restart the system by turning it OFF then ON or Pressing the "RESET" button on the system case. You may also restart by simultaneously press <Ctrl>, <Alt>, and <Delete>...

  • Page 62: Bios Reference-Post Message

    Peak 550 User’s Guide BIOS Reference - POST Message During the Power On Self Test (POST), if the BIOS detects an error requiring you to do something to fix, it will either sound a beep code or display a message.
  • Page 63 Peak 550 User’s Guide DISK BOOT FAILURE, INSERT SYSTEM DISK AND PRESS ENTER No boot device was found. This could mean that either a boot drive was not detected or the drive does not contain proper system boot files. Insert a system disk into Drive A: and press <Enter>.
  • Page 64 Peak 550 User’s Guide ERROR ENCOUNTERED INITIALIZING HARD DRIVE Hard drive cannot be initialized. Be sure the adapter is installed correctly and all cables are correctly and firmly attached. Also be sure the correct hard drive type is selected in Setup.
  • Page 65 Peak 550 User’s Guide Memory parity Error at ... Indicates a memory parity error at a specific location. You can use this location along with the memory map for your system to find and replace the bad memory chips. MEMORY SIZE HAS CHANGED SINCE LAST BOOT Memory has been added or removed since the last boot.
  • Page 66 Peak 550 User’s Guide RAM PARITY ERROR - CHECKING FOR SEGMENT ... Indicates a parity error in Random Access Memory. Should Be Empty But EISA Board Found PLEASE RUN EISA CONFIGURATION UTILITY A valid board ID was found in a slot that was configurated as having no board ID.

  • Page 67: Bios Reference-Post Code

    Peak 550 User’s Guide you to run the EISA Configuration Utility. BIOS Reference - POST Codes Note: EISA POST codes are typically output to port address 300h. ISA POST codes are output to port address 80h. POST Description (hex) 1. Turn off OEM specific cache, shadow...
  • Page 68 Peak 550 User’s Guide This POST code is for boot block POST Description (hex) 1. Turn off OEM specific cache, shadow... 2. Initialize all the standard devices with default values standard devices includes: -DMA controller (8237) -Programmable Interrupt Controller (8259)
  • Page 69 Peak 550 User’s Guide This page is for Non-Compressed Version only 01-02 Reserved Turn off OEM specific cache, shadow... 1. Initialize EISA registers (EISA BIOS only) 2. Initialize all the standard devices with default values Standard devices includes: -DMA controller (8237)
  • Page 70 Peak 550 User’s Guide The following POST Codes are for all of Compress Version & Non-Compress Version POST Description (hex) 1. Verify the RTC time is valid or not 2. Detect bad battery 3. Read CMOS data into BIOS stack area 4.
  • Page 71 Peak 550 User’s Guide 1. Test Base Memory from 256K to 640K 2. Test Extended Memory from 1M to the top of memory BIOS Setup...
  • Page 72 Peak 550 User’s Guide 1. Display the Award Plug & Play BIOS Extension message (PnP BIOS only) 2. Program all onboard super I/O chips (if any) including COM ports, LPT ports, FDD port... according to setup value 33-3B Reserved Set flag to allow users to enter CMOS Setup Utility 1.
  • Page 73 Peak 550 User’s Guide POST(hex) Description Try to turn on Level 2 cache Note: Some chipset may need to t u rn on the L2 cache in this stage. But usually, the cache is turn on later in POST 61h Try to turn on Level 2 cache Note: Some chipset may need to turn on the L2 cache in this stage.
  • Page 74 Peak 550 User’s Guide BIOS Default Drive Table This is a current list of the drive type table contained in Setup. Type Size Cylinders Heads Sectors Write Land Example (MB) Precomp Zone Model TEAC SD510, MMI 112, 5412 Seagate ST225,...
  • Page 75 Peak 550 User’s Guide Seagate ST4038 BIOS Setup...
  • Page 76 Peak 550 User’s Guide 1024 None Seagate ST4051 1224 None 1023 Seagate ST4096 1224 None 1223 Maxtor 2085 1224 None 1223 Maxtor 2140, Priam S14 1024 None 1223 Maxtor 2190, Priam S19 1024 None 1023 Maxtor 1085, Micropolis 1325 None...

  • Page 77: Appendix Watch Dog Timer

    Peak 550/PISA 550 User’s Guide Appendix Watch Dog Timer Set up menu: refer to Page 4-24, “Integrated Peripherals” WDT Configuration port Default at F2 Watch Dog Timer Disabled 1. Default at disabled Enabled 2. Enabled for user′s programming WDT Time out active for...
  • Page 78 Peak 550/PISA 550 User’s Guide Port Used Default at F2 Bit definitions of F2 D4: 1 select NMI select Reset D3: 1 Enable watch dog timer Disable watch dog timer < D2, D1, D0>: 111 : 110 : Select 1 second...
  • Page 79 Peak 550/PISA 550 User’s Guide • Initialize the SQW of RTC, set SQW output period=0.5 second Out port 70 = 0A Out port 71 = 2F ( generate SQW = 0.5 Sec.) Out port 70 = 0B Out port 71 = 0A ( enable the SQW output) •...
  • Page 80 Peak 550/PISA 550 User’s Guide An Example a. Enable watchdog timer b. Select I/O port F2 & set WDT timer at 1 sec interval c. Select NMI d. Enable WDT e. Clear WDT f. Disable WDT Set RTC to generate WDT timer source “SQW” to generate 0.5 sec. duty...
  • Page 81 Peak 550/PISA 550 User’s Guide Select WDT timer setting (use port F2) AL, 06 ; Setting WDT=1 sec. DX, 0F2 DX, AL Select WDT for NMI or reset (select NMI) DX, 70 AL, 7D DX, AL DX, 71 AL, DX...
  • Page 82 Peak 550/PISA 550 User’s Guide Clear WDT (this operation should be repeatedly executed before WDT time out, e.g. if WDT time out set at 16 sec., then to clear WDT, the instruction should be executed within 16 sec. repeatedly) DX, 0F2...

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