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Copyright Notice ProX-1690 Dual Socket 370 processor Embedded Card With VGA/Dual LAN OPERATION MANUAL COPYRIGHT NOTICE This operation manual is meant to assist both Embedded Computer manufacturers and end users in installing and setting up the system. The information contained in this document is subject to change without any notice.
Contents TABLE OF CONTENTS CHAPTER 1 INTRODUCTION About This Manual ............System Specification ............1-3 Safety Precautions ............CHAPTER 2 HARDWARE CONFIGURATION Jumper & Connector Quick Reference Table ....Component Locations ............ How to Set the Jumpers ..........COM Port Connector ...…........RS232/422/485 (COM2) Selection .......
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Contents CHAPTER 3 SOFTWARE UTILITIES Introduction …………........... VGA Driver Utility …………………………………… Flash BIOS Update ............LAN Driver Utility …........... Watchdog Timer Configuration ........CHAPTER 4 GREEN PC FUNCTION Power Saving Block Diagram ........CPU Doze Mode ............System Standby Mode ........... System Suspend Mode ..........
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Contents Interrupt Map ................RTC & CMOS RAM Map ............Timer & DMA Channels Map ..........I/O & Memory Map ..............APPENDIX C TROUBLE SHOOTING Trouble Shooting for Error Messages ........Trouble Shooting for POST Codes ...........
CHAPTER INTRODUCTION This chapter gives you the information for Prox-1690. It also outlines the System specification. Section includes: About This Manual System Specifications Safety precautions Experienced users can skip to chapter 2 on page 2-1 for Quick Start. Page:1-1...
1-1. ABOUT THIS MANUAL Thank you for purchasing our Prox-1690 Socket 370 Embedded Card with VGA / Dual LAN, which is fully PC / AT compatible. Prox-1690 provides faster processing speed, greater expandability and can handle more task than before. This manual is designed to assist you how to install and set up the system.
UNIVERSAL SERIAL BUS : Universal Serial Bus Connector on board, supports up to 2 USB ports. BUS SUPPORT : External ISA/PCI BUS; PICMG Spec. Internal PCI Bus for VGA, IDE, PPCI, & LAN. Prox-1690 USER ′ S MANUAL Page: 1-3...
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Two RJ-45 Jack on board. SERIAL PORT : Two high speed 16550 Compatible UARTs with Send / Receive 16 Byte FIFOs. COM1 for RS232; COM2 for RS232/422/485. MIDI Compatible. Programmable Baud Rate Generator. Prox-1690 USER ′ S MANUAL Page: 1-4...
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ISA Bus 8MHz PCI Bus 33MHz PPCI Bus 33MHz 12Mbit/sec DMA CONTROLLER : 82C37 x 2 DMA CHANNELS : INTERRUPT CONTROLLERS : 82C59 x 2 INTERRUPT LEVELS : OPERATING TEMPERATURE : 0 to 60°C. Prox-1690 USER ′ S MANUAL Page: 1-5...
3. Disconnect power when you change any hardware devices. For instance, when you connect a jumper or install any cards, a surge of power may damage the electronic components or the whole system. Prox-1690 USER ′ S MANUAL Page: 1-6...
PIN1 & PIN2 to create one setting and shorting. You can either connect PIN2 & PIN3 to create another setting. The same jumper diagrams are applied all through this manual. The figure below shows what the manual diagrams look and what they represent. ’ Page: 2-4 Prox-1690 USER S MANUAL...
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Jumper Block looks like this JUMPER SETTINGS 2 pin Jumper close(enabled) Looks like this 3 pin Jumper 2-3 pin close(enabled) Looks like this Jumper Block 1-2 pin close(enabled) Looks like this ’ Page: 2-5 Prox-1690 USER S MANUAL...
Chapter 2 Hardware Configuration 2-4. COM PORT CONNECTOR Prox-1690 possesses two Communication Port namely the COM1 and COM2. The difference between the two is that COM1 is fixed for RS-232, while COM2 is selectable for RS-232/422/485. COM1 : COM1 Connector...
ROM SSD can be install as one of user’s hard disk drive. The SSD Memory Mapping Selections are as follows: JUMPER SETTING SSD Memory Map JUMPER (pin closed) ILLUSTRATION CC000h-CDFFFh D0000h-D1FFFh D4000h-D5FFFh D8000h-D9FFFh DC000h-DDFFFh E0000h-E1FFFh *** Manufactory default --- CC000h-CDFFFh ’ Page: 2-9 Prox-1690 USER S MANUAL...
If User select to use Y-Cable, please set the jumper same as AT Keyboard. The jumper settings are as follows: JUMPER SETTING DEVICE JUMPER (pin closed) TYPE ILLUSTRATION AT KEYBOARD PS/2 MOUSE *** Manufactory default -- AT Keyboard ’ Page: 2-10 Prox-1690 USER S MANUAL...
The pin assignment is as follows : ASSIGNMENT RESET GROUND 2-12. HARD DISK DRIVE LED CONNECTOR HDL : Hard Disk Drive LED Connector The pin assignment is as follows : ASSIGNMENT HDD Active Signal ’ Page: 2-11 Prox-1690 USER S MANUAL...
CPUFAN2 : CPU Fan2 connector The pin assignment is as follows: ASSIGNMENT +12V CPUFAN2 2-14. EXTERNAL SPEAKER CONNECTOR SPK : External Speaker Connector The pin assignment is as follows : ASSIGNMENT Speaker Signal Speaker Signal Speaker Signal ’ Page: 2-12 Prox-1690 USER S MANUAL...
Chapter 2 Hardware Configuration 2-15. VGA CRT CONNECTOR VGA : VGA CRT Connector The pin assignments are as follows: ASSIGNMENT GREEN BLUE HSYNC VSYNC ’ Page: 2-13 Prox-1690 USER S MANUAL...
Chapter 2 Hardware Configuration 2-16. HARD DISK DRIVE CONNECTOR IDE1: Hard Disk Drive Connector The Prox-1690 possesses two HDD connectors, IDE1 and IDE2. The pin assignments are as follows: ASSIGNMENT ASSIGNMENT IDERST IDEREQ0 IDED7 IDEIOW IDED8 IDED6 IDEIOR IDED9 IDED5...
34-pin flat cable to attach the FDD on the board, and the other side is attaches two FDDs. The pin assignments are as follows : ASSIGNMENT ASSIGNMENT RWC- INDEX MOA- STEP TRK0 WRPRT RDATA HEAD DSKCHG ’ Page: 2-16 Prox-1690 USER S MANUAL...
LCD : LCD Panel Connector The connector LCD is a 51-pin, dual-in-line header used for Flat Panel displays. The pin assignments are as follows : ASSIGNMENT ASSIGNMENT LCD VDD LCDVDD VDDSAFE VDDSAFE ENABKL SHFCLK ENVEE 12VSAFE 12VSAFE ’ Page: 2-17 Prox-1690 USER S MANUAL...
AUTFE ERROR INIT SLCTIN BUSY SLCT 2-20. POWER LED & KEYLOCK CONNECTOR KBL : Power LED & Keylock Connector The pin assignments are as follows : ASSIGNMENT Power LED Ground Keyboard INT Ground ’ Page: 2-18 Prox-1690 USER S MANUAL...
GRN: Green Function Connector The pin assignments are as follows: ASSIGNMENT EXTSMI- 2-22. UNIVERSAL SERIAL BUS CONNECTOR USB: Universal Serial Bus Connector The pin assignments are as follows: ASSIGNMENT USBP∅− USBP∅+ USBP1− USBP1+ ’ Page: 2-19 Prox-1690 USER S MANUAL...
The pin assignments are as follows: Panel LCD VDD JUMPER SETTING JUMPER Selection (pin closed) ILLUSTRATION LCD VDD 5V LCD VDD 3.3V 2-24. IRDA CONNECTOR IR : IrDA (Infrared) Connector The pin assignments are as follows: ASSIGNMENT ’ Page: 2-20 Prox-1690 USER S MANUAL...
Master, which means one of the PCI Bus Masters is occupied. The LAN Bus Master is same as 1st PCI Slot on the backplane. When the LAN chipset is on-board, the 1st PCI slot on backplane would fail even if LAN function is disabled. ’ Page: 2-21 Prox-1690 USER S MANUAL...
Chapter 2 Hardware Configuration 2-28. PPCI CONNECTOR You will find a PPCI connector in our Prox-1690. This connector is used to connect our SCSI daughter boards. The pin assignments are as follows: ASSIGNMENT ASSIGNMENT AD10 AD11 AD12 AD13 AD14 AD15...
The CPU type selections are shown as follows: JUMPER SETTING JUMPER CPU TYPE ILLUSTRATION (pin closed) JP14 JP15 Pentium III JP14 JP15 Celeron™ JP14 JP15 *** Manufacturing Default is set as Pentium III. ’ Page: 2-25 Prox-1690 USER S MANUAL...
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CHAPTER SOFTWARE UTILITIES This chapter comprises the detailed information of VGA driver, LAN driver and Flash BIOS update. It also describes how to install the watchdog timer configuration. Section includes: VGA Driver Utility Flash BIOS Update LAN Driver Utility Watchdog Timer Configuration Page: 3-1...
Chapter 3 Software Configuration 3-1. INTRODUCTION Enclosed with our Prox-1690 package is our driver utility, which may comes in a form of a CD ROM disc or floppy diskettes. For CD ROM disc user, you will only need some of the files contained in the CD ROM disc, please...
Utility Disk for system BIOS and VGA BIOS update. 3-3-2. To update VGA BIOS for LCD Flat Panel Display: As Prox-1690 user, you have to update the VGA BIOS for your specific LCD flat panel you are going to use. For doing this, you need two files.
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File Name to Program: B9xxxxxx.bin Checksum: XXXXX Reset System or Power off to accomplish update process! F1: Reset F10: Exit Please reset or power off the system, and then the Flash BIOS is fully implemented. Prox-1690 USER ′ S MANUAL Page:3-4...
Chapter 3 Software Configuration 3-4. LAN DRIVER UTILITY 3-4-1. Introduction Prox-1690 Embedded Card is enhanced with dual LAN function that can support various network adapters. Installation programs for LAN drivers are listed as follows: For more details on Installation procedure, please refer to INFO directory found on LAN DRIVER UTILITY.
Likewise, when you want to disable the function, write I/O port 441H , the system will run the command to stop the Watchdog function. In Prox-1690 watchdog function, you must write your program so when it writes I/O port address 443 for enable watchdog and write I/O port address 441 for disable watchdog.
CHAPTER GREEN PC FUNCTION This chapter gives you the concise information for Green PC Function. Section includes: ! Power Saving Block Diagram ! CPU Doze Mode ! System STANDBY Mode ! System SUSPEND Mode Page: 4-1...
4. Level 1 cache are disabled. 5. VGA monitor displays blank screen. 6. Fixed disk driver motor will be spin off. 7. Any activity occurs, system will exit from Standby mode to On mode. Prox-1690 USER ′ S MANUAL Page: 4-2...
6. Fixed disk driver motor will be spin off. 7. Monitor activity according to the setting of Advanced Setup. 8. When system in Suspend mode, only Keyboard / Mouse / Alarm resume can wakeup system. Prox-1690 USER ′ S MANUAL Page: 4-3...
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CHAPTER AWARD BIOS SETUP This chapter states out how to set up the Award BIOS. Section includes: Introduction Entering Setup The Standard CMOS Setup The BIOS Features Setup The Chipset Features Setup Power Management Setup PNP/PCI Configuration Load BIOS defaults Integrated Peripherals IDE HDD Auto Detection Save and Exit Setup...
5-1. INTRODUCTION This chapter will show you the function of a BIOS in managing the features of your system. The Prox-1690 Socket 370 Embedded Card is equipped with the BIOS for system chipset from Award Software Inc. This page briefly explains the function of a BIOS in managing the special features of your system.
As you highlight each item, a brief description of that item's function will appear in the lower window. If you have a color monitor you can use the Shift F2 keys to scroll through the various color combinations available. Prox-1690 USER ′ S MANUAL Page: 5-3...
Information on each category is as follows: Date: < Month >, < Date > and <Year >. Ranges for each value are in the CMOS Setup Screen, and the week-day will skip automatically. Prox-1690 USER ′ S MANUAL Page: 5-4...
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This is the number designation for a drive with certain identification parameters. CYLS.: This is the number of cylinders found in the specified drive type. HEADS: This is the number of heads found in the specified drive type. Prox-1690 USER ′ S MANUAL Page: 5-5...
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This item determines whether the computer will stop when error is detected during power up. The available options are No errors, All errors, All, But Keyboard, All, but Diskette, and All, But Disk/Key. Prox-1690 USER ′ S MANUAL Page: 5-6...
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1024 65535 1023 1024 65535 1023 1024 65535 1023 1024 65535 1023 1024 65535 1023 65535 1023 65535 1024 65535 1023 1024 65535 1023 65535 65535 65335 AUTO Award Hard Disk Type Table Prox-1690 USER ′ S MANUAL Page: 5-7...
A brief introduction of each setting is given below. VIRUS WARNING: When enabled, the BIOS will supervise the boot sector and partition table of the hard disk drive for any attempt for modification. Prox-1690 USER ′ S MANUAL Page: 5-8...
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1Mbytes. Initially the gate A20 was handled via a pin on the keyboard. Today, while keyboards still provide this support, it is more common and much faster for the sytem chipset to provide support for gate A20. Prox-1690 USER ′ S MANUAL Page: 5-9...
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PCI/VGA or not. MPS VERSION CONTROL FOR OS: The BIOS supports versions 1.1 and 1.4 of the Intel® multiprocessor specification. Select the version supported by the operating system running on this computer. Prox-1690 USER ′ S MANUAL Page: 5-10...
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Video Shadow will increase the video speed. C8000-CBFFF SHADOW ~ DC000-DFFFF SHADOW: These categories determine whether option ROMs will be copied to RAM. An example of such option ROM would be support of on-board SCSI. Prox-1690 USER ′ S MANUAL Page: 5-11...
Auto Configuration selects predetermined optimal values of chipset parameters. When disabled, chipset parameters revert to setup information stored in CMOS. Many fields in this screen are not available when Auto Configuration is Enabled. Prox-1690 USER ′ S MANUAL Page: 5-12...
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When Enabled, all CPU cycles to SDRAM result in an All Banks Precharge Command on the SDRAM interface. DRAM DATA INTEGRITY MODE: Select parity or ECC (error-correcting code), according to the type of installed DRAM. Prox-1690 USER ′ S MANUAL Page: 5-13...
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ISA cards. This memory must be mapped into the memory space below 16MB. PASSIVE RELEASE: When Enabled, CPU to PCI bus accesses is allowed during passive release. Otherwise, the arbiter only accepts another PCI master access to local DRAM. Prox-1690 USER ′ S MANUAL Page: 5-14...
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This item displays the current CPU temperature, if your computer contains a monitoring system. CURRENT CPUFAN1/CPUFAN2 SPEED: This item displays the current system speed of the CPU fans, if your computer contains a monitoring system. Prox-1690 USER ′ S MANUAL Page: 5-15...
Power Saving, and User Define. PM CONTROL BY APM: When set to “Yes”, an Advanced Power Management device will be activated to enhance the Max. Power Saving mode and stop the CPU internal clock. Prox-1690 USER ′ S MANUAL Page: 5-16...
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SUSPEND MODE: When enabled and after the set time of system inactivity, all device except the CPU will be shut off. Prox-1690 USER ′ S MANUAL Page: 5-17...
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When enabled, an event occurring on each device listed below restarts the global time for standby mode: IRQ[3-7,9-15], NMI Primary IDE 0 Primary IDE 1 Secondary IDE 0 Secondary IDE 2 Floppy Disk Serial Port Parallel Port Prox-1690 USER ′ S MANUAL Page: 5-18...
You can manually configure the PnP/PCI Device‘s IRQ. Highlight the selected item and pressing <F1> key, the all options for the desired selection will be displayed for choice. Prox-1690 USER ′ S MANUAL Page: 5-19...
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PCI/ISA PnP Devices It complaint with the Plug and Play standard, whether designed for PCI or ISA bus architecture. USED MEM BASE ADDR: Select a base address for the memory area used by any peripheral that requires high memory. Prox-1690 USER ′ S MANUAL Page: 5-20...
Load BIOS Default ( Y / N ) ? Y To use the BIOS defaults, change the prompt to "Y" and press < Enter >, the CMOS is load automatically when you power on the Prox-1690. 5-9. LOAD SETUP DEFAULTS AUTO CONFIGURATION WITH SETUP DEFAULTS This Main Menu item uses the default SETUP values.
User has to use select the desired option. Having made all the setting according to your selections. Press <Esc> to return to the Main Menu. Prox-1690 USER ′ S MANUAL Page: 5-22...
Features Setup Menu and its Security Option. If the Security Option is set to “System”, the password will be required both at boot and at entry to Setup. If set to “Setup”, prompting will only occurs when trying to enter Setup. Prox-1690 USER ′ S MANUAL Page: 5-23...
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〝PASSWORD SETTING〞a message will appear at the center. Password Disabled!!! Press any key to continue... Press < Enter > and the password will be disabled. Once the password is disabled, you can enter Setup freely. Prox-1690 USER ′ S MANUAL Page: 5-24...
3. Enter Y or N to confirm the acceptance of the parameter reported by BIOS, then press the <ENTER> key. The process will repeat again form Primary Slave, Secondary Master and Secondary Slave Hard Disks. Prox-1690 USER ′ S MANUAL Page: 5-25...
You may call up the setup program at any time to adjust any of the individual items by pressing the <Del> key during boot up. Prox-1690 USER ′ S MANUAL Page: 5-26...
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Quit Without Saving (Y/N) ? Y LOAD BIOS DE SAVING LOAD SETUP DEFAULTS ↑↓→← Esc : Quit :SELECT ITEM F10 : Save & Exit Setup (Shift)F2 : Change Color Abandon all Datas & Exit SETUP Prox-1690 USER ′ S MANUAL Page: 5-27...
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Chapter 5 Award BIOS Setup Prox-1690 USER ′ S MANUAL Page: 5-28...
ADD / DATA DATA CNTL CNTL ADDR ADD / DATA CNTL CNTL DATA ADD / DATA ADDR DATA DATA CNTL ADDR ADDR SM BUS CNTL DATA DATA RESET/NMI ADD / DATA ADDR CNTL/DATA/ADDR ADDR ADDR Prox-1690 USER ′ S MANUAL Page: B-2...
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Keyboard output buffer full Cascade for IRQ 8-15 Serial port 2 Serial port 1 Parallel port 2 Floppy Disk adapter Parallel port 1 RTC clock Available Available Available Available Math coprocessor Hard Disk adapter Available Prox-1690 USER ′ S MANUAL Page: B-3...
Extension memory low byte Extension memory high byte Reserved for extension memory low byte Reserved for extension memory high byte Date Century byte Information Flag 34-3F Reserve 40-7f Reserved for Chipset Setting Data Prox-1690 USER ′ S MANUAL Page: B-4...
Assignment System timer interrupt DRAM Refresh request Speaker tone generator DMA Channel Map : DMA Channel Assignment Available IBM SDLC Floppy Disk adapter Channel-3 Available Cascade for DMA controller 1 Available Available Available Prox-1690 USER ′ S MANUAL Page: B-5...
APPENDIX TROUBLE SHOOTING This section outlines the errors may occur when you operate the system. It also gives you the suggestions on solving the problems. Section includes: ! Trouble Shooting for Error Messages ! Trouble Shooting for POST Code Page: C-1...
When you can‘t find the boot device, insert a system disk into Drive A and press < Enter >. Make sure both the controller and cables are all in proper positions, also make sure the disk is formatted correct device. Then reboot the system. Prox-1690 USER ′ S MANUAL Page: C-2...
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Memory has been added or removed since the last boot. In EISA mode use Configuration Utility to re-configure the memory configuration. In ISA mode enter Setup and enter the new memory size in the memory fields. Prox-1690 USER ′ S MANUAL Page: C-3...
03 : Initialize all the standard devices with default values Standard devices includes : DMA controller (8237). Programmable Interrupt Controller (8259). Programmable Interval Timer (8254). RTC chip. 05 : 1.Keyboard Controller Self-Test. 2.Enable Keyboard Interface. Prox-1690 USER ′ S MANUAL Page: C-4...
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0D : 1. Program some of the Chipset‘s value according to Setup. (Early Setup Value Program). 2. Measure CPU speed for display & decide the system clock speed. 3. Video initialization including Monochrome ,CGA, EGA/VGA. If no display device found, the speaker will beep. Prox-1690 USER ′ S MANUAL Page: C-5...
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2.Program all onboard super I/O chips (if any) including COM ports, LPT ports, FDD port..according to setup value. 3C : Set flag to allow users to enter CMOS Setup Utility. 3D : 1 Initialize Keyboard. 2 Install PS2 mouse. Prox-1690 USER ′ S MANUAL Page: C-6...
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-assign I/O, Memory, IRQ & DMA TO PnP ISA devices. -initialize all PnP ISA ROMs. 4. Program shadows RAM according to Setup settings. 5. Program parity according to Setup setting. 6. Power Management Initialization. -Enable/Disable global PM. -APM interface initialization. Prox-1690 USER ′ S MANUAL Page: C-7...
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(PnP BIOS only). 2. Clear memory that have been used. 3. Boot system via INT 19H. FF : System Booting. This means that the BIOS already pass the control right to the operating system. Prox-1690 USER ′ S MANUAL Page: C-8...
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Appendix C Trouble Shooting Prox-1690 USER ′ S MANUAL Page: C-9...
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Appendix C Trouble Shooting PRINTED IN TAIWAN Prox-1690 USER ′ S MANUAL Page: C-10...
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