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ROBO‐6912VG2AR

Half size PICMG 1.3 Single Host Board

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Page 3: Table Of Contents
Chipset Component Driver ............................38 4.3.2 Intel® UHD Graphics 630 ............................38 4.3.3 Intel LAN I210AT/I219LM Gigabit Ethernet Controller ....................38 BIOS Setup Items ..................................40 Introduction .................................. 40 BIOS Setup .................................. 40 5.2.1 Main ..................................... 42 Copyright © Portwell 2020 ROBO-6912VG2AR User's Guide...
Page 4 Save & Exit ..................................71 Troubleshooting ..................................72 Hardware Quick Installation ............................72 BIOS Setting ................................73 FAQ ....................................74 Portwell Software Service ................................76 Industry Specifications ................................77 Industry Specifications ..............................77 Copyright © Portwell 2020 ROBO-6912VG2AR User's Guide...
Page 5 Portwell provides no warranty with regard to this user’s guide or any other information contained herein and hereby expressly disclaims any implied warranties of merchantability or fitness for any particular purpose with regard to any of the foregoing. Portwell assumes no liability for any damages incurred directly or indirectly from any technical or typographical errors or omissions contained herein or for discrepancies between the product and the user’s guide.
Page 6 Warranty”). Portwell may in its sole discretion modify its Limited Warranty at any time and from time to time. Beginning on the date of shipment to its direct customer and continuing for the published warranty period, Portwell represents that the products are new and warrants that each product failing to function properly under normal use, due to a defect in materials or workmanship or due to non conformance to the agreed upon specifications, will be repaired or exchanged, at Portwell’s option and expense.
Page 7 Caution: Do not just hold any single side of the SBC; hold evenly on both sides!  Heavy processor cooler may bend the SBC when SBC being held just on one side.  The bending may cause soldering or components damaged. Copyright © Portwell 2020 ROBO-6912VG2AR User's Guide...
Page 8 Caution: Suggest your S.I or vendor to use a metal bracket to hold/fix the desktop or server grade SBC to avoid the vibration damage during transportation. Heavy processor cooler may bend the SBC when systems are during transportation without any holder. Example:  4U chassis :  Use L type mental or plastic or rubber bracket to hold SBC. Copyright © Portwell 2020 ROBO-6912VG2AR User's Guide...
Page 10: Introduction
DirectX® 12. It supports triple display function via dual mini DP ports and one DVI-D port. Rich I/O functions are also provided by ROBO-6912VG2AR single host board, which is 4x USB 3.0, 2x USB 3.1 (on bracket), 2x SATA III ports, 1x smart COM ports which select RS232/422/485 mode by bios adjustment, and dual Intel GbE LAN ports.
Page 11: Specifications
Audio Interface: Mic-In / Line-Out / Line-in (on-board header) ◆ Supports dual 10/100/1000 Mbps Ethernet port (s) via PCI Express x1 interface by Intel WGI219LM and ◆ Ethernet WGI210AT controller Dual RJ45 connector on bracket ◆ High Drive GPIO ◆ Copyright © Portwell 2020 ROBO-6912VG2AR User's Guide...
Page 12: Supported Operating Systems
Power supply voltage: ATX ◆ Board size: 167.64mm x 126.39mm, 6.6" (L) x 4.98" (W) ◆ 2.1 Supported Operating Systems The ROBO-6912VG2AR supports the following operating systems.  Windows 10 full support  Kernel.org Distribution Copyright © Portwell 2020 ROBO-6912VG2AR User's Guide...
Page 14: Power Consumption
ROBO-6912VG2AR 2.3 Power Consumption CPU Type Intel® Core™ i7-8700 CPU @ 3.20 GHz SBC BIOS Portwell, Inc. ROBO_6912VG2AR BIOS Rev.: 0.0.3 (09162019) Memory Waris DDR4 SO-DIMM 2133/16GB *2 VGA Card Onboard, Intel®UHD Graphics 630 VGA Driver Intel®UHD Graphics 630, version: 26.20.100.7063 LAN I219 Card Onboard, Intel®Ethernet Connection(7) I219-LM...
Page 15 4.92V / 1.0A USB3 Loading Test (J1 up) 4.87V / 1.1A USB3 Loading Test (J1 down) 4.87V / 1.1A USB3 Loading Test (J7 up) 4.87V / 1.1A USB3 Loading Test (J7 down) 4.88V / 1.1A Copyright © Portwell 2020 ROBO-6912VG2AR User's Guide...
Page 16: Environmental Specifications
ROBO-6912VG2AR 2.4 Environmental Specifications Storage Temperature : -20~80°C Operation Temperature : 0~60°C Storage Humidity : 5~90% Operation Humidity: 10~90% Copyright © Portwell 2020 ROBO-6912VG2AR User's Guide...
Page 18: Hardware Configuration
ROBO-6912VG2AR 3 Hardware Configuration Jumpers and Connectors This chapter indicates jumpers’, headers’ and connectors’ locations. Users may find useful information related to hardware settings in this chapter. Copyright © Portwell 2020 ROBO-6912VG2AR User's Guide...
Page 20: Jumpers Settings
Jumpers Settings For users to customize ROBO-6912VG2AR’s features. In the following sections, Short means covering a jumper cap over jumper pins; Open or N/C (Not Connected) means removing a jumper cap from jumper pins. Users can refer to Figure 1 for the Jumper allocations.
Page 21 ROBO-6912VG2AR JP3: PCI Express* Bifurcation PIN No. Description 1‐2, Short 1x8 , 2x4 3‐4, Short 1‐2, Open Reserved 3‐4, Short 1‐2, Short 3‐4, Open 1‐2, Open 1x16　 3‐4, Open JP5: Clear CMOS Setup PIN No. Description Normal 　 1‐2, Short 2‐3, Short Clear CMOS Copyright © Portwell 2020 ROBO-6912VG2AR User's Guide...
Page 23: Connector Settings
SATA Connector J9 DVI‐I Connector J8 DDR4 Channel A Slot J3 DDR4 Channel B Slot J20 Audio Pin Header Header 5Px2/2.54mm J5 ATX 4 Pin Connector(For CPU Power) J13/J14 USB2.0/3.1(Gen2) connector(Type‐A) J6 COM1 Pin Header Header 5Px2/2 mm J19 CPU Fan J16 RJ45 Connector for I219 J15 RJ45 Connector for I210 Copyright © Portwell 2020 ROBO-6912VG2AR User's Guide...
Page 25 USB3_RX_N 5VDual USB3_RX_P USB3_RX_N Ground USB3_RX_P USB3_TX_N Ground USB3_TX_P USB3_TX_N Ground USB3_TX_P USB2_N Ground USB2_P USB2_N Ground USB2_P Copyright © Portwell 2020 ROBO-6912VG2AR User's Guide...
Page 28 J20: Audio Pin Header PIN No. Description PIN No. Description MIC_IN Ground LINE_IN_L Ground LINE_IN_R Ground AUDIO_OUT_L Ground AUDIO_OUT_R J5: ATX 4 Pin Connector(For CPU Power) PIN No. Description PIN No. Description Ground +12V Ground +12V Copyright © Portwell 2020 ROBO-6912VG2AR User's Guide...
Page 29 ROBO-6912VG2AR J13/J14：USB2.0/USB3.1(Gen2) Connector PIN No. DESCRIPTION 5VDual USB2_N USB2_P Ground USB3_RX_N USB3_RX_P Ground 8 USB3_TX_N 9 USB3_TX_P Copyright © Portwell 2020 ROBO-6912VG2AR User's Guide...
Page 30 J6: COM1 Pin Header PIN No. Description PIN No. Description DCD# RXD# TXD# DTR# Ground DSR# RTS# CTS# J19: CPU FAN PIN No. Description Ground Fanin Fanout Copyright © Portwell 2020 ROBO-6912VG2AR User's Guide...
Page 31 PIN No. Description PIN No. Description MDI0_P 2 MDI0_N MDI1_P MDI1_N LAN_CT1 LAN_CT2 MDI2_P MDI2_N 9 MDI3_P MDI3_N LED_100 LED _1000 LED_LINK#/ACT# ACT_LED Copyright © Portwell 2020 ROBO-6912VG2AR User's Guide...
Page 32 LAN_CT2 MDI2_P MDI2_N 9 MDI3_P MDI3_N LED_100 LED _1000 LED_LINK#/ACT# ACT_LED J4: SM Bus Pin Header PIN No. Description Clock Ground Data 5 VCC Copyright © Portwell 2020 ROBO-6912VG2AR User's Guide...
Page 33 DDIA_TX3_DP_R 11 DDIA_TX1_DN_R 12 DDIA_TX3_DN_R 13 GND 14 GND 15 DDIA_TX2_DP_R 16 DP1_AUXP 17 DDIA_TX2_DN_R 18 DP1_AUXN 19 GND 20 W40_VCC3_DP1 Copyright © Portwell 2020 ROBO-6912VG2AR User's Guide...
Page 37: System Resources
Intel® Q370/C246 Chipset (Intel® GL82Q370 PCH) Main Memory ROBO-6912VG2AR provides 2xDDR4 SO-DIMM sockets. The maximum memory can be up to 64GB. Memory clock and related settings can be detected by BIOS via SPD interface. Watch out the contact and lock integrity of memory module with socket, it will impact on the system reliability. Follow normal procedures to install memory module into memory socket.
Page 38: Chipset Component Driver
Chipset Component Driver ROBO-6912VG2AR is based on Intel® Q370 chipset and desktop processors including Core™ i7 / i5 / i3 sku . It’s a new chipset that some old operating systems might not be able to recognize. To overcome this compatibility issue, for Windows Operating Systems such as Windows 8, please install its INF before any of other Drivers are installed.
Page 39 - Intel I219LM Gigabit Ethernet controller and 1x RJ45 connectors on rear I/O Drivers Support Please find Intel I210AT/I219LM LAN driver in /Ethernet directory of ROBO-6912VG2AR CD-title. The driver supports Windows 8. Copyright © Portwell 2020 ROBO-6912VG2AR User's Guide...
Page 40: Bios Setup Items
The BIOS setup program provides a General Help screen. The menu can be easily called up from any menu by pressing <F1>. The Help screen lists all the possible keys to use and the selections for the highlighted item. Press <Esc> to exit the Help Screen. Copyright © Portwell 2020 ROBO-6912VG2AR User's Guide...
Page 43 The date format is <Day>, <Month> <Date> <Year>. Use [＋] or [－] to configure system Date. System Date The time format is <Hour> <Minute> <Second>. Use [＋] or [－] to configure system Time. System Time Copyright © Portwell 2020 ROBO-6912VG2AR User's Guide...
Page 46 Package C State Demotion Package C-State Demotion ★Disabled, Enabled Package C State Un-demotion Package C-State Un-demotion Disable – Sets bit 30 of POWER_CTL MSR(0x1FC) to 1 to disable the Cstate ★Enabled ,Disabled CState Pre-Wake Pre-Wake Copyright © Portwell 2020 ROBO-6912VG2AR User's Guide...
Page 47 Maximum Package C State Limit Setting. Cpu Default: Leaves to Factory ★Auto,C0/C1,C2,C3,C6,C7, Package C State Limit default value. Auto: Initializes to deepest available Package C States Limit C7S,C8,C9,C10,Cpu Default, ipset Configuration Configuration Chipset feature Copyright © Portwell 2020 ROBO-6912VG2AR User's Guide...
Page 48 Control Detection of the HD-Audio device. ★Enabled ,Disabled HD Audio Disabled= HAD will be unconditionally disabled Enabled= HAD will be unconditionally enabled. Port 80h Redirection Control where the Port 80h cycles are sent ★LPC Bus, PCIE Bus Copyright © Portwell 2020 ROBO-6912VG2AR User's Guide...
Page 49 AMT BIOS Features ★Disabled, Enabled access MEBx Setup. Note: This option does not disable Manageability Features in FW ME Unconfig on RTC Clear When Disable ME will not be unconfigured on RTC Clear ★Disabled, Enabled Copyright © Portwell 2020 ROBO-6912VG2AR User's Guide...
Page 50 Select DVMT 5.0 Pre-Allocated (Fixed) Graphics Memory size used by the Internal ★32M,0M,64M,4M,8M,12M,16M,20M,24M, DVMT Pre-Allocated Graphics Device. 28M,32M/F7,36M,40M,44M,48M,52M,56M, 60M DVMT Total Gfx Mem Select DVMT5.0 Total Graphic Memory size used by the Internal Graphics Device ★256M, 128M, MAX Copyright © Portwell 2020 ROBO-6912VG2AR User's Guide...
Page 51 (G3 state) Enable or disable System wake on alarm event. When enabled, System ★Disabled, Enabled Wake System from S5 via RTC will wake on the hr::min::sec Specified/programmed by the Tools from OS Copyright © Portwell 2020 ROBO-6912VG2AR User's Guide...
Page 52 ROBO-6912VG2AR PCI/PCIE Configuration PCI, PCI-X and PCI Express Settings Feature Description Options PEG Port Lane Width Set PEG port Lane width ★1x16, 2x8,1x8. 2x4 Copyright © Portwell 2020 ROBO-6912VG2AR User's Guide...
Page 53 Force L0s – Force all links to L0s State ★Disabled, L0s, L1, L0sL1, Auto ASPM 9 AUTO-BIOS auto configure DISABLE – Disables ASPM PCIe Speed Select PCI Express port speed ★Auto, Gen1, Gen2, Gen3 Copyright © Portwell 2020 ROBO-6912VG2AR User's Guide...
Page 55 Wait time in seconds to press ESC key to abort the PXE boot. Use either +/- or numeric keys to ★0 PXE boot wait time set the values Number of times the presence of media will be checked. Use either +/- or numeric keys to set the ★1 Media detect count values. Copyright © Portwell 2020 ROBO-6912VG2AR User's Guide...
Page 57 Enable or Disable SATA Port ★Disabled, Enabled Hot Plug Designates this port as Hot Pluggable Identify the SATA port is connected to Solid State Drive or ★Hard Disk Drive,Solid State Drive SATA Device Type Hard Disk Drive Copyright © Portwell 2020 ROBO-6912VG2AR User's Guide...
Page 59 This is a workaround for OSes without XHCI hand-off support. The XHCI ownership ★Enabled , Disabled XHCI Hand-off change should be claimed by XHCI driver USB Mass Storage Driver Enable/Disable USB Mass Storage Driver Support ★Enabled , Disabled Support Copyright © Portwell 2020 ROBO-6912VG2AR User's Guide...
Page 61 TPM 1.2 will restrict support to TPM 1.2 devices, TPM 2.0 will restrict support to TPM 2.0 ★Auto, TPM 1.2, TPM 2.0 Device Select devices, Auto will support both with the default set to TPM 2.0 devices if not found, TPM 1.2 devices will be enumerated. Copyright © Portwell 2020 ROBO-6912VG2AR User's Guide...
Page 62 Set Parameters of Serial Port1(COMA) Watch Dog Timer Enable/Disable Watch Dog Timer ★Disabled, Enabled Watch Dog Timer[Enable] ★Second, Minute Timer Unit Select Timer count unit of WDT Timer value Set WDT Timer value seconds/minutes ★20 Copyright © Portwell 2020 ROBO-6912VG2AR User's Guide...
Page 63 Enable or Disable Serial Port (COM) ★RS-232, RS-485 HALF DUPLEX, RS-422 FULL DUPLEX RS-232/422/485 Control Option ★Auto ,IO=3F8h; IRQ=4, IO=3F8h; IRQ=3,4,5,6,7,9,10,11,12 IO=2F8h; Change Settings Select an optimal settings for Super IO Device IRQ=3,4,5,6,7,9,10,11,12 IO=3E8h; IRQ=3,4,5,6,7,9,10,11,12 IO=2E8h; IRQ=3,4,5,6,7,9,10,11,12 Copyright © Portwell 2020 ROBO-6912VG2AR User's Guide...
Page 64 Thermal CruiseTM Mode: The Fan was cruise controlled by temperature. CPU Tolerance Temp CPU Fan Tolerance Temperature ★5 CPU Start Target Temp CPU Start Fan Target Temperature ★40 CPU Full Target Temp CPU Full Fan Target Temperature ★60 Copyright © Portwell 2020 ROBO-6912VG2AR User's Guide...
Page 65 ROBO-6912VG2AR Serial Port Console Redirection Serial Port Console Redirection Feature Description Options ★Disabled, Enabled Console Redirection Console Redirection Enable or Disable Copyright © Portwell 2020 ROBO-6912VG2AR User's Guide...
Page 67 With this mode enabled only text will be sent. This is to capture Terminal data. ★Disabled, Enabled Resolution 100x31 Enables or disables extended terminal resolution ★VT100, LINUX,XTERMR6, Putty KeyPad Select FunctionKey and KeyPad on Putty SCO,ESCN,VT400 Copyright © Portwell 2020 ROBO-6912VG2AR User's Guide...
Page 68: Security
5.2.3 Security Feature Description Options [Setup] check password when enter setup screen. [Power on] check password on Password Check Mode ★Setup, Power on every time system power on. Administrator Password Set Administrator Password Copyright © Portwell 2020 ROBO-6912VG2AR User's Guide...
Page 70 Select boot mode LEGACY/UEFI ★LEGACY,UEFI ★Hard Disk, NVME,CD/DVD,SD, Boot Option #1~6 Sets the system boot order USB Device, Network, Disabled UEFI Application Boot Priorities Specifies the Boot Device Priority sequence from available UEFI Application Copyright © Portwell 2020 ROBO-6912VG2AR User's Guide...
Page 71: Save & Exit
UEFI: Built-in EFI Shell Reset the system after saving the changes. (Boot option filter: UEFI only) Attempts to Launch EFI Shell application (Shell.efi) from one of the available filesystem Launch EFI Shell from filesystem device devices. Copyright © Portwell 2020 ROBO-6912VG2AR User's Guide...
Page 72: Troubleshooting
ATX Power Setting Unlike other Single board computer, ROBO-6912VG2AR supports ATX only. Therefore, there is no other setting that needs to be set up. However, there are only two connectors that must be connected—J5 ATX 4 Pin Connector & 24 pins ATX Power Connector (On PICMG Backplane).
Page 73: Bios Setting
To make sure that you have a successful start with ROBO-6912VG2AR, it is recommended, when going with the boot-up sequence, to hit “delete ” or ” Esc” key and enter the BIOS setup menu to tune up a stable BIOS configuration so that you can wake up your system far well.
Page 74: Faq
Question: I forgot my password of system BIOS, what am I supposed to do? Answer: You can switch off your power supply then find the JP5 on the ROBO-6912VG2AR SBC to set it from 1-2 short to 2-3 short and wait 5 seconds to clean your password then set it back to 1-2 short to switch on your power supply.
Page 75 ROBO-6912VG2AR Question: How to update the BIOS file of ROBO-6912VG2AR? Step1. Please visit web site of Portwell download center as below hyperlink http://www.portwell.com.tw/support/download_center.php Registering an account in advance is a must. (The E-Mail box should be an existing Company email address that you check regularly.) http://www.portwell.com.tw/member/newmember.php...
Page 76: Portwell Software Service
American Portwell Technology E-mail: info@portwell.com European Portwell Technology E-mail: info@portwell.eu Portwell UK Ltd. E-mail: info@portwell.co.uk Portwell Deutschland GmbH E-mail: info@portwell.eu Portwell India Technology E-mail: info@portwell.in E-mail: Portwell Korea, Inc. info@portwell.co.kr E-mail: Portwell Latin America vendas@portwell.com.br Copyright © Portwell 2020 ROBO-6912VG2AR User's Guide...
Page 77: Industry Specifications
ROBO-6912VG2AR 8 Industry Specifications Industry Specifications The list below provides links to industry specifications that apply to Portwell modules. Low Pin Count Interface Specification, Revision 1.0 (LPC) http://www.intel.com/design/chipsets/industry/lpc.htm Universal Serial Bus (USB) Specification, Revision 2.0 http://www.usb.org/home PCI Specification, Revision 2.3 https://www.pcisig.com/specifications...

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Page 3: Table Of Contents

Page 10: Introduction

Page 11: Specifications

Page 12: Supported Operating Systems

Page 13: Mechanical Dimensions

Page 14: Power Consumption

Page 16: Environmental Specifications

Page 18: Hardware Configuration

Page 20: Jumpers Settings

Page 23: Connector Settings

Page 37: System Resources

Page 38: Chipset Component Driver

Page 40: Bios Setup Items

Page 42: Main

Page 44: Configuration

Page 68: Security

Page 69: Boot

Page 71: Save & Exit

Page 72: Troubleshooting

Page 73: Bios Setting

Page 74: Faq

Page 76: Portwell Software Service

Page 77: Industry Specifications

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