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Copyright Notice ProX-1630 Socket 370 Half-sized Embedded Card With VGA / LAN OPERATION MANUAL COPYRIGHT NOTICE This operation manual is meant to assist both Embedded Computer manu- facturers and end-users in installing and setting up the system. The infor- mation contained in this document is subject to change without any prior notice.
CHAPTER INTRODUCTION This chapter gives you the information for Prox-1630. It also outlines the System specifications. Section includes: About This Manual System Specifications Safety precautions Experienced users can skip to chapter 2 on page 2-1 for a Quick Start. Page:1-1...
1-1. ABOUT THIS MANUAL Thank you for purchasing our Prox-1630 Socket 370 Half-sized Embedded Card with VGA/LAN, which is fully PC / AT compatible. The Prox-1630 provides faster processing speed, greater expandability and can handle more tasks than before. This manual is designed to assist you how to install and set up the system.
Mini DIN connector, support AT Keyboard or PS/2 Mouse by jumper selection. One additional 5-pin External keyboard connector. ! ! ! ! BUS SUPPORT : External ISA. Internal PCI Bus for VGA, LAN, & IDE. Prox-1630 USER ′ S MANUAL Page: 1-3...
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A 32-pin SSD socket on board, supports up to 144MB Disk-on-chips. USB CONNECTOR : Universal Serial Bus Connector on board, supports up to two USB ports. LAN ADAPTER : MXIC MX98715 Fast Ethernet 10/100 Base-T PCI-BUS Prox-1630 USER ′ S MANUAL Page: 1-4...
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INTERRUPT LEVELS : OPERATING TEMPERATURE : 0 to 60°C. SYSTEM POWER REQUIREMENT : DC Voltage: +5V, minimum +4.75V, maximum 5.25V. DC Ampere: 15A. DC Voltage: +12V, minimum +11.4V, maximum 12.6V. DC Ampere: 500mA. Prox-1630 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-1630 USER ′ S MANUAL Page: 1-6...
PIN2 & PIN3 to create another setting. The same jumper diagrams are applied all through this manual. The figure below shows what the manual diagram looks like and what they represent. ’ Page: 2-4 Prox-1630 USER S MANUAL...
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Chapter 2 Hardware Configuration JUMPER DIAGRAMS JUMPER SETTINGS ’ Page: 2-5 Prox-1630 USER S MANUAL...
COM1 : COM1 Connector, DB9 male connector The COM1 Connector assignments are as follows : ASSIGNMENT COM2 : COM2 Connector The COM2 Connector assignments are as follows : ASSIGNMENT RS-232 RS-422 RS-485 RTS- RTS+ CTS+ CTS- ’ Page: 2-6 Prox-1630 USER S MANUAL...
Flash ROM SSD can be install as one of user’s hard disk drive. The SSD Memory Mapping are as follows: JUMPER SETTINGS SSD Memory Map JUMPER (pins closed) ILLUSTRATION CC000h-CDFFFh D0000h-D1FFFh D4000h-D5FFFh D8000h-D9FFFh DC000h-DDFFFh E0000h-E1FFFh *** Manufactory default --- CC000h-CDFFFh ’ Page: 2-8 Prox-1630 USER S MANUAL...
DIN : PC/AT Keyboard or PS/2 Mouse Connector DIN connector can support PC/AT Keyboard or PS/2 Mouse. The pin assignments are as follows : ASSIGNMENT KEYBOARD PS/2 MOUSE KBDATA MOUSE DATA KBCLK MSCLK ’ Page: 2-9 Prox-1630 USER S MANUAL...
ASSIGNMENT RESET GROUND 2-11. HARD DISK DRIVE LED CONNECTOR HDL : Hard Disk Drive LED Connector The pin assignments are as follows : ASSIGNMENT HDD Active Signal HDD Active Signal HDD Active Signal ’ Page: 2-10 Prox-1630 USER S MANUAL...
Chapter 2 Hardware Configuration 2-12. VGA CRT CONNECTOR VGA : VGA CRT Connector The pin assignments are as follows: ASSIGNMENT GREEN BLUE HSYNC VSYNC ’ Page: 2-11 Prox-1630 USER S MANUAL...
Speaker Signal Speaker Signal Speaker Signal 2-15. POWER LED & KEYLOCK CONNECTOR KBL : Power LED & Keylock Connector The pin assignments are as follows : ASSIGNMENT Power LED Ground Keyboard INT Ground ’ Page: 2-12 Prox-1630 USER S MANUAL...
34-pin flat cable to attach the FDD on the board, the other side attaches to two FDDs. The pin assignments are as follows : ASSIGNMENT ASSIGNMENT INDEX MTR0 DRV1 DRV0 MTR1 STEP WDATA WGATE TRK0 WRPRT RDATA DSKCHG ’ Page: 2-13 Prox-1630 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: 2-15 Prox-1630 USER S MANUAL...
As to link the Printer to the card, you need a cable to connect both DB25 connector and parallel port. The pin assignments are as follows : ASSIGNMENT ASSIGNMENT AUTFE ERROR INIT SLCTIN BUSY SLCT ’ Page: 2-16 Prox-1630 USER S MANUAL...
USB connector of this board can support two USB ports. The pin assignments are as follows: ASSIGNMENT USBP∅− USBP∅+ USBP1− USBP1+ 2-21. LAN CONNECTOR UTP: LAN Connector The pin assignments are as follows: ASSIGNMENT ISOLATED GND ISOLATED GND ISOLATED GND ISOLATED GND ’ Page: 2-17 Prox-1630 USER S MANUAL...
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Chapter 2 Hardware Configuration 2-22. SOLID-STATE DISK SOCKET SSD: 32-pin Disk-on-chip Socket The pin assignments are as follows: ASSIGNMENT ASSIGNMENT SA12 SA10 SA11 ’ Page: 2-18 Prox-1630 USER S MANUAL...
JP2: Panel VCC Selection The pin assignments are as follows: Panel VCC Selection JUMPER SETTINGS JUMPER (pins closed) ILLUSTRATION VCC3.3V 2-24. GREEN FUNCTION CONNECTOR GRN: Green Function Connector The pin assignments are as follows: ASSIGNMENT EXTSMI- ’ Page: 2-19 Prox-1630 USER S MANUAL...
Chapter 2 Hardware Configuration 2-25. LAN LED INDICATOR Prox-1630 possesses 2 LAN Led Indicators, namely: LED1, and LED2. The pin assignments are as follows: LED1: LAN Led Indicator This Led indicator is used to detect data transfer. ASSIGNMENT Pull Hi...
Chapter 2 Hardware Configuration 2-27. MEMORY INSTALLATION The Prox-1630 Embedded Computer support 1 SDRAM banks. DRAM BANK CONFIGURATION DIMM 1 TOTAL MEMORY 128M 128M 256M 256M ’ Page: 2-21 Prox-1630 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 on how to install the watchdog timer. Section includes: VGA Driver Utilities Flash BIOS Update LAN Driver Utilities Watchdog Timer Configuration Page: 3-1...
Chapter 3 Software Configuration 3-1. INTRODUCTION Enclosed with our Prox-1630 package is our driver utilities, 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...
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PROPERTIES window, then choose the SETTING tab, then DISPLAY TYPE. (3). In the CHANGE DISPLAY TYPE window, click on the CHANGE button in the ADAPTER TYPE, this will bring up the SELECT DEVICE window. Prox-1630 USER ′ S MANUAL Page:3-3...
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(vii) When the Display Driver Install window appears, select PRIMARY DISPLAY, and click OK. (viii) When the Primary Display Driver List window appears, select “Chips and Technologies 69000” from the list of Adapter types, then select OK to install the video driver. Prox-1630 USER ′ S MANUAL Page:3-4...
Utility Disk for system BIOS and VGA BIOS update. 3-3-2. To update VGA BIOS for LCD Flat Panel Display: As Prox-1630 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: 630xxxxx.bin Checksum: XXXXX Reset System or Power off to accomplish update process! F1: Reset F10: Exit Please reset or power off the system, then the Flash BIOS is fully implemented. Prox-1630 USER ′ S MANUAL Page:3-6...
Chapter 3 Software Configuration 3-4. LAN DRIVERS UTILITES 3-4-1. Introduction Prox-1630 Embedded Board is enhanced with LAN function can support various network adapters. Installation programs for LAN drivers are listed as follows: 3-4-2. Installing Driver Procedure on Microsoft Windows 95/98 1.
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8. To complete network installation, remember binding the adapter to transport drivers by choosing “OK” button under Network Setting dialog box. 9. Restart your systems. For more details on Installation procedure. please refer to Readme.txt file found on LAN DRIVER UTILITY. Prox-1630 USER ′ S MANUAL Page:3-8...
I/O port 0441H, the system will run the command to stop the Watchdog function. The Prox-1630 watchdog function, You must write your program so when it writes I/O port address 0443 for enable watchdog and write I/O port address 0441 for disable watchdog.
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CHAPTER GREEN PC FUNCTION This chapter gives you the concise information for Green PC Function. Sections include: Power Saving Block Diagram CPU Doze Mode System STANDBY Mode System SUSPEND Mode Page: 4-1...
3. Level 1 cache are disabled. 4. VGA monitor displays blank screen. 5. Fixed disk driver motor will be spin off. 6. Any activity occurs, system will exit from Standby mode to On mode. Prox-1630 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-1630 USER ′ S MANUAL Page: 4-3...
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CHAPTER AWARD BIOS SETUP This chapter shows 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/Setup defaults Integrated Peripherals IDE HDD Auto Detection Save and Exit Setup Page: 5-1...
5-1. INTRODUCTION This chapter will show you the function of a BIOS in managing the features of your system. The Prox-1630 Celeron 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 appears 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-1630 USER ′ S MANUAL Page: 5-3...
< Hour >, < Minute >, and < Second >. Use 24 hour clock format, i.e., for PM numbers, add 12 to the hour. For example, 4: 30 P.M. You should enter the time as 16:30:00. Prox-1630 USER ′ S MANUAL Page: 5-4...
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Precomp is the read delay circuitry which takes into account the timing differences between the inner and outer edges of the surface of the disk platter. The number designates the starting cylinder of the signal. Prox-1630 USER ′ S MANUAL Page: 5-5...
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This category allows user to choose whether the computer will stop if an error is detected during power up. Available options are “All errors”, “No errors”, “All, But keyboard”, “All, But Diskette”, and “All But Disk/Key”. Prox-1630 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-1630 USER ′ S MANUAL Page: 5-7...
When you change any of the settings, you may recall the default settings at any time from the main menu. A brief introduction of each settings in the BIOS FEATURES SETUP program is given below. Prox-1630 USER ′ S MANUAL Page: 5-8...
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BOOT UP NUMLOCK STATUS: Use this item to enable / disable the NumLock on your keyboard automatically at power-on. Prox-1630 USER ′ S MANUAL Page: 5-9...
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Do not type anything and just press <Enter>, it will disable security. Once the security is disabled, the system will boot and you can enter Setup freely. Prox-1630 USER ′ S MANUAL Page: 5-10...
Pu/Pd/+/- : Modify Delayed Transaction : Disabled F5 : Old Values (Shift)F2 : Color AGP Aperture Size (MB) : 64 F6 : Load BIOS Defaults F7 : Load Setup Defaults Chipset Features Setup Prox-1630 USER ′ S MANUAL Page: 5-11...
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DRAM installed. Do not change the values in this field unless you change specifications of the installed DRAM or the installed CPU. The choices are: 2,3. SDRAM RAS PRECHARGE TIME: Defines the length of time for Row Address Strobe is allowed to precharge. Prox-1630 USER ′ S MANUAL Page: 5-12...
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This item allows you to determine the recovery time allowed for 8bit I/O. 16 Bit I/O RECOVERY TIME: This item allows you to determine the recovery time allowed for 16bit I/O. Choices from NA, 1 to 4 CPU clocks. Prox-1630 USER ′ S MANUAL Page: 5-13...
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AGP APERTURE SIZE (MB) : The aperture is a portion of the PCI memory address range dedicated for graphics memory address space. Host cycles that hit the aperture range are forwarded to the AGP without any translation. Prox-1630 USER ′ S MANUAL Page: 5-14...
Default value is Disable. Having made all the settings above, press < Esc > to return to the main menu. ACPI FUNCTION: Users are allowed to enable or disable the Advanced Configuration and Power Management (ACPI). Prox-1630 USER ′ S MANUAL Page: 5-15...
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(if any) on your system. Activity of the selected IRQ always awakens the system. DOZE MODE: When enabled and after the set time of system inactivity, the CPU clock will run at slower speed while all other devices still operate at full speed. Prox-1630 USER ′ S MANUAL Page: 5-16...
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This item allows you to select the percent of time that the clock runs when the system enters Doze mode. IRQ 8 BREAK SUSPEND: This item allows you to enable and disable the monitoring of IRQ8 so it doesn’t awaken the system from Suspend mode. Prox-1630 USER ′ S MANUAL Page: 5-17...
The Award Plug and Play Bios can automatically configure all the booth and Plug and Play-compatible devices. If set to Auto, all interrupt request (IRQ) and DMA assignment fields disappear, as the BIOS automatically assigns them. Prox-1630 USER ′ S MANUAL Page: 5-18...
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PC AT bus specification, requiring a specific interrupt such as IRQ4 for serial port 1. PCI/ISA PnP Devices complaint with the Plug and Play standard, whether designed for PCI or ISA bus architecture. Prox-1630 USER ′ S MANUAL Page: 5-19...
Load BIOS Default ( Y / N ) ? Y To use the BIOS defaults, change the prompt to "Y" and press < Enter >, the CMOS is loaded automatically when you power on the PROX-1630. 5-9. LOAD SETUP DEFAULTS AUTO CONFIGURATION WITH SETUP DEFAULTS This Main Menu item uses the default SETUP values.
Block mode is also callled block transfer, multiple commands, or multiple sector read/write. If your IDE hard drive supports block mode (most new drives do), select Enabled for automatic detection of the optimal number of block read/writes per sector the drive can support. Prox-1630 USER ′ S MANUAL Page: 5-21...
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Thus the AGP display becomes the primary display. ONBOARD FDC CONTROLLER: Select Enabled unless you installed an add-in FDC. ONBOARD PARALLEL PORT: Select a logical LPT port address and corresponding interrupt for the physical parallel port. Prox-1630 USER ′ S MANUAL Page: 5-22...
〝PASSWORD SETTING〞a message will appear at the center. PASSWORD DISABELD!!! Press any key to continue... Press < Enter > and the password will be disabled. Once the password is disabled, you can enter Setup freely. Prox-1630 USER ′ S MANUAL Page: 5-23...
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-1630 USER ′ S MANUAL Page: 5-24...
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-1630 USER ′ S MANUAL Page: 5-25...
Appendix A EXPANSION BUS ISA BUS PIN ASSIGNMENT There are two edge connector (called “gold fingers“) on this CPU Card, on the right hand is the connector of ISA Bus, followed up by PCI BUS connector. The ISA-bus connector is divided into two sets : one consists of 62 pins; the other consists of 36 pins.
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APPENDIX TECHNICAL SUMMARY This section introduce you the maps concisely. Sections include: Block Diagram Interrupt Map RTC & CMOS RAM Map Timer & DMA Channels Map I / O & Memory Map Page: B-1...
System TIMER interrupt from TIMER-0 Keyboard output buffer full Cascade for IRQ 8-15 Serial port 2 Serial port 1 Available Floppy Parallel port 1 RTC clock Available Available Available PS/2 Mouse Math coprocessor IDE1 Available Prox-1630 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-1630 USER ′ S MANUAL Page: B-4...
Timer Channel Map : Timer Channel Assignment System timer interrupt DRAM Refresh request Speaker tone generator DMA Channel Map : DMA Channel Assignment Available Available Floppy Available Cascade for DMA controller 1 Available Available Available Prox-1630 USER ′ S MANUAL Page: B-5...
APPENDIX TROUBLE SHOOTING This section outlines the errors messages that 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...
Also make sure the disk is formatted as a boot device. Then reboot the system. Prox-1630 USER ′ S MANUAL Page: C-2...
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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. Prox-1630 USER ′ S MANUAL Page: C-3...
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Indicates a parity error in Random Access Memory. SYSTEM HALTED : Indicates the present boot attempt has been aborted and the system must be rebooted. Press and hold down the CTRL and ALT keys and press DEL. Prox-1630 USER ′ S MANUAL Page: C-4...
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Cannot initialize the keyboard. Make sure the keyboard is properly attached and no keys are being pressed during the boot. MEMORY TEST FAIL : BIOS reports the memory test fail if the onboard memory is tested error. Prox-1630 USER ′ S MANUAL Page: C-5...
POST will go faster. 08 : Test the first 256K DRAM. 09 : 1. Program the configuration register of Cyrix CPU according to the MODBINable Cyrix Register Table. 2. OEM specific cache initialization (if needed). Prox-1630 USER ′ S MANUAL Page: C-6...
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-CPU brand, type & speed. -Test system BIOS checksum (Non-compress Version only). 0F : DMA channel 0 test. 10 : DMA channel 1 test. 11 : DMA page registers test. 14 : Test 8254 Timer 0 Counter2. Prox-1630 USER ′ S MANUAL Page: C-7...
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MODBINable Auto-Table. 41 : Initialize floppy disk drive controller. 42 : Initialize Hard drive controller. 43 : If it is a PnP BIOS, initialize serial & parallel ports. 45 : Initialize math coprocessor. Prox-1630 USER ′ S MANUAL Page: C-8...
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2. Set the boot up speed according to Setup setting. 3. Last chance for Chipset initialization. 4. Last chance for Power Management initialization (Green BIOS only). 5. Show the system configuration table. Prox-1630 USER ′ S MANUAL Page: C-9...
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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-1630 USER ′ S MANUAL Page: C-10...
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