ABLE OF ONTENTS CHAPTER 1 NTRODUCTION 1.1 S PECIFICATIONS 1.2 P ACKING HECK CHAPTER 2 UMPER ETTING AND ONNECTORS 2.1 B MB-X66 OARD UTLINE OF 2.2 I NSTALLING AND PGRADING THE 2.3 J UMPER ETTING VERVIEW 2.4 J MB-X66 UMPER OCATIONS FOR 2.5 J MB-X66...
ABLE OF ONTENTS CHAPTER 4 RIVERS UPPORT 4.1 U CD-ROM RIVER 4.2 F IRECTORY APPENDIX A ECHNICAL EFERENCE GLOSSARY TERMS AND CONDITIONS RMA SERVICE REQUEST FORM...
CHAPTER 1. INTRODUCTION The MB-X66 Series is a Socket 370 Pentium III network control board with six 10/100 Base-TX Ethernet ports specifically designed for Ethernet connectivity. It is suitable for SOHO (Small Office, Home Office), SMB (Small Medium Business), ROBO (Remote Office, Branch Office), applications developers, system integrators, and service providers segments..
INTRODUCTION 1.1 S PECIFICATIONS ο Processor : Intel® Pentium III/Celeron™ Processor in Socket 370(133 MHz), support B-stepping ο Chipset : Intel® 815EP chipset, IT8712F I/O Chipset ο Ethernet : Six Realtek 8139C 10/100M BASE-T Ethernet,6 X connector. ο . One 124-pin Mini-PCI slot Expansion Bus B.
INTRODUCTION 1.2 P ACKING HECK Inspect the product package for the following items before installation. If there is anything missing, please contact our authorized reseller. Item Remark MB-X66A Network Control Board MB-X66A 1 pc MB-X66B Network Control Board MB-X66B 1 pc ~ 3 ~...
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CHAPTER 2. JUMPER SETTING AND CONNECTORS The figure below shows the jumpers and connectors location on the MB-X66 Series. The PCB version may differ for slight changes without notice. 2.1 Board Outline of MB-X66 Series FAN2 LAN6 PCIA1 DLA1 LAN5...
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JUMPER SETTING AND CONNECTORS 2.2 I NSTALLING AND PGRADING THE To upgrade to a higher power CPU, simply remove the old CPU and install a new one. Make sure to set the jumpers for the new CPU type and speed. WARNING! Disconnect the power cord from your system when you intend to work on it or when you plan to open the chassis of your industrial...
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JUMPER SETTING AND CONNECTORS ¥ I DIMM M NSTALLING THE ODULE A DIMM module simply snaps into a socket on the system board. Pin1 of the DIMM module must correspond with Pin1 of the socket. Notch Pin1 1. Pull the “tabs” which are at the ends of the socket to the side. 2.
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JUMPER SETTINGS AND CONNECTORS 2.3 J UMPER ETTING VERVIEW In order to select the operation modes of your system, configure and set the jumpers on your SBC to match the needs of your applications. To set a jumper, a plastic cap containing metal contacts is placed over the jumper pins as designated by the required configuration as listed in this section.
JUMPER SETTING AND CONNECTORS 2.8 I/O C MB-X66 S ONNECTOR UMMARY FOR ERIES CONNECTOR FUNCTION FAN1 3 Pin Fan Connector FAN2 Fan Connector LAN1-6 LAN Connector PSW1 For ATX Power Button ATXC1 For ATX Function KPA1 LCM Keypad IrDA1 Alternate IrDA PLRS1 Power LED, Reset, Speaker Connector COMB1...
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JUMPER SETTING AND CONNECTORS I/O C ONNECTORS ESCRIPTION FAN1/2 : 3 Pin FAN Connector Pin No. Description Ground +12V FAN Status FAN1/2 LANA1~LAN6 :Type 1 ( RJ-45 ) Pin No. Description LANA1 PSW1: For ATX Power Button Pin No. Description PSW1 PANSW ATXC1: For ATX Function...
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JUMPER SETTING AND CONNECTORS IRDA1:Alternate IRDA Pin No. Description IRRX IRDA1 IRTX COMA1: RS-232 Serial Port #1 Connector ( D-Sub ) Pin No. Description Data Carrier Detect ( DCDA # ) Receive Data ( RXDA ) Transmit Data ( TXDA ) Data Terminal Ready ( DTRA # ) Ground ( GND ) COMA1...
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JUMPER SETTING AND CONNECTORS COMB1: Serial Port #2 Connector ( Header ) Description Pin No. RS-232 Data Carrier Detect (DCDB #) Data Set Ready (DSRB #) Receive Data (RXDB) Request To Send (RTSB #) COMB1 Transmit Data (TXDB) Clear To Send (CTSB #) Data Terminal Ready (DTRB #) Ring Indicator (RIB #) Ground...
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JUMPER SETTING AND CONNECTORS PSA1:20 Pin ATX Power Connector Pin No. Description Pin No. Description +3.3V +3.3V +3.3V -12V SWITCH PSA1 Power Good Stand-By 5V +12V PSB1: 12 Pin Power Connector Pin No. Description +12V -12V PSB1 ~ 16 ~...
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JUMPER SETTING AND CONNECTORS LEDE1: 2x22 Pin Pin No. Description Pin No. Description POWER LED POWER LED POWER LED STATUS POWER LED STATUS Lan1 Link/Active LED- Lan1 Link/Active LED+ Lan1 100 LED- Lan1 100 LED+ Lan1 1G LED- Lan1 1G LED+ Lan2 Link/Active LED- Lan2 Link/Active LED+ Lan2 100 LED-...
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JUMPER SETTING AND CONNECTORS IDEA1 : IDE Interface Connector ( 44Pin 2.0mm Pitch Header ) Pin No. Description Pin No. Description Reset # Ground Data 7 Data 8 Data 6 Data 9 Data 5 Data 10 Data 4 Data 11 Data 3 Data 12 Data 2...
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JUMPER SETTING AND CONNECTORS IDEB1 : IDE Interface Connector ( 40Pin 2.54mm Pitch Header ) Pin No. Description Pin No. Description Reset # Ground Data 7 Data 8 Data 6 Data 9 Data 5 Data 10 Data 4 Data 11 Data 3 Data 12 Data 2...
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CHAPTER 3. AMI BIOS SETUP The AMI‘s ROM BIOS provides a built-in Setup program that allows user to modify the basic system configuration and settings. The modified data will be stored in a battery-backed CMOS RAM so that these data will be retained even when the power is turned off.
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AMI BIOS SETUP Standard CMOS Setup : Use this menu for basic system configurations, such as time, date, etc. Advanced CMOS Setup: Use this menu to specify your settings for Advance CMOS. Advanced Chipset Setup: Use this menu to change the values in the chipset registers and optimize your system’s performance.
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AMI BIOS SETUP Time: This allows you to set the system time that you want (usually the current time). The time format is <hour><minute><second>. Pri Master/ Pri Slave: Press PgUp/<+> or PgDn/<-> to select the hard disk drive type. The specification of hard disk drive will show up on the right hand according to your selection.
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AMI BIOS SETUP Advanced Setup options are displayed by choosing the Advanced icon from the WINBIOS Setup main menu. All Advanced Setup options are described in this section. Quick Boot: Setting the item to “Enabled” allows the system to boot within 5 seconds by skipping some check items.
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AMI BIOS SETUP Initial Display Mode: Set this option to Silent to enable the AMIBIOS SilentBoot feature. This option specifies the initial display mode when the system boots. The settings are: Setting Description BIOS The standard BIOS boot messages displayed before booting the system will appear on the system monitor.
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AMI BIOS SETUP L1 Cache: The option enabled or disabled the internal cache memory in the processor. L2 Cache: The option enables secondary cache memory. If enabled is selected, external cache memory is enabled. If disabled is selected, external cache memory is disabled. System BIOS Cacheable : When this option is set to Enabled, the contents of the F0000h system memory segment can be read from or written to L2 secondary cache memory.
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AMI BIOS SETUP ICH Delayed Transaction: The ICH was designed to provide high performance support to PCI peripherals using its data prefetch capabilities. If a PCI master is burst reading and is disconnected by the ICH to prefetch the requested cache line, the ICH will Delay Transaction the cycle while it prefetches more data, and gire the bus to another agent.
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AMI BIOS SETUP SDRAM RAS# Precharge (SCLKs): The field specifies the idle cycles before precharging an idle bank. Settings: 7 Clocks, 6 Clocks and 5 Clocks. Internal Graphics Mode Select: This setting allows the Internal Graphics mode to be modified. The Optimal and Fail-Safe default settings are Enabled, 1MB. Option Description Enabled, 1MB This option allows the Internal Graphic controller to allocate...
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AMI BIOS SETUP RAS Timing: This item controls the timing for RAS. Settings are Fast and Slow. RAS Precharge Timing: This item controls the number of cycles for RAS to be allowed to precharge. Settings are Fast and Slow. CPU Latency Timer: During Enabled, A deferrable CPU cycle will only be Deferred after it has been in a Snoop Stall for 31 clocks and another ADS# has arrived.
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AMI BIOS SETUP Video Power Down Mode: This option specifies the power conserving state that the VESA VGA video subsystem enters after the specifies period of display inactivity has expired. Hard Disk Power Down Mode: This option specifies the power conserving state that the hard disk drive enters after the specified period of hard drive inactivity has expired.
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AMI BIOS SETUP Select Duplex Mode: Two options are available: Full and Half. The default setting is Full. This item lets you choose the operation mode for your IR KIT. Some IR device only can work at half duplex mode. Refer to your IR KIT user’s guide to find out which setting is correct.
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AMI BIOS SETUP all other PnP-aware adapter cards. Windows 95 is PnP-aware. Set this option to “ No” if the operating system (such as DOS, OS/2, Windows 3.x) does not use PnP. Reset Configuration Data: This option allows the BIOS to rest the Configuration Data in the BIOS.
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AMI BIOS SETUP Time: This allows you to set the system time that you want (usually the current time). The time format is <hour><minute><second>. Pri Master/ Pri Slave: Press PgUp/<+> or PgDn/<-> to select the hard disk drive type. The specification of hard disk drive will show up on the right hand according to your selection.
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AMI BIOS SETUP User Password : Can only enter but do not have the right to change the settings of the setup menu. 3.12 Load High Performance Setup Defaults The options on the main menu allow users to restore all of the BIOS settings to High Performance defaults.
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CHAPTER 4. DRIVERS SUPPORT 4.1 U SE Y OUR D RIVER CD-ROM This chapter provides information on how to install the drivers that come in the CD-ROM with the package. Please follow the instructions set forth in chapter carefully. Find the directory for your O/S accordingly. Always read the README.TXT.
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TECHNICAL REFERENCE MEMORY ADDRESS MAP Address Range (Hex) Description 000000H - 09FFFFH 640 KB of Conventional RAM 0A0000H - 0BFFFFH 128 KB of Video RAM 0C0000H - 0EFFFFH 256 KB of I/O Expansion ROM 0F0000H - 0FFFFFH 64 KB of System BIOS ROM 0100000H - 7FFFFFFFH 1 MB ~ 128MB of User RAM DMA CHANNELS...
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GLOSSARY 8-Bit Bus – Data is transmitted to expansion slots and other components on the bus only along 8 parallel data lines. 10Base-T – It is a 10Mbps IEEE 802.3/Ethernet standard that uses unshielded twisted pair cable specification. 10Base-T supports network configurations using the CSMA/CD access method over a twisted pair transmission system, up to a maximum of 100 meters in length without the use of a repeater.
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GLOSSARY bps – Bits per second. Also often preceded by k (kilo/thousands), kbps – Kilobits per second, and M (mega/million), Mbps – Megabits per second. Bps – Bytes per second. (1 Byte is 8 Bits) kbps – kilobytes per second. Mbps – megabytes per second.
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GLOSSARY EISA or MCA Bus – Data is transmitted along 32 data lines to adapter cards designed specifically to work with the 32-bit buses. MCA expansion slots cannot accept 8-bit or 16-bit adapter cards. EISA stands for Extended Industry Standard Architecture, while MCA stands for MicroChannel Architecture.
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GLOSSARY Capacitate keyboard has a spring that causes the plastic and the metal plunger to move near two pads that have large plates (plated in tin, nickel, and copper). These pads are connected to the keyboard’s printed circuit board. Hard contact keyboard causes the key cap to collapse a foam rubber dome that presses against a sheet of plastic on the bottom of which is metallic area connected to the rest of the keyboard’s circuit board.
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GLOSSARY PCI Bus (Peripheral Component Interconnect) – It is a connection slot in a motherboard that supports 32-bit bus transfer rates. The now standard PCI Local Bus carries data along at least 32 lines, that is, at least 32 bits at a time. Local bus computer designs add special buses so the CPU can communicate directly with key components like the monitor, resulting in much better performance.
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GLOSSARY SCSI-2 – The second generation of SCSI; includes many improvements to SCSI-1, including Fast SCSI, Wide SCSI, and mandatory parity checking. SCSI-3 – The third generation of SCSI; introduces Fast-20 and Fast-40 as Improvements to the parallel bus. The standard also includes a number of specifications for high-speed serial bus architectures such as SSA, Fiber Channel, and IEEE 1394.
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Terms and Conditions Date:1997.10.20 Warranty Policy 1. All products are warranted against defects in materials and workmanship for a period of two years from the date of purchase by the customer. 2. The buyer will bear the return freight charges for goods that are returned for repair within the warranty period whereas manufacturer will bear the return to user freight charges after repair.
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RMA SERVICE REQUEST FORM When requesting RMA service, please fill out this “RMA Service Request Form”. Without this form your RMA will be REJECTED!!! Reasons to Return: □ Repair(Please include failure details) □ Testing Purpose RMA No: Company: Contact Person: Phone No.
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