Chapter 1. General Information 1.1 Introduction The AW-F703 is fully function of socket 478 Pentium® 4 CPU Card, which is PCI/ISA bus and PICMG compliant. The AW-F703 with Intel® 845PE and ICH4 chipset supports Intel® Pentium® 4 processors with 533MHz system bus, with two 184-pin DDR DIMM sockets for DDR SDRAM to 2Gbytes.
13.3"(L) x 4.8"(W) (338mm x 122mm) 1.3 AW-F703 Package Please make sure that the following items have been included in the package before installation. AW-F703 Socket 478 Single Board Quick Installation Guide Cable: Please refer to Appendix C Optional Cables AW-F703...
Ground yourself before removing any system component from it protective anti-static packaging. To ground yourself, grasp the expansion slot covers or other unpainted parts of the computer chassis. Handle the AW-F703 board by its edges and avoid touching its component. 1.4Board Layout AW-F703...
User’s manual 2.2 Installing CPU The AW-F703 with 478 socket supports Intel® Pentium® 4 processors, up to 533MHz system bus. The m478PGA form factor is a chip packaging designed for the Intel® Pentium 4 processors up to 533MHz System Bus. On the m478PGA package, the processor’s silicon core faced up, and is expose.
To remove a DDR DIMM Memory: Press down on the levers at both end of module until the module pops out. 2.4 Connector and Jumper Settings CN1: TV-Out Connector Define LUMINANCE OUT CROMIANCE OUT Ground Ground COMPOSITE OUT AW-F703...
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Pin 5-6: this 2-pin connector connects to case-mounted ATX power button Pin 7-8: this 2-pin connector connects to case-mounted Reset Switch, you can use it to reboot the system CN4: Main Power Connector Define +12V Ground AW-F703...
User’s manual Chapter 3. BIOS Setup The ROM chip of your AW-F703 board is configured with a customized Basic Input/Output System (BIOS) from Phoenix-Award BIOS. The BIOS is a set of permanently recorded program routines that give the system its fundamental operational characteristics.
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Load Optimized Defaults Integrated Peripherals Set Supervisor Password Power Management Setup Save User Password PnP/PCI Configuration Save & Exit Setup PC Health Status Exit Without Saving : Select Item F10: Save & Exit Setup Time, Date, Hard Disk Type..AW-F703...
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Configure power management features such as timer selects PNP/PCI CONFIGURATION: Configure Plug & Play IRQ assignments and PCI slots PC HEALTH STATUS: Configure the CPU speed and, if the optional Winbond W83627HF system monitor IC is installed, view system information FREQUENCY/VOLTAGE CONTROL AW-F703...
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Save changes of values to CMOS and exit the CMOS setup program EXIT WITHOUT SAVING: Abandon all CMOS changes and exit the CMOS setup program Standard CMOS Features Setup Use the Standard CMOS Setup option as follows: 1. Choose “Standard CMOS Features” from the main menu. The following screen appears: AW-F703...
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Cylinders, heads, Wpcom, L-Zone, sectors, and mode Consult the documentation received with the drive for the values that will give you optimum performance. Drive A/Drive B: Choose: None 360K, 5.25” 1.2M, 5.25” 720K, 3.5” 1.44M, 3.5” 2.88M, 3.5” AW-F703...
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Typematic Delay (Msec) <250> write data into this area, Security Option <Setup> BIOS will show a waring message on screen and alarm beep Enter:Select +/-/PU/PD:Value F10:Save ESC: Exit F1: General Help F7:Optimized Defaults F5:Previous Value F6:Fail-Safe Default AW-F703...
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Choose Setup or System. This lets you specify whether a password is required every time the system boots or only when an attempt is made to enter the CMOS Setup program. “Setup” – The password prompt only appears if you attempt to enter the CMOS setup AW-F703...
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Choose Enabled/Disabled if you have an ISA card compatibility problem, when enabled, this option lets you control the Delay Transaction function of the chipset. This function is used to meet the latency of the PCI cycles to or from the ISA bus. AW-F703...
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2. Move between items and select values by using the arrow keys. Modify the selected fields using the PgUP/PgDN keys. Please press the <F1> key for information on the various options. On-Chip Primary/Secondary PCI IDE: Enables/Disables. Select Enabled to activate the primary IDE interface. Select AW-F703...
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This option lets you choose the priority of AGP & PCI VGA card AC-97 Audio: Choose Auto/Disabled BIOS Lock Control: Choose Lock/Unlock IDE HDD Block Mode: Enabled/Disabled the IDE HDD Block Mode function. Note: Not all drives support this function Onboard FDC Controller: AW-F703...
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This option lets you to determine onboard game port address setting Midi Port Address/IRQ: Choose: 300/IRQ10 This option lets you to determine onboard Midi port address and IRQ setting Watchdog Timer Select: To select Watchdog Timer wait state time: 10/20/30/40 sec./1/2/4 min./Disabled AW-F703...
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Enables/Disables the ACPI function ACPI Suspend Type: Choose SI (POS) / S3 (STR) / S1 & S3 Power Management: Choose Disable, User Define, Min Saving or Max. Saving. “User Define” – Lets you specify when the HDD and system will shut down AW-F703...
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Press the power button for more than 4 seconds forces the system to enter the Soft-Off state when the system has “hung” CPU Thermal-Throttling: Choose 12.5%, 25%, 37.5%, 50%, 62.5%, 75%, 87.5% Power On by Ring: Enabled/Disabled. When enabled, the system will power up automatically when modem ring. AW-F703...
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This option is used to configure Plug and Play assignments and route PCI interrupts to designated ISA interrupts. Use the PNP/PCI Configuration Setup option as follows: 1. Choose “PNP/PCI Configuration Setup” from the main menu, the following screen appears. AW-F703...
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IRQ-5 Assigned to <PCI Device> IRQ-7 Assigned to <PCI Device> IRQ-9 Assigned to <PCI Device> IRQ-10 Assigned to <PCI Device> IRQ-11 Assigned to <PCI Device> IRQ-12 Assigned to <PCI Device> IRQ-14 Assigned to <PCI Device> IRQ-15 Assigned to <PCI Device> AW-F703...
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-12 V -12.11 V VBAT(V) 3.29 V 5VSB(V) 4.96 V Shutdown Temperature <Disabled> Enter:Select +/-/PU/PD:Value F10:Save ESC:Exit F1:General Help F7:Optimized Defaults F5:Previous Value F6:Fail-Safe Default Frequency/Voltage Control Option Choose the “Frequency/Voltage Control” from main menu, the following screen appears: AW-F703...
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To use this feature, highlight it on the main screen and press <Enter>. A line will appear on the screen asking if you want to load the BIOS default values. Pres the <Y> key and then press <Enter> if you want to load the BIOS default. Load Optimized Defaults AW-F703...
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Then type your new password at the prompt. The password is case sensitive and you can use up to 8 alphanumeric characters. Press <Enter> after entering the password. At the Next Prompt, confirm the new password by typing it and pressing <Enter> again. AW-F703...
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Time, Date, Hard Disk Type... Time, Date, Hard Disk Type... Time, Date, Hard Disk Type... Time, Date, Hard Disk Type... Time, Date, Hard Disk Type... Exit Without Saving Use this function to exit Setup without saving the CMOS value. AW-F703...
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PC Health Status Esc : Quit : Select Item F10 : Save & Exit Setup Time, Date, Hard Disk Type... Time, Date, Hard Disk Type... Time, Date, Hard Disk Type... Time, Date, Hard Disk Type... Time, Date, Hard Disk Type... AW-F703...
User’s manual Chapter 4. Driver Utility The AW-F703 drivers and utilities CD-ROM contains the following folders. 1.VGA: VGA drivers 2.LAN: Ethernet drivers 3.Sound:AC-97 drivers 4.845PE :845PE drivers 5.Manual The Intel® Chipset Software Installation Utility installs to the target system the Windows* INF files that outline to the operating system how the chipset components will be configured.
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Windows XP operating systems. 1. Insert the Drivers and Utilities CD into the CD ROM drive (example E:) 2. Double click the “845PE\Iaa” folder in drive E: to open it run “iaa**.exe” (1) Click “Next” (2) Click “Yes” AW-F703...
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(5)Click “Finish” to restart your system VGA Driver The AW-F703 is a powerful, compact and full function single board computer that can be used in multitude of embedded applications. The board is designed with ATI Radeon 7000 4X AGP , it supports 32/64MB DDR memory , CRT display and TV-out interface , also supports DVI interface.
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1. Insert the Drivers and Utilities CD into the CD ROM drive (example E:) 2. Double click the “Sound” folder in drive E: to open it and run “Setup” program by double click it. (1) Double click “setup.exe” (2) Click “Next” AW-F703...
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User’s manual (3)Click “Finish” to resrart your system AW-F703...
User’s manual Appendix A: Programming the Watchdog Timer The AW-F703 provides a watchdog timer that resets the CPU or generates an interrupt if processing comes to a stop. This function ensures greater system reliability in industrial stand-alone and unmanned environments.
8. Run Program 2 (reload the timer interval value of 3CH, 60 seconds) 9. Run Program 1 10. Run Program 3 (Load the timer interval of 00H, and disable the watchdog timer function) Appendix B: AC-97 Audio Kit AC97 Board Layout AW-F703...
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CN1: This MIC-In jack connects to a microphone CN2: This Line-In jack connects to a tape player or other audio sources. CN3: This Speaker-Out jack connects to a headphone or a speaker. CN4: CD Audio Input Connector 1 2 3 4 Pin Signal CD AIDIO-L AW-F703...
Appendix C: System Resources Interrupt Controller The AW-F703 is a fully PC compatible control board, it consists of 16 ISA interrupt request lines and most of them already in used by other part of the board. Both of ISA and PCI expansion cards may need to use IRQs, please make sure that the IRQs do not conflict if you would like to use extra add-on cards.
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DMA4 Cascade DMA5 Free DMA6 Free DMA7 Free Memory Map The following table indicates memory of AW-F703. The address ranges specify the runtime code length. Memory below 1MB (1Mb ~ 640KB) Address Range Type Owner A0000~AFFFF VGA Adapter B0000~BFFFF VGA Adapter...
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AT Interrupt Controller C0 ~ DF AT DMA Controller F0 ~ FF Math Coprocessor 170 ~ 177 IDE Controller 1F0 ~ 1F7 IDE Controller 220 ~ 22E Sound Card 294 ~297 PCI Bus 2F8 ~ 2FF Communication Port (COM2) AW-F703...
B000 ~ B01E USB Controller B400 ~ B41E USB Controller B800 ~ B81E USB Controller F000 ~ F00E IDE Controller Appendix D: Order Information AW-F703 P4 CPU Card w/o CPU, with VGA –32MB DDR MemoryDVI,10/100 LAN AC97-1881 Audio kit for AW-F703 AW-F703...
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