Introduction 1.1 Copyright Notice All Rights Reserved. The information in this document is subject to change without prior notice in order to improve the reliability, design and function. It does not represent a commitment on the part of the manufacturer. Under no circumstances will the manufacturer be liable for any direct, indirect, special, incidental, or consequential damages arising from the use or inability to use the product or documentation, even if advised of the possibility of such...
Introduction 1.4 Replacing the lithium battery Incorrect replacement of the lithium battery may lead to a risk of explosion. The lithium battery must be replaced with an identical battery or a battery type recommended by the manufacturer. Do not throw lithium batteries into the trashcan. It must be disposed of in accordance with local requlations concerning special waste.
Introduction 1.6 Warranty This product is warranted to be in good working order for a period of two years from the date of purchase. Should this product fail to be in good working order at any time during this period, we will, at our option, replace or repair it at no additional charge except as set forth in the following terms.
Introduction 1.7 Packing List If any of the above items is damaged or missing, contact your vendor immediately. 1.8 Ordering Information SBX-5363-R/ Lx800 SBX-5363-S/Lx800 Cable kits 1 xSBX-5363 AMD Geode LX800 3.5" Embedded Board 1 x CPU Heat Sink 1 x CDROM (for Driver Used)
Installation 2.1.3 Serial Port Select RS-232C/422/485 Mode select (JRS1) RS-232C/422/485 Mode on COM2 The onboard COM2 port can be configured to operate in RS-422 or RS-485 modes. RS-422 modes differ in the way RX/TX is being handled. Jumper JRS1 switches between RS-232 or RS-422/485 mode. When JRS1 is set to RS-422 or 485 mode, there will be only +12V output left while JRS1 is set.
Installation 2.2.4 Flat Panel Connector LCD Interface Connector LCD1 connector is defined for TTL panel supporting up to 24-bit. LCD2 connector is defined for LVDS panel supporting 18-bit only. Connector: LCD1 Type: One onboard DF13-40DS Header Description 3.3V BIASON LPD0 LPD2 LPD4 LPD6...
2.3.3 PS/2 Keyboard & Mouse Connector: KBM1 Type: One external 6-pin Mini DIN connector on bracket Description KB_DATA KB_CLK 2.3.4 CRT Display Connector Connector: VGA1 Type: One external 15-pin D-sub female connector on bracket Description BLUE HSYNC VDCLK 2.3.5 COM1 Port with RS-232C Mode Connector: COM1 Type: One onboard 9-pin D-sub male connector Description...
Installation 2.5 CFD1: Compact Flash II Socket Connector: CFD1 Description DATA4 DATA6 CS#1 ADDR1 DATA0 DATA2 DATA11 DATA13 DATA15 IO WRITE IRQ15 CSEL IDE RESET DASP DATA8 DATA10 Note: 1.After hot-swapping CF II, you must restart your system for device detecting 2.CF II and ATA channel are alternative 3.CF II Socket supports up to 4GB Description...
BIOS 3.1 BIOS Introduction The Award BIOS (Basic Input/Output System) installed in your computer system's. The BIOS provides for a standard device such as disk drives, serial ports and parallel ports. It also adds password protection as well as special support for detailed fine-tuning of the chipset controlling the entire system.
3.3 Standard CMOS Features "Standard CMOS Features" allows you to record some basic hardware configurations in your computer system and set the system clock and error handling. If the CPU card is already installed in a working system, you will not need to select this option.
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BIOS IDE Primary HDDs / IDE Secondary HDDs The onboard PCI IDE connectors provide Primary and Secondary channel for connecting up to four IDE hard disks or other IDE devices Each channel can support up to two hard disks; the first is the "Master" an the second is the "Slave"...
Halt On This field determines whether or not the system will halt if an error is detected during power up. All errors (default No errors All, But Keyboard All, But Diskette All, But Disk/Key 3.4 Advance BIOS Features Quick Power On Self Test This BIOS feature allows you to decrease the time it takes to boot up the computer by shortening or skipping certain standard booting procedures.
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BIOS First/ Second/Third Boot Device These fields determine the drive that the system searches first for an operating system. The options available include Setting: Floppy, LS-120, HDD-0, SCSI, CDROM, HDD-1, ZIP100, USB-FDD, USB-ZIP, USB-CDROM, USB-HDD, LAN and Disabled. Boot Other Device It allows the system to search for an OS from other devices other than th ones selected in the First/ Second/ Third Boot Device Setting: Disabled/ Enabled (Default)
BIOS 3.5 Advanced Chipset Features CAS Latency It allows CAS latency time in HCLKs. The system board designer should set the values in this field, depending on the DRAM installed. Do not change the values in this field unless you change specifications of the installed DRAM or CPU.
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BIOS XOR Bit Select Setting: 18(Default)/19/20/21. Video Memory Size In order to determine how much memory is allocated to the video graphics device. Setting: None/8M(Default)/16M/32M/64M/128M/254M. Output display In order to specify the display devices the system is connected to. Setting: Flat Panel/CRT (Default)/Panel & CRT. Flat Panel Configuration It allows you to open the Flat Panel Configuration menu.
BIOS 3.6 Integrated Peripherals On-Chip IDE Device >>> On-Chip IDE Channel 1 The integrated peripheral controller contains an IDE interface with support for two IDE channels. Select Enabled to activate each channel separately. Setting: Disabled/Enabled (Default). Master/Slave Drive PIO Mode It allows your system HDD controller to run faster Rather than having the BIOS issue with a series of commands tha transferring to or from the disk drive, PIO (Programmed Input/Output) allow...
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BIOS IDE Primary Master/Slave UDMA It allows your system to improve disk I/O throughput to 33MB/sec with the Ultra DMA33 feature. Setting: Disabled/Auto (Default). IDE DMA Transfer Access Setting: Disabled, Enabled (Default). IDE HDD Block Mode It allows HDD controller to use the fast block mode to transfer data to and from HDD.
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Onboard Serial/Parallel Port It allows you to select the onboard serial and parallel ports with their addresses. Setting: Serial Port 1 Serial Port 2 Parallel Port UART Mode Select It determines the UART 2 mode in your computer. Setting: IrDA/ASKIR/Normal (Default). RxD, TxD Active Setting: Hi, Hi/Hi, Lo (Default)/Lo, Hi /Lo, Lo.
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BIOS Serial Port 3 Use IRQ Setting: IRQ10 (Default)/IRQ11. Serial Port 4 Use IRQ Setting: IRQ10 /IRQ11 (Default). IT8888 ISA Decode IO >>> It allows you to use the IT8888 ISA Decode IO menu to set the IO memory range for the onboard ISA. Decode I/O Space 0/ 1/ 2/ 3/ 4/ 5 It allows you to allocate system resources to the ISA bridge and to enable the function correctly...
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BIOS Decode I/O Size 0/ 1/ 2/ 3/ 4/ 5 It allows you to specify the size of the ISA bus. Setting: 1 Byte, 2 Bytes, 4 Bytes, 8 Bytes, 16 Bytes, 32 Bytes, 64 Bytes, 128 Bytes. IT8888 ISA Decode Memory >>> It allows you to use the IT8888 ISA Decode Memory to set the resources for the onboard ISA bus.
BIOS IT8888 DDMA >>> Suppose that the ISA bus card is required DMA1 & DMA5. Set "DDMA1 Support" & "DDMA5Support" to "Enabled". Onboard Audio Setting: Enabled (Default), Disabled. 3.7 Power Management Setup ACPI Function It supports ACPI (Advance Configuration and Power Interface). Setting: Enabled (Default) /Disabled.
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Power Management It allows you to select the type of power saving management modes. Setting: APM Advanced power management (APM) ACPI (Default) Advanced Configuration and Power Interface (ACPI) Modem Use IRQ It sets the IRQ used by the Modem. Setting: N/A (Default)/3/4/5/7/9/10/11. PME Event Function Setting: Disabled/Enabled (Default).
BIOS 3.8 PNP/PCI Configurations PNP OS Installed It allows you to enable the PNP OS Install option if it is supported by the O installed Setting: No (Default) /Yes Reset Configuration Data It allows you to determine whether to reset the con?guration data or not. Setting: Disabled (Default) /Enabled.
PCI/VGA Palette Snoop Some non-standard VGA display cards may not show colors properly It allows you to set whether or not MPEG ISA/VESA VGA cards ca display with PCI/VGA When "Enabled", a PCI/VGA can display with an MPEG ISA/VES VGA card When "Disabled", a PCI/VGA cannot display with an MPEG ISA/VES VGA card...
BIOS 3.10 Load Optimized Defaults It allows you to load the default values to your system configuration. The default setting is optimal and enabled all high performance features. 3.11 Set Password - 39 -...
BIOS Useing Password to set a password that will be used exclusively on the system. To specify a password, highlight the type you want and press <Enter>. The Enter Password: message prompts on the screen. Type the password, up to eight characters in length, and press <Enter>. And the system confirms your password by asking you to type it again.
BIOS 3.13 Exit Without Saving Typing 'Y" will quit the Setup utility without saving the modifications. Typing "N" will return you to Setup utility. 3.14 BIOS Beep Sound code list Beep Sound 1 short (Beep) 2 short (Beep) 1 long - 1 short (Beep) 1 long - 2 short (Beep) 1 long - 3 short (Beep) 1 long - 9 short (Beep)
3.15 BIOS memory mapping Address Device E000:0000h - F000:FFFFh D000:2000h - D000:FFFFh D000:0000h - D000:1FFFh C000:E000h - CF00:FFFFh C000:0000h - C000:DFFFh A000:0000h - B000:FFFFh 0000:0000h - 9000:FFFFh 3.16 Award BIOS Post Codes Test CMOS read/write functionality Early chipset initialization: Disable shadow RAM, L2 cache (socket 7 and below), program basic chipset registers Detect memory: Auto detection of DRAM size, type and ECC, auto detection of L2 cache (socket 7 and below)
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BIOS Test F000h segment shadow to see whether it is read/write capable or not. If test fails, keep beeping the speaker Reserved Auto detect flash type to load appropriate flash read/write codes into the run time area in F000 for ESCD & DMI support Reserved Use walking 1's algorithm to check out interface in CMOS circuitry.
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Reserved Reserved Reserved Initialize INT 09 buffer Reserved Program CPU internal MTRR (P6 & PII) for 0-640K memory address; Initialize the APIC for Pentium class CPU; Program early chipset according to CMOS setup; Measure CPU speed; Invoke video BIOS Reserved Reserved Reserved Initialize multilanguage;...
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Reserved Reserved Initialize EISA slot Reserved Calculate total memory by testing the last double last word of each 64K page; Program writes allocation for AMD K5 CPU Reserved Reserved Reserved Reserved Program MTRR of M1 CPU; initialize L2 cache for P6 class CPU &...
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Reserved Reserved Reserved Initialize PS/2 mouse Reserved Prepare memory size information for function call: INT 15h ax=E820h Reserved Turn on L2 cache Reserved Program chipset registers according to items described in Setup & Auto-Configuration table Reserved Assign resources to all ISA PnP devices; Auto assign ports to onboard COM ports if the corresponding item in Setup is set to "AUTO"...
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BIOS Reserved Reserved Call chipset power management hook: Recover the text fond usedby EPA logo (not for full screen logo), If password is set, ask for password Save all data in stack back to CMOS Initialize ISA PnP boot devices Final USB initialization;...
Appendix 4.1 I/O Port Address Map Each peripheral device in the system is assigned a set of I/O port addresses which also becomes the identity of the device. The following table lists the I/O port addresses used. Address Device EE000000 - EEFFFFFF EFD00000 - EFDFFFFF EFE00000 - EFEFFFFF EFFC0000 - EFFDFFFF...
Appendix 4.2 Interrupt Request Lines (IRQ) Peripheral devices use interrupt request lines to notify CPU for the service required. The following table shows the IRQ used by the devices on board. Level Function IRQ 01 Standard 101/102-Key or Microsoft Natural PS/2 Keyboard IRQ 03 Communications Port IRQ 04...
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