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MIC-3369C MIC-3369C 6U CompactPCI Intel® Pentium® M Processor Board with VGA/Dual Giga LAN/ User’s Manual...
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CE Notification The MIC-3369C, developed by Advantech CO., LTD., has passed the CE test for environment specification when shielded cables are used for external wiring. We recommend the use of shielded cables. Product warranty Advantech warrants to you, the original purchaser, that each of its prod- ucts will be free from defects in materials and workmanship for one year from the date of purchase.
Packing List Before installing your board, ensure that the following materials have been received: • 1 MIC-3369C all-in-one single board computer • 1 Utility CD-ROM disc • 1 CPU Heat sink (Assembled) • 1 CPU thermal dissipation paste • 1 Thermal pad (Assembled) •...
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1. This device may not cause harmful interference, and 2. This device must accept any interference received, including interference that may cause undesired operation. CAUTION!! Danger of explosion if battery in correctly replaced. The battery need not to be charged. Replace only with Advantech-specified batteries.
ECC DDR200 memory on-board. High Performance Intel Pentium M Processor The MIC-3369C supports a 1.8 GHz Intel Pentium M 745 processor and a 1.6 GHz Pentium M processor with the u-FCPGA package. The Intel Pentium M 745 processor has 2 MB L2 cache and Pentium M 1.6GHz processor has 1MB L2 cache providing high performance.
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MIC-3369C can also operate a peripheral slot in drone mode, so that the peripheral card functions as a stand-alone computer and does not commu- nicate on the CompactPCI bus. PMC (PCI Mezzanine Card) IEEE1386.1 Compliant The MIC-3369C supports one PMC site and compliant with PICMG 2.3 (PCI Mezzanine Card) specification.
• Controller chip: One controller chip provides master/ drone mode • In Master mode: Supports up to seven bus master peripherals on each bus segment • In Drone mode: Plugs into a peripheral slot as a "drone mode" , whereby it functions as a stand-alone computer. MIC-3369C User’s Manual...
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65K colors 1600x1200 16.7M colors 1280x1024 Note: MIC-3369C does not support MIC-3960 storage carrier board Mechanical and Environmental Specifications • Operating temperature: 0 ~ 55° C (32 ~ 131° F) • Storage Temperature: -20 ~ 80° C (-4 ~ 176° F) •...
1.4.1 Jumper Locations Table 1-1 lists the jumper function. Figure 1-2 illustrates the jumper loca- tion. Read this section carefully before changing the jumper setting on your MIC-3369C card. Table 1.1: MIC-3369C jumper descriptions Number Function PMC Module voltage VIO...
1.4.2 Clearing CMOS Memory (JP6) This jumper is used to erase CMOS data and reset system BIOS informa- tion. Follow the procedures below to clear the CMOS. 1. Turn off the system. 2. Close jumper JP6 (1-2) for about 3 seconds. 3.
On-board connectors link to external devices such as hard disk drives, keyboards, or floppy drives, etc. Table 1.9 lists the function of each con- nector. Chapter 2 gives instructions for connecting external devices to your card. Table 1.9: MIC-3369C connector descriptions Number Function Handle Switch...
BMC_PWR_ON/OFF BMC_PWROK PMC_OS_SHUTDOWN BMC_BD_SEL# CMM1_SCL CMM1_SDA CMM2_SCL CMM2_SDA BMC_BD_SEL BMC_LEDA BMC_LEDL BMC_TX+ BMC_RX+ BMC_TX- BMC_RX- Table 1.19: D8 LED definitions Green Power Status Yellow HDD Status Table 1.20: SW1 Drone Mode definitions SW-1 selects PCI-to-PCI bridge EEPROM enabled or disabled. When you set to "ON", it is enabled.
Figure 1.4: Front panel connector/indicator locations 1.6 Safety Precautions Follow these simple precautions to protect yourself from harm and the products from damage. 1. To avoid electric shock, always disconnect the power from your PC chassis before you work on it. Don't touch any components on the CPU card or other cards while the PC is on.
1.7 Installing CPU and Heat Sink The MIC-3369C supports the Intel Pentium M processor. In order to meet critical environmental conditions and the physical space of the MIC- 3369C at the same time, Advantech has designed a heatsink to fulfill its primary needs.
Figure 1.5: Complete assembly, heatsink and HDD 1.8 Software support The MIC-3369C comes with a utility CD-ROM disc, which includes drivers and utility programs for Gigabit Ethernet, IAA and VGA inter- faces. The drivers support Windows 2000, XP and NT 4.0 Operation sys- tems.
2.1 IDE Device (CN6 and Rear I/O) The MIC-3369C provides two IDE (Integrated Device Electronics) chan- nels via a CN6 connector in the MIC-3369C or via the J3 connector to the rear transition board (RIO-3309C or RIO-3309S). CN6 connector support one 2.5"...
2.5 Serial Ports (CN3 and Rear I/O) The MIC-3369C offers one serial port: COM1 in RS-232. With limited front panel access, one COM1 (CN3) can be connected via a RJ-45 to RS- 232 adaptor and COM2 (CN9) interface has to be connected via rear I/O module (RIO-3309C or RIO-3309S).
2.7 USB Connector (CN4/5 and Rear I/O) The MIC-3369C provides two USB (Universal Serial Bus) 2.0 channels either via two front USB ports (CN4 and CN5) in MIC-3369C or via J5 connector to one USB connector (CN8) in rear transition board. The USB interface gives complete plug and play, hot attach/detach for up to 127 external devices.
Improper installation of a card can easily damage the backplane of the chassis. The install/eject handles of the MIC-3369C help you install and remove the card easily and safely. Follow the procedure below to install the MIC-3369C into a chassis: To install a card: 1.
Microsoft for USB driver support. Intel manufactures the host controller but the driver is from Microsoft. While users installed Intel INF driver, it will not install USB driver. Please go to "device man- ager" to update USB driver via Advantech CD utility or via Microsoft website. Note: There are no separate USB (version 1.1 and...
3.3 CMM (Chassis Management Module) Driver MIC-3369C supports MIC-3924B CMM. Please install the driver accord- ing to the following procedure. 3.3.1 Windows 2K Driver Figure 3.1: R. Click "My Computer" --> "Properties" Figure 3.2: Tab "Hardware">"Hardware Wizard" Chapter 3...
Turn on the computer and check for the "patch code". If there is a number assigned to the patch code, it means that the BIOS supports your CPU. If there is no number assigned to the patch code, please contact Advantech's application engineer to obtain an up-to-date patch code file. This will ensure that your CPU's system status is valid.
4.1.2 Standard CMOS Setup The items in Standard CMOS Setup Menu are divided into 11 categories. Each category includes may include one or more setup items, or none at all. Use the arrow keys to highlight the item and then use the <PgUp> or <PgDn>...
4.1.3 Advanced BIOS Features Setup The "Advance BIOS FEATURES" screen will appear after the BIOS FEATURES SETUP item is chosen from the CMOS SETUP UTILITY Menu. This screen allows the user to configure the board according to his particular requirements. Below are some major items that are provided in the BIOS FEATURES SETUP screen: Figure 4.3: Advanced BIOS features setup screen Virus Warning...
Quick Power On Self Test This category speeds up Power On Self Test (POST) after you power on the computer. If this is set to Enabled, BIOS will shorten or skip some check items during POST. Enabled (default) Enable quick POST Disabled Normal POST First/Second/Third Boot Device and Boot Other Device...
Gate A20 Option Normal The A20 signal is controlled by keyboard con- troller or chipset hardware. Fast(default) The A20 signal is controlled by port 92 or chipset specific method. Typematic Rate Setting Key strokes repeat at a rate determined by the keyboard controller. When enabled, the typematic rate and typematic delay can be selected.
OS Select For DRAM > 64MB Allows OS2® to be used with > 64 MB of DRAM. Settings are Non-OS/ 2 (default) and OS2. Set to OS/2 if using more than 64MB and running OS/2. Small logo (EPA) show Default is Disabled. 4.1.4 Advanced Chipset Features Setup The Advanced Chipset Features Setup option is used to change the values of the chipset registers.
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Video BIOS Cacheable Select Enabled allows caching of the video BIOS, resulting in better sys- tem performance. However, if any program writes to this memory area, a system error may result. The settings are: Enabled and Disabled (Default). MIC-3369 User’s Manual...
Memory Hole At 15M-16M You can reserve this area of system memory for ISA adapter ROM. When this area is reserved, it cannot be cached. The user information of periph- erals that need to use this area of system memory usually discusses their memory requirements.
Active to Precharge Delay This field let you select active to precharge delay. The settings are: 7, 6 and 5 DRAM RAS# to CAS# Delay This field lets you insert a timing delay between the CAS and RAS strobe signals, used when DRAM is written to, read from, or refreshed. Fast gives faster performance;...
Figure 4.7: OnChip IDE Device setup screen IDE HDD Block Mode Block mode is also called 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.
IDE Primary/Secondary Master/Slave UDMA Ultra DMA/33 implementation is possible only if your IDE hard drive supports it and the operating environment includes a DMA driver (Win- dows 95 OSR2 or a third-party IDE bus master driver). If your hard drive and your system software both support Ultra DMA/33 and Ultra DMA/66 and Ultra DMA/100, select Auto to enable BIOS support.
SMBus Connector Users can select IPMI source and application as below. Source connected CMM PCF8584T MIC-3924B Hardware Monitor 83782D MIC-3924A BMC (PMC type) (Reserved) CMM (Reserved) There are 3 options: MIC-3924B (Default), MIC-3924A and CMM. LAN 1 Connector The item allows you to choice LAN1 connective way. There are 3 options: Front (Default), 2.16 and Rear LAN 2 Connector The item allows you to choice LAN2 connective way.
Onboard Serial Port 1/Port 2 Select an address and corresponding interrupt for the first and second serial ports. The Serial Port 1 settings are: 3F8/IRQ4 (Default), 2E8/ IRQ3, 3E8/IRQ4, 2F8/ IRQ3, Disabled, Auto. The Serial Port 2 settings are: 3F8/IRQ4, 2E8/IRQ3, 3E8/IRQ4, 2F8/ IRQ3 (Default), Disabled, Auto.
ECP Mode Use DMA The options: 1 and 3 (Default) 4.1.6 Power Management Setup The Power Management Setup allows you to configure you system to most effectively save energy while operating in a manner consistent with your own style of computer use. Figure 4.10: Power management setup screen ACPI Function This category allows you to select ACPI power management effective or...
4.1.7 PNP/PCI Configuration Setup This section describes configuring the PCI bus system. PCI, or Personal Computer Interconnect, is a system which allows I/O devices to operate at speeds nearing the speed the CPU itself uses when communicating with its own special components. This section covers some very technical items and it is strongly recommended that only experienced users should make any changes to the default settings.
When resources are controlled manually, assign each system interrupt a type, depending on the type of device using the interrupt. PCI/VGA Palette Snoop Leave this field at Disabled. The settings are Enabled, Disabled (Default). 4.1.8 PC Health Status This section shows the Status of you CPU, Fan, Warning for overall sys- tem status.
To change, confirm, or disable the password, choose the "PASS-WORD SETTING" option form the Setup main menu and press [Enter]. The password can be at most 8 characters long. Remember, to enable this fea- ture. You must first select the Security Option in the Advance BIOS FEA- TURES SETUP to be either "Setup"...
Appendix A Programming the Watchdog Timer A.1 Programming the Watchdog Timer To program the watchdog timer, you must write a program which writes a value to I/O port address 443 (hex). The output value represents a time interval. The value range is from 01 (hex) to FF (hex), and the related time intervals are 1 sec.
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070-071 System CMOS / real time clock 081-083 Direct memory access controller 087-087 Direct memory access controller 089-08B Direct memory access controller 08F-091 Direct memory access controller 090-091 PCI bus 093-09F PCI bus 0A0-0A1 Programmable interrupt controller 0A2-0BF PCI bus 0C0-0DF Direct memory access controller 0D0-0EF...
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