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- Page 1 FS-979 Full-size PICMG CPU Card User’s Manual Edition: 1.11 2004/12/24...
- Page 2 FS-979 User’s Manual Copyright Copyright 2003 - 2004. All rights reserved. This document is copyrighted and all rights are reserved. The information in this document is subject to change without prior notice to make improvements to the products. This document contains proprietary information and protected by copyright. No part of this document may be reproduced, copied, or translated in any form or any means without prior written permission of the manufacturer.
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Page 3: Packing List
Packing List Packing List: Please check the packing list before you start to apply this production. Hardware: FS-979 Full-size PICMG CPU Card x 1 Cable Kit: Floppy flat cable x 1 40-pin ATA100 IDE flat cable x 1 DB25 & DB9 cable with bracket x 1... - Page 4 FS-979 User’s Manual Audio cable with bracket x 1 4-pin to 3-pin ATX cable x 1 PS/2 Keyboard & Mouse Cable x 1 CD Content: Drivers User’s Manual DVI module with bracket x 1 RAID drivers Disc for Windows 2000, Windows XP and Windows Server 2003 Audio &...
- Page 5 FS-979 User’s Manual Chapter 1 <Introduction> ... 7 1.1 <Product Overview>... 7 1.2 <Product Specification> ... 8 1.3 <Component Placement> ... 10 1.4 <Block Diagram>... 11 Chapter 2 <Hardware Setup>... 13 2.1 <Connector Location>... 13 2.2 <Connector Reference>... 14 2.2.1 <Internal Connector>... 14 2.2.2 <External Connector>...
- Page 6 FS-979 User’s Manual Chapter 3 <System Configuration>... 33 3.1 <SATA Configuration> ... 33 3.2 <SATA RAID Configuration> ... 36 3.3 <Video Memory Setup> ... 39 3.4 <Display Properties Setting>... 41 Chapter 4 <BIOS Setup> ... 43 Appendix A <I/O Port Pin Assignment>... 45 A.1 IDE Port ...
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Page 7: Chapter 1
Accelerator (GMA) 900 technology for new graphic engine. It can provide up to 224MB of frame buffer when you install over 256MB of system memory. The ICH6R integrates with up to 8 USB2.0 interfaces (4 ports for FS-979), and serial ATA interface with RAID function. Dual Display Supported Based on Intel®... -
Page 8: Product Specification
VGA Display Interface Chipset Intel® 915GV GMCH (Graphic Memory Controller Hub) Memory Intel® DVMT 3.0 with up to 224MB shared with system memory Display Type CRT, LCD monitor with DB15 or DVI interface Connector External DB15 female connector on rear I/O panel... - Page 9 Function I/O & IRQ supported only, no support DMA & bus mastering Audio Interface Chipset Intel® ICH6R with Realtek® ALC201A AC97 3D audio codec Interface 2 channel 3D audio with Line-in, Line-out and MIC-in Connector Internal header for Line-out, Line-in and MIC-in...
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Page 10: Component Placement
FS-979 User’s Manual 1.3 <Component Placement> Intel 82562EZ (LAN) USB2.0 DDR2 (Memory) Component Placement Winbond W83627THF ISA Bridge (Super I/O) SATA ICH6R (Southbridge) ALC201A (Audio) 915G (Northbridge) CH7307B-DE (DVI) LGA775 (CPU) Introduction Compact Flash... -
Page 11: Block Diagram
FS-979 User’s Manual 1.4 <Block Diagram> Intel Pentium 4 with 775 pin PLGA processor Intel GMA900 Graphics CH7307B-DE 4 x USB2.0 ports AC97 Codec 2 x Serial ports 1 x Floppy ports 8-bit GPIO 1 x Parallel ports Block Diagram 6.4GB/s... - Page 12 FS-979 User’s Manual (This Page is Left for Blank)
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Page 13: Chapter 2
FS-979 User’s Manual Chapter 2 <Hardware Setup> 2.1 <Connector Location> IDE1 LAN_LED CN_USB1 CN_USB0 CF (Solder Side) S_ATA4 S_ATA3 DIMMA_1 DIMMA_2 DIMMB_1 DIMMB_2 CN_PS CN_12V CN_PWR Connector Location CN_VGA RJ45_1 COM1 Hardware Setup CN_ATKB CN_COM2 CN_DIO CN_IR S_ATA2 S_ATA1 CDIN... -
Page 14: Connector Reference
FS-979 User’s Manual 2.2 <Connector Reference> 2.2.1 <Internal Connector> Connector LGA775 CPU socket DIMMA_1/2 240 –pin DDR2 SDRAM DIMM socket DIMMB_1/2 240 –pin DDR2 SDRAM DIMM socket IDE1 40-pin primary IDE connector 26-pin slim type floppy connector S_ATA1/2/3/4 7-pin Serial ATA connector... -
Page 15: Jumper Reference
FS-979 User’s Manual 2.3 <Jumper Reference> Jumper Function JRTC CMOS Operating/Clear Setting JDOM IDE1 Pin-20 voltage setting JCFSEL Compact Flash address setting JCSEL1 COM2 communication mode setting JCSEL2 COM2 communication mode setting JDOM JCFSEL JRTC Jumper Reference Hardware Setup JCSEL1... -
Page 16: Cpu And Memory Installation
FS-979 User’s Manual 2.4 <CPU and Memory installation> 2.4.1 <CPU Installation> FS-979 has a LGA755 CPU socket onboard; please check following steps to install the processor properly. 1. Lift this bar 2. Uncover this plate 4. Lock this bar Notice: Please place the CPU on the pins tenderly to avoid bending the pins Hardware Setup ®... -
Page 17: Memory Installation
FS-979 User’s Manual 2.4.2 <Memory Installation> FS-979 has four 240-pin DDR2 DIMM support up to 4GB of memory capacity. The memory frequency supports 400/533MHz (100MHz x 4 or 133MHz x 4). Only Non-ECC memory is supported. Dual-Channel technology is supported while applying two same modules on one of each group. -
Page 18: Cmos Setup
FS-979 User’s Manual 2.5 <CMOS Setup> The board’s data of CMOS can be setting in BIOS. If the board refuses to boot due to inappropriate CMOS settings, here is how to proceed to clear (reset) the CMOS to its default values. -
Page 19: Enhanced Ide Interface
The Intel® ICH6R (south bridge chip) supports one enhanced IDE interface, dual channel for two ATAPI devices with ATA100. Based on this function, FS-979 has one 40-pin IDE connector with jumper selectable for pin-20 +5V supported. The jumper JDOM is two-pin type for pin-20 supplied with +5V to apply the DOM (Disk on Module). -
Page 20: Serial Ata Interface
FS-979 User’s Manual 2.7 <Serial ATA interface> FS-979 has four Serial ATA interfaces with RAID function, the transfer rate of the Serial ATA can be up to 150MB/s. Please go to technology information. Based on Intel® ICH6R, it supports Intel® Matrix Storage Technology with combination of RAID 0 and RAID 1 modes. -
Page 21: Lan Interface
FS-979 User’s Manual 2.8 <LAN Interface> The board comes with an Intel PRO/100 LAN with 82562EZ PHY, or up to three Marvell E8053 Gigabit LAN with PCI-Express 1x. The PCI-Express is the last expansion interface technology, for its serial data transfer scheme, each 1x lane will be up to 500MB/s (duplex). -
Page 22: Audio Interface
FS-979 User’s Manual 2.9 <Audio Interface> FS-979 integrated with REALTEK® ALC201A Codec for 2 channel sound output. It supports 18-bit stereo full-duplex, compliant with AC97 Rev.2.2 specifications. Connector: CN_AUDIO Type: 10-pin (2 x 5) header (pitch = 2.54mm) Description Line – Right Line –... -
Page 23: Display Interface
FS-979 User’s Manual 2.10 <Display Interface> FS-979 integrates with Intel® 915G GMCH for Intel Graphic Media Accelerator (GMA) 900 technology. It supports Intel® DVMT (Dynamic Video Memory Technology) 3.0 for up to 224MB frame buffer size shared with system memory. With a 333MHz core and DirectX 9 and OpenGL acceleration, FS-979 provides the powerful onboard graphics interface without additional graphic card. - Page 24 FS-979 User’s Manual Connector: CN_DVI Connector type: 26-pin header connector (pitch = 2.00mm) Pin Number Assignment Pin Number TMDS_TX1+ Ground TMDS_TXC+ Ground TMDS_TX2+ Ground TMDS_TX0+ DDCDATA CN_DVI Hardware Setup Assignment TMDS_TX1- Ground TMDS_TXC- PVDD TMDS_TX2- Ground TMDS_TX0- HPDET DDCCLK Display Interface...
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Page 25: Compact Flash Interface
FS-979 User’s Manual 2.11 <Compact Flash Interface> The board has one Compact Flash Type-II socket, users can apply embedded system on CF card or Micro drives, the jumper JCFSEL can let you select operating mode under master or slave. The Compact Flash socket supports storage type only. -
Page 26: Usb2.0 Interface
FS-979 User’s Manual 2.12 <USB2.0 Interface> The board supports 4 USB2.0 ports based on Intel® ICH6R, which can support up to 480Mbps of transfer rate, and offer 500mA for maximum rating. The Intel® ICH6R contains and Enhanced Host Controller Interface (EHCI) and four Universal Host Controller Interfaces (UHCI), it can determine whether your connected device is for USB1.1 or USB2.0, and change the transfer rate automatically. -
Page 27: Power And Fan Installation
FS-979 User’s Manual 2.13 <Power and Fan Installation> The board comes with a 4-pin AT power connector and a 4-pin additional 12V power connector for powering the board, three fan connectors for Northbridge, CPU and system. The board also provides a 3-pin ATX function connector. You can just connect the two power connectors without any backplane to work. -
Page 28: Fan Connectors
FS-979 User’s Manual 2.13.2 <Fan Connectors> Connector: CPUFAN Type: 4-pin fan wafer connector Description Ground Fan Speed Detection Connector: NBFAN, SYSFAN Type: 3-pin fan wafer connector Pin Description Ground SYSFAN Description +12V CPUFAN Hardware Setup Description +12V Fan Control Description... -
Page 29: Serial Port Configuration
FS-979 User’s Manual 2.14 <Serial Port Configuration> The board supports one RS232 serial port and one jumper selectable RS232/422/485 serial ports. The jumper JCSEL1 & JCSEL2 can let you configure the communicating modes for COM2. Jumper: JCSEL1/2 Type: onboard 12-, 6-pin header... -
Page 30: Gpio Interface
FS-979 User’s Manual 2.15 <GPIO Interface> The board provides a 12-pin General Purpose I/O interface, with programmable 8-bit I/O (4-bit input & 4-bit output). Connector: CN_DIO Type: onboard 2 x 6-pin header, pitch=2.0mm Description Ground GP10 GP11 GP12 GP13 Description... -
Page 31: Switch And Indicator
FS-979 User’s Manual 2.16 <Switch and Indicator> The JFRNT provides front control panel of the board, such as power button, reset and beeper, etc. Please check well before you connecting the cables on the chassis. Connector: JFRNT Type: onboard 14-pin (2 x 7) 2.54-pitch header... - Page 32 FS-979 User’s Manual (This Page is Left for Blank)
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Page 33: Chapter 3
Chapter 3 <System Configuration> 3.1 <SATA Configuration> Based on Intel® ICH6R Southbridge chip, the board supports 4 Serial ATA ports; please follow the touring guide to setup your Serial ATA devices. For Windows 98/SE/ME, Windows NT4.0 and DOS system, they only support up to 4 IDE devices including SATA devices, and Windows 2000/XP/Server2003 have no such limitation. - Page 34 FS-979 User’s Manual System Configuration SATA Mode: This option can let you select whether the Serial ATA hard drives would work under normal IDE mode or RAID mode. The RAID mode need more than one HDD is applied. Once you enable the RAID mode, the boot-up screen would pop up the RAID configuration option for setup.
- Page 35 FS-979 User’s Manual System Configuration On-Chip Serial ATA mode: This option can let you select operation modes of Serial ATA drives. Disabled: To disable the onboard Serial ATA controller. Auto: To allow the system select the optimized mode automatically. Combined mode: PATA and SATA work as two channels for supporting two drives on each channel.
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Page 36: Sata Raid Configuration
FS-979 User’s Manual System Configuration 3.2 <SATA RAID Configuration> The board integrates Intel® ICH6R with RAID function for Serial ATA drives, and supports the configurations below: RAID 0 (Stripping): Two hard drives operating as one drive for optimized data R/W performance. - Page 37 FS-979 User’s Manual You can setup the RAID under operation system for Microsoft® Windows XP SP1 or Windows 2000 SP4 version, please install the Intel® Application Accelerator Ver.4.5 later to support RAID configuration with Intel® Matrix Storage Technology. 1. After installing Intel Application Accelerator, please execute Intel® Storage Utility.
- Page 38 FS-979 User’s Manual 3. Please select two hard drives to prepare to set the RAID volume 4. Specify the Volume size Tune this bar to specify the volume size, if you specify the volume size lower than maximum, you can create a second volume for another RAID set.
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Page 39: Video Memory Setup
Intel® DVMT (Dynamic Video Memory Technology) 3.0, which would allow the video memory be triggered up to 224MB. To support DVMT, you need to install the Intel GMA 900 Driver with supported OS. BIOS Setup: On-Chip Video Memory Size: This option combines three items below for setup. - Page 40 FS-979 User’s Manual Fixed + DVMT Memory Size: You can select the fixed amount and the DVMT amount at the same time for a guaranteed video memory and additional dynamic video memory, please check the table below for available setting.
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Page 41: Display Properties Setting
FS-979 User’s Manual 3.4 <Display Properties Setting> Based on Intel 915G GMCH with GMA 900 (Graphic Media Accelerator), the board supports two DACs for display device as different resolution and color bit. Please install the Intel Graphic Driver before you starting setup display devices. - Page 42 FS-979 User’s Manual 3. This setup options can let you define each device settings. Click Monitor to setup the CRT monitor for Colors, Resolution and Refresh Rate Click Digital Display to setup the DVI monitor for Colors, and Resolution Click Intel®...
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Page 43: Chapter 4
The motherboard uses the Award BIOS for the system configuration. The Award BIOS in the single board computer is a customized version of the industrial standard BIOS for IBM PC AT-compatible computers. It supports Intel x86 and compatible CPU architecture based processors and computers. The BIOS provides critical low-level support for the system central processing, memory and I/O sub-systems. - Page 44 FS-979 User’s Manual (This Page is Left for Blank)
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Page 45: Appendix A
FS-979 User’s Manual Appendix A <I/O Port Pin Assignment> A.1 IDE Port Connector: IDE1 Type: 40-pin (20 x 2) box header Description Reset Ground IOW-/STOP IOR-/HDMARDY IORDY/DDMARDY DACK- CS0 (MASTER CS) LED ACT- A.2 <Serial ATA Port> Connector: S_ATA1/2/3/4 Type: 7-pin wafer connector... -
Page 46: A.3 < Floppy Port
FS-979 User’s Manual A.3 < Floppy Port > Connector: Floppy Type: 34-pin (2 x 17) header Description Ground Ground Ground Ground Ground Ground Ground Ground Ground Ground Ground Ground Ground Ground Ground Ground Ground A.4 <IrDA Port> Connector: CN_IR Type: 5-pin header for SIR Ports... -
Page 47: A.6.1
FS-979 User’s Manual A.5 < Parallel Port> Connector: CN_LPT Type: 26-pin (2 x 13) 2.54-pitch box header Description STROBE- ACKNOWLEDGE- BUSY PAPER EMPTY SELECT+ A.6 <Serial Port> A.6.1 <External DB9 serial port> Connector: COM1 (VDL only) Type: 9-pin D-sub male connector on bracket... -
Page 48: A.8.2
FS-979 User’s Manual A.7 <VGA Port> Connector: VGA (VDL only) Type: 15-pin D-sub female connector on bracket Description GREEN BLUE Ground A.8 <LAN Port> A.8.1 < Fast Ethernet> Connector: RJ45_1 Type: RJ45 connector with LED on bracket Description A.8.2 <Gigabit Ethernet >... -
Page 49: A.10
FS-979 User’s Manual A.9 <AT Keyboard Port> Connector: CN_ATKB Type: 5-pin box header Description A.10 <PS/2 Keyboard & Mouse Port> Connector: PS2 Type: 6-pin Mini-DIN connector on bracket Description Note: The PS/2 connector supports standard PS/2 keyboard directly or both PS/2 keyboard and mouse through the PS/2 Y-type cable. - Page 50 FS-979 User’s Manual (This Page is Left for Blank)
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Page 51: B.1 Bios Auto Flash Tool
FS-979 User’s Manual Appendix B <Flash BIOS> B.1 BIOS Auto Flash Tool The board is based on Award BIOS and can be updated easily by the BIOS auto flash tool. You can download the tool online at the address below: http://www.award.com... -
Page 52: Contact Information
FS-979 User’s Manual Contact Information Any advice or comment about our products and service, or anything we can help you please don’t hesitate to contact with us. We will do our best to support you for your products, projects and business Taiwan Commate Computer Inc.
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