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ROBO-8710VLA
Single Board Computer
User's Manual
P/N: B8980710 Version 1.4
Copyright © Portwell, Inc., 2004. All rights reserved.
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  • Page 1 ROBO-8710VLA Single Board Computer User's Manual P/N: B8980710 Version 1.4 Copyright © Portwell, Inc., 2004. All rights reserved. All other brand names are registered trademarks of their respective owners.

  • Page 2: Table Of Contents

    Preface Table of Contents How to Use This Manual Chapter 1 System Overview ....................... 1-1 1.1 Introduction..........................1-1 1.2 Check List ............................. 1-2 1.3 Product Specification ........................1-3 1.3.1 Mechanical Drawing ......................1-6 1.4 System Architecture ........................1-6 Chapter 2 Hardware Configuration.................... 2-1 2.1 Jumper Setting..........................

  • Page 3: How To Use This Manual

    Preface How to Use This Manual The manual describes how to configure your ROBO-8710VLA system to meet various operating requirements. It is divided into five chapters, with each chapter addressing a basic concept and operation of Single Board Computer. Chapter 1 : System Overview. Presents what you have in the box and give you an overview of the product specifications and basic system architecture for this model of single board computer.
  • Page 4 (1996) EN 61000-4-4 (1995) EN 61000-3-2 (1995) EN 61000-3-3 (1995) The following manufacturer is responsible for this declaration : Portwell, Inc. (Company Name) 3F, No.88, Sec.1, Nei-Hu Rd., Taipei, Taiwan, R.O.C. (Company Address) Taipei, R.O.C. Place Date Legal Signature of...
  • Page 5 Preface WARNING Remove Processor Caution: Do not pull out processor without opening socket handle! High viscosity thermal grease between processor and cooler will lead the processor be pulled out from socket when taking cooler off. This action may damage processor socket, which will cause poor contact between CPU & socket.

  • Page 6: Chapter 1 System Overview

    Mini-DIN connector (with Y-Cable) is provided to connect PS/2 Mouse and Keyboard. The on-board Flash ROM is used to make the BIOS update easier, ROM chip can be replaced quickly. The ROBO-8710VLA also provide up to 8 high driving GPIO and high-resolution watchdog timer. All of these features make ROBO-8710VLA excellent in many applications and one of the best performing single board computer in the market.

  • Page 7: Check List

    Pentium 4 high computing power. You can find ROBO-8710VLA manual and CD-Title in this package, please just ignore multimedia related driver/utility/setting instruction. Other jumper settings and connectors should be referred as for ROBO-8710VLA.

  • Page 8: Product Specification

    ACPI, DMI, Green function and Plug and Play Compatible Main Memory Two DIMM sockets support non-buffered 200/266 DDR-SDRAM up to 2GB. ROBO-8710VLA supports ECC function without buffer or register L2 Cache Memory 512/256KB in Intel® Pentium® 4/Celeron Processor Chipset...
  • Page 9 Monitor CPU temperature, system temperature and major power sources, etc Bracket Support one Ethernet port with 2 indicators, one Mini-DIN port for PS/2 mouse/keyboard, one USB port, and one CRT port Outline Dimension (L X W): 338.5mm (13.33”) X 122mm (4.8”) ROBO-8710VLA User’s Manual...
  • Page 10 T est Programs: 3D Mark 2001 for loading VGA and Burning Test V3.0 for loading CPU C onnected Fans: Only CPU fan connected ‧ R un Time: 10 minutes ‧ Operating Temperature: -5°C ~ 60°C (23°F ~ 140°F) Storage Temperature: -20°C ~ 80°C Relative Humidity: 0% ~ 95%, non-condensing ROBO-8710VLA User’s Manual...

  • Page 11: Mechanical Drawing

    CPU provides better performance to many applications. The PCI-to-ISA bridge supports a standard 16-bit ISA bus interface which is applied for all slower I/O operations. In ROBO-8710VLA, it supports DiskOnChip (DOC) for M-systems Flash disk. There is one on-board PCI Fast Ethernet via RJ-45 Ports to support full functionality of ROBO-8710VLA AIO SBC (All-In-One Single Board Computer).
  • Page 12 2 ATA 100 IDE Channels 82801BA ICH2 IDE Bus Master PCI BUS (360 EBGA) IDE 1 IDE 2 3 x USB PORTS PC87200VUL DiskOnChip BUFFER 2UART/LPT/FDD/IR SUPER I/O W83627HF Keyboard ISA BUS Hardware Monitor Golden Finger Mouse ROBO-8710VLA System Block Diagram ROBO-8710VLA User’s Manual...

  • Page 13: Chapter 2 Hardware Configuration

    ( ). Jumper Setting For users to customize ROBO-8710VLA’s features. In the following sections, Short means covering a jumper cap over jumper pins; Open or N/C (Not Connected) means removing a jumper cap from jumper pins. Users can refer to Figure 2-1 for the Jumper locations.
  • Page 14 5V, Active Low 1-2, 4-6 Short 5V, Active High 1-3, 5-6 Short 12V, Active Low 1-3, 4-6 Short 12V, Active High LVDS Panel Power (VDD) Selection (Pin 7~Pin 10) JP9 7~10 Function 7-8 Short 9-10 Short 3.3V ROBO-8710VLA User’s Manual...

  • Page 15: Connector Allocation

    Panel VDD are strongly recommended to be controlled by on-board VGA chipset through proper JP9 setting. 2) If other resolution combination is needed, please contact Portwell for this. Connector Allocation I/O peripheral devices and flash disk are connected to the interface connectors and...
  • Page 16 68-pin PCI Connector PS/2 keyboard/Mouse Connector 6-pin Mini-DIN Audio MIC/Line-in/Line-out Connector TV-out Connector Audio CD-in Connector On-board VGA CRT Connector External keyboard Connector Connect to Backplane CPU Fan Connector System Fan Connector SMBus Connector LVDS Panel Connector ROBO-8710VLA User’s Manual...
  • Page 17 An external thermistor can be connected to these 2 pins for temperature monitoring remotely, such as chassis ambient temperature, etc. Normally, the resistance selected for thermistor should be 10KOhm at 25 degrees centigrade. J5: 12V CPU Supplementary Connector PIN No. Signal Description Ground Ground +12V +12V ROBO-8710VLA User’s Manual...
  • Page 18 Motor ENA# Ground Drive Select B# Ground Drive Select A# Ground Motor ENB# Ground Direction# Ground Step# Ground Write Data# Ground Write Gate# Ground Track 0# Ground Write Protect# Ground Read Data# Ground Head Select# Ground Disk Change# ROBO-8710VLA User’s Manual...
  • Page 19 2) The 4 extra DO ports are provided for the applications that need higher driving capability. Through invert amplitude respected to GPIO port, each open-drain DO port can stand maximum fan out for up to 100mA, rather than 12mA direct driven by GPIO port. ROBO-8710VLA User’s Manual...
  • Page 20 2) Some of USB 2.0 devices need large current consumption. It is helpful for them to detect by system while Standalone Power connector is connected on SBC. J14: LVDS Panel Control Connector PIN No. Signal Description +12V Ground Panel VDD Backlight-on Signal Output ROBO-8710VLA User’s Manual...
  • Page 21 The pull-high voltage of external speaker is limited at 5V maximum. J19: Power LED and Keyboard Lock Connector PIN No. Signal Description +5V (330 Ohm pull-up for power LED+) Ground (For Power LED-) Keyboard Lock Signal Input (Active low) Ground ROBO-8710VLA User’s Manual...
  • Page 22 TMDS DATA1- (TX1N) TMDS DATA1+ (TX1P) Ground Ground TMDS DATA2- (TX2N) TMDS DATA2+ (TX2P) Ground Ground TMDS CLOCK- (TXCN) TMDS CLOCK+ (TXCP) DVI DDC Clock (5V I/F) DVI DDC Data (5V I/F) Hot Plug Detect (HPD) ROBO-8710VLA User’s Manual 2-10...
  • Page 23 Signal Description Ground +12V Fan Speed Detecting signal Note: The fan must be a 12V fan. And there is not any over current protection. J26: Single-port USB Connector PIN No. Signal Description 5V Dual USB0- USB0+ Ground ROBO-8710VLA User’s Manual 2-11...
  • Page 24 AD24 AD25 AD26 AD27 AD28 AD29 AD30 AD31 Ground C/BE#0 C/BE#1 C/BE#2 C/BE#3 FRAME# TRDY# IRDY# Ground STOP# DEVSEL# PERR# SERR# REQ#4 GNT#4 REQ#5 GNT#5 Ground PCI Clock1 PCI Clock2 PCIRST# LOCK# IRQ#A IRQ#B IRQ#C IRQ#D ROBO-8710VLA User’s Manual 2-12...
  • Page 25 SVID C (Colour) Green SVID Y (Luminance) COMP/B Blue Composite Video SYNC Sync Signal Note: Different video interfaces will be auto selected. The selection will be made base on the different impedance combination from each signal line. ROBO-8710VLA User’s Manual 2-13...
  • Page 26 Vertical Sync. (VSYNC) (5V I/F) VGA DDC Clock (5V I/F) J33: External Keyboard Connector PIN No. Signal Description Keyboard Clock Keyboard Data Ground 5V Dual J36: SMBus Connector PIN No. Signal Description SMBus Clock Ground SMBus Data ROBO-8710VLA User’s Manual 2-14...
  • Page 27 2) This panel connector (J40) should be accompanied with LVDS Panel Control Connector (J14) and its jumper setting (JP9). 3) In general, lower channel equals odd channel and upper channel equals even channel for different panel description. ROBO-8710VLA User’s Manual 2-15...

  • Page 28: Chapter 3 System Installation

    4) Follow the steps of installing a CPU to change to another one or place handling bar to close the opened socket. Configuring System Bus ROBO-8710VLA will automatically detect the CPU used. CPU speed of Intel P4 can be detected automatically. ROBO-8710VLA User’s Manual...

  • Page 29: Main Memory

    M-systems Flash Disk ROBO-8710VLA reserves one 32-pin DIP sockets for installing M-systems Flash disk from 2MB to 512MB. This operation structure is running with pure ISA-bus without PnP (Plug and Play) function. Before installing, make sure that I/O address jumper setting is set on right position to prevent unworkable system due to I/O resource conflict.

  • Page 30: Installing The Single Board Computer

    3.4.1 Chipset Component Driver The chipset on ROBO-8710VLA is a new chipset that a few old operating systems might not be able to recognize. To overcome this compatibility issue, for Windows Operating Systems such as Windows-95/98/98SE/2000, please install its INF before any of other Drivers are installed.

  • Page 31: Fast Ethernet Controller

    System Installation Drivers Support Please find ATI Mobility Radeon driver in the ROBO-8710VLA CD-title. Drivers support Windows-98/98SE/ME, Windows-NT 3.51/4.0, Windows-2000, OS2, and Linux. Windows-98/98SE: Please execute exe file to start graphics driver installation, or bring up the Display Control Panel and update graphics driver.

  • Page 32: Audio Device

    3.4.5 68-pin PCI connector ROBO-8710VLA provides one on-board 68-pin PCI connector that allows you to apply additional PCI devices, such as SCSI or Ethernet. If you have a compatible PCI device, simply plug it onto the connector and secure it with two retention bars.

  • Page 33: Watch Dog Timer Function

    The ROBO-8710VLA allows users control WDT through dynamic software programming. The WDT starts counting when it is activated. It sends out a signal to system reset or to non-maskable interrupt (NMI), when time-out interval ends. To prevent the time-out interval from running out, a re-trigger signal will need to be sent before the counting reaches its end.

  • Page 34: Smbus

    The SMBus may share the same host device and physical bus as ACCESS bus components provided that an appropriate electrical bridge is provided between the internal SMB devices and external ACCESS bus devices. ROBO-8710VLA User’s Manual...

  • Page 35: Display Output

    The selection will be made base on the different impedances combinations. GPIO The ROBO-8710VLA provides 4 input/output ports that can be individually configured to perform a simple basic I/O function. Users can configure each individual port to become an input or output port by programming register bit of I/O Selection.
  • Page 36 Only high nibble is available for this function. If a port is assigned to be an output port, then its respective bit can be read/written. If a port is assigned to be an input port, then its respective bit can be read only. ROBO-8710VLA User’s Manual...
  • Page 37 System Installation Notes: 1) All the Buffered Digital Outputs are open-drain amplified from corresponding GPIO ports. 2) Some other functions may occupy the lower nibble of the registers. Altering any content in lower nibble will be undesired. ROBO-8710VLA User’s Manual 3-10...

  • Page 38: Chapter 4 Bios Setup Information

    Chapter 4 BIOS Setup Information ROBO-8710VLA is equipped with the Phoenix (AWARD) BIOS stored in Flash ROM. This BIOS has a built-in Setup program that allows users to modify the basic system configuration easily. This type of information is stored in CMOS RAM so that it is retained during power-off periods.

  • Page 39: Main Menu

    BIOS Setup Information Main Menu Once you enter ROBO-8710VLA AWARD BIOS CMOS Setup Utility, you should start with the Main Menu. The Main Menu allows you to select from eleven setup functions and two exit choices. Use arrow keys to switch among items and press <Enter>...

  • Page 40: Standard Cmos Setup Menu

    EGA/VGA Halt On All, But Keyboard Based Memory 640K Extended Memory 260096K Total Memory 261120K ↑↓→←: Move Enter: Select +/-/PU/PD: Value F10: Save ESC: Exit F1: General Help F5: Previous Values F6: Fail-Safe Defaults F7: Optimized Defaults ROBO-8710VLA User’s Manual...
  • Page 41 All, but Disk/Key Base Memory 640K Displays the amount of conventional memory detected during boot up Extended Memory N/A Displays the amount of extended memory detected during boot up Total Memory Displays the total memory available in the system ROBO-8710VLA User’s Manual...

  • Page 42: Ide Adaptors Setup Menu

    Capacity 20491 MB head... on this channel Cylinder 39703 Head Precomp Landing Zone 39702 Sector ↑↓→←: Move Enter: Select +/-/PU/PD: Value F10: Save ESC: Exit F1: General Help F5: Previous Values F6: Fail-Safe Defaults F7: Optimized Defaults ROBO-8710VLA User’s Manual...
  • Page 43 Min = 0 **** Warning: Setting a value of 65535 Max = 65535 means no hard disk Landing zone Min = 0 **** Max = 65535 Sector Min = 0 Number of sectors per track Max = 255 ROBO-8710VLA User’s Manual...

  • Page 44: Advanced Bios Features

    Activates automatically when the system boots up causing a warning message to appear when anything attempts to access the boot sector or hard disk partition table. Disabled No warning message will appear when anything attempts to access the boot sector or hard disk partition table. ROBO-8710VLA User’s Manual...
  • Page 45 The choice: Enabled, Disabled. Boot Up Floppy Seek Enabled tests floppy drives to determine whether they have 40 or 80 tracks The choice: Enabled, Disabled. Boot Up NumLock Status Select power on state for NumLock. The choice: Off, On. ROBO-8710VLA User’s Manual...
  • Page 46 Once the security is disabled, the system will boot and you can enter Setup freely. MPS Version Control For OS The choice: 1.1, 1.4. OS Select For DRAM > 64MB Select the operating system that is running with greater than 64MB of RAM on the system. The choice: Non-OS2, OS2. ROBO-8710VLA User’s Manual...

  • Page 47: Advanced Chipset Features

    Such a scenario might well occur if your system had mixed speed DRAM chips installed so that greater delays may be required to preserve the integrity of the data held in the slower memory chips. ROBO-8710VLA User’s Manual 4-10...
  • Page 48 There are two options available. The DRAM integrity mode will be implemented by the parity algorithm when this option is set to “Non-ECC”. The choice: Non ECC, ECC. Memory Frequency For Users are recommended to use Auto for memory frequency selection. The choice: DDR200, DDR266, Auto. ROBO-8710VLA User’s Manual 4-11...
  • Page 49 The choice: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, PCI CLK. 16 bit IO Recovery Time The choice: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, PCI CLK. ROBO-8710VLA User’s Manual 4-12...

  • Page 50: Integrated Peripherals

    Midi Port Address Midi Port IRQ Watch Dog Timer Select Disabled DOC Memory Address Range D8000-D9FFF ↑↓→←: Move Enter: Select +/-/PU/PD: Value F10: Save ESC: Exit F1: General Help F5: Previous Values F6: Fail-Safe Defaults F7: Optimized Defaults ROBO-8710VLA User’s Manual 4-13...
  • Page 51 The choice: Enabled, Disabled. USB Mouse Support This item allows you to enabled USB Mouse function under POST, BIOS Setup menu, DOS, or Window-NT with no USB driver loaded. The choice: Enabled, Disabled. AC97 Audio The choice: Auto, Disabled. ROBO-8710VLA User’s Manual 4-14...
  • Page 52 In the event of “Power On Function” being configured as “Hot Key”, this item will be enabled for tuning. The choice: Ctrl-F1 to Ctrl-F12. Onboard FDC Controller This item allows you to enable/disable onboard Floppy disk controller. The choice: Enabled, Disabled. ROBO-8710VLA User’s Manual 4-15...
  • Page 53 Use IR Pins The available choices are IR-Rx2Tx2/ RxD2, TxD2. The choice: IR-Rx2Tx2, RxD2, TxD2. Onboard Parallel Port This item allows you to configure I/O address of the onboard parallel port. The choice: Disabled, 378/IRQ7, 278/IRQ5, 3BC/IRQ7. ROBO-8710VLA User’s Manual 4-16...
  • Page 54 The choice: Disabled, 10 Sec, 20 Sec, 30 Sec, 40 Sec, 1 Min, 2 Min, 4 Min. DOC Memory Address Range There are 4 sections option in the memory available to be selected. The choice: D8000-D9FFF, DA000-DBFFF, DC000-DDFFF and DE000-DFFFF. ROBO-8710VLA User’s Manual 4-17...

  • Page 55: Power Management Setup

    ↑↓→←: Move Enter: Select +/-/PU/PD: Value F10: Save ESC: Exit F1: General Help F5: Previous Values F6: Fail-Safe Defaults F7: Optimized Defaults ACPI Function This item allows you to enable/disable the Advanced Configuration and Power Management (ACPI). The choice: Enabled, Disabled. ROBO-8710VLA User’s Manual 4-18...
  • Page 56 Initial display power management signaling. Video Off In Suspend This allows user to enable/disable video off in Suspend Mode. The choice: Yes, No. Suspend Type Two options are available: Stop Grant and PwrOn Suspend. The choice: Stop Grant, PwrOn Suspend. ROBO-8710VLA User’s Manual 4-19...
  • Page 57 This item allows users to enable/disable the resume by alarm function. When “Enabled” is selected, system using ATX power supply could be powered on if a customized time and day is approached. The choice: Enabled, Disabled. ROBO-8710VLA User’s Manual 4-20...
  • Page 58 The choice: Enabled, Disabled. PCI PIRQ[A-D]# This option can be used to detect PCI device activities. If they are activities, the system will go into sleep mode. The choice: Enabled, Disabled. ROBO-8710VLA User’s Manual 4-21...

  • Page 59: Pnp/Pci Configurations

    BIOS can automatically configure all the boot and plug and play compatible devices. If you choose Auto, you cannot select IRQ DMA and memory base address fields, since BIOS automatically assigns them. The choice: Auto (ESCD), Manual. ROBO-8710VLA User’s Manual 4-22...
  • Page 60 The choice: Auto, 3, 4, 5, 7, 9, 10, 11, 12, 14, 15. INT Pin 3/Pin 6/Pin 7 Assignment Devices (S) using this INT: The choice: Auto, 3, 4, 5, 7, 9, 10, 11, 12, 14, 15. ROBO-8710VLA User’s Manual 4-23...

  • Page 61: Pc Health Status

    -12 V -11.78V - 5 V -4.79V VBAT(V) 3.21V 5VSB(V) 5.01V CPU Throttle Temperature Disabled ↑↓→←: Move Enter: Select +/-/PU/PD: Value F10: Save ESC: Exit F1: General Help F5: Previous Values F6: Fail-Safe Defaults F7: Optimized Defaults ROBO-8710VLA User’s Manual 4-24...

  • Page 62: Frequency/Voltage Control

    F1: General Help F5: Previous Values F6: Fail-Safe Defaults F7: Optimized Defaults Auto Detect PCI CLK The choice: Enabled, Disabled. Spread Spectrum This item allows you to enable/disable the spread spectrum modulate. The choice: Enabled, Disabled. ROBO-8710VLA User’s Manual 4-25...

  • Page 63: Default Menu

    To disable a password, just press <Enter> when you are prompted to enter the password. A message will confirm the password will be disabled. Once the password is disabled, the system will boot and you can enter Setup freely. ROBO-8710VLA User’s Manual 4-26...

  • Page 64: Exiting Selection

    Pressing <Enter> on this item asks for confirmation: Quit without saving (Y/N)? N This allows you to exit Setup without storing in CMOS any change. The previous selections remain in effect. This exits the Setup utility and restarts your computer. ROBO-8710VLA User’s Manual 4-27...

  • Page 65: Post Messages

    Also be sure the disk is formatted as a boot device. Then reboot the system. DISKETTE DRIVES OR TYPES MISMATCH ERROR - RUN SETUP Type of diskette drive installed in the system is different from the CMOS definition. Run Setup to reconfigure the drive type correctly. ROBO-8710VLA User’s Manual 4-28...
  • Page 66 Cannot find or initialize the floppy drive controller. Make sure the controller is installed correctly and firmly. If there are no floppy drives installed, be sure the Diskette Drive selection in Setup is set to NONE. ROBO-8710VLA User’s Manual 4-29...
  • Page 67 Setup and enter the new memory size in the memory fields. Memory Verify Error at ... Indicates an error verifying a value already written to memory. Use the location along with your system's memory map to locate the bad chip. ROBO-8710VLA User’s Manual 4-30...
  • Page 68 The board installed is not responding to the ID request, or no board ID has been found in the indicated slot. Note : When this error appears, the system will boot in ISA mode, which allows you to run the EISA Configuration Utility. ROBO-8710VLA User’s Manual 4-31...
  • Page 69 Keyboard error or no keyboard present. Cannot initialize the keyboard. Make sure the keyboard is attached correctly and no keys are being pressed during the boot. BIOS ROM checksum error - System halted. The checksum of ROM address F0000H-FFFFFH is bad. ROBO-8710VLA User’s Manual 4-32...

  • Page 70: Bios Post Check Point List

    -Auto-detection of L2 cache (socket 7 or below) Expand compressed BIOS code to DRAM Call chipset hook to copy BIOS back to E000 & F000 shadow RAM. Expand the Xgroup codes locating in physical address 1000:0 Reserved Initial Superio_Early_Init switch. Reserved ROBO-8710VLA User’s Manual 4-33...
  • Page 71 Initial interrupts vector table. If no special specified, all H/W interrupts are directed to SPURIOUS_INT_HDLR & S/W interrupts to SPURIOUS_soft_HDLR. Reserved Initial EARLY_PM_INIT switch. Reserved Load keyboard matrix (notebook platform) Reserved HPM initialization (notebook platform) Reserved ROBO-8710VLA User’s Manual 4-34...
  • Page 72 Reset keyboard except Winbond 977 series Super I/O chips. Reserved Reserved Reserved Reserved Reserved Reserved Reserved Reserved Test 8254 Reserved Test 8259 interrupt mask bits for channel 1. Reserved Test 8259 interrupt mask bits for channel 2. ROBO-8710VLA User’s Manual 4-35...
  • Page 73 Show message for entering AWDFLASH.EXE from FDD (optional) Reserved 1. Initialize Init_Onboard_Super_IO switch. 2. Initialize Init_Onbaord_AUDIO switch. Reserved Reserved Okay to enter Setup utility; i.e. not until this POST stage can users enter the CMOS setup utility. Reserved Reserved Reserved Reserved ROBO-8710VLA User’s Manual 4-36...
  • Page 74 1. Call chipset power management hook. 2. Recover the text fond used by EPA logo (not for full screen logo) 3. If password is set, ask for password. Save all data in stack back to CMOS Initialize ISA PnP boot devices ROBO-8710VLA User’s Manual 4-37...

  • Page 75: Bios Flash Utility

    BIOS version. Please contact your technical window to get this utility if necessary. Note : Remark or delete any installed Memory Management Utility (such as HIMEM.SYS, EMM386.EXE, QEMM.EXE, …, etc.) in the CONFIG.SYS files before running Flash programming utility. ROBO-8710VLA User’s Manual 4-38...

  • Page 76: Chapter 5 Troubleshooting

    BIOS setting, and OS diagnostics. Backplane Setup Backplane ROBO-8710VLA is a full-sized SBC, and therefore is only able to run on PICMG PCI/ISA backplane. P4 Power Connector ROBO-8710VLA requires power drawing from at least two connectors. The CPU supplementary power connector (J5) should be connected at all time for this P4 system to run properly.
  • Page 77 Step4: Please find the J12 4-pin ATX Power Control Connector on the center part of ROBO-8710VLA in white color. You will also see a mark with “J12” on the upper side of J12 header. Connect the 4-pin ATX power control cable with this J12 header.
  • Page 78 Q: In addition to the above description, is there anything to do to finish up an ATX system? A: Yes. ROBO-8710VLA needs to be configured to support ATX function for the above cabling. Please move jumper JP4 to 3-5 short and 4-6 short (support ATX function).

  • Page 79: Onboard Hardware Installation

    Troubleshooting Q: How can I build up an AT system using ATX power supply A: Do not forget to move JP4 of ROBO-8710VLA back to 1-3 short and 2-4 short (support AT function). If the ATX power supply has a switch, such as ORION-300ATX, do not remove the jumper of backplane connector in step 1, and use the power supply switch as the system power on switch.
  • Page 80 BIOS to pick up the default CPU core/bus ratio as well. It needs to be emphasized again that ROBO-8710VLA does not have switch or jumper to configure CPU core/bus ratio. This is done through BIOS automatically. Please check in the “Frequency/Voltage Control”...

  • Page 81: Bios Setting

    BIOS setting back to the initial factory configuration. It is recommended to do this so you can be sure the system is running with the BIOS setting that Portwell has highly endorsed. As a matter of fact, users can load the default BIOS setting any time when system appears to be unstable in boot up sequence.

  • Page 82: Os Diagnostics

    Please proceed to do so and restart your Windows. Devices with removed drivers will be automatically detected again. The drivers will be loaded automatically, if drivers have been included in the system database, else you will be asked to provide driver source for installation. ROBO-8710VLA User’s Manual...
  • Page 83 By default, any Windows OS starts with 640 x 480 with 16 colors display. The display driver provided in ROBO-8710VLA product CDROM can be installed into operating system to maximize the VGA performance. If you are using a monitor that Microsoft®...
  • Page 84 7. Network setup within Windows-NT 4.0 is not as easy as within Windows-95/98. Special familiarity and care are required for a successful installation. Note: Please visit our technical web site at http://www.portwell.com.tw For additional technical information, which is not covered in this manual. ROBO-8710VLA User’s Manual...
  • Page 85 C000 – CFFF Video ROM D000 – C97F D980 – DB49 7.2K Unused DB4A – DFFE High RAM DFFF – E300 Unused E301 – EBFF High RAM EC00 – EFFF Unused F000 – FFFF System ROM First 64K Extended ROBO-8710VLA User’s Manual...
  • Page 86 Usable IRQ IRQ 10 [Unassigned] Usable IRQ IRQ 11 [Unassigned] Usable IRQ IRQ 12 System ROM IBM Mouse Event IRQ 13 System ROM Coprocessor Error IRQ 14 System ROM Hard Disk Event IRQ 15 [Unassigned] Usable IRQ ROBO-8710VLA User’s Manual...

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