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- Page 1 P4ELA Micro ATX motherboard User’s Manual Edition: 1.0 2009/07/28...
- Page 2 P4ELA User’s Manual Copyright Copyright 2009. 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
P4ELA User’s Manual Packing List Please check package component before you use our products. Hardware: P4ELA Micro ATX motherboard x 1 Cable Kit: SATA Cable x 2 Floppy flat cable x 1 DB25 & DB9 cable x 1 I/O Shield x 1... - Page 4 P4ELA User’s Manual Index Chapter1 <Introduction> ............7 1.1 <Product Overview> .....................7 1.2 <Product Specification> ..................8 1.3 <Block Diagram> ....................10 1.4 <Mechanical Drawing > ..................11 Chapter 2 <Hardware Setup> ..........12 2.1 <Connector Location>..................12 2.2 <Component Placement> ...................13 2.3 <Jumper Reference> ..................14 2.4 <Connector Reference>..................15...
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Page 5: Contact Information
P4ELA User’s Manual Chapter 3 <System Configuration> ........36 3.1 <SATA configuration>..................36 3.2 <SATA RAID Configuration> ................37 3.3 <Audio Configuration> ..................41 3.4 <Video Memory Setup> ..................42 3.5 <Display Properties Setting>................44 Chapter 4 <BIOS Setup> ............46 Appendix A <I/O Port Pin Assignment>... - Page 6 P4ELA User’s Manual (This Page is Left for Blank...
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Page 7: Chapter1
1GB of system memory. The ICH10DO integrates with up to 12 USB2.0 interfaces, and serial ATA II interface with RAID function. PCI-Express interface P4ELA integrates one x16 and one x4 PCI-Express interface, it can provide up to 8GB/s of bandwidth. Flexible Extension Interface The board provides Two PCI-slot for graphics card, it also can support PCI-slot for LAN card or other devices. -
Page 8: Product Specification
P4ELA User’s Manual 1.2 <Product Specification> General Specification Form Factor Micro ATX motherboard Intel® Core 2 Quad / Core 2 Duo / Celeron processor With LGA775 socket Package type: LGA 775 Front side bus: 800/1066/1333MHZ (200/266/333MHz x 4) Memory 2 x 240-pin DDR3 800/1066MHz SDRAM up to 4GB... - Page 9 P4ELA User’s Manual Audio Interface Chipset Intel® ICH10DO with Realtek ALC888HD Audio Intel High Definition Audio compliance Interface 2 channels sound output Connector External 3 phone jack for 2 channel audio on rear I/O panel External SPDIF connector on rear I/O panel...
- Page 10 P4ELA User’s Manual 1.3 <Block Diagram> Intel Core 2 Quad / Core Due with 775 Pin PLGA 4 x 240-pin DDR3 Intel Q45 800/1066MHz up PCIE 16x Slot to 8GB 6 x Serial ATAII ports 12 x USB2.0 ports Intel 82574L...
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Page 11: Mechanical Drawing
P4ELA User’s Manual 1.4 <Mechanical Drawing > Unit: inch... -
Page 12: Chapter 2
P4ELA User’s Manual Chapter 2 <Hardware Setup> 2.1 <Connector Location> CN_COM4 CDIN CN_LPT CN_COM5/6 CN_AUDIO CN_IR CN_12V CN_DIO CPUFAN Mini-PCI CN_SMBUS JFRNT SYSFAN USB 1/2/3/4 SATA 1/2/3/4/5/6... -
Page 13: Component Placement
P4ELA User’s Manual 2.2 <Component Placement> PCI-Expres Mini-PCI COM2+COM3 Audio SPDIF USB_RJ45_1/2 COM1 + CRT... - Page 14 P4ELA User’s Manual 2.3 <Jumper Reference> Jumper Function JRTC CMOS Operating/Clear Setting (Page 18) COM1 signal mode switch (For Pin-1 & Pin-9) (Page 32) COM2 signal mode switch (For Pin-1 & Pin-9) (Page 32) Power mode select JCSEL1 CN_COM2 RS-232 RS422 RS485 Setting...
- Page 15 P4ELA User’s Manual 2.4 <Connector Reference> 2.4.1 <Internal Connectors> Connector Function Remark LGA775 CPU socket DDR3_A1/A2/B1/B2 240 –pin DDR2 SDRAM DIMM socket 34-pin slim type floppy connector S_ATAII1/2/3/4/5/6 7-pin Serial ATA II connector 24-pin power supply connector CN_12V 4-pin +12V additional power supply connector...
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Page 16: Cpu And Memory Setup
P4ELA User’s Manual 2.5 <CPU and Memory Setup> 2.5.1 <CPU installation> P4ELA has a LGA775 CPU socket onboard; please check following steps to install the processor properly. Attention If P4ELA need RMA please Keep CPU socket cover on the CPU Socket. -
Page 17: Memory Installation
P4ELA User’s Manual 2.5.2 <Memory installation> P4ELA has four 240-pin DDR3 DIMM support up to 8GB of memory capacity. The memory frequency supports 800/1066 MHz. Only Non-ECC memory is supported. DDRIII A1/A2/B1/B2 96-pin 144-pin Please check the pin number to match the socket side well... - Page 18 P4ELA User’s Manual CMOS Setup...
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Page 19: Cmos Setup
P4ELA User’s Manual 2.6 <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 20: Serial Ata Installation
P4ELA User’s Manual 2.7 <Serial ATA installation> P4ELA has six Serial ATA II interfaces with RAID function, the transfer rate of the Serial ATA II can be up to 300MB/s. Please go to http://www.serialata.org/ for more about Serial ATA technology information. Based on Intel® ICH10DO, it supports Intel® Matrix Storage Technology with combination of RAID 0,1,5 and 10. -
Page 21: Floppy Installation
P4ELA User’s Manual 2.8 <Floppy Installation> P4ELA has one 34-pin floppy interface. - Page 22 P4ELA User’s Manual 2.9 <LAN installation> The board integrates with two Intel 82574L Gigabit Ethernet controllers, as the PCI Express bus. The Intel 82574L supports triple speed of 10/100/1000Base-T, with IEEE802.3 compliance and Wake-On-LAN supported. LAN2 LAN1...
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Page 23: Onboard Display Interface
P4ELA User’s Manual 2.10 <Onboard Display Interface> Based on Intel Q45 chipset with built-in graphics, the board provides one DB15 Connector on real external I/O port 2.10.1 <Analog Display> Please connect your CRT or LCD monitor with DB15 male connector to the onboard DB15... -
Page 24: Audio Installation
P4ELA User’s Manual 2.11 <Audio Installation> The board integrates onboard audio interface with REALTEK ALC888 codec, with Intel next generation of audio standard as High Definition Audio, it offers more vivid sound and other advantages than former HD audio compliance. - Page 25 P4ELA User’s Manual Connector: CN_AUDIO Type: 10-pin (2 x 5) header (pitch = 2.54mm) Description Description MIC_L Ground MIC_R ACZ_DET Speaker_R MIC Detect SENSE Speaker_L Speaker Detect Connector: CDIN Type: 4-pin header (pitch = 2.54mm) Description CD – Left Ground Ground CD –...
- Page 26 P4ELA User’s Manual 2.12 <GPIO and SMBUS interface> The board provides a programmable 8-bit digital I/O interface, and a SMBUS (System management bus) interface for control panel application. Connector: CN_DIO Type: onboard 2 x 6-pin header (pitch=2.0mm) Description Description Ground...
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Page 27: Usb Installation
P4ELA User’s Manual 2.13 <USB Installation> P4ELA integrates eight USB2.0 ports. The specifications of USB2.0 are listed below: Interface USB2.0 Controller Intel ICH10DO Transfer Rate Up to 480Mb/s Voltage The Intel® ICH10DO contains two Enhanced Host Controller Interface (EHCI) and five 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 28 P4ELA User’s Manual Connector: CN_USB1/2/3/4 Type: 10-pin (5 x 2) header (pitch = 2.54mm) Description Description Data0- Data1- Data0+ Data1+ Ground Ground Ground CN_USB1/2/3/4...
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Page 29: Power And Fan Installation
P4ELA User’s Manual 2.14 <Power and Fan Installation> The P4ELA provides a standard ATX power supply with 24-pin ATX connector and additional 12V connector, and the board provides one 4-pin fan connectors supporting smart fan for CPU cooler and one 3-pin cooler fan connectors for system and Northbridge chip. - Page 30 P4ELA User’s Manual Connector: ATX Type: 24-pin ATX power connector PIN assignment 3.3V 3.3V 3.3V -12V PS_ON PW_OK 5V_SB 3.3V Connector: CN_12V Type: 4-pin standard Pentium 4 additional +12V power connector Description Description Ground Ground +12V +12V Connector: CPUFAN Type: 4-pin fan wafer connector...
- Page 31 P4ELA User’s Manual 2.15 <Serial Port> The board supports Three 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. COM1 COM2 COM3 Connector: COM2 Type: 9-pin D-sub male connector on bracket for COM2...
- Page 32 P4ELA User’s Manual Setting RS-232 & RS-422 & RS-485 for COM2C JCSEL2 JCSEL1...
- Page 33 P4ELA User’s Manual Function JCSEL1 JCSEL2 RS-422 RS-485 RS-232 Default setting : JCSEL1: (1-2) JCSEL2: (1-3, 2-4, 7-9, 8-10) Jumper: JP1/JP2 (COM1/2) Type: onboard 6-pin header Power Mode JP1/JP2 Pin 1 with 5V Power 1-3,4-6 Pin 9 with 12V Power...
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Page 34: Switch And Indicator
P4ELA 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 35 P4ELA User’s Manual (This Page is Left for Blank)
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Page 36: Chapter 3
P4ELA User’s Manual Chapter 3 <System Configuration> 3.1 <SATA 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. -
Page 37: Sata Raid Configuration
P4ELA User’s Manual 3.2 <SATA RAID Configuration> The board integrates Intel® ICH10DO with RAID function for Serial ATA II drives, and supports the configurations below: RAID 0 (Stripping): Two hard drives operating as one drive for optimized data R/W performance. It needs two unused drives to build this operation. - Page 38 P4ELA User’s Manual Please press <CTRL+I> to enter the RAID configuration menu. 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.
- Page 39 P4ELA User’s Manual 1. After installing Intel Application Accelerator, please execute Intel® Storage Utility. Demo configuration for 2 SATA Drives and set as Intel Matrix Storage Technology set 2. Select Actions to Create RAID Volume Rename the Volume name Select RAID Level as 0...
- Page 40 P4ELA 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.
- Page 41 P4ELA User’s Manual 3.3 <Audio Configuration> The board integrates Intel® ICH10DO with REALTEK® ALC888 codec. It can support 2-channel sound under system configuration. Please follow the steps below to setup your sound system. Install REALTEK HD Audio driver. Lunch the control panel and Sound Effect Manager.
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Page 42: Video Memory Setup
P4ELA User’s Manual 3.4 <Video Memory Setup> Based on Intel® Q45 chipset with GMA (Graphic Media Accelerator) 4500, the board supports Intel® DVMT (Dynamic Video Memory Technology) 3.0, which would allow the video memory be triggered up to 384MB. To support DVMT, you need to install the Intel GMA4500 Driver with supported OS. - Page 43 P4ELA User’s Manual Total GFX Memory Size: This item can let you select a static amount of page-locked graphics memory; which will be allocated during driver initialization. Once you select the memory amount, it will be no longer available for system memory.
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Page 44: Display Properties Setting
P4ELA User’s Manual 3.5 <Display Properties Setting> Based on Intel Q45 GMCH with GMA4500 (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 45 P4ELA User’s Manual Click Monitor to setup the CRT monitor for Colors, Resolution and Refresh Rate Click Intel® Dual Display Clone setup dual display mode as same screen Set the main display device here Click Extended Desktop setup the dual display mode...
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Page 46: Chapter 4
P4ELA User’s Manual Chapter 4 <BIOS Setup> 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. - Page 47 P4ELA User’s Manual (This Page is Left for Blank)
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Page 48: Appendix A
P4ELA User’s Manual Appendix A <I/O Port Pin Assignment> A.1 <Serial ATA Port> Connector: SATA_1/2/3/4/5/6 Type: 7-pin wafer connector GND RSATA_TXP1 RSATA_TXN1 GND RSATA_RXN1 RSATA_RXP1 GND A.2<Floppy Port> Connector: FDD Type: 34-pin connector Description Description Ground DRIVE DENSITY SELECT 0... -
Page 49: A.3
P4ELA User’s Manual A.3 <IrDA Port> Connector: CN_IR Type: 5-pin header for SIR Ports Description IRRX Ground IRTX A.4 <Serial Port> Connector: COM1/2/3 Type: 9-pin D-sub male connector on bracket Description Description Ground Connector: COM4/5/6 Type: 9-pin header connector for COM4... -
Page 50: A.5
P4ELA User’s Manual A.5 <VGA Port> Connector: CRT Type: 15-pin D-sub female connector on bracket Description Description Description Ground GREEN Ground DDC_DA BLUE Ground HSYNC VSYNC Ground Ground DDC_CLK A.6 <LAN Port> Connector: RJ451/2 Type: RJ45 connector with LED on bracket... -
Page 51: Appedix B
P4ELA User’s Manual Appedix B <System Resources> B.1 <I/O Port Address Map>... - Page 52 P4ELA User’s Manual...
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Page 53: B.2
P4ELA User’s Manual B.2 <Memory Address Map>... -
Page 54: B.3
P4ELA User’s Manual B.3 <System IRQ Resources>... -
Page 55: Appedix C
P4ELA User’s Manual Appedix C <Flash BIOS> C.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: h ttp://www.award.com... -
Page 56: Appendix D
P4ELA User’s Manual Appendix D <Programming GPIO’s> The GPIO’can be programmed with the MSDOS debug program using simple IN/OUT commands.The following lines show an example how to do this. GPIO0…..GPIO7 bit0……bit7 -o 2E 87 ;enter configuration -o 2E 87 -o 2E 07 -o 2F 09 ;enale GPIO function... -
Page 57: Appendix E
P4ELA User’s Manual Appendix E <Watch Dog timer Setting > The watchdog timer makes the system auto-reset while it stops to work for a period. The integrated watchdog timer can be setup as system reset mode by program. Timeout Value Range... - Page 58 19F, No. 94, Sec. 1, Xintai 5th Rd., Xizhi Dist., New Taipei City, Taiwan Address +886-2-26963909 +886-2-26963911 Website h ttp://www.commell.com.tw i nfo@commell.com.tw (General Information) E-Mail t ech@commell.com.tw (Technical Support) Facebook https://www.facebook.com/pages/Taiwan-Commate-Computer-Inc/547993955271899 Commell is a brand name of Taiwan commate computer Inc.
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