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- Page 1 P4LA Industrial motherboard User’s Manual Edition: 1.00 2006/05/30...
- Page 2 Trademark All trademarks are the property of their respective holders. Any questions please visit our website at Hhttp://www.commell.com.tw.
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Page 3: Packing List
P4LA User’s Manual Packing List Packing List Please check package component before you use our products. Hardware: P4LA industrial motherboard x 1 Cable Kit: 40-pin ATA100 IDE flat cable x 1 Serial ATA ribbon cable x 2 I/O Shield x 1... - Page 4 P4LA User’s Manual Index Index Chapter1 <Introduction> ..............7 1.1 <Product Overview>................. 7 1.2 <Product Specification> ................8 1.3 <Component Placement> ..............10 1.4 <Block Diagram>..................11 1.5 <Mechanical Drawing >................12 Chapter 2 <Hardware Setup> ............13 2.1 <Connector Location>................13 2.2 <Jumper Reference>...
- Page 5 P4LA User’s Manual Index 2.17 <Expansion Interface> ................. 33 Chapter 3 <System Configuration> ........... 35 3.1 <SATA configuration>................35 3.2 <SATA RAID Configuration> ..............38 3.3 <Audio Configuration> ................42 3.4 <Video Memory Setup> ................. 43 3.5 <Display Properties Setting>..............45 Chapter 4 <BIOS Setup>...
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Page 7: Chapter1
Accelerator (GMA) 950 technology for new graphic engine. It can provide up to 224MB of frame buffer when you install over 256MB of system memory. The ICH7R integrates with up to 8 USB2.0 interfaces (8 ports for P4LA), and serial ATA II interface with RAID function. One Marvell E8053 One Gigabit LAN with Marvell E8053, P4LA comes with a powerful network function for the system that requires large transfer data of NAS system or Server platform. -
Page 8: Product Specification
P4LA User’s Manual Introduction 1.2 <Product Specification> General Specification Form Factor Industrial motherboard Intel® Pentium 4 /Pentium D/ Celeron D/ Core 2 Duo processor with LGA775 socket Package type: 775 pin PLGA Front side bus: 533/800/1066MT/s (133/200/266MHz x 4) Intel® Hyper-Threading Technology and Dual Core supported... - Page 9 P4LA User’s Manual Introduction Ethernet Interface Chipset 10/100/1000MT LAN interface with Marvell E8053 Type 10Base-T / 100Base-TX/1000Base-T, auto-switching Fast Ethernet Full duplex, IEEE802.3U compliant Connector one External RJ45 connectors with LED on rear I/O panel Audio Interface Chipset Intel® ICH7R with Realtek® ALC880 codec...
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Page 10: Component Placement
P4LA User’s Manual Introduction 1.3 <Component Placement> DIMM COM port SATA II PCI-Express Serial port Audio Component Placement... -
Page 11: Block Diagram
P4LA User’s Manual Introduction 1.4 <Block Diagram> Intel Pentium 4 with 775 pin PLGA processor 6.4GB/s Intel GMA950 Graphics 4 x 240-pin DDR2 PCI-Express 16x 400/533/667MHz 8GB/s Intel 945G up to 3GB GMCH 2GB/s SMBus 2.0 4 x Serial ATA II ports 300MB/s 8 x USB2.0 ports... -
Page 12: Mechanical Drawing
P4LA User’s Manual Introduction 1.5 <Mechanical Drawing > Mechanial Drawing... -
Page 13: Chapter 2
P4LA User’s Manual Hardware Setup Chapter 2 <Hardware Setup> 2.1 <Connector Location> IDE1 FDD JCSEL1 JCSEL2 SYSFAN JFRNT CN_ Audio CN_DIO JRTC CPUFAN CN_USB1/2 CN_IR SPDIF CN_12V JP1 JDOC NBFAN CN_SMBUS Connector Location... -
Page 14: Jumper Reference
P4LA User’s Manual Introduction 2.2 <Jumper Reference> Jumper Function JRTC CMOS Operating/Clear Setting JCFSEL Compact Flash Address Setting JCSEL1 Setting RS232/422/485 JCSEL2 Setting RS232/422/485 JDOC Setting address Setting COM Port Voltage Setting COM Port Voltage JCFSEL JP2 JCSEL1 JRTC JCSEL2... -
Page 15: Connector Reference
P4LA User’s Manual Hardware Setup 2.3 <Connector Reference> 2.3.1 <Internal Connectors> Connector Function Remark LGA775 CPU socket Standard DDRII1/2/3/4 240 -pin DDR2 SDRAM DIMM socket Standard IDE1 40-pin primary IDE connector Standard 34-pin floppy connector Standard S_ATAII1/2/3/4 7-pin Serial ATA II connector... -
Page 16: Cpu And Memory Setup
P4LA User’s Manual Introduction 2.4 <CPU and Memory Setup> 2.4.1 <CPU installation> P4LA has a LGA775 CPU socket onboard; please check following steps to install the processor properly. Attention If P4LA need RMA, please Keep CPU socket cover on the CPU Socket. -
Page 17: Memory Installation
P4LA User’s Manual Hardware Setup 2.4.2 <Memory installation> P4LA has Four 240-pin DDR2 DIMM support up to 3GB of memory capacity. The memory frequency supports 400/533/667MHz .Only Non-ECC memory is supported. Dual-Channel technology is supported while applying two same modules. -
Page 18: Cmos Setup
P4LA User’s Manual Introduction 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
2.6 <Enhanced IDE interface> The Intel® ICH7R (south bridge chip) supports one enhanced IDE interface, dual channel for two ATAPI devices with ATA100. Based on this function, P4LA has one 40-pin IDE connector with jumper selectable for pin-20 +5V supported. -
Page 20: Serial Ata Installation
P4LA User’s Manual Introduction 2.7 <Serial ATA installation> P4LA has four 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. -
Page 21: Floppy Installation
P4LA User’s Manual Hardware Setup 2.8 <Floppy Installation> P4LA has one 34-pin floppy interface, it supports use floppy and powering from onboard, please follow up the steps below to install the device. Floppy Installation... -
Page 22: Lan Installation
P4LA User’s Manual Introduction 2.9 <LAN installation> P4LA integrates one Gigabit LAN interfaces with Marvell E8053; they provide a standard IEEE 802.3 Ethernet interface for 1000BASE-T, 100BASE-TX and 10BASE-T applications. P4LA provides one RJ45 connectors on the rear I/O panel. -
Page 23: Audio Installation
P4LA User’s Manual Hardware Setup 2.10 <Audio Installation> The board integrates onboard audio interface with REALTEK ALC880 codec, with Intel next generation of audio standard as High Definition Audio, it offers more vivid sound and other advantages than former AC97 audio compliance. - Page 24 P4LA User’s Manual Introduction Connector: CN_AUDIO Type: 10-pin (2 x 5) header (pitch = 2.00mm) Description Description MIC_L Ground MIC_R Front_R MIC_JD Sense Front_L Line_JD Connector: CDIN Type: 4-pin header (pitch = 2.54mm) Description CD – Left Ground Ground CD – Right Connector: SPDIF Type: 4-pin header (pitch = 2.54mm)
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Page 25: Display Installation
Hardware Setup 2.11 <Display Installation> P4LA integrates with Intel® 945G GMCH for Intel Graphic Media Accelerator (GMA) 950 technology. It supports Intel® DVMT (Dynamic Video Memory Technology) 3.0 for up to 224MB frame buffer size shared with system memory. With a 400MHz core and DirectX 9 and OpenGL acceleration, P4LA provides the powerful onboard graphics interface without additional graphic card. -
Page 26: Usb Installation
P4LA User’s Manual Introduction 2.12 <USB Installation> P4LA integrates eight USB2.0 ports. The specifications USB2.0 are listed below: Interface USB2.0 Controller Intel ICH7R Transfer Rate Up to 480Mb/s The Intel® ICH7R 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 P4LA User’s Manual Hardware Setup Connector: CN_USB1/2 Type: 10-pin (5 x 2) header for USB1/2 Ports Description Description Data0- Data1- Data0+ Data1+ Ground Ground Ground CN_USB1/2 USB Installation...
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Page 28: Power And Fan Installation
Introduction 2.13 <Power and Fan Installation> The P4LA 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 two 3-pin cooler fan connectors for system and Northbridge chip. The 8-pin additional power connector is necessary for CPU powering;... - Page 29 P4LA User’s Manual Hardware Setup 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: 8-pin standard Pentium 4 additional +12V power connector Description Description Ground +12V Ground +12V Ground...
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Page 30: Gpio Interface
P4LA User’s Manual Introduction 2.14 <GPIO 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 Ground... -
Page 31: Serial Port
P4LA User’s Manual Hardware Setup 2.15 <Serial Port> The board has one RS232 serial ports on real I/O panel, and five onboard serial port . COM2 Support RS232/422/485. Jump setting please refer to Page 57 Internal Serial port This Pin header provide +5V/+12V for COM1/COM2 Pin1,Pin 9. -
Page 32: Switch And Indicator
P4LA User’s Manual Introduction 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 33: Expansion Interface
Hardware Setup 2.17 <Expansion Interface> P4LA has one 16x , 4x and 1x PCI-Express slot .PCI-Express is the last expansion interface technology, for its serial data transfer scheme, each lane will be up to 500MB/s (duplex), and the 16x (16 lanes) can be up to 8GB/s more than 2GB/s as AGP 8x bus transfer rate. - Page 34 P4LA User’s Manual (This Page is Left for Blank)
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Page 35: Chapter 3
P4LA User’s Manual System Configuration Chapter 3 <System Configuration> 3.1 <SATA configuration> Based on Intel® ICH7R Southbridge chip, the board supports 4 Serial ATA II ports; please follow the touring guide to setup your Serial ATA devices. 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 36 P4LA 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 37 P4LA 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 38: Sata Raid Configuration
P4LA User’s Manual System Configuration 3.2 <SATA RAID Configuration> The board integrates Intel® ICH7R 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. - Page 39 P4LA User’s Manual System Configuration 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®...
- Page 40 P4LA User’s Manual System Configuration 2. Select Actions to Create RAID Volume Rename the Volume name Select RAID Level as 0 Left as default SATA RAID Configuration...
- Page 41 P4LA User’s Manual System Configuration 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,...
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Page 42: Audio Configuration
P4LA User’s Manual System Configuration 3.3 <Audio Configuration> The board integrates Intel® ICH7R with REALTEK® ALC880 codec. It can support 7.1 channel sound under system configuration. Please follow the steps below to setup your sound system. Install REALTEK AC97 Audio driver. -
Page 43: Video Memory Setup
P4LA User’s Manual System Configuration 3.4 <Video Memory Setup> Based on Intel® 945G chipset with GMA (Graphic Media Accelerator) 950, the board supports Intel® DVMT (Dynamic Video Memory Technology) 3.0, which would allow the video memory be triggered up to 224MB. - Page 44 P4LA User’s Manual On-Chip Fixed DVMT Total System Frame Memory Memory Graphic Memory Buffer Size Size Size Memory 32MB 32MB 32MB 32MB 128MB~255MB 32MB 32MB 32MB 32MB 64MB 64MB 64MB 64MB 128MB 128MB 128MB 128MB 64MB 64MB 128MB 64MB 64MB...
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Page 45: Display Properties Setting
P4LA User’s Manual System Configuration 3.5 <Display Properties Setting> Based on Intel 945G GMCH with GMA 950 (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 46 P4LA User’s Manual System Configuration 3. This setup options can let you define each device settings. Notice: The dual display needs PCIE-SDVO module to support more than one display devices. Click Digital Display to setup the DVI monitor for Colors,...
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Page 47: Chapter 4
P4LA User’s Manual BIOS Setup 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 48 P4LA User’s Manual System Configuration (This Page is Left for Blank) Display Properties Setting...
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Page 49: Appendix A
P4LA User’s Manual I/O Port Pin Assignment Appendix A <I/O Port Pin Assignment> A.1 IDE Port Connector: IDE1 Type: 40-pin (20 x 2) box header Description Description Reset Ground Ground Ground IOW-/STOP Ground IOR-/HDMARDY Ground IORDY/DDMARDY IDE66#/IDE33 DACK- Ground CBLID... -
Page 50: A.3
LV-672 User’s Manual I/O Pin Assignment A.3 <Floppy Port> Connector: FDD Type: 34-pin (2 x 17) 2.54-pitch header Description Description Ground DRIVE DENSITY SELECT 0 Ground DRIVE DENSITY SELECT 1 Ground Ground INDEX- Ground MOTOR ENABLE A- Ground DRIVER SELECT B- Ground DRIVER SELECT A- Ground... -
Page 51: A.5
P4LA User’s Manual I/O Port Pin Assignment A.5 <Serial Port> Connector: COM1 Type: 9-pin D-sub male connector on I/O Panel Description Description Ground Connector: COM2/3/4/5/6 Type: 9-pin D-sub male connector on bracket Description Description DCD- DSR- SIN- RTS- CTS- DTR- Ground A.6 <VGA Port>... -
Page 52: A.7
P4LA User’s Manual System Resources A.7 <LAN Port> Connector: RJ45 Type: RJ45 connector with LED on I/O Panel Description TRD0+ TRD0- TRD1+ TRD1- Description NC TRD2+ TRD2- TRD3+ TRD3- A.8 <SMBus> Connector: CN_SMBUS Type: 4-pin SMBus connector Description Description SMBDATA... -
Page 53: A.9
P4LA User’s Manual I/O Port Pin Assignment A.9 <LPT Port > Connector : LPT Type :26-Pin D-Sub female Connector on I/O Panel Description Description -PSTB PRO0 PRO1 PRO2 PRO3 PRO4 PRO5 PRO6 PRO7 ACK- BUSY SLCT AFD- ERR- INT- SLIN-... -
Page 54: Appedix B
P4LA User’s Manual System Resources Appedix B <System Resources> B1.<I/O Port Address Map> I/O Port Address Map... - Page 55 P4LA User’s Manual I/O Port Pin Assignment...
- Page 56 P4LA User’s Manual System Resources B2.<Memory Address Map> I/O Port Address Map...
- Page 57 P4LA User’s Manual I/O Port Pin Assignment B3.<System IRQ & DMA Resources> DMA : IRQ :...
- Page 58 P4LA User’s Manual System Resources Appedix B <How to setting RS-422/485> JCSEL1 JCSEL1 JCSEL1 RS-485 RS-232 RS-422 JCSEL2 JCSEL2 JCSEL2 I/O Port Address Map...
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Page 59: Appedix C
P4LA User’s Manual I/O Port Pin Assignment 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: http://www.award.com... -
Page 60: Appendix D
P4LA User’s Manual System Resources 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... -
Page 61: Appendix E
P4LA User’s Manual Hardware Test Appendix E <What 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. -
Page 62: Contact Information
Taiwan Commate Computer Inc. Address 8F, No. 94, Sec. 1, Shin Tai Wu Rd., Shi Chih Taipei Hsien, Taiwan +886-2-26963909 +886-2-26963911 Website http://www.commell.com.tw E-Mail info@commell.com.tw (General Information) tech@commell.com.tw (Technical Support) Commell is our trademark of industrial PC division Contact Information...
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