CT-MHW0X Intel 4th Gen Core Processor i7/i5/i3/Pentium/Celeron Micro-ATX IMB I. Preface 1.1 Disclaimer All specifications and information in this User’s Manual are believed to be accurate and up to date. C&T Solution Inc. does not guarantee that the contents herein are complete, true, accurate or non-misleading. The information in this document is subject to change without notice and does not represent a commitment on the part of C&T Solution Inc.
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CT-MHW0X Intel 4th Gen Core Processor i7/i5/i3/Pentium/Celeron Micro-ATX IMB All other products and trademarks mentioned in this manual are trademarks of their respective owners. 6...
Intel 4th Gen Core Processor i7/i5/i3/Pentium/Celeron Micro-ATX IMB II. Introduction 2.1 Product Description The CT-MHW0X is a single board computer in the Micro-ATX form factor. Its LGA1150 socket is for Intel® 4 Generation Core i7/i5/i3/Celeron processor, which is with the new 22 nm process technology. The four 240-pin DIMM sockets are for dual channel DDR3/DDR3L 1333/1600MHz memory with maximum capacity up to 32GB.
CT-MHW0X Intel 4th Gen Core Processor i7/i5/i3/Pentium/Celeron Micro-ATX IMB III. Mechanical Specification Module Dimensions The PCB size of CT-MHW0X is 244mm x 244mm, the standard micro-ATX size. 3.1.1 CT-MHW01 12...
CT-MHW0X Intel 4th Gen Core Processor i7/i5/i3/Pentium/Celeron Micro-ATX IMB 3.2.1 Connectors Connector Description ATX_CPU CPU Power Connector VGA & DVI-D Connectors Display Port & HDMI Connectors CN14 Two USB3.0 & LAN Connectors CN15 Two USB3.0 & LAN Connectors (USB2.0 for H81 SKU)
CT-MHW0X Intel 4th Gen Core Processor i7/i5/i3/Pentium/Celeron Micro-ATX IMB 3.3.4 RS-232 Connector: CN19~CN26 Connector Type: 2x5-pin pitch 2.0mm wafer connector Note: CN23~CN26 are for H81 SKU only Signal Signal DCD, Data Carrier Detect 2 DSR, Data Set Ready RXD, Receive Data...
CT-MHW0X Intel 4th Gen Core Processor i7/i5/i3/Pentium/Celeron Micro-ATX IMB 3.3.12 Front Panel Audio Connector: FRONT_AUDIO Connector Type: 2x5-pin pitch 2.54mm pin header connector Signal Signal MIC-IN-L AGND MIC-IN-R PRESENCE# LINE-IN-R MIC-IN Detect SENSE_SEND LINE-IN-L LINE-IN Detect 3.3.13 Front Bezel Connector: FRONT_PANEL Connector Type: 2x5-pin pitch 2.54mm pin header connector...
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CT-MHW0X Intel 4th Gen Core Processor i7/i5/i3/Pentium/Celeron Micro-ATX IMB Pin Signal Front Pin Signal Front Pin Signal Back Pin Signal Back M_DQS_A/B_DN1 DDR_15V M_ODT_A/B0,2 M_DQS_A/B_DP1 M_SCS_A/B_N1,3 M_MAA_A/B13 M_ODT_A/B1,3 M_DATA_A/B14 DDR_15V M_DATA_A/B10 DDR_15V M_DATA_A/B15 M_DATA_A/B11 M_DATA_A/B20 M_DATA_A/B36 M_DATA_A/B16 M_DATA_A/B32 M_DATA_A/B21 M_DATA_A/B37...
CT-MHW0X Intel 4th Gen Core Processor i7/i5/i3/Pentium/Celeron Micro-ATX IMB Pin Signal Pin Signal Pin Signal Pin Signal B22 GND B63 PETn11 A22 PERn1 A63 GND B23 PETp2 B64 GND A23 GND A64 PERp11 B24 PETn2 B65 GND A24 GND A65 PERn11...
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CT-MHW0X Intel 4th Gen Core Processor i7/i5/i3/Pentium/Celeron Micro-ATX IMB Pin Signal Pin Signal Pin Signal REFCLK+ PETn0 Reserved UIM_RESET 32 SMB_DATA PETp0 Reserved UIM_VPP +3.3V Reserved USB_D- 3.3.18 FAN Connector: CPU_FAN/SYS_FAN/FAN3 FAN1: CPU Fan Wafer Connector FAN2: System Fan Wafer Connector...
CT-MHW0X Intel 4th Gen Core Processor i7/i5/i3/Pentium/Celeron Micro-ATX IMB 3.4.2 COM Connectors:CN18 RS-232/422/485 function selectable by BIOS 3.4.2.1 RS-232 Signal Signal DCD, Data Carrier Detect DSR, Data Set Ready RXD, Receive Data RTS, Ready To Send TXD, Transmit Data CTS, Clear To Send...
CT-MHW0X Intel 4th Gen Core Processor i7/i5/i3/Pentium/Celeron Micro-ATX IMB 3.4.3 VGA and DVI-D Connectors:CN7 3.4.3.1 VGA (Top) Signal Signal VGA_RED VGA_GRN VGA_BLU VGA_DDC_DAT VGA_HSYNC VGA_VSYNC VGA_DCC_CLK 3.4.3.2 DVI-D (Bottom) Signal Signal Signal TMDS Data2- TMDS Data1- TMDS Data0- Digital Red-(link1)
CT-MHW0X Intel 4th Gen Core Processor i7/i5/i3/Pentium/Celeron Micro-ATX IMB 3.4.4 RJ-45 LAN & USB Connectors: CN14/CN15 3.4.4.1 RJ-45 (Top) Signal MDI0+ MDI0- MDI1+ MDI2+ MDI2- MDI1- MDI3+ MDI3- LED A Status LED B Status Yellow Active Speed 10 Blink Green...
CT-MHW0X Intel 4th Gen Core Processor i7/i5/i3/Pentium/Celeron Micro-ATX IMB 3.4.4.2.2 USB 2.0 Connectors: CN15 Signal Signal (USB4) (USB5) USB +5V USB +5V USB_D- USB_D- USB_D+ USB_D+ 3.4.5 Front Audio Jack: CN29 Signal C (Blue) Lin-In B (Green) Line-Out A (Pink)
DDR3/DDR3L, and provides Direct Media Interface (DMI), Digital Display Interface (DDI) and PCI Express. 4.2 BIOS The AMI uEFI BIOS, 8MB SPI Flash Rom is used in the CT-MHW0X module. 4.3 System Memory The Integrated Memory Controller (IMC) of the processor supports DDR3/DDR3L protocols with two independent, 64-bit wide channels.
DisplayPort, HDMI, LVDS or DVI, and one dedicated Intel FDI Port for legacy VGA support on the PCH. The 3 displays configuration of the CT-MHW0X is one DP, one HDMI and one of the three: LVDS, DVI or VGA.
CT-MHW0X Intel 4th Gen Core Processor i7/i5/i3/Pentium/Celeron Micro-ATX IMB Signal Description Serial ATA or SAS transmits differential pairs. SATA_TX+ SATA_TX- Serial ATA or SAS receives differential pairs. SATA_RX+ SATA_RX- 4.8 PCI Express The processor contains one PCI Express controller that supports one external x16 PCI Express Graphics port.
CT-MHW0X Intel 4th Gen Core Processor i7/i5/i3/Pentium/Celeron Micro-ATX IMB Signal Description Gigabit Ethernet Controller 0: Media Dependent MDI[0:3]+ Interface Differential Pairs 0, 1, 2, 3. The MDI MDI[0:3]- can operate in 1000, 100 and 10 Mbit/sec modes. Some pairs are unused in some modes,...
GPIO index/data port. The index port is the base address +0 and the data port is the base address +1. To access the GPIO register, write index to the index port, and then read/write from/to data port. The configuration on CT-MHW0X is described as below. 36...
CT-MHW0X Intel 4th Gen Core Processor i7/i5/i3/Pentium/Celeron Micro-ATX IMB Index Port 0xA00 Data Port 0xA01 4.13.1.2 Registers Description 4.13.1.2.1 GPIO Output Data Select GPIO Output Data Register (Index port=0xA00, Data port=0xA01, Offset=0x89) Bit 7 Bit 6 Bit 5 Bit 4...
CT-MHW0X Intel 4th Gen Core Processor i7/i5/i3/Pentium/Celeron Micro-ATX IMB V. SYSTEM BIOS The system BIOS software is stored on EEPROM. The BIOS provides an interface to modify the configuration. When the battery is removed, all the parameters will be reset.
CT-MHW0X Intel 4th Gen Core Processor i7/i5/i3/Pentium/Celeron Micro-ATX IMB 5.2 Advanced The difference between CT-MHW01 and CT-MHW02 are: No Trusted Computing and no AMT Configuration in CT-MHW02 model. No F81216 Second Super IO Configuration in CT-MHW01 model. CT-MHW01 40...
CT-MHW0X Intel 4th Gen Core Processor i7/i5/i3/Pentium/Celeron Micro-ATX IMB 5.2.3 CPU Configuration Enables or disables BIOS ACPI Auto Configuration. 44...
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CT-MHW0X Intel 4th Gen Core Processor i7/i5/i3/Pentium/Celeron Micro-ATX IMB Limit CPUID Maximum: Disabled for Windows XP. Execute Disable Bit: XP can prevent certain classes of malicious buffer overflow attacks when combined with a supporting OS (Windows Server 2003 SP1, Windows XP SP2, SusE Linux 9.2, RedHat Enterprise 3 Update 3.)
CT-MHW0X Intel 4th Gen Core Processor i7/i5/i3/Pentium/Celeron Micro-ATX IMB 5.2.4 SATA Configuration The BIOS automatically detects the presence of SATA device and the hardware installed in the SATA ports will be showed in the configuration. Each port can be enabled or disabled individually.
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CT-MHW0X Intel 4th Gen Core Processor i7/i5/i3/Pentium/Celeron Micro-ATX IMB SATA Mode Selection: Select the IDE, AHCI or RAID mode for SATA controller operations. Hot Plug: Designates this port as Hot Pluggable. SATA Device Type: Identify the SATA port is connected to Solid State Drive or Hard Disk Drive.
CT-MHW0X Intel 4th Gen Core Processor i7/i5/i3/Pentium/Celeron Micro-ATX IMB 5.2.6 AMT Configuration (for CT-MHW01 only) Enable or disable Intel® Active Management Technology BIOS Extension. Note: iAMT H/W is always enabled. This option just controls the BIOS extension execution. If enabled, this requires additional firmware in the SPI device.
CT-MHW0X Intel 4th Gen Core Processor i7/i5/i3/Pentium/Celeron Micro-ATX IMB 5.2.7 USB Configuration EHCI Hand-off: This is a workaround for OSes without EHCI hand-off support. The EHCI ownership change should be claimed by EHCI driver. 51...
CT-MHW0X Intel 4th Gen Core Processor i7/i5/i3/Pentium/Celeron Micro-ATX IMB 5.2.9 F81216 Second Super IO Configuration (for CT-MHW02 only) Each Serial Port can be enabled or disabled individually. The device setting for these four serial ports are as following: Serial Port 0: IO=260h; IRQ=5;...
CT-MHW0X Intel 4th Gen Core Processor i7/i5/i3/Pentium/Celeron Micro-ATX IMB 5.2.10 F81866 Super IO Configuration 54...
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CT-MHW0X Intel 4th Gen Core Processor i7/i5/i3/Pentium/Celeron Micro-ATX IMB 5.2.8.1 Serial Port Configuration Each Serial Port can be enabled or disabled individually. The device setting for these four serial ports are as following: Serial Port 0: IO=3F8h; IRQ=4; Serial Port 1: IO=2F8h; IRQ=3;...
CT-MHW0X Intel 4th Gen Core Processor i7/i5/i3/Pentium/Celeron Micro-ATX IMB 5.3.1 PCH-IO Configuration Intel PCH SKU Name: Q87 is showed for CT-MHW01 model H81 is showed for CT-MHW02 model 63...
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CT-MHW0X Intel 4th Gen Core Processor i7/i5/i3/Pentium/Celeron Micro-ATX IMB 5.3.1.1 PCI Express Configuration Each PCI Express Port from 1 to 5 can be setup except Port 2, which is assigned to LAN. 64...
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CT-MHW0X Intel 4th Gen Core Processor i7/i5/i3/Pentium/Celeron Micro-ATX IMB 5.3.1.1.1 PCI Express Root Port Each PCI Express Root Port can be enabled or disabled individually. ASPM: Set the ASPM level Force L0s – Force all links to L0s State AUTO – BIO auto configure DISABLE –...
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CT-MHW0X Intel 4th Gen Core Processor i7/i5/i3/Pentium/Celeron Micro-ATX IMB 5.3.1.2 USB Configuration 66...
CT-MHW0X Intel 4th Gen Core Processor i7/i5/i3/Pentium/Celeron Micro-ATX IMB 5.4 Boot Boot Configuration: Number of seconds to wait for setup activation key. 65535 (0xFFFF) means indefinite waiting. Bootup NumLock State: Select the keyboard NumLock state. Fast Boot: Enables or disables boot with initialization of a minimal set of devices required to launch active boot option.
CT-MHW0X Intel 4th Gen Core Processor i7/i5/i3/Pentium/Celeron Micro-ATX IMB 5.4.1 CSM16 Parameters OpROM execution, boot options filter, etc. GateA20 Active: [Upon Request] – GA20 can be disabled using BIOS services. [Always] – do not allow disabling GA20; this option is useful wen any RT code is executed above 1MB.
CT-MHW0X Intel 4th Gen Core Processor i7/i5/i3/Pentium/Celeron Micro-ATX IMB 5.5 Security Administrator’s and User’s passwords could be set. If ONLY the Administrator’s password is set, then this only limits access to Setup and is only asked for when entering Setup. If ONLY the User’s password is set, then this is a power on password and must be entered to boot or enter Setup.
CT-MHW0X Intel 4th Gen Core Processor i7/i5/i3/Pentium/Celeron Micro-ATX IMB 5.6 Save and Exit Save Changes and Exit: Exit system setup after saving the changes. Discard Changes and Exit: Exit system setup without saving any changes. Save Changes and Reset: Reset the system after saving the changes.
CT-MHW0X Intel 4th Gen Core Processor i7/i5/i3/Pentium/Celeron Micro-ATX IMB VI. Address Map 6.1 I/O Port Address Map CT-MHW01 The assignment of the I/O port addresses for the CT-MHW01 under Windows® 7 Ultimate/64bit are shown below. 80...
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CT-MHW0X Intel 4th Gen Core Processor i7/i5/i3/Pentium/Celeron Micro-ATX IMB CT-MHW02 The assignment of the I/O port addresses for the CT-MHW01 under Windows® 7 Ultimate/64bit are shown below. 82...
CT-MHW0X Intel 4th Gen Core Processor i7/i5/i3/Pentium/Celeron Micro-ATX IMB 6.2 Interrupt Controller (IRQ) Map CT-MHW01 The interrupt controller map for the CT-MHW01 under Windows® 7 Ultimate/64bit are as shown below. 84...
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CT-MHW0X Intel 4th Gen Core Processor i7/i5/i3/Pentium/Celeron Micro-ATX IMB CT-MHW02 The interrupt controller map for the CT-MHW02 under Windows® 7 Ultimate/64bit are as shown below. 87...
CT-MHW0X Intel 4th Gen Core Processor i7/i5/i3/Pentium/Celeron Micro-ATX IMB 6.3 Memory Map CT-MHW01 The memory map of DRAM for the CT-MHW01 under Windows® 7 Ultimate/64bit are shown below. 89...
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CT-MHW0X Intel 4th Gen Core Processor i7/i5/i3/Pentium/Celeron Micro-ATX IMB CT-MHW02 The memory map of DRAM for the CT-MHW02 under Windows® 7 Ultimate/64bit are shown below. 90...