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® Motherboards MXMA Series ATX Motherboard with 4 PCI/1 ISA/3 PCIe Slots, VGA, LAN, SATA, USB, DIO, Audio, CompactFlash and DiskOnChip USER’S MANUAL VER. 2.0C • JAN 2010 No part of this manual may be reproduced without permission ® CyberResearch , Inc.
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CyberResearch, Inc. In no event will CyberResearch, Inc. be liable for direct, indirect, special, incidental, or consequential damages arising out of the use of or inability to use the product or documentation, even if advised of the possibility of such damages.
® CyberResearch Motherboards MXMA Series Packing List Please check package component before you use our products. Hardware: MXMA 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...
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® Motherboards MXMA Series CyberResearch CyberResearch, Inc. 25 Business Park Drive P: (203) 483-8815; F: (203) 483-9024 Branford, CT USA www.cyberresearch.com...
® CyberResearch Motherboards MXMA Series Chapter1 <Introduction> 1.1 <Product Overview> MXMA is based on a motherboard built with Intel desktop technology and an industrial form factor. Using the Intel 945G and ICH7R, the board integrates a new Pentium 4 processor 775-pin socket, DDR2 memory slot, Intel...
® Motherboards MXMA Series CyberResearch 1.2 <Product Specification> General Specification Form Factor Industrial motherboard Intel Pentium 4 /Pentium D/ Celeron D/ Core 2 Duo processor with package type: 775 pin PLGA LGA775 Front side bus: 533/800/1066MT/s (133/200/266MHz x 4) Intel Hyper-Threading Technology and Dual Core supported...
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® Motherboards MXMA Series CyberResearch 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...
® Motherboards MXMA Series CyberResearch 1.3 <Component Placement> DIMM COM port SATA II PCI-Express Serial port Audio CyberResearch, Inc. 25 Business Park Drive P: (203) 483-8815; F: (203) 483-9024 Branford, CT USA www.cyberresearch.com...
® Motherboards MXMA Series CyberResearch 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 4GB GMCH 2GB/s SMBus 2.0 4 x Serial ATA II ports 300MB/s 8 x USB2.0 ports...
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® Motherboards MXMA Series CyberResearch 1.5 <Mechanical Drawing > CyberResearch, Inc. 25 Business Park Drive P: (203) 483-8815; F: (203) 483-9024 Branford, CT USA www.cyberresearch.com...
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 JDOC CyberResearch, Inc. 25 Business Park Drive P: (203) 483-8815; F: (203) 483-9024 Branford, CT USA www.cyberresearch.com...
® Motherboards MXMA Series CyberResearch 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...
® Motherboards MXMA Series CyberResearch 2.4 <CPU and Memory Setup> 2.4.1 <CPU installation> MXMA has an LGA775 CPU socket onboard; please read the following steps to install the processor properly. Attention: If the MXMA needs an RMA, please Keep CPU socket cover on the CPU Socket.
® Motherboards MXMA Series CyberResearch 2.4.2 <Memory installation> The MXMA has Four 240-pin DDR2 DIMMs which support up to 4GB of memory capacity. The memory frequency supports 400/533/667MHz .Only Non-ECC memory is supported. Dual-Channel technology is supported while applying two of the same modules.
® Motherboards MXMA Series CyberResearch 2.5 <CMOS Setup> The board’s CMOS data can be setting in the 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.
® Motherboards MXMA Series CyberResearch 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, MXMA has one 40-pin IDE connector with jumper selectable for pin-20 +5V supported.
® Motherboards MXMA Series CyberResearch 2.7 <Serial ATA installation> MXMA has four Serial ATA II interfaces with RAID functionality, the transfer rate of the Serial http://www.serialata.org/ for more about Serial ATA ATA II can be up to 300MB/s. Please go to technology information.
® Motherboards MXMA Series CyberResearch 2.8 <Floppy Installation> MXMA has one 34-pin floppy interface, up to 2 floppy drives. CyberResearch, Inc. 25 Business Park Drive P: (203) 483-8815; F: (203) 483-9024 Branford, CT USA www.cyberresearch.com...
® Motherboards MXMA Series CyberResearch 2.9 <LAN installation> MXMA integrates a one Gigabit LAN interface with Marvell E8053 chipset; they provide a standard IEEE 802.3 Ethernet interface for 1000BASE-T, 100BASE-TX and 10BASE-T applications. MXMA provides one RJ45 connector on the rear I/O panel.
® Motherboards MXMA Series CyberResearch 2.10 <Audio Installation> The board integrates onboard audio interface with the REALTEK ALC880 codec, with Intel next generation audio standard High Definition Audio, it offers more vivid sound and performance than the former AC97 audio compliance.
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® Motherboards MXMA Series CyberResearch 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 –...
® Motherboards MXMA Series CyberResearch 2.11 <Display Installation> MXMA integrates Intel 945G GMCH for Intel Graphic Media Accelerator (GMA) 950 technology. It supports Intel DVMT (Dynamic Video Memory Technology) 3.0 with up to 224MB frame buffer size shared with system memory. With a 400MHz core and DirectX 9 and OpenGL acceleration, MXMA provides a powerful onboard graphics interface without an additional graphic card.
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® Motherboards MXMA Series CyberResearch 2.12 <USB Installation> MXMA integrates eight USB 2.0 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 compliant with USB 1.1 or USB 2.0, and change the transfer rate automatically.
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® Motherboards MXMA Series CyberResearch 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 CyberResearch, Inc. 25 Business Park Drive P: (203) 483-8815; F: (203) 483-9024 Branford, CT USA...
® Motherboards MXMA Series CyberResearch 2.13 <Power and Fan Installation> The MXMA provides a standard ATX power supply with 24-pin ATX connector and additional 12V connector, and the board provides one 4-pin fan connector supporting smart fan for the CPU cooler and two 3-pin cooler fan connectors for the system and the Northbridge chip. The 8-pin additional power connector is necessary for CPU power;...
® Motherboards MXMA Series CyberResearch 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...
® Motherboards MXMA Series CyberResearch 2.15 <Serial Port> The board has one RS-232 serial port on real I/O panel, and five onboard serial ports . COM2 supports RS232/422/485. For jumper settings please refer to Page 58. Internal Serial port This Pin header provides: +5V/+12V for COM1/COM2 Pin1,Pin 9.
® Motherboards MXMA Series CyberResearch 2.16 <Switch and Indicator> The JFRNT provides front control for a chassis, such as power button, reset and beeper, etc. Connector: JFRNT Type: onboard 14-pin (2 x 7) 2.54-pitch header Function Signal Signal Function HDLED+...
® Motherboards MXMA Series CyberResearch 2.17 <Expansion Interface> MXMA 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 lane) can be up to 8GB/s more than 2GB/s as AGP 8x bus transfer rate.
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® Motherboards MXMA Series CyberResearch 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 guide to set up your Serial ATA devices. Windows 98/SE/ME, Windows NT4.0 and DOS systems only support up to 4 IDE devices including SATA devices;...
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® Motherboards MXMA Series CyberResearch SATA Mode: This option lets you select whether the Serial ATA hard drives would work under normal IDE mode or RAID mode. The RAID mode needs more than one HDD applied. Once RAID mode is enabled, the boot-up screen shows the RAID configuration options for setup.
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® Motherboards MXMA Series CyberResearch On-Chip Serial ATA mode: This option lets you select operation modes for Serial ATA drives. Disabled: To disable the onboard Serial ATA controller. Auto: Allows the system tp select automatically. Combined mode: PATA and SATA work as two channels for supporting two drives on each channel.
® Motherboards MXMA Series CyberResearch 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.
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® Motherboards MXMA Series CyberResearch Please press <CTRL+I> to enter the RAID configuration menu. You can set up the RAID using Microsoft operating systems: Windows XP SP1 or Windows 2000 SP4 version, please install the Intel Application Accelerator Ver.4.5 later to support a RAID configuration with Intel Matrix Storage Technology.
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® Motherboards MXMA Series CyberResearch 2. Select Actions to Create RAID Volume Rename the Volume name Select RAID Level as 0 Left as default CyberResearch, Inc. 25 Business Park Drive P: (203) 483-8815; F: (203) 483-9024 Branford, CT USA www.cyberresearch.com...
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® Motherboards MXMA Series CyberResearch 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,...
® Motherboards MXMA Series CyberResearch 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 set up your sound system. Install REALTEK AC97 Audio driver.
® Motherboards MXMA Series CyberResearch 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.
® Motherboards MXMA Series CyberResearch 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 starting setup display devices.
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® Motherboards MXMA Series CyberResearch 3. These set-up options let you define each device setting. Notice: The dual display needs a PCIE-SDVO adapter to support more than one display device. Click Digital Display to set the DVI monitor's Colors, and Resolution...
® Motherboards MXMA Series CyberResearch 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.
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® Motherboards MXMA Series CyberResearch Appedix B <System Resources> B1.<I/O Port Address Map> CyberResearch, Inc. 25 Business Park Drive P: (203) 483-8815; F: (203) 483-9024 Branford, CT USA www.cyberresearch.com...
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® Motherboards MXMA Series CyberResearch B2.<Memory Address Map> CyberResearch, Inc. 25 Business Park Drive P: (203) 483-8815; F: (203) 483-9024 Branford, CT USA www.cyberresearch.com...
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® Motherboards MXMA Series CyberResearch B3.<System IRQ & DMA Resources> DMA : IRQ : CyberResearch, Inc. 25 Business Park Drive P: (203) 483-8815; F: (203) 483-9024 Branford, CT USA www.cyberresearch.com...
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® Motherboards MXMA Series CyberResearch Appedix C How to set Jumpers: RS-232/422/485/IrDA CyberResearch, Inc. 25 Business Park Drive P: (203) 483-8815; F: (203) 483-9024 Branford, CT USA www.cyberresearch.com...
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3. Copy awardflash.exe to the disk. 4. Power on the system and flash the BIOS. (Example: C:/ awardflash XXX.bin) 5. Re-star the system. Any question about the BIOS re-flash should be directed to CyberResearch, Inc. CyberResearch, Inc. 25 Business Park Drive P: (203) 483-8815;...
® CyberResearch Motherboards MXMA Series Appendix E <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...
® CyberResearch Motherboards MXMA Series Appendix F <Watchdog timer Setting > The watchdog timer makes the system auto-reset if the system haults for any reason. The integrated watchdog timer can be set u p to reset your system using the following programming:...
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Signal connections and programming are the two most common sources of difficulty. CyberResearch support personnel can help you solve these problems, especially if you are prepared for the call.
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CyberResearch, Inc. will, at its option, repair or replace the defective item under the terms of this warranty, subject to the provisions and specific exclusions listed herein.
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