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1. BOARD DIMENSION 102mm x 145mm 4 02 x 5 71 e BOARD NET WEIGHT 250g 0 55 Ib EB 381LF USER S MANUAL Page 1 5 Chapter 1 Introduction 1 3 SAFETY PRECAUTIONS Follow the messages below to avoid your systems from damage 1 Keep your system away from static electricity on all occasions 2 Prevent electric shock Don t touch any components of this card when the card is power on Always disconnect power when the system is not in use 3 Disconnect power when you change any hardware devices For instance when you connect a jumper or install any cards a surge of power may damage the electronic components or the whole system Page 1 6 EB 381LF USER S MANUAL HARDWARE CHAPTER CONFIGURATION 2 QUICK START Helpful information describes the jumper amp connector settings and component locations This section includes Jumper amp Connector Quick Reference Table Component Locations Configuration and Jumper settings Connector s Pin Assignments Page 2 1 Chapter 2 Hardware Configuration 2 1 JUMPER amp CONNECTOR QUICK REFERENCE TABLE COM Connector Lisi ESE EE EENS nan heii Nah COM1 COM2 RS232 422 485 COM2 Selection Santan PS Keyboard Connector EA KBI Mouse Connector XX MSI Power LED Connector ion J1 1 3 Reset Connector SE NAN nana J1 9 10 Hard Disk Drive LED Connector JU2 4 Power Button on See deg See eg ananda J1 5 6 External Buzzer Connector
2. JJ J1 7 8 IrDA Connector ees IRI Inverter Connector ee ES NEE eee ose INVI VGA Connector naa VGAT LVDS Connector 2 25 Lane EE EE aE AN LVDS1 LVDS Panel Voltage Selection JP13 Universal Serial Bus Connector USB1 USB2 CPU Fan Connector FANI Floppy Disk Drive Connector FDD1 Hard Disk Drive Connector Ladies IDET Printer Connector saka LEIT Reset NMI Clear Watchdog Selection JP4 LAN COMEL OT EE Hen Sana LANI ATX Power Connector CNI AT ATX Power Selection JP2 JP6 JP7 Sound WE EE CN CD Audio in Connector CD INI Clear CMOS Selection JP8 Memory Installation ooooooWoWoooooooWoWoW DIMM1 TV Out Connector JP1 Page 2 2 EB 381LF USER S MANUAL Chapter 2 Hardware Configuration 2 2 COMPONENT LOCATIONS oo0G00000001 cococoooooW EB 381LF Connector Jumper and Component locations EB 381LF USER S MANUAL Page 2 3 Chapter 2 Hardware Configuration 2 3 HOW TO SET THE JUMPERS You can configure your board by setting the jumpers Jumper is consists of two or three metal pins with a plastic base mounted on the card and by using a small plastic cap Also known as the jumper cap with a metal contact inside you are able to connect the pins So you can set up your hardware configuration by opening or closing pins The jumper can be combined into sets that called jumper blocks When the jumpers are all in the block you have to put them to
3. Monochrome amp Printer adapter EGA adapter CGA adapter Floppy disk controller Serial port 1 Page B 6 EB 381LF USER S MANUAL
4. provided by R8139n5 SYS driver This option is only reguired when you have more than one RTL8100B PCI Fast Ethernet adapters on this computer Select SKIP if only one adapter is installed on this computer 8 Bus Location displayed in next screen Your machine contains more than one hardware bus please select the Bus Type and Bus number on which your network adapter card is installed 9 NT will then perform the binding process If any additional network software options were installed you may be prompted for specific information for these packages 10 Re starting your system you will acquire network service 7 7 Note For Installing Multiple LAN Adapters Enter Windows NT and follow above setup procedure step 2 in the Network Settings dialog box choose the Configure button The Input Ethernet ID dialog box appears and input adapter s Ethernet ID Last step to select OK and close NETWORK SETUP Select SKIP if only one adapter is installed on this computer For more information on installation procedure please refer to TXT directory found on LAN DRIVER UTILITY EB 381LF USER S MANUAL Page 3 7 Chapter 3 Software Configuration 3 6 SOUND DRIVER UTILITY 3 6 1 Introduction The sound function enhanced in this system is fully compatible with Windows 9x 98SE ME Windows NT DOS OS2 Linux and Windows 2000 Below you will find the content of the Sound driver Gound Disk
5. 4 26 Save amp Exit Setup 4 21 Exit Without Saving 4 28 Contents APPENDIX A EXPANSION BUS PC 104 Bus Connector Pin Assignment A 2 Compact Flash Card Connector Pin Assignment A 4 APPENDIX B TECHNICAL SUMMARY Block Diagram edd EES sieves B 2 Interrupt Map nenen anu mamang B 3 RTC amp CMOS RAM Map one see ee ee Ge ee Ge RA Re ee ee B 4 Timer amp DMA Channels Map ooooocooooooo oo B 5 VO amp Memory Map scscsccssscssisssssissecissssensstisssessssssapscnsssseoctentonse B 6 INTRODUCTION Page 1 1 Chapter 1 Introduction 1 1 ABOUT THIS MANUAL Thank you for purchasing our EB 381LF 3 5 Embedded CPU Board enhanced with VGA Audio LAN is fully PC AT ATX compatible The EB 381LF provides faster processing speed greater expandability and can handle more tasks than before This manual is designed to assist you how to install and set up the system It contains four chapters The user can apply this manual for configuration according to the following chapters Chapter 1 Introduction This chapter introduces you to the background of this manual and the specifications for this system The final page of this chapter will indicate how to avoid damaging this Embedded Board Chapter 2 Hardware Configuration This chapter outlines the component locations and their functions In the end of this chapter you will learn how to set jumper and how to configure this card to meet your own needs
6. 381LF USER S MANUAL Chapter 4 Award BIOS Setup 4 6 INTEGRATED PERIPHERALS Choose INTEGRATED PERIPHERALS from the main setup menu a display will be shown on screen as below Phoenix AwardBIOS CMOS Setup Utility Integrated Peripherals On Chip IDE Channel0 Enabled On Chip IDE Channel Enabled Item Help IDE Prefetch Mode Enabled Primary Master PIO Auto Menu Level E Primary Slave PIO Auto Secondary Master PIO Auto Secondary Slave PIO Auto Primary Master UDMA Auto Primary Slave UDMA Auto Secondary Master UDMA Auto Secondary Slave UDMA Auto Init Display First Onboard VGA IDE HDD Block Mode Enabled LAN Boot ROM Enabled Onboard FDD Controller Enabled Onboard Serial Port 1 3F8 IRQ4 Onboard Serial Port 2 2F8 IRQ3 UART 2 Mode Standard x IR Function Duplex Half x TX RX inverting enable No Yes Onboard Parallel Port 378 IRQ7 Onboard Parallel Mode Normal x ECP Mode Use DMA 3 x Parallel Port EPP Type EPP1 9 Onboard Serial Port 3 3E8 Serial Port 3 User IRQ IRQ10 Onboard Serial Port 4 2E8 Serial Port 4 Use IRQ IRQI 1 IO Channel Check NMI Disabled Watch Dog Timer Select Disabled Nbe Move Enter Select PU PD Value F10 Save ESC Exit F1 General Help F5 Previous Values F6 Fail Safe Defaults F7 Optimized Defaults Integrated Peripherals Setup Screen By moving the cursor to the desired selection and by pressing the lt F1 gt key the all options for the desired selection will be displ
7. 381LF package is our driver utility which may comes in a form of a CD ROM disc or floppy diskettes For CD ROM disc user you will only need some of the files contained in the CD ROM disc please kindly refer to the following chart Assume that CD ROM drive is D Install this software first Utility DAVGAN For VGA driver installation D Flash For BIOS update D LAN Realtek RTL8110S For LAN Driver installation D SOUND For Sound Driver installation 3 2 VIA 4IN1 SERVICE PACK DRIVER 3 2 1 Introduction The 4 in 1 drivers are a collection of periodically updated drivers that provide enhanced VIA chipset to support under Microsoft Windows This drivers should be installed after the OS is fully installed to improve performance fix issues and minimize any incompatibilities The VIA 4 In 1 driver includes four system drivers to improve the performance and maintain the stability of systems using VIA chipsets These four drivers are VIA Registry INF Driver VIA AGP VxD driver VIA ATAPI Vendor Support Driver and VIA PCI IRQ Miniport Driver Page 3 2 EB 381LF USER S MANUAL Chapter 3 Software Configuration GIN 1 DISE 1 Win NT program 2 Win 2000 program 3 Win 98 SE program 4 Win ME program 3 3 VGA DRIVER UTILITY The VGA interface embedded with our EB 381LF can support a wide range of display mode such as SVGA STN TFT etc You can display CRT and LVDS simultaneously with the same mode VG
8. D2 DO IOCHRDY A17 A16 A13 A12 AL EB 381LF USER S MANUAL A 2 Page Appendix A Expansion Bus COMPACT FLASH CARD CONNECTOR PIN ASSIGNMENT The pin assignments of Compact Flash Card connector are stated below Assignment GND D03 D04 DOS Dip D07 CS0 A102 ATASEL A092 A082 3 3V VCC A062 A052 A042 A032 A02 A01 A00 D00 DOL D02 IOCS16 CD OlolalaluisiwIiri EB 381LF USER S MANUAL Page A 3 TECHNICAL SUMMARY Page B 1 A endix B Technical Summa BLOCK DIAGRAM MARK COREFUSION PROCESSOR CRT VGA Integrated Savage4 2D 3D Video Accelerator CPU Interface 133MHz 18 36 bit LVDS Main Memory Interface 100 133 MHz PCI Bus Interface 33MHz Integrated Graphic Interface PC100 133 SDRAM 1 Ee TV OUT PC104 PLUS SLOT vasa KW fl PCI BUS Line in el SZ ich ME ct S VIA VT82C686B RTL8110S Line out Codec Dual Ports 10 100 Ethernet CD IN System Management Bus PS2 Ae fake 5 Keyboard amp Mouse KA Ek GE Ee IDE Se USB Power Management On Now ACPD gm Ge oe Me Plug and Play controller SUPER IO Sal Serial Port 2 Ke gt PM Control Parallel Port 1 GPIO Reset FDD 1 s MORE BOOT ROM ZN Page B 2 ISA BUS EB 381LF USER S MANUAL Appendix B Technical Summary INTERRUPT MAP IRQ ASSIGNMENT System TIMER interrupt from TIMER 0 A Serial
9. RAM An example of such option ROM would be support of on board SCSI EB 381LF USER S MANUAL Page 4 11 Chapter 4 Award BIOS Setup 4 5 ADVANCED CHIPSET FEATURES Choose the ADVANCED CHIPSET FEATURES from the main menu the screen shown as below Phoenix AwardBIOS CMOS Setup Utility Advanced Chipset Features DRAM Timing by SPD Enabled Item Help x DRAM Clock Host CLK x SDRAM Cycle Length 3 x Bank Interleave Disabled EES ite Memory Hole Disabled P2C C2P Concurrency Enabled System BIOS Cacheable Disabled Video RAM Cacheable Disabled Frame Buffer Size 16M Select Display Device Auto Panel Type LVDS 1024 x 768 18bit OnChip USB Enabled USB Keyboard Support Disabled OnChip Sound Auto CPU to PCI Write Buffer Enabled PCI Dynamic Bursting Enabled PCI Master 0 WS Write Enabled PCI Delay Transaction Disabled PCI 2 Access 1 Retry Enabled tW lt Move Enter Select PU PD Value F10 Save ESC Exit Fl General Help F5 Previous Values F6 Fail Safe Defaults F7 Optimized Defaults Chipset Features Setup Screen The parameter allows you to configure the system based on the specific features of the installed chipset The chipset manages bus speed and access to system memory resources such as DRAM and the external cache It also coordinates communications between conventional ISA bus and the PCI bus It must be stated that these items should never need to be altered The default se
10. more than 4 seconds forces the system to enter the Soft Off state when the system has hung The choices are Delay 4 Sec and Instant Off EB 381LF USER S MANUAL Page 4 19 Chapter 4 Award BIOS Setup STATE AFTER POWER FAILURE This field lets you determine the state that your PC returns to after a power failure If set to Off the PC will not boot after a power failure IF set to On the PC will restart after a power failure WAKE UP EVENTS Wake up events are I O events whose occurrence can prevent the system from entering a power saving mode or can awaken the system from such a mode In effect the system remains alert for anything that occurs to a device which is configured as ON even when the system is in a power down mode VGA When Enabled you can set the VGA awakens the system LPT amp COM When ON of LPT amp COM any activity from one of the listed system peripheral devices or IRQs wakes up the system HDD amp FDD When ON of HDD amp FDD any activity from one of the listed system peripheral devices wakes up the system PCI MASTER When ON of PCI Master any activity from one of the listed system peripheral devices wakes up the system WAKE UP ON LAN RING This category allows you to wake up the system from LAN from remote host And it also can be awaken from an input signal on serial Ring Indicator RI line incoming call on the modem RTC ALARM RESUME When Enabled you can set the date and the
11. port2 Modem 6 o ee OB RTCoock o i O pf Available S IDE2 EB 381LF USER S MANUAL Page B 3 Appendix B Technical Summary RTC amp CMOS RAM MAP CODE ASSIGNMENT 01 2 Minutes 03 Minutes alarm 0 Hours Hours alarm Day of week 05 07 Day of month 0 E Month 2 13 14 15 16 17 18 30 31 32 33 34 3F 40 7f OA OC OE OF 10 pt Page B 4 EB 381LF USER S MANUAL Appendix B Technical Summary TIMER amp DMA CHANNELS MAP Timer Channel Map Timer Channel DRAM Refresh request Speaker tone generator DMA Channel Map DMA Channel Available Available Sound Blaster Floppy Available ECP Available Available Available pS Available oo gt E EB 381LF USER S MANUAL Page B 5 Appendix B Technical Summary VO amp MEMORY MAP Memory Map MEMORY MAP ASSIGNMENT 0000000 009FFFF System memory used by DOS and application CGA MONOCHROME adapter RAM buffer 00E0000 00EFFFF Reserved for PCI device ROM 00F0000 00FFFFF System BIOS ROM 0100000 FFFFFFF YO MAP 000 01F 020 021 022 023 040 05F 060 06F 070 07F 080 09F 0A0 0BF OCO ODE OFO OFF 1F0 1F8 278 27F 2B0 2DF 2F8 2FF 360 36F 378 37F 3B0 3BF 3C0 3CF 3D0 3DF 3F0 3F7 3F8 3FF DMA register Interrupt controller Slave DMA controller Slave Hard Disk controller Parallel port 2 Graphics adapter controller Serial port Net work ports Parallel port 1 2
12. 1 Win 98 ME SE program 2 Win NT program 3 Win 2000 XP program 3 6 2 Installation Procedure In Windows NT 1 Open Main Window in Program Manager 2 Select Control Panel in Main Window then open it 3 Select Drivers in Control Panel Double Click it to open this window Then choose ADD item to add driver 4 Choose Unlisted or Updated Driver on the list Then press OK button Change the Install Driver directory to the VIA Audio Driver directory Then press OK button 6 If it correct you will see a pop window which shows VIA PCI Audio Controller Press OK button to process installing Restart the computer 5 wm 7 Page 3 8 EB 381LF USER S MANUAL CHAPTER AWARD 4 BIOS SETUP This chapter shows how to set up the Award BIOS Section includes Introduction Entering Setup The Standard CMOS Features The Advanced BIOS Features The Advanced Chipset Features Integrated Peripherals Power Management Setup PNP PCI Configuration PC Health Status Freguency Voltage Control Load Fail Safe Defaults Load Optimized Defaults Password Setting Save and Exit Setup Exit Without Saving Page 4 1 Chapter 4 Award BIOS Setup 4 1 INTRODUCTION This chapter will show you the function of the BIOS in managing the features of your system The EB 381LF 3 5 Embedded Board is equipped with the BIOS for
13. 300 0000 65535 65535 65535 65535 65535 65535 65535 65535 65535 65535 65535 65535 65535 65535 65535 65535 65535 65535 65535 65535 65535 65335 AUTO LZone 305 615 615 940 940 615 511 733 901 820 855 855 319 733 000 663 977 977 1023 732 732 733 336 976 1023 1223 1223 1223 1023 1023 1023 926 1023 1023 1023 1023 1023 1023 1023 820 1023 1023 852 852 Sect I S N I AI II II I I I I I I I I I I I I II I I 9I I II ISI III III III III Ww N Wan Capacity 10 20 30 EB 381LF USER S MANUAL Page 4 7 Chapter 4 Award BIOS Setup 4 4 THE ADVANCED BIOS FEATURES Choose the ADVANCED BIOS FEATURES in the main menu the screen shown as below Phoenix AwardBIOS CMOS Setup Utility Advanced BIOS Features Virus Warning Disabled Item Help CPU Internal Cache Enabled External Cache Enabled CPU L2 Cache ECC Checking Enabled Meni Peele Quick Power On Self Test Enabled USB Flash Disk Type Floopy First Boot Device Floppy Allows you to choose Second Boot Device HDD 0 the VIRUS warning Third Boot Device LS 120 feature for IDE Hard Boot Other Device Enabled Disk boot sector Swap Floppy Drive Disabled protection If this Boot Up Floppy Seek Disabled function is enabled and Boot Up NumLock Status On someone attempt to Gate A20 Option Fast write data into this area Typematic Rate Setting Disabled BIOS will show a 6 warning mess
14. A Disc 1 Win 98 ME SE program 2 Win NT 4 0 program 3 Win 2000 program 4 Win XP program EB 381LF USER S MANUAL Page 3 3 Chapter 3 Software Configuration 3 4 FLASH BIOS UPDATE 3 4 1 System BIOS Update Users of EB 381LF can use the program Awdflash exe contained in the Utility Disk for system BIOS and VGA BIOS update 3 4 2 To update VGA BIOS for LCD Flat Panel Display As EB 381LF user you have to update the VGA BIOS for your specific LCD flat panel you are going to use For doing this you need two files One is the Awdflash exe file and the other is the VGA BIOS for LCD panel display Both file must be provided by the vendor or manufacturer When you get these two files ready follow the following steps for updating your VGA BIOS 1 Install Awdflash exe from Utility Disk to Drive C 2 Insert the VGA BIOS file you have obtained from the vendor 3 Type the path to Awdflash exe and execute the VGA BIOS update with file C30bxxxx bin CAUTILAWDFELASH AWDELASH C30bxxxx bin 4 The screen will display the table below FLASH MEMORY WRITER v8 XX C Award Software 2000 All Rights Reserved For 8604 686B 6A6LLP69C 0 DATE 04 23 2001 Flash Type MXIC 29F002 N T 5V File Name to Program C30bxxxx bin Checksum XXXXX Error Message Do You Want To Save BIOS Y N If you want to save up the original BIOS enter Y and press lt Enter gt If you choose N the following table will appear o
15. B25 connector and parallel port The pin assignments are as follows CD 13 LI C 1 LPT1 GND 6 PD 19 GND GND 8 Spe 21 GND 9 Sp 2 GND GND GND GND EB 381LF USER S MANUAL Page 2 17 Chapter 2 Hardware Configuration 2 23 RESET NMI CLEAR WATCHDOG SELECTION JP4 Reset NMI Clear Watchdog Selection The selections are as follows FUNCTION JUMPER SETTING JUMPER pin closed ILLUS Clear Watchdog Manufacturing Default is set as Reset Page 2 18 EB 381LF USER S MANUAL Chapter 2 Hardware Configuration 2 24 LAN CONNECTOR LANI LAN Connector The pin assignments are as follows ASSIGNMENT Green Yellow LAN1 X X X NC NC X NC NC ES ES 2 25 ATX POWER CONNECTOR CNI Power Connector The pin assignments are as follows VCC io 5 CN1 ke ak EEE o 8 OND 1 9 PSONN i 1 EB 381LF USER S MANUAL Page 2 19 Chapter 2 Hardware Configuration 2 26 AT ATX POWER SELECTION JP2 JP6 JP7 AT ATX Power Selection The selections are as follows POWER JUMPER SETTING SELECTION pin closed JP2 JP7 JUMPER ILLUSTRATION ooh ETA ES JP2 JP6 JP7 E P E Open Jp2 JP6 JP7 Manufacturing Default ATX amp As a reminder when you choose
16. C Health Status Esc Quit Nb Select Item F10 Save amp Exit Setup Abandon all Data Page 4 28 EB 381LF USER S MANUAL EXPANSION BUS Page A 1 A Expansion Bus Appendix PC 104 CONNECTOR PIN ASSIGNMENT PC 104 Connector 104AB 104CD B32 OOOOOOOOG A32 OOOOO OOO000000 OOOOOOg Bin AM oO0OOOOOOOO000000000000 104CD The PC 104 can support multi pieces of PC 104 modules It has two connectors one 104AB consists of 64 pin the other one 104CD consists of 40 pin both of them are dual in line headers The pin assignments for connector 104AB amp 104CD are as follow B1 GND ci fann D GND oo D8 fIrQI4 Do DACKO B13 tow ft cis D9 3 Dacke B18 DRQI cis Di4 Dis MASTER back J o ST Ih Bo LN Lo fram AD ao 812 SMEMR cm Di2 pros A13 AIS A2 fag pmo oo 11 I LA Jas fm Tras ITT LA LIA Bajra LIT LAG as Losse pp E Jas eT LA fa B28 BALE TT TI ao a B29 vec PP aso RE Boo EE E TE IT N LA La Bar GND ITT LA GND Lasep LIT an Alo Laser PP Al AS Da e Z DI 2 Z g a av lt E A H Z DI 2 Z g a nv lt E A H Z DI 2 Z g a nv lt E fam A H Z DI 2 Z g a nv lt z fam A As DI 88 ows cs ta IOCHK D7 D6 D3
17. CO N PWEN EE 2 12 EXTERNAL BUZZER CONNECTOR J1 7 8 External Buzzer Connector The pin assignments are as follows ASSIGNMENT E_BUZ Bll VER 2 13 IRDA CONNECTOR IRI IrDA SIR Connector The pin assignments are as follows Power Button HP J1 IR1 Page 2 10 EB 381LF USER S MANUAL Chapter 2 Hardware Configuration 2 14 INVERTER CONNECTOR INVI1 Inverter Connector The pin assignment is as follows 2 15 VGA CONNECTOR VGAI VGA Connector The pin assignments are as follows ASSIGNMENT 500000 o EG o VGA1 SPCLK2 EB 381LF USER S MANUAL Page 2 11 Chapter 2 Hardware Configuration 2 16 LVDS CONNECTOR LVDSI LVDS Connector The pin assignments are as follows YCP GND EN Es ae 23 YIM 24 GND _ 26 YOM 27 GND __ 28 GND __ 2 17 CPU FAN CONNECTOR FANI CPU Fan Connector The pin assignments are as follows bon FAN1 Can 3 2 12V 3 CPUFAN Page 2 12 EB 381LF USER S MANUAL Chapter 2 Hardware Configuration 2 18 LVDS PANEL VOLTAGE SELECTION JP13 LVDS Panel Voltage Selection The voltage selection are as follows VOLTAGE JUMPER SETTINGS JUMPER SELECTION pin closed ILLUSTRATION 6 5 12V VCC 21 JP13 B 7 Manufacturing Default No default EB 381LF USER S MANUAL Page 2 13 Chapter 2 Hardware Configuration 2 19 UNIVERSAL SERIAL B
18. Chapter 3 Software Utilities This chapter contains helpful information for proper installations of the VGA Utility LAN Utility Sound Utility and Flash BIOS Update It also describes the Watchdog timer configuration Chapter 4 Award BIOS Setup This chapter indicates you how to set up the BIOS configurations Appendix A Expansion Bus This Appendix introduces you the expansion bus for PC 104 Compact Flash Appendix B Technical Summary This section gives you the information about the Technical maps Page 1 2 EB 381LF USER S MANUAL Chapter 1 Introduction 1 2 SYSTEM SPECIFICATIONS CPU VIA Mark 533 800MHz processor Auto detect voltage regulator SYSTEM CHIPSET VIA Mark VT82C686B MEMORY Up to 512MB SDRAM One 144 pin DIMM socket on board CACHE Built in CPU REAL TIME CLOCK CALENDAR CMOS data back up from BIOS set or BIOS default Built in VIA VT82C686B BIOS PhoenixAward PnP BIOS Memory size 2 M bits with VGA BIOS Supports S IO Setup KEYBOARD MOUSE CONNECTOR PS 2 with mini DIN to Support Y Cable for Keyboard and Mouse PS 2 mouse connector with 1 x 4 pin wafer connector BUS SUPPORT PC 104 Compact Flash for second IDE EB 381LF USER S MANUAL Page 1 3 Chapter 1 Introduction DISPLAY Build in North Bridge Support CRT LVDS TV OUT 1 CRT use one 15 pin VGA D SUB connector on board 2 LVDS use one 2x15 pin 18 36 bit on board 3 TV OUT AV jack on
19. PC Health Status CPU Warning Temperature Disabled Item Hel Current CPU Temp 28 C 82 F p Current CPU Fan Speed 5957 RPM Menu Level gt Vcore 1 08V 2 5V 2 52V 3 3V 3 35V 5V 4 88V 12V 12 12V Shutdown Temperature Disabled MN lt Move Enter Select PU PD Value F10 Save ESC Exit F1 General Help F5 Previous Values F6 Fail Safe Defaults F7 Optimized Defaults PC Health Status Setup Screen The setup menu allows you to select whether to choose between monitoring or ignoring the hardware monitoring function of your system CPU WARNING TEMPERATURE In the DOS environment if the temperature reaches the warning point the buzzer will act CURRENT CPU TEMPERATURE This item shows you the current CPU temperature CURRENT SYSTEM FAN SPEED This item shows you the current System FAN speed VCORE This item shows you the current system voltage EB 381LF USER S MANUAL Page 4 23 Chapter 4 Award BIOS Setup SHUTDOWN TEMPERATURE This item allows you to set up the CPU shutdown Temperature This function is only effective under Windows 98 ACPI mode 4 10 FREQUENCY VOLTAGE CONTROL Choose FREQUENCY VOLTAGE CONTROL from the main menu a display will be shown on screen as below Phoenix AwardBIOS CMOS Setup Utility Frequency Control VIA Processor Clock Ratio Default Item Help Auto Detect DIMM PCI Clk Enabled Spread Spectrum Disabled Menu Level P This item is for VIA C3 CPU Rati
20. S RAM To save the settings select SAVE amp EXIT SETUP and press Enter a display will be shown as follows Phoenix AwardBIOS CMOS Setup Utility gt Standard CMOS Features gt Frequency Voltage Control b Advanced BIOS Features Load Fail Safe Defaults gt Advanced Chipset Features Load Optimized Defaults gt Integrated Peripherals Set Password gt Power Managemen gt PnP PCI Configura SAVE to CMOS and EXIT Y N Y b PC Health Status Esc Quit Ne Select Item F10 Save amp Exit Setup Save Data to CMOS When you confirm that you wish to save the settings your system will be automatically restarted and the changes you have made will be implemented You may always call up the setup program at any time to adjust any of the individual items by pressing the lt Del gt key during boot up EB 381LF USER S MANUAL Page 4 27 Chapter 4 Award BIOS Setup 4 15 EXIT WITHOUT SAVING If you wish to cancel any changes you have made you may select the EXIT WITHOUT SAVING and the original setting stored in the CMOS will be retained The screen will be shown as below Phoenix AwardBIOS CMOS Setup Utility gt Standard CMOS Features gt Frequency Voltage Control gt Advanced BIOS Features Load Fail Safe Defaults gt Advanced Chipset Features Load Optimized Defaults gt Integrated Peripherals Set Password gt Power Managemen Quit Without Saving Y N N gt PnP PCI Configura b P
21. Screen The Power Management Setup allows the user to configure the system to the most effectively save energy while operating in a manner consistent with your own style of computer use Page 4 18 EB 381LF USER S MANUAL Chapter 4 Award BIOS Setup ACPI FUNCTION Users are allowed to enable or disable the Advanced Configuration and Power Management ACPI POWER MANAGEMENT This item allows the user to select the Power Management Mode PM CONTROL BY APM If Advanced Power Management APM is installed on your system selecting Yes gives better power savings VIDEO OFF OPTION This category determines the power saving modes during which the monitor goes blank ALWAYS ON Monitor remains on during power saving modes SUSPEND OFF Monitor blanked when system enters Suspend mode Suspend or Standby mode saving mode VIDEO OFF METHOD This category determines the manner in which the monitor is blanked V H SYNC BLANK This selection will cause the system to turn of the vertical amp horizontal synchronization ports and writes blanks to video buffer BLANK SCREEN This selection only writes blanks to video buffer DPMS SUPPORT Initial display power management signaling MODEM USE IRQ This item enable you to name the interrupt request IRQ line assigned to the modem if any on your system Activity of the selected IRQ always awakens the system SOFT OFF BY PWRBTN Pressing the power button for
22. Select a DMA channel for the parallel port for use during ECP mode PARALLEL PORT EPP TYPE Select EPP port type 1 7 or 1 9 as required by your parallel peripheral SERIAL PORT 3 USE IRQ SERIAL PORT 4 USE IRQ Select an address and corresponding interrupt for the 3 and forth serial ports EB 381LF USER S MANUAL Page 4 17 Chapter 4 Award BIOS Setup IO CHANNEL CHECK NMI This field enables or disables IO channel check NMI Before selecting this function the user should check first that NMI function is enabled as described in chapter 2 Reset NMI Clear Watchdog Selection WATCHDOG TIMER SELECT The value denotes the count down value of watchdog timer If time is up the system will restart or assert a I O channel NMI signal which can be decide by hardware jumpers 4 7 POWER MANAGEMENT SETUP Choose POWER MANAGEMENT SETUP option on the main menu a display will be shown on screen as below Phoenix AwardBIOS CMOS Setup Utility Power Management Setup ACPI function Disabled Item Hel b Power Management Press Enter H PM Control by APM Yes Video Off Option Suspend gt Off Menu Level P Video Off Method V H SYNC Blank MODEM Use IRQ 3 Soft off by PWRBTN Instant off State After Power Failure Off gt Wake Up Events Press Enter Nbe Move Enter Select PU PD Value F10 Save ESC Exit Fl General Help F5 Previous Values F6 Fail Safe Defaults F7 Optimized Defaults Power Management Setup
23. US CONNECTOR USBI Universal Serial Bus Connector The pin assignments are as follows Ee OSB es N ei eN USB2 Universal Serial Bus Connector The pin assignments are as follows 6 1 USB2 6 USBVCC i O 8 USBDI _ 9 OND S Page 2 14 EB 381LF USER S MANUAL Chapter 2 Hardware Configuration 2 20 FLOPPY DISK DRIVE CONNECTOR FDD1 Floppy Disk Drive Connector You can use a 34 pin daisy chain cable to connect two FDDs On one end of this cable there is a 34 pin flat cable to attach the FDD on the board the other side attaches to two FDDs The pin assignments are as follows E ME D GND EG IS EE 19 He 23 GND 25 27 29 31 33 EB 381LF USER S MANUAL Page 2 15 Chapter 2 Hardware Configuration 2 21 HARD DISK DRIVE CONNECTOR IDE1 Hard Disk Drive Connector The pin assignments are as follows Aa eRT 2 pan k 3 emo 4 Po is ppe 5 7 PDDS 8 popo aon mna E Poni Ed LJ PDD3 12 rpp2 l 13 PDD2 14 ppp3 is mp 16 pop ol Keel Ee om 20 AM 2 GND 23 PDIOW 24 GND 25 moi 26 Lomp ___ 2 4 10 12 14 16 18 20 22 24 26 1 3 5 H 11 13 15 17 19 21 23 25 Page 2 16 EB 381LF USER S MANUAL Chapter 2 Hardware Configuration 2 22 PRINTER CONNECTOR LPT1 Printer Connector As to link the Printer to the card you need a cable to connect both D
24. USER S MANUAL B 381LF VIA Mark 3 5 Embedded Board With VGA Audio LAN EB 381LF M2 Copyright Notice EB 381LF 3 5 Embedded CPU Board With VGA Audio LAN OPERATION MANUAL COPYRIGHT NOTICE This operation manual is meant to assist both Embedded Computer manufacturers and end users in installing and setting up the system The information contained in this document is subject to change without any prior notice This manual is copyrighted October 2006 You may not reproduce or transmit in any form or by any means electronic or mechanical including photocopying and recording ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS All trademarks and registered trademarks mentioned herein are the property of their respective owners CE NOTICE This is a class A product In a domestic environment this product may cause radio interference in which case the user may be reguired to take adeguate measures Copyright Notice FCC NOTICE This eguipment has been tested and found to comply with the limits for a Class A digital device pursuant to part 15 of the FCC Rules These limits are designed to provide reasonable protection against harmful interference when the eguipment is operated in a commercial environment This eguipment generates uses and can radiate radio freguency energy and if not installed and used in accordance with the instruction manual may cause harmful interference to radio communications Operation of this eguipment in
25. a residential area is likely to cause harmful interference in which case the user will be reguired to correct the interference at his own expense You are cautioned that any change or modifications to the eguipment not expressly approve by the party responsible for compliance could void your authority to operate such eguipment Contents TABLE OF CONTENTS CHAPTER 1 INTRODUCTION 1 1 About This Manual ooooocooWoWoWoomoomonanaaaan 1 2 1 2 System Specifications ocoooorooooWooooooo 1 3 1 3 Safety Precautions ooooo o ooo oom 1 6 CHAPTER 2 HARDWARE CONFIGURATION 2 1 Jumper amp Connector Quick Reference Table 2 2 2 2 Component Locations ooocooWoWoWooooooo 2 3 2 3 Howto Set the Jumpers oo 2 4 2 4 COM Port Connector ooooooooooWooooo oo 2 6 2 5 RS232 422 485 COM2 Selection 2 7 2 6 Keyboard Connector RA 2 8 2 1 PS 2 Mouse Connector 2 8 2 8 Power LED Connector ooooooooooooo 2 9 2 9 Reset Connector soneron EE EEUE EG Ge nemu 2 9 2 10 Hard Disk Drive LED Connector 2 9 2 11 Power Button 2 10 2 12 External Buzzer Connector 2 10 2 13 IrDA Connector 2 10 2 14 Inverter Connector 2 11 2 15 VGA Connector Jaana 2 11 2 16 LVDS Connector oo ee ee ee Re EE cence eee ee ee ee 2 12 2 17 CPU Fan Connector 2 12 2 18 LVDS Panel Voltage Selection 2 13 2 19 Universal Serial Bus Connector 2 14 2 20 Floppy Disk Drive Connector oooooooooWo
26. age on 250 screen and alarm beep Setup Non OS2 x Typematic Rate Chars Sec x Typematic Delay Msec Security Option OS Select for DRAM gt 64MB Video BIOS Shadow Enabled C8000 CBFFF Shadow Disabled CC000 CFFFF Shadow Disabled D0000 D3FFF Shadow Disabled D4000 D7FFF Shadow Disabled D8000 DBFFF Shadow Disabled DC000 DFFFF Shadow Disabled Small Logo EPA Show Enabled MN lt Move Enter Select PU PD Value F10 Save ESC Exit Fl General Help F5 Previous Values F6 Fail Safe Defaults F7 Optimized Defaults BIOS Features Setup Menu The BIOS FEATURES SETUP allow you to configure your system for basic operation The user can select the system s default speed boot up seguence keyboard operation shadowing and security Page 4 8 EB 381LF USER S MANUAL Chapter 4 Award BIOS Setup A brief introduction of each setting in the BIOS FEATURES SETUP program is given below VIRUS WARNING This item allows you to choose the Virus Warning feature for IDE Hard Disk boot sector protection If this function is enabled and someone attempt to write data into this area BIOS will show a warning message on screen and alarm beep CPU INTERNAL CACHE EXTERNAL CACHE These two categories speed up memory access However it depends on CPU chipset design CPU L2 CACHE ECC CHECKING This item allows you to enable or disable CPU L2 Cache ECC checking QUICK POWER ON SELF TEST This item
27. allows you to speed up Power On Self Test POST after power up the computer When enabled the BIOS will shorten or skip some check items during POST USB FLASH TYPE Select USB Flash device type If select Floppy then boot device has to select USB ZIP If select HDD then boot device has to select USB HDD FIRST SECOND THIRD OTHER BOOT DEVICE The BIOS attempt to load the operating system from the devices in the seguence selected in these items SWAP FLOOPY DRIVE This field is effective only in systems with two floppy drives Selecting Enabled assigns physical drive B to logical drive A and physical drive A to logical drive B BOOT UP FLOPPY SEEK You may enable disable this item to define whether the system will look for a floppy disk drive to boot at power on or proceed directly to the hard disk drive BOOT UP NUMLOCK STATUS Select power on state for NumLock EB 381LF USER S MANUAL Page 4 9 Chapter 4 Award BIOS Setup GATE A20 OPTION This entry allows you to select how the gate A20 is handled When Normal was set a pin in the keyboard controller controls Gate A20 And when Fast was set the chipset controls Gate A20 TYPEMATIC RATE SETTING Enable this item if you wish to be able to configure the characteristics of your keyboard Typematic refers to the way in which characters are entered repeatedly if a key is held down For example if you press and hold down the A key the letter a will repeatedly appear on yo
28. ayed for choice EB 381LF USER S MANUAL Page 4 15 Chapter 4 Award BIOS Setup ONCHIP IDE CHANNEL 0 1 The chipset contains a PCI IDE interface with support for two IDE channels Select Enabled to activate the primary IDE interface Select Disabled to deactivate this interface IDE PREFETCH MODE The onboard IDE drive interfaces supports IDE pre fetching for faster drive accesses If you install a primary and or secondary add in IDE interface set this field to Disabled if the interface does not support pre fetching PRIMARY MASTER SLAVE PIO SECONDARY MASTER SLAVE PIO The four IDE PIO fields allow you to set a PIO mode 0 4 for each of the four IDE devices that the onboard IDE interface supports Modes 0 through 4 provide successively increased performance In Auto mode the system automatically determines the best mode for each device PRIMARY MASTER SLAVE UDMA SECONDARY MASTER SLAVE UDMA Ultra DMA 33 implementation is possible only if your IDE hard drive supports it and the operating environment includes a DMA driver Windows 95 OSR2 or a third party IDE bus master driver If you hard drive and your system software both support Ultra DMA 33 select Auto to enable BIOS support INIT DISPLAY FIRST This item allows you to decide to active whether PCI Slot or on chip VGA first The choices are PCI Slot and Onboard IDE HDD BLOCK MODE Block mode is also called block transfer multiple commands or multiple sector read w
29. board WATCHDOG Time out timing select 1 255 secs IDE INTERFACE One IDE port with 44 pin boxheader on board One channel supports up to two devices FLOPPY DISK DRIVER INTERFACE Supports up to two Floppy Disk Drives 1 44M USB CONNECTOR Universal Serial Bus Connector supports up to two USB1 1 ports 2X5 pin headpin on board LAN ADAPTER Realtek RTL8100BL 10 100 Base TX Ethernet Support Wake On LAN when use ATX power SERIAL PORT Two high speed 16550 Compatible UARTs with Send Receive 16 Byte FIFOs COM1 for RS 232 COM2 for RS 232 422 485 PARALLEL PORT Supports SPP ECP EPP Function mode Bi directional parallel port SOUND FUNCTION Integrated Sound Blaster DirectSound AC97 audio with VIA VT1612A Dual Full duplex direct sound channels bet system memory amp AC97 link 32 byte FIFO of each Direct Sound Channel Page 1 4 EB 381LF USER S MANUAL Chapter 1 Introduction INFRARED CONNECTOR One IrDA Port Support v1 0 SIR protocol HARDWARE MONITORING FUNCTION Monitor CPU Voltage CPU temperature and Cooling Fan LED INDICATOR 1 HDD LED use 1x2 pin headpin on board 2 Power LED use 1x2 pin headpin on board DMA CONTROLLER 82C37 x 2 DMA CHANNELS 7 INTERRUPT CONTROLLERS 82C59 x 2 INTERRUPT LEVELS 15 OPERATING TEMPERATURE 0 to 60 C 32 F to 140 F INPUT POWER REQUIREMENT ATX power 5V 5V_SB 12V 12V AT power
30. fer size ONCHIP USB This should be enabled if your system has a USB installed on the system board and you want to use it Even when so equipped if you add a higher performance controller you will need to disable this feature EB 381LF USER S MANUAL Page 4 13 Chapter 4 Award BIOS Setup USB KEYBOARD SUPPORT Select Enabled if your system contains a Universal Serial Bus USB controller and you have a USB keyboard ONCHIP SOUND This item allows you to control the onboard AC 97 audio CPU TO PCI WRITE BUFFER When this field is Enabled writes from the CPU to the PCI bus are buffered to compensate for the speed differences between the CPU and the PCI bus When Disabled the writes are not buffered and the CPU must wait until the write is complete before starting another write cycle PCI DYNAMIC BURSTING When Enabled every write transaction goes to the write buffer Burstable transactions then burst on the PCI bus and non burstable transaction don t PCI MASTER 0 WS WRITE When Enabled writes to the PCI bus are executed with zero wait states PCI DELAY TRANSACTION The chipset has an embedded 32 bit posted write buffer to support delay transactions cycles Select Enabled to support compliance with PCI specification version 2 1 PCl 2 ACCESS 1 RETRY When disabled PCI 2 will not be disconnected until access finishes When Enabled PCI 2 will be disconnected if max retries are attempted without success Page 4 14 EB
31. gether to set up the hardware configuration The figure below shows how this looks like JUMPERS AND CAPS Wf AJAI AJAJAJ mim aim i 2 Pin Jumper 3 Pin Jumper Jumper Block Jumper Cap If a jumper has three pins for example labelled PIN1 PIN2 and PIN3 You can connect PIN amp PIN2 to create one setting and shorting You can either connect PIN2 amp PIN3 to create another setting The same jumper diagrams are applied all through this manual The figure below shows what the manual diagram looks like and what they represent Page 2 4 EB 381LF USER S MANUAL Chapter 2 Hardware Configuration JUMPER DIAGRAMS Jumper Cap looks like this 2 pin Jumper looks like this Bessa I S Jumper Block looks like this 3 pin Jumper looks like this j Sieg EN N e JUMPER SETTINGS 2 pin Jumper close enabled looks like this LA SR 1 II 1 3 pin Jumper 9 2 3 pin close enabled TT looks like this 1 1 SET O O AI Jumper Block OD B 1 2 pin close enabled GP looks like this KS eg 1 2 2 EB 381LF USER S MANUAL Page 2 5 Chapter 2 Hardware Configuration 2 4 COM PORT CONNECTOR There are two COM ports enhanced in this board namely COM1 COM2 COM lis fixed for RS 232 while COM is selectable for RS 232 422 485 COM1 COM1 Connector The COM1 Connector assignments are as follows ASSIGNMENT COM COM Connector The COM2 Connector assignme
32. n screen Page 3 4 EB 381LF USER S MANUAL Chapter 3 Software Configuration FLASH MEMORY WRITER v8 XX C Award Software 2000 All Rights Reserved For 8604 686B 6A6LLP69C 0 DATE 04 23 2001 Flash Type MXIC 29F002 N T 5V File Name to Program C30bxxxx bin Checksum XXXXX Error Message Are You Sure To Program Y N Select Y and the BIOS will be renewed When you are refreshing the BIOS do not turn off or reset the system or you will damage the BIOS After you have completed all the programming the screen displays the table below FLASH MEMORY WRITER v8 XX C Award Software 2000 All Rights Reserved For 8604 686B 6A6LLP69C 0 DATE 04 23 2001 Flash Type MXIC 29F002 N T 5V File Name to Program C30bxxxx bin Checksum XXXXX Reset System or Power off to accomplish update process Fl Reset F10 Exit Please reset or power off the system and then the Flash BIOS is fully implemented EB 381LF USER S MANUAL Page 3 5 Chapter 3 Software Configuration 3 5 LAN DRIVER UTILITY 3 5 1 Introduction EB 381LF Embedded Board is enhanced with LAN function that can support various network adapters Installation programs for LAN drivers are listed as follows LAN Disc 1 Win 98 ME SE program 2 Win 2000 XP program 3 Win NT program 3 5 2 Installation Procedures of LAN Driver 1 Install LAN Driver to Windows 98 2000 XP Executing Windows 98 Windows 2000 Windows XP it will auto detect your
33. ntains a table of pre defined drive types Each defined drive type has a specified number of cylinders number of heads write precompensation factor landing zone and number of sectors Drives whose specifications do not accommodate any predefine type are classified as type USER e Size Disk drive capacity approximate Note that this size is usually greater than the size of a formatted disk given by a disk checking program e Cyls number of cylinders e Head number of heads e Precomp write precompensation cylinders e Land landing zone e Sector number of sectors e Mode Auto Normal Large or LBA Auto The BIOS automatically determines the optimal mode Normal Maximum number of cylinders heads sectors supported are 1024 16 and 63 Large For drives that do not support LBA and have more than 1024 cylinders EB 381LF USER S MANUAL Page 4 5 Chapter 4 Award BIOS Setup LBA Logical Block Addressing During drive accesses the IDE controller transforms the data address described by sector head and cylinder number into a physical block address significantly improving data transfer rates For drives greater than 1024 cylinders DRIVE A AND DRIVE B Select the type of floppy disk drive installed in your system The available options are 360KB 5 25in 12KB 5 25in 720KB 3 5in 1 44MB 3 5in 2 88MB 3 5in and None VIDEO This category selects the type of video adapter used for the primary system monitor Alth
34. nts are as follows soOOO oho qOOOOC HS ASSIGNMENT RS 485 1 TX TX RX RX GND NC NC NC NC NC Page 2 6 EB 381LF USER S MANUAL Chapter 2 Hardware Configuration 2 5 RS232 422 485 COM2 SELECTION JP5 RS 232 422 485 Selection COM is selectable for RS 232 422 485 function The jumper settings are as follows COM 2 JUMPER SETTING JUMPER FUNCTION pin closed ILLUSTRATION 210 0 000810 1 2 3 4 9 10 1 2 5 6 7 8 Manufactory default RS 232 EB 381LF USER S MANUAL Page 2 7 Chapter 2 Hardware Configuration 2 6 KEYBOARD CONNECTOR KBI PC AT Keyboard Connector support Y cable The jumper settings are as follows SE unta 25 KB1 6 MSCLK 2 7 PS 2 MOUSE CONNECTOR MS1 PS 2 Mouse Connector The pin assignments are as follows MS Page 2 8 EB 381LF USER S MANUAL Chapter 2 Hardware Configuration 2 8 POWER LED CONNECTOR J1 1 3 Power LED Connector The pin assignment is as follows 2 9 RESET CONNECTOR J1 9 10 Reset Connector The pin assignments are as follows 9 GND 2 10 HARD DISK DRIVE LED CONNECTOR J1 2 4 Hard Disk Drive LED Connector The pin assignments are as follows ASSIGNMENT Power LED 2 10 ba J1 HDD LED 2E 10 1 9 EB 381LF USER S MANUAL Page 2 9 Chapter 2 Hardware Configuration 2 11 POWER BUTTON J1 5 6 Power Button The pin assignments are as follows
35. o adjustment Nbe Move Enter Select PU PD Value F10 Save ESC Exit F1 General Help F5 Previous Values F6 Fail Safe Defaults F7 Optimized Defaults Freguency Voltage Control Setup Screen This setup menu allows you to specify your settings for freguency voltage control VIA PROCESSOR CLOCK RATIO This item is for VIA Processor CPU ratio adjustment AUTO DETECT DIMM PCI CLK This item allows you to enable or disable auto detect DIMM PCI Clock Page 4 24 EB 381LF USER S MANUAL Chapter 4 Award BIOS Setup SPREAD SPECTRUM This item allows you to enable or disable the spread spectrum modulate 4 11 LOAD FAIL SAFE DEFAULTS By pressing the lt ENTER gt key on this item you get a confirmation dialog box with a message similar to the following Load Fail Safe Defaults Y N N To use the BIOS default values change the prompt to Y and press the lt Enter gt key CMOS is loaded automatically when you power up the system 4 12 LOAD OPTIMIZED DEFAULTS When you press lt Enter gt on this category you get a confirmation dialog box with a message similar to the following Load Optimized Defaults Y N N Pressing Y loads the default values that are factory setting for optimal performance system operations EB 381LF USER S MANUAL Page 4 25 Chapter 4 Award BIOS Setup 4 13 PASSWORD SETTING User is allowed to set either supervisor or user password or both of them The difference is that
36. oooo 2 15 2 21 Hard Disk Drive Connector 2 16 2 22 Printer Connector ooooooooooooo anakanak 2 17 2 23 Reset NMI Clear Watchdog Selection 2 18 2 24 WAN RE 2 19 2 25 ATX Power Connector 2 19 2 26 AT ATX Power Selection 2 20 2 27 Sound Connector 2 21 2 28 CD Audio In Connector 2 21 2 29 Clear CMOS Selection 2 22 2 30 Memory Installation iese see se de ge se ge Sk eek ek dk dee 2 23 2 31 TV Out Connector iese ees ee ee ee ee ee ee ee ee ee ee 2 33 Contents CHAPTER 3 SOFTWARE UTILITIES 3 1 3 2 3 3 3 4 3 5 3 6 Introduction soseer eh ee Ee Se Ee d et eege Li 3 2 VIA 4 IN 1 Service Pack Der 3 2 VGA Driver Utility 3 3 Flash BIOS Update ooooooooooooooooW 3 4 LAN Driver Utility ibn deed ee Ede Ee de gee akan 3 6 Sound Driver Uni 3 8 CHAPTER 4 AWARD BIOS SETUP 4 1 4 2 4 3 4 4 4 5 4 6 4 7 4 8 4 9 4 10 4 11 4 12 4 13 4 14 4 15 Introduction EE 4 2 Entering Setup eer uban SEENEN gek Reg EG 4 3 The Standard CMOS Features 4 4 The Advanced BIOS Features 4 8 Advanced Chipset Features ooooooooWoWooo 4 12 Integrated Peripherals 4 15 Power Management Setup oooooooooooooo 4 18 PNP PCI Configuration 4 21 PC Health St tus en are Een 4 23 Freguency Voltage Control Jok 4 24 Load Fail Safe Defaults oooooooWoooo 4 25 Load Optimized Defaults ooocoWoWoWoo 4 25 Password Setting
37. ory 507904K MN lt Move Enter Select PU PD Value F10 Save ESC Exit Fl General Help F5 Previous Values F6 Fail Safe Defaults F7 Optimized Defaults CMOS Setup screen In the above Setup Menu use the arrow keys to highlight the item and then use the lt PgUp gt or lt PgDn gt keys to select the value you want in each item Date lt Month gt Date gt and Year gt Ranges for each value are in the CMOS Setup Screen and the week day will skip automatically Time lt Hour gt lt Minute gt and lt Second gt Use 24 hour clock format i e for PM numbers add 12 to the hour For example 4 30 P M You should enter the time as 16 30 00 Page 4 4 EB 381LF USER S MANUAL Chapter 4 Award BIOS Setup IDE Primary Master Slave IDE Secondary Master Slave The BIOS can automatically detect the specifications and optimal operating mode of almost all IDE hard drives When you select type AUTO for a hard drive the BIOS detect its specifications during POST every time system boots If you do not want to select drive type AUTO other methods of selecting drive type are available 1 Match the specifications of your installed IDE hard drive s with the preprogrammed values for hard drive types 1 through 45 2 Select USER and enter values into each drive parameter field 3 Use the IDE HDD AUTO DETECTION function in Setup Here is a brief explanation of drive specifications Type The BIOS co
38. ough secondary monitors are supported you do not have to select the type in Setup Available Options are as follows Enhanced Graphics Adapter Video Graphics Array For EGA VGA SEGA SVGA or PGA monitor adapters Color Graphics Adapter power up in 40 column mode Color Graphics Adapter power up in 80 column mode Monochrome adapter includes high resolution monochrome adapters HALT ON This category allows user to choose whether the computer will stop if an error is detected during power up Available options are All errors No errors All But keyboard All But Diskette and All But Disk Key BASE MEMORY Displays the amount of conventional memory detected during boot up EXTENDED MEMORY Displays the amount of extended memory detected during boot up TOTAL MEMORY Displays the total memory available in the system Page 4 6 EB 381LF USER S MANUAL Chapter 4 Award BIOS Setup HARD DISK ATTRIBUTES Type Cylinders Heads 306 615 615 940 940 615 642 733 900 820 855 855 306 733 000 612 977 977 1024 733 733 733 306 977 1024 1224 1224 1224 1024 1024 918 925 Award Hard Disk Type Table A VM oO P Ch oCh E nn 3 5 F3 8 7 0 4 5 7 7 5 7 5 4 5 9 7 1 5 8 1 1 9 0 2 3 4 2 6 5 6 5 5 6 6 8 V P comp 128 300 300 512 512 65535 256 65535 65535 65535 65535 65535 128 65535 0000 0000 300 65535 512 300 300
39. ram In a moment the main menu of the Award SETUP program will appear on the screen Phoenix AwardBIOS CMOS Setup Utility gt Standard CMOS Features gt Frequency Voltage Control gt Advanced BIOS Features Load Fail Safe Defaults gt Advanced Chipset Features Load Optimized Defaults gt Integrated Peripherals Set Password b Power Management Setup Save amp Exit Setup gt PnP PCI Configurations Exit Without Saving b PC Health Status Esc Quit Nb Select Item F10 Save amp Exit Setup Time Date Hard Disk Type Setup program initial screen You may use the cursor the up down keys to highlight the individual menu items As you highlight each item a brief description of the highlighted selection will appear at the bottom of the screen EB 381LF USER S MANUAL Page 4 3 Chapter 4 Award BIOS Setup 4 3 THE STANDARD CMOS FEATURES Highlight the STANDARD CMOS FEATURES and press the ENTER key and the screen will display the following table Phoenix AwardBIOS CMOS Setup Utility Standard CMOS Features Date mm dd yy Sun Feb 10 2002 Item Help Time hh mm ss 22 20 Menu Level P gt IDE Primary Master None b IDE Primary Slave None Change the day month b IDE Secondary Master None year and century gt IDE Secondary Slave None Drive A 1 44M 3 5 in Drive B None Video EGA VGA Halt On All But Keyboard Base Memory 640K Extended Memory 506880K Total Mem
40. rite If your IDE hard drive supports block mode most new drives do select Enabled for automatic detection of the optimal number of block read writes per sector the drive can support LAN BOOT ROM This item control Lan Boot Rom message to be showed or not Page 4 16 EB 381LF USER S MANUAL Chapter 4 Award BIOS Setup ONBOARD FDD CONTROLLER Select Enabled if the system has a floppy disk controller FDC installed on the system board and you wish to use it If you install and in FDC or the system has no floppy drive select Disabled ONBOARD SERIAL PORT 1 ONBOARD SERIAL PORT 2 ONBOARD SERIAL PORT 3 ONBOARD SERIAL PORT 4 Select an address and corresponding interrupt for the 1 2 3 and forth serial ports UART 2 MODE This item allows you to select which mode for the Onboard Serial Port 2 IR FUNCTION DUPLEX This item allows you to select the IR half full duplex function TX RX INVERTING ENABLE This item allows you to enable TX RX inverting which depends on different H W requirement This field is not recommended to change its default setting for avoiding any error in your system ONBOARD PARALLEL PORT This item allows you to determine access onboard parallel port controller with which I O address ONBOARD PARALLEL MODE Select an operating mode for the onboard printer port Select Normal unless you are certain your hardware and software both support one of the other available modes ECP MODE USE DMA
41. stall PnP OS or not RESET CONFIGURATION DATA Normally you leave this field Disabled Select Enabled to reset Extended System Configuration Data ESCD when you exit Setup if you have installed a new add on and the system configuration has caused such a serious conflict that the operating system cannot boot EB 381LF USER S MANUAL Page 4 21 Chapter 4 Award BIOS Setup RESOURCE CONTROLLED BY The Award Plug and Play Bios can automatically configure all of the booth and Plug and Play compatible devices However this capability means absolutely nothing unless you are using a Plug and Play operating system such as Windows 95 By choosing manual you are allowed to configure the IRO Resources DMA Resources and Memory Resources The choices are Auto ESCD and Manual IRA RESOURCES You may assign each system interrupt a type depending on the type of device using the interrupt DMA RESOURCES When resources are controlled manually assign each system DMA channel a type depending on the type of device using the DMA channel PCI VGA PALETTE SNOOP Leave this field at disabled ASSIGN IRQ FOR USB Enable or Disable to assign IRQ for USB ASSIGN IRQ FOR VGA Enable or Disable to assign IRQ for VGA Page 4 22 EB 381LF USER S MANUAL Chapter 4 Award BIOS Setup 4 9 PC HEALTH STATUS Choose PC HEALTH STATUS from the main menu a display will be shown on screen as below Phoenix AwardBIOS CMOS Setup Utility
42. system chipset from Award Software Inc This page briefly explains the function of the BIOS in managing the special features of your system The following pages describe how to use the BIOS for system chipset Setup menu Your application programs such as word processing spreadsheets and games rely on an operating system such as DOS or OS 2 to manage such things as keyboard monitor disk drives and memory The operating system relies on the BIOS Basic Input and Output system a program stored on a ROM Read only Memory chip to initialize and configure your computer s hardware As the interface between the hardware and the operating system the BIOS enables you to make basic changes to your system s hardware without having to write a new operating system The following diagram illustrates the interlocking relationships between the system hardware BIOS operating system and application program Application Program Operation System BIOS System Hardware Page 4 2 EB 381LF USER S MANUAL Chapter 4 Award BIOS Setup 4 2 ENTERING SETUP When the system is powered on the BIOS will enter the Power On Self Test POST routines and the following message will appear on the lower screen PRESS lt DEL gt TO ENTER SETUP ESC TO SKIP MEMORY TEST As long as this message is present on the screen you may press the lt Del gt key the one that shares the decimal point at the bottom of the number keypad to access the Setup prog
43. system configuration and find the adapter hardware 1 Ask you to select which driver you want to install select Driver from disk provided by hardware manufacturer 2 Insert the Realtek RTL8100S driver disk into the drive A or CD drive and specify the setup file pathname ex AN 3 Win 98 Win 2000 will appear some messages to insert Windows 98 Win2000 system disk to complete setup step 4 Windows 98 Windows 2000 will finish the other installation procedure automatically and then restart the system Page 3 6 EB 381LF USER S MANUAL Chapter 3 Software Configuration 2 Install LAN Driver to Windows NT 3 0 4 0 1 In the Main group of NT select the Control Panel icon 2 In the Control Panel window choose the Network icon 3 In the Network Settings dialog box choose the Add adapter button The Add Network Adapter dialog box appears 4 In the list of network cards select lt other gt Requires disk from manufacturer and then press lt Enter gt button 5 Insert the LAN driver utility and enter the filename ex A pathname where the setup file OEMSETUP INF is located and then choose OK button 6 The screen will appear Select Line Speed dialog box which is provided by R8139n5 SYS driver The default value is auto so that the line speed can be auto detected as 10MB or 100MB while the R8139n5 SYS is loading The screen will appear Input Ethernet ID dialog box which is
44. the supervisor password can enter and change the options of the setup menus while the user password can enter only but do not have the authority to change the options of the setup menus TO SET A PASSWORD When you select this function the following message will appear at the center of the screen to assist you in creating a password Enter Password Type the password up to eight characters in length and press lt Enter gt The password typed now will clear any previously entered password from CMOS memory You will be asked to confirm the password Type the password again and press the lt Enter gt key You may also press lt Esc gt to abort the selection and not enter a password A User should bear in mind that when a password is set you will be asked to enter the password everything you enter CMOS setup Menu TO DISABLE THE PASSWORD To disable the password select this function do not enter any key when you are prompt to enter a password and press the lt Enter gt key and a message will appear at the center of the screen PASSWORD DISABLED Press any key to continue Press the lt Enter gt key again and the password will be disabled Once the password is disabled you can enter Setup freely Page 4 26 EB 381LF USER S MANUAL Chapter 4 Award BIOS Setup 4 14 SAVE amp EXIT SETUP After you have completed adjusting all the settings as reguired you must remember to save these setting into the CMO
45. time at which the RTC alarm awakens the system from Suspend mode PRIMARY INTR When set to Off IRQ Activity Monitoring is set to BIOS default When set to On user may select the desired setting Page 4 20 EB 381LF USER S MANUAL Chapter 4 Award BIOS Setup 4 8 PNP PCI CONFIGURATION Choose PNP PCI CONFIGURATION from the main menu a display will be shown on screen as below Phoenix AwardBIOS CMOS Setup Utility PnP PCI Configurations PNP OS Installed Yes Item Help Reset Configuration Data Disabled Resources Controlled By Auto ESCD Menu Level P x IRQ Resources Press Enter x DMA Resources Press Enter Select Yes if you are using a Plug and Play PCI VGA Palette Snoop Disabled capable operating Assign IRQ for VGA Enabled system Select No if Assign IRQ for USB Enabled you need the BIOS to configure non boot devices Nbe Move Enter Select PU PD Value F10 Save ESC Exit Fl General Help F5 Previous Values F6 Fail Safe Defaults F7 Optimized Defaults PNP PCI Configuration Setup Screen This section describes how to configure PCI bus system PCI also known as Personal Computer Interconnect is a system which allows I O devices to operate at speeds nearing the speed of the CPU itself uses when communica ting with its own special components This section covers technical items which is strongly recommended for experienced users only PNP OS INSTALLED This item allows you to determine in
46. to use the ATX function please be sure to set the corresponding configuration found in BIOS setup such as 1 Inside the POWER MANAGEMENT setting set the ACPI function to enable Page 2 20 EB 381LF USER S MANUAL Chapter 2 Hardware Configuration 2 27 SOUND CONNECTOR CN2 Sound Connector This connector is used to connect the microphone line in and line out through our adapter card The pin assignments are as follows ASSIGNMENT 2 28 CD AUDIO IN CONNECTOR CD INI CD Audio in Connector The pin assignments are as follows i Cocogs ASSIGNMENT GND_CD L GND CD EB 381LF USER S MANUAL Page 2 21 Chapter 2 Hardware Configuration 2 29 CLEAR CMOS SELECTION JP8 Clear CMOS Selection The selections are as follows J See SETTING JUMPER RB Clear CMOS Manufacturing Default Normal Page 2 22 EB 381LF USER S MANUAL Chapter 2 Hardware Configuration 2 30 MEMORY INSTALLATION The EB 381LF Embedded Computer supports one SODIMM bank DRAM BANK CONFIGURATION DIMM 1 TOTAL MEMORY 32MB 32MB 64MB 64MB 128MB 128MB 256MB 256MB 512MB 512MB 2 31 TV OUT CONNECTOR JP1 TV Out Connector 210107 The pin assignment is as follows 1 HGE 5 ASSIGNMENT J P 1 EB 381LF USER S MANUAL Page 2 23 SOFTWARE UTILITIES Page 3 1 Chapter 3 Software Configuration 3 1 INTRODUCTION Enclosed with our EB
47. ttings have been chosen because they provide the best opera ting conditions for the system The only time you might consider making any changes would be if you discovered that data was being lost while using your system Page 4 12 EB 381LF USER S MANUAL Chapter 4 Award BIOS Setup DRAM TIMING BY SPD User can control DRAM Timing by SPD DRAM CLOCK This item allows you to control the DRAM speed SDRAM CYCLE LENGTH When synchronous DRAM is installed the number of clock cycles of CAS latency depends on the DRAM timing Do not reset this field from the default value specified by the system designer BANK INTERLEAVE This item allows you to set how many banks of SDRAM support in your mainboard MEMORY HOLE In order to improve performance certain space in memory is reserved for ISA cards This memory must be mapped into the memory space below 16MB P2C C2P CONCURRENCY This item allows you to enable disable the PCI to CPU CPU to PCI concurrency SYSTEM BIOS CACHEABLE This item allows you to enable caching of the system BIOS ROM at F0000h FFFFFh resulting in better system performance However if any program writes to this memory area a system error may result VIDEO RAM CACHEABLE Select Enabled allows caching of the video RAM resulting in better system performance However if any program writes to this memory area a system error may result FRAME BUFFER SIZE This item allows you to control the VGA frame buf
48. ur screen on your screen until you release the key When enabled the typematic rate and typematic delay can be selected TYPEMATIC RATE CHARS SEC This item sets the number of times a second to repeat a key stroke when you hold the key down TYPEMATIC DELAY MSEC The item sets the delay time after the key is held down before it begins to repeat the keystroke SECURITY OPTION This category allows you to limit access to the system and Setup or just to The system will not boot and access to Setup will be denied if the correct password is not entered at the prompt The system will boot but access to Setup will be denied if the correct password is not entered at the prompt amp To disable security select PASSWORD SETTING at Main Menu and then you will be asked to enter password Do not type anything and just press lt Enter gt it will disable security Once the security is disabled the system will boot and you can enter Setup freely OS SELECT FOR DRAM gt 64MB Select the operating system that is running with greater than 64MB or RAM on the system You may choose OS2 or Non OS2 Page 4 10 EB 381LF USER S MANUAL Chapter 4 Award BIOS Setup VIDEO BIOS SHADOW Determines whether video BIOS will be copied to RAM However it is optional depending on chipset design Video Shadow will increase the video speed C8000 CBFFF SHADOW DC000 DFFFF SHADOW These categories determine whether option ROMs will be copied to

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