SBC8233 Series User`s Manual
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1. s 8 2 3 6 RS232 422 485 Selection for COM2 Mode J P11 JP12 8 Il 9 2 4 Chapter 3 Hardware Description 3 1 3 2 3 3 3 4 3 5 3 6 3 7 3 8 3 9 11 BIOS al 11 System 11 Interrupt Controller 5 rnit rette notion 12 IDE Interface 2 12 Display Interface eerte S B R 13 361 Chipset EE 13 36 2 JDisplay Memoty iii rper rr rr YER 13 3 6 3 VGA Elat Panel Connector socordia one 14 3 6 4 Hat Panel Connector Pin Des ription 15 Floppy Disk Controller eeceeeeseeeeeee 15 Parallel Port Interface 5 16 Serial Port Interface as l a a s s n 17 3 9 1 Serial Ports IRQ GekecHon 17 Table of Contents V vi 3 9 2 Serial Ports 45V and 12V Power Selection 17 Table of Contents W e TE 18 3 10 1 Setup a DiskOnChip Flash Disk 18 EE dr Eer KI 18 3 11 Real Time Clock and CMOS RAM 19 3 12 Keyboard and PS 2 Mouse Connector 19 3 13 20 3 14 Connectors 20 3 15 Pin Assignments of Oth2. no Cylinder 1024 x no Head 32 X no Sector 63 X bytes per sector 512 1 Gigabytes AMI BIOS Setup SBC8233 All in One 386SX CPU Card Series User s Manual 5 6 Change Supervisor Password nHIBIOS HIFLEX SETUP UTILITY VERSTOH L 16 p ur RIT d d Nisks 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 and press Enter 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 Enter You may also press lt Esc gt to abort the selection and not enter a password To disable password just press Enter when you are prompted to enter password A message will confirm the password being disabled Once the password is disabled the system will boot and you can enter Setup freely PASSWORD DISABLED If you select System at Security Option of BIOS Features Setup Menu you will be prompted for the password every time the system is rebooted or any time you try to enter Setup If you select Setup at Security Option of BIOS Features Setup Menu you will be prompted only when you try to enter Setup AMI BIOS Setup 35 SBC8233 All in One 386SX CPU Card Series User s Manual 5 7 Auto Configuration vvith Optimal Setting NWIGIOS HIFLEX SETUP UTILITY VERSTUH 1 16 This
3. 9 Daaa Data 2 Data 13 Data 1 3 6 Laien 1 GND Default ICS16 3 6 Display Interface The SBC8233 Series has an onboard VGA interface The specifications and features are described as follows 3 6 1 Chipset The SBC8233 Series uses a TOPRO TP65081Q for its SVGA controller which supports conventional analog CRT monitor or flat panel In addition it also supports interlaced and non interlaced analog monitors color and monochrome VGA in high resolution modes while maintaining complete IBM VGA compatibility Multiple frequency multisync monitors are handled as if they were analog monitors 3 6 2 Display Memory With 1 MB memory the VGA controller can drive CRT displays or color panel displays with resolutions up to 1024 x 768 at 256 colors Hardware Description 13 SBC8233 All in One 386SX CPU Card Series User s Manual 3 6 3 VGA Flat Panel Connectors The SBC8233 Series has tvvo connectors that support CRT VGA and flat panel displays individually or simultaneously CON1 is a 15 pin D type connector commonly used for the CRT VGA display and CON2 is a 44 pin connector for flat panel connection Configuration of the VGA interface is done via the software utility and no jumper setting is required CONI CRT VGA Connector Pin Assignment Signal Green No connector 1 usc GND ce ce No connector CON2 44 pin Connector for Flat Panel Description Description 1
4. The values stored in CMOS RAM are either corrupt or nonexistent CMOS Display Type Mismatch The video type in CMOS RAM is notthe one detected by the BIOS CMOS Memory Size Mismatch The physical amount of memory on the motherboard is different than the amount in CMOS RAM CMOS Time and Date Not Set Self evident Diskette Boot Failure The boot disk in floppy drive A is corrupt virus Is an operating system present Display Switch Not Proper A video switch on the motherboard must be set to either color or monochrome DMA Error Error in the DMA controller DMA number 1 Error Error in the first DMA channel POST Error Codes SBC8233 All in One 386SX CPU Card Series User s Manual DMA number 2 Error Error in the second DMA channel FDD Controller Failure The BIOS cannot communicate with the floppy disk drive controller HDD Controller Failure The BIOS cannot communicate with the hard disk drive controller INTR number 1 Error Interrupt channel 1 failed POST INTR number 2 Error Interrupt channel 2 failed POST Keyboard Error There is a timing problem with the keyboard KB Interface Error There is an error in the keyboard connector Parity Error Parity error is in system memory at an unknown address Memory Parity Error at xxxxx Memory failed at the xxxxx address 1 0 Card Parity Error at xxxxx An expansion card failed at the xxxxx address DMA Bus Tim
5. sa as 47 DMA Channel Assignments eene 48 Interrupt Assignments esee 48 1 MB Memory Mai a ts Ra alud 49 Appendix C POST Error Codes eege Eege A ada aa A 51 Beep Error Messages 51 Other AMI BIOS POST Codes eene 52 Troubleshooting 2 eui eei creciente initis 53 I tlie Computer Beebs aoauscoos opo oon ODD OO 53 Screen Error Messages eiit terre ERE Ue aya as l 54 POST Card Codesu oreet e tei DH 56 Uncompressed Code 1 6 56 Runtime Code is 5660 57 viii Table of Contents This page does not contain any information viii SBC8233 All in One 386SX CPU Card Series User s Manual Chapter1 ntroduction 1 1 General Description BENCHMARQ bq3287AMT 0021 SB2 21112 The 5 8233 Series contains all standard motherboard features such as 386SX 40 compatible CPU CRT and Flat Panel controller serial and parallel ports floppy and EIDE disk controller The SSD socket can accommodate a DiskOnChip 2000 a new generation of high performance single chip Flash Disks The SBC8233 Series is for basic control applications in demanding embedded applications Since the card implements all key functions of a full PC AT compatible system any standard PC compiler or debugger can be use
6. Manual AppendixA VVatchdog Timer The watchdog timer uses a 32 768 KHz frequency source with a 24 bit counter Its time range stretches from 30 5 ms to 512 sec with a resolution of 30 5 ms When the watchdog times out a System RESET NMI or IRQ can be invoked Watchdog timer control and the 24 bit counter itself occupy 6 consecutive 8 bit address locations When functioning properly the system resets the watchdog timer periodically to prohibit that it times out If the watchdog timer times out it will RESET the system or generate and NMI or IRQ depending on its configuration Watchdog or System Timer Another great application is to generate a periodic IRQ signal Under DOS environment the 8254 system timer 0 will generate IRQO every 54 9 ms The watchdog is like system timer O It can be programmed to periodically generate a configurable IRQ It may be clear that the selected IRQ will be no longer available to the system Configuring the WDT by Software Chipset Configuration Registers The M6117D configuration register INDEX 37H 38H 39H 3AH 3BH 3CH are used to control the watchdog functions and or display its current status E nable D isable W atchdog INDEX 37H Do not modify the value of these bits 0 Disable watchdog timer 1 Enable watchdog timer Other function Do not modify the value of these bits Watchdog Timer 41 SBC8233 All in One 386SX CPU Card Series User s Manual W atchdog Time Out Actio
7. and MS DOS environments 3 2 BIOS System BIOS used on the SBC8233 Series is AMI Plug and Play BIOS The SBC8233 Series contains a single Flash EPROM and supports power on modification of the system BIOS Refer to Chapter 5 for a detailed description of the AMI BIOS software utility program 3 3 System Memory The SBC8233 Series supports one 72 pin SIMM socket Bank 1 plus 4MB onboard Bank 0 With the additional maximum memory capactiy of Bank 1 16MB the SBC8233 Series supports a total system memory of 20MB The memory module can come in sizes of 256K 512K 1MB 4MB 8MB and 16MB EDO DRAMs Hardware Description 11 SBC8233 All in One 386SX CPU Card Series User s Manual 3 4 Interrupt Controller The SBC8233 Series is a 10096 PC compatible control board It consists of 16 ISA interrupt request lines The mapping list of the 16 interrupt request lines is shown on the following table wml Paritycheckerror Roo Systemtinerout 0 Floppy skeonboler 0 Pingo ssns 0000 1R010 7 IRQ10 3 5 IDE Interface Connector The SBC8233 Series built in ISA bus enhanced IDE controller provides enhanced IDE interface supporting PIO mode 4 IDE connector of SBC8233 Series features one standard 40 pin header connector CONT 12 12 Hardware Description SBC8233 All in One 386SX CPU Card Series User s Manual CONT12 40 pin IDE Connector Pin Assignment Reset 4 Daas 5 bas Leinen 7 Daas baarn
8. option allovvs you to load the default values to your system configuration These default settings are optimal and enable all high performance features 36 AMI BIOS Setup SBC8233 All in One 386SX CPU Card Series User s Manual 5 8 Auto Configuration with Fail Safe NWIBIOS HIFLEX SCTUP UTILITY VCRSIOH L 16 This option allows you to load the troubleshooting default values permanently stored in the BIOS ROM These default settings are non optimal and disable all high performance features AMI BIOS Setup 37 SBC8233 All in One 386SX CPU Card Series User s Manual 5 9 Save Settings and Exit 1 erinheral Se Aulo Melel Hard Nisks This option allows you to determine whether to accept the modifications or not If you type Y you will quit the setup utility and save all changes into the CMOS memory If you type N you will return to Setup utility 38 AMI BIOS Setup SBC8233 All in One 386SX CPU Card Series User s Manual 5 10 Exit Without Savino NWIBIOS HIFLEX SCTUP UTILITY VCRSIOH 1 16 RU las Select this option to exit the Setup utility without saving the changes you have made in this session Typing Y will quit the Setup utility without saving the modifications Typing N will return you to Setup utility AMI BIOS Setup 39 SBC8233 All in One 386SX CPU Card Series User s Manual This page does not contain any information 40 SBC8233 All in One 386SX CPU Card Series User s
9. physical drive B to logical drive A and physical drive A to logical drive B PS 2 Mouse Support This setting is specially for those users who whish to connect a PS 2 mouse Enabling reserves IRQ 12 for the PS 2 mouse Disabling releases the IRQ 12 for use by another system component System Keyboard Present If Absent is selected this option sets the BIOS to pass the keyboard test in the POST allowing to reset a PC without a keyboard file server printer server etc without the BIOS producing a keyboard error Primary display The type of display standard you are using The most frequent is VGA P GA EGA Modern computers have VGA Video Graphics Array If you have an older black white display select Mono If you wantto use the board without display controller set this value to Absent This option sets the BIOS to pass the display controller test in the POST allowing to boot a PC without a display controller Even if setto Absent the board will still try to initialize a display card if present Password Check If you have set a password select whether the password is required every time the System boots or only when you enter the BIOS Setup Always The system will not boot and access to Setup will be denied if the Correct password is not entered at the prompt Setup The system will boot but access to Setup will be denied if the correct password is not entered at the prompt AMI BIOS Setup 29 SBC82
10. register For example write OFFh to INDEX 3Bh Unlock configuration register mov al 03bh out 22h al nop nop mov al Offh out 23h al nop nop Lock configuration register Watchdog Program Example We use the following sequence to initialize the watchdog timer Step 1 Unlock configuration register Step 2 Disable watchdog timer by setting INDEX 37H Bit 6 to 0 Step 3 Setthe expected counter value to INDEX 3BH 3AH 39H Step 4 Select timeout action from INDEX 38H Bit 7 4 Step 5 Enable watchdog timer by setting INDEX 37H Bit 6 to 1 Step 6 Lock configuration register Example Set timeout to 128 sec to generate a system RESET Please use MASM to compiler the following program Execute under DOS environment dosseg model small stack 100h code main proc mov ax Oc513h Unlock config register call writechip mov ax 03737h Disable watchdog timer call readchip and al 10111111b 44 Watchdog Timer SBC8233 All in One 386SX CPU Card Series User s Manual xchg ah al call vritechip mov ax 0403bh Set the expected counter value call writechip to 400000h mov ax 0003ah 30 5 sec 400000h 128 sec call writechip mov ax 00039h call writechip mov ax 03838h Select system reset as timeout action call readchip and al 00001111b or al 11010000b xchg ah al call vritechip mov ax 03737h Enable vatchdog timer call readchip or al 01000000b xchg ah al call vritechip
11. the last expansion card that was put in If the above suggestions fail to cause any change in the malfunction of the system the motherboard must be returned for repair re install the keyboard controller chip If it still beeps replace the keyboard controller If it still beeps try a 6 times different keyboard or replace the keyboard fuse if the keyboard has one 8 times there is a memory error on the video adapter Replace the video adapter or the RAM on the video adapter 9 times the BIOS ROM chip is bad The system probably needs a new BIOS ROM chip re install the cache memory on the motherboard If it still 11 times beeps replace the cache memory 4 5 6 7 or 10 the motherboard must be repaired or replaced times POST Error Codes 53 SBC8233 All in One 386SX CPU Card Series User s Manual Screen Error Messages 54 8042 Gate A20 Error Gate A20 on the keyboard controller 8042 is not working Address Line Short Error in the address decoding circuitry Cache Memory Bad Do Not Enable Cache Cache memory is defective CH2 Timer Error There is an error in timer 2 Several systems have two timers CMOS Battery State Low The battery power is getting low It would be a good idea to replace the battery CMOS Checksum Failure After CMOS RAM values are saved a checksum value is generated for error checking The previous value is different from the current value CMOS System Options Not Set
12. your body W Wear a wrist grounding strap available from most electronic component stores when handling boards and components Trademarks Acknowledgments AXIOMTEK isa trademark of AXIO MTEK Co Ltd MS DOS and Windows 95 are trademarks of Mic rosoft Corporation AMI isa trademark of American Megatrends Inc IBM PC AT PS 2 VGA are trademarksof Intemational Business Machines Corporation Realtek isa trademark of Realtek Semiconductor Corporation All brand namesand trademarksare the properties and registered brands of their respective owners This page does not contain any information Table of Contents Chapter 1 Introduction 1 1 1 2 1 3 1 4 2 1 2 2 2 3 General 1 Specifications me 2 121 High Speed Multi l O 3 12 2 Environmental and POWeF 3 iere 3 VGA Wl CT A DiskOnChip Flash Disk niente 4 143 bs EE 4 Chapter 2 Installation Board Layout and Fixing Holes 5 Placement n 6 Tue EE due CT eee 7 231 7 23 2 ClearCMOS Setting P2 ciim anon Ron 7 2133 VGA IROS Operation JP oir opi 7 2 3 4 IRQ3 4 10 11 selection for COM3 COMA JP9 8 2 35 2 RS 232 422 485 Setting J P10
13. 2V VDDM GND P2 P5 m l m ale Co P11 P14 P17 P20 P23 SCLK P22 GND ENABKL VDDM GND VDDM rc 8 A 14 Hardware Description SBC8233 All in One 386SX CPU Card Series User s Manual 3 6 4 Flat Panel Connector Pin Description M 3 7 Floppy Disk Controller The SBC8233 Series provides a 34 pin connector CONTS for support of a single floppy drive The floppy drive could be any one of the following types 3 5 720KB or 1 44MB 2 88MB CONT9 FDD Connector Pin Assignment Dietin8 040vhN0 28 8 Hardware Description 15 SBC8233 All in One 386SX CPU Card Series User s Manual 3 8 X Parallel Port Interface The SBC8233 Series has one bidirectional parallel port P1 that supports SPP EPP or ECP modes Standard mode IBM PC XT PC AT and PS 2 compatible with bi directional parallel port Enhanced mode Enhance parallel port EPP compatible with EPP 1 7 and EPP 1 9 IEEE 1284 compliant High speed mode Microsoft and Hewlett Packard extended capabilities port ECP IEEE 1284 compliant The address selection of the onboard parallel port in LPT1 378H LPT2 278H or disabled is configured within the BIOS CMOS setup utility Sat 9 Loi 10 Acknowledge Initialize 18 19 GND 16 Hardware Description SBC8233 All in One 386SX CPU Card Series User s Manual 3 9 Serial Port Interface The SBC8233 Seri
14. 3 5 4 6 default Short 3 5 4 6 default RS 422 485 Short1 3 2 4 Short 1 3 2 4 8 Installation SBC8233 All in One 386SX CPU Card Series User s Manual 2 4 Connectors Connectors allovv the CPU card to connect vvith other parts of the system Some problems encountered by the system may be a result of loose or improper connections Ensure that all connectors are in place and firmly attached The following table lists the function of all connectors on the SBC8233 Series Their corresponding pin assignments are described in Chapter 3 CONI External female 15 pin D type CRT IDE Display Internal 10 pin box header 77777 connector for COMA e Internal 10 pin box header 7777 connector for COM1 CONTA ExtemalPS 2andAT keyboard PowerLED CONT Power Lee DEED 0 CONT intemal AT keyboard Pa ParallelPot_ CON lp aw Memory bank EDO DRAM External 9 pin male D type COMI connector for COMT Memory bank 1 EDO DRAM Internal 10 pin box header CONT11 connector for COM om Ethernet RJ 45 connector ONTI5 Installation 9 SBC8233 All in One 386SX CPU Card Series User s Manual This page does not contain any information SBC8233 All in One 386SX CPU Card Series User s Manual Chapter 3 Hardware Description 3 1 Microprocessors The SBC8233 Series supports an onboard DM amp P ALi M6117D microprocessor Systems based on these CPUs can be operated under UNIX OS 2 Windows 95
15. 33 All in One 386SX CPU Card Series User s Manual 5 3 30 C8000 16 K Shadow Specifies whether the specified area of ROM is to be shadowed and if shadowed whether it should be written to or read from cache memory The fail safe default is Disabled CAUTION Some option ROMs do not operate properly when shadowed CC 000 16 K Shadow W D8000 16 K Shadow D0000 16 K Shadow DCOOO 16 K Shadow D4000 16 K Shadow m Advanced Chipset CMOS Setup nHIDIOS SETUP CIIIPSET SETUP Available Options LJ e Fnul IIILIIII II T B Te VGA Frame Buffer Size The STPC implements a single memory subsystem for both the system as well as the frame buffer memory In other words the size of the DRAM available to the system is reduced by the size of the DRAM allocated to the frame buffer The lower range of the DRAM starting from the DRAM address 00h is allocated to frame buffer The rest of the memory is used by the system ISACLK Setthe speed ofthe ISA bus here The settings are tied to the speed of the PCI bus If the PCI bus operates at 33 MHz a setting of PCICLK 4 default would yield an ISA bus speed of approximately 8 MHz the standard speed of the ISA bus While most devices operate at higher ISA bus speeds try a slower bus speed if your ISA device does not function properly AMI BIOS Setup SBC8233 All in One 386SX CPU Card Series User s Manual Memory Hole You can reserve this area of s
16. Codes SBC8233 All in One 386SX CPU Card Series User s Manual Runtime Code is Uncompressed DMA controller 1 2 interrupt controller 1 2 disabled Video display is disabled and port B is initialized To uncompress the RUNTIME code Processor s register test about to start and NMI to be disabled To check soft reset power on Going to disable Cache if any NMI is Disabled Power on delay starting POST code is uncompressed CMOS checksum calculation to be done next CMOS checksum calculation is done CMOS Diag byte written CMOS init to begin If INIT CMOS IN EVERY BOOT IS SET CMOS initialization done if any CMOS status register about to init for Date and Time D D 0 0 0 0 0 CMOS status register init done Any initialization before keyboard BAT to be done next 0 KB controller 1 B free Going to issue the BAT command to keyboard controller BAT command to keyboard controller is issued Going to verify the BAT command 0 0 nitialization after KB controller BAT done Keyboard command byte to be written next Keyboard controller command byte is written Going to issue Pin 23 24 blocking unblocking command Pin 23 24 of keyboard controller is blocked unblocked Going to check pressing of INS key during power on Continued Keyboard controller BAT result verified Any initialization after KB controller BAT to be done next 3 5 1 2 3 5 A C E F 10 11 POST Error Codes 57 SBC8233 Al
17. Failure A memory failure occurred within the first 64k of memory System Timer Failure Timer 1 on the system board has failed to function properly 5 Processor Error The CPU on the system board has generated an error Keyboard Controller 8042 Gate The keyboard controller 8042 contains A20 error the gate A20 switch that allows the computer to operate in virtual mode This error message means that the BIOS is not able to switch the CPU into protected mode j Virtual Mode processor Exception The CPU on the motherboard has error generated an Interrupt Failure exception interrupt Continued POST Error Codes 51 SBC8233 All in One 386SX CPU Card Series User s Manual The system video adapter is either Test Fail missing or Read Write Error its memory is aulty This is not a fatal error The ROM checksum value does not ROM BIOS Checksum Failure match the value encoded in the BIOS This is good indication that the BIOS ROMs went bad 10 CMOS Shutdown Register The shutdown register for CMOS RAM Read Write Error has failed The cache memory test failed Cache Cache Memory Bad Do Not memory is disabled Do not press Ctrl Enable Cache Alt S hift lt gt to enable cache Other AMI BIOS POST Codes 2 short beeps POST failed This is caused by a failure of one of the hardware testing procedures 1long amp 2 short beeps Video failure This is caused by one of two possibl
18. Hard Disks The BIOS supports up to four IDE drives This section does not show information about other IDE devices such as a CD ROM drive or about other hard drive types such as SCSI drives 26 AMI BIOS Setup SBC8233 All in One 386SX CPU Card Series User s Manual NOTE It is recommended that you select type AUTO for all drives 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 detects its specifications during POST every time the system boots If you do not want to select drive type AUTO other methods of selecting the drive type are available 1 Match the specificationsof your installed IDE hard drive s with the preprogrammed valuesfor 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 contains a table of predefined 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 predefined type are classified as type USER Size Disk drive capacity approximate Note that this size is usually slightly greater than the size of a formatted disk given by a disk checking program Cyln Number of cylinders Head Num
19. SBC8233 386SX All in One Half size CPU Card Series with CRT LCD User s Manual Disclaimers The information in this manual has been carefully checked and is believed to be accurate AXIOMTEK Co Ltd assumes no responsibility for any infringements of patents or other rights of third parties which may result from its use AXIOMTEK assumes no responsibility for any inaccuracies that may be contained in this document AXIOMTEK makes no commitment to update or to keep current the information contained in this manual AXIOMTEK reserves the right to make improvements to this document and or product at any time and without notice No part of this document may be reproduced stored in a retrieval system or transmitted in any form or by any means electronic mechanical photocopying recording or otherwise without the prior written permission of AXIOMTEK Co Ltd Copyright 2001 by AXIOMTEK Co Ltd All rights reserved January 2001 Version A2 Printed in Taiwan ESD Precautions Integrated circuits on computer boards are sensitive to static electricity To avoid damaging chips from electrostatic discharge observe the following precautions W Do not remove boards or integrated circuits from their anti static packaging until you are ready to install them W Before handling a board or integrated circuit touch an unpainted portion of the system unit chassis for a few seconds This helps to discharge any static electricity on
20. al mode Going to enable interrupts for diagnostics mode Interrupts enabled if diagnostics switch is on Going to initialize data to check memory wrap around at 0 0 Data initialized Going to check for memory wrap around at 0 0 and finding the total system memory size Memory wrap around test done Memory size calculation over About to go for writing patterns to test memory Pattern to be tested written in extended memory Going to write patterns in base 640K memory Patterns written in base memory Going to find out amount of memory below 1M memory Amount of memory below 1M found and verified Going to find out amount of memory above 1M memory Continued POST Error Codes 59 SBC8233 All in One 386SX CPU Card Series User s Manual Amount of memory above 1M found and verified Check for soft reset and going to clear memory below 1M for soft reset If power on go to check point 4Eh emory below 1M cleared SOFT RESET Going to clear memory above 1M emory above 1M cleared SOFT RESET Going to save the memory size Go to check point 4 52h emory test started NOT SOFT RESET About to display the first 64K memory size emory size display started This will be updated during memory test Going for sequential and random memory test emory testing initialization below 1M complete oing to adjust displayed memory size for relocation shadow emory size display adjusted due to relocation shadow emor
21. ber of heads WPcom Write Precompensation Older HDD s have the same number of sectors per track at the innermost tracks as at the outermost tracks This means that the data density at the innermost tracks is higher and thus the bits are lying closer together Areas having the same direction tend to float away from each other and areas having opposite direction tend to float towards each other making the data less reliable after some time To avoid this starting from the WP cylinder bits are written on the surface making your data last longer Starting with this Cylnumber until the end of Cylnumber the writing starts earlier on the disk In modern HDs all ATBUS and SCSI Small Computer Systems Interface this entry is useless Sec Number of sectors AMI BIOS Setup 27 SBC8233 All in One 386SX CPU Card Series User s Manual LBA Mode Logical Block Addressing Mode enables support for IDE drives with capacities greater than 528 MB On Off Block Mode Support IDE drives that use Block Mode On Off 32Bit Mode Support IDE drives that permit 32 bit accesses On Off PIO Mode IDE Programmed 1 0 mode PIO programming also works with ATAPI CD ROM drives The settings are Auto 0 1 2 3 4 or 5 Click on Auto to allow AMIBIOS to automatically find the PIO mode that the IDE drive being configured uses If you select 0 5 you must make absolutely certain that you are selecting the PIO mode supported by the IDE drive being configured Bo
22. d resulting in a significantly reduced software development cycle Introduction 1 SBC8233 All in One 386SX CPU Card Series User s Manual 1 2 Specifications Embedded CPU ALi M6117D is an implementation of an INTEL compatible 386SX 40 CPU realtime clock a watchdog timer and ALi s M1217B chipset BIOS Y2K compliant AMI system BIOS Onboard Memory 4MB EDO RAM BankO DRAM Memory 1 x 72 pin SIMM socket single side type supporting up to 16MB EDO RAM Bus Interface ISA and PC 104 Data Bus 16 bit Bus Speed PC 104 8 MHz Above values are defaults bus speeds are programmable up to 16MHZ DMA Channels 7 Interrupt Levels 15 Enhanced IDE supports one port and up to two enhanced IDE AT Bus hard drives Watchdog Timer generates a RESET NMI or an IRQ when your application loses control over the system Optionally the watchdog can trigger a user specified interrupt The watchdog is configurable from 30 5us to 512 seconds in 30 5us segments Real time Clock included in M6117D with onboard lithium battery backup for 10 years of data retention CMOS data backup of BIOS setup and BIOS default Keyboard Mouse supports different type connectors of Connectors AT Keyboard and PS 2 mouse 2 Introduction SBC8233 All in One 386SX CPU Card Series User s Manual 1 2 1 High Speed Multi UO Chipset ALi 5113 Serial ports supports high speed RS 232 port high speed RS 232 485 port jumper selectabl
23. e Both with 16C550 UART and 16 byte FIFO FDD I nterface supports up to two floppy drives 5 4 360 KB or 1 2 MB and 3 720 KB 1 44 MB Bi directional Parallel Port supports SPP EPP and ECP mode 1 2 2 Environmental and Power Power Requirements Single voltage 5 V Board Dimensions 185 L x 122 W mm Board Weight 240g Extended Operating Temperature 07 60 C id VGA Interface Chipset TOPRO TP65081Q Memory 1 MB onboard System Bus 16 bit ISA bus Panel Data Bus 24 bit Display CRT and Flat Panel Mono TFT DSTN EL Introduction 3 SBC8233 All in One 386SX CPU Card Series User s Manual 1 4 DiskOnChip Flash Disk 1 4 1 Flash Disk DiskOnChip Package Single Chip Flash Disk in 32 pin DIP JEDEC Capacity Up to the most updated capacity Data Reliability ECC EDC error correction Memory Window 8 Kbyte Introduction SBC8233 All in One 386SX CPU Card Series User s Manual Chapter 2 Installation 2 1 Board Layout and Fixing Holes e 0 6 2286 S 16 10 333 728001 1300 1 xx 1 EL eae e ue x tere SCH L9 PSU H il kx Tu luna dei 1 lo SIN e AA Y Y ey pe E 8 al 20 19 a S o 5 co o e e M o 5 LO eo d 1 d 17 wo 4 4 85 73 5 oo b e zt Her 1 N Y p
24. e hardware faults 1 Video BIOS ROM failure checksum error encountered 2 The video adapter installed has a horizontal retrace failure 1long amp 3 short beeps Video failure This is caused by one of three possible hardware problems 1 The video DAC has failed 2 the monitor detection process has failed 3 The video RAM has failed 11ong beep POST successful This indicates that all hardware tests were completed without encountering errors 52 POST Error Codes SBC8233 All in One 386SX CPU Card Series User s Manual Troubleshooting If the Computer Beeps 1 2 or3 times re install the memory SIMMs or D Ps If the system still beeps replace the memory If no beeps are heard and no display is on the screen The first thing to check is the power supply Connecta LED to the POWER No beeps No boot LED connection on the motherboard If this LED lights and the drive s spin up then the power supply will usually be good Next inspect the motherboard for loose components A loose or missing CPU BIOS chip Crystal Oscillator or Chipset chip will cause the motherboard not to function Next eliminate the possibility of interference by a bad or improperly set up 1 0 card by removing all card except the video adapter The system should at least power up and wait for a drive time out Insert the cards back into the system one ata time until the problem happens again When the system does nothing the problem will be with
25. eout A device has used the bus signal for more than allocated time around 8 microseconds POST Error Codes 55 SBC8233 All in One 386SX CPU Card Series User s Manual POST Card Codes The following codes are not displayed on the screen They can only be vievved on the LED display of a so called POST card The codes are listed in the same order as the according functions are executed at PC startup f you have access to a POST Card reader you can vvatch the system perform each test by the value that s displayed If the system hangs if there s a problem the last value displayed will give you a good idea where and what went wrong or what s bad on the system board The following tables are the checkpoint lists generated by I O 80h port in AMI runtime compressed BIOS in order of execution Uncompressed Code Checkpoints C2 NMI is Disabled Power on delay starting C5 Power on delay complete Going to enable ROM i e disable Cache if any CMOS shutdown register test to be done next be done next CMOS status register about to init for date and time Any initialization before keyboard BAT to be done next CF Initialization after KB controller BAT done Keyboard command byte to be written next D1 Keyboard controller command byte is written Going to check pressing of lt INS gt key during power on D2 Checking for pressing of INS key during power on done Going to disable DMA and Interrupt controllers 56 POST Error
26. er Connectors 22 Chapter 4 Ethernet 4 1 introducfion a Hn Ree Dn 23 LAE ILU cnm 23 4 3 Drivers Supported eese 24 Chapter 5 AMI BIOS Setup 5 1 Standard CMOS Setup euer 26 5 2 Advanced CMOS 55 eese 28 5 3 Advanced Chipset CMOS Setup 30 5 4 Peripheral Setup rtr aaas 31 5 5 Auto Detect Hard 5 5 7 32 5 6 Change Supervisor Password 35 5 7 Auto Configuration with Optimal Setting 36 5 8 Auto Configuration with Fail Safe Setting 37 5 9 Save Settings and Exit eee eerte 38 5 10 Exit Without Saving sirsiran 39 Appendix A Watchdog Timer Watchdog or System Configuring the WDT by Software eene Chipset Configuration Registers sse Enable Disable Watchdog INDEX 37H Watchdog Time Out Action INDEX 38 Watchdog Timer INDEX 39H 3AH 3BH Timeout Status amp Reset INDEX 3CH sssi Programming the Watchdog E Table of Contents vii Appendix B System Assignments System WO Ports l a d a ada daa ba
27. es has four onboard serial ports COM1 CONT15 COM3 CONT13 and 4 CONT14 are RS 232 and COM2 CONT11 is RS 232 422 485 jumper selectable All four ports feature 5V 12V power capability on pin 1 and pin 8 depending on the jumper setting 3 9 1 Serial Ports IRQ Selection The SBC8233 Series has four onboard serial ports with COM1 COM3 and COM4 as RS 232 and COM2 as RS 232 422 485 both selected via jumper setting All ports have 5V 12V power capability on both pin 1 and pin 8 or pin 9 depending on jumper selection 3 9 2 Serial Ports 5V and 12V Power Selection The four COM ports have 5V 12V power capability on pin 1 and pin 8 depending on the jumper setting The RS 232 pin assignments are listed below CONTLY 13 14 15 COM2 3 4 1Serial Port Connectors Pin Assignment 3 Receive Data RxD 4 Requestto Send RTS 5 TransmitData TxD 6 CleartoSend CTS _ Data Terminal Ready Ring Indicator RI 9 Ground GND Ground GND The RS 422 485 pin assignments for CONT11 COM2 are listed on the following table Hardware Description 17 SBC8233 All in One 386SX CPU Card Series User s Manual CONTT P n hs 232 RS 422 RS 485 N No conn 6 N N PRX Dn DATAS RTS No connector No connector X n X n CTS DR N RI 1 Nocomector No connector GND GND fend RX RTS CTS GND 3 10 DiskOnChi
28. g before Video ROM control is done Aboutto look for optional Video ROM and give control Optional Video ROM control is done About to give control to do any processing after Video ROM retums control Return from processing after the Video ROM control If EGA VGA not found then do display memory R W test Continued 7 58 POST Error Codes SBC8233 All in One 386SX CPU Card Series User s Manual Checkpoint Description EGA VGA not found Display memory R W test about to begin Display memory R W test passed Aboutto look for the retrace checking Display memory R W test or retrace checking failed bout to do alternate Display memory R W test ternate Display memory R W test passed boutto look for the alternate display retrace checking deo display checking over isplay mode to be set next isplay mode set oing to display the power on message ifferent BUS es init input IPL general devices to start if present Please see Reference for details of different BUSes Display different BUS es initialization error messages Please see Reference for details of different BUSes New cursor position read and saved Going to display the Hit DEL message Hit DEL message displayed Virtual mode memory test about to start O Le MEN 5 Log 0 Going to prepare the descriptor tables Descriptor tables prepared Going to enter in virtual mode for memory test Entered in the Virtu
29. h dimensions of 3 6 x 3 8 and is fully compatible with the ISA Bus The PC 104 interface is able to adapt the off the shelf PC 104 modules such as sound module fax modem module and multi I O module etc 57 P 104 Bus idi sz uu 72 an s T r T Tan m 06 Leila 17 s si l Ls c pae p farsos Til 37 542 REFRESH sarn ao SYSCIK Continued bar sao 42 ror 1549 aa 20 Hardware Description SBC8233 All in One 386SX CPU Card Series User s Manual 45 sas 46 ros 47 SAT Lalin 49 sas so iRQ3 si 1545 52 DACO so 1541 eo osc CONT3 PC 104 Bus Pin Assignments 1 6 7 roo a 2 40 KEY Hardware Description 21 SBC8233 All in One 386SX CPU Card Series User s Manual 3 15 Pin Assignments of Other Connectors CONT6 Power Connector 3 lay GND JP3 Power LED JP6 IDE LED 22 Hardware Description SBC8233 All in One 386SX CPU Card Series User s Manual Chapter 4 Ethernet 4 1 ntroduction The SBC8233 Series is equipped with a high performance Plug and Play Ethernet interface which is fully compliant with the IEEE 802 3 standard and consisting of a RJ 45 interface The RTL8019AS integrates the RTL8019 and 16K byte SRAM in a single chip It is designed not only to provide more friendly functions but also to save the effort of SRAM sourcing and
30. ides symmetric bidirectional communications The parallel port can be used with devices that adhere to the Extended Parallel Port DMA This option is only available if the setting for the Parallel Port Mode option is ECP The settings are Disabled DMA CH channel 0 DMA CH 1 or DMA CH 3 The default setting is Disabled 5 5 Auto Detect Hard Disks The Enhance IDE feature is included in all AMI BIOS The following is a brief description of this feature 1 Setup Changes Auto detection BIOS setup will display all possible modes supported by the HDD including NORMAL LBA amp LARGE If HDD does not support LBA modes no LBA option will be shown Users can select a mode that is appropriate for them I Standard CMOS Setup CYLS Heads Precomp Landzone Sector Mode Drive C User 516MB 1120 16 65535 1119 59 NORMAL Drive D None 203MB 684 16 65535 685 38 When HDD type is in user type the MODE option will be open for user to select the HDD mode 32 AMI BIOS Setup SBC8233 All in One 386SX CPU Card Series User s Manual 2 HDD Modes The Award BIOS supports 3 HDD modes NORMAL LBA amp LARGE NORMAL mode A generic access mode wherein neither the BIOS nor the IDE controller will make any transformations during accessing The maximum number of cylinders head amp sectors for NORMAL mode are 1024 16 amp 63 no Cylinder 1024 x no Head 16 X no Sector 63 X no per sec
31. ies Manual Data Sheets and Application Notes In addition you can find the lasted DiskOnChip S W Utilities 3 11 Real Time Clock and CMOS RAM The SBC8233 Series contains a M6117D Real Time Clock RTC The CMOS RAM stores the system configuration information entered via the SETUP program A battery with power lasting 10 years keeps the stored information on the RTC and CMOS RAM active when system power is turned off 3 12 Keyboard and PS 2 Mouse Connector The SBC8233 Series provides an external AT keyboard and PS 2 mouse interface via a DIN connector CONTA and an internal AT keyboard interface via a 5 pin connector CONT7 CONT4 Keyboard Clock 1 1 B Clock Weck Data 200 No Connection 30 GND 40 Keyboard Mouse Power 5 0 Data Data Hardware Description 19 SBC8233 All in One 386SX CPU Card Series User s Manual 3 13 Ethernet Connector The RJ 45 provides a RJ 45 interface via TP1 To connect the SBC8233 Series to a 10 Base T or 100 Base T hub just plug one end of the cable into the TP1 and connect the other end phone jack of the cable to a 10 100 Base T hub TP1 RJ 45 Connector Pin Assignment a Tx Data transmission positive 12345678 Tx Data transmission negative Rx Data reception positive i Rx Data reception negative Notuse RJ 45 3 14 PC 104 Connectors The PC 104 is an industrial standard It is a compact form factor wit
32. iguration Register System Assignments 47 SBC8233 All in One 386SX CPU Card Series User s Manual DMA Channel Assignments Availabe 7 Available Cd 3 Available 6 Available 0 Interrupt Assignments The SBC8233 Series is a fully PC compatible control board It consists of 16 ISA interrupt request lines and 4 of the 16 can be either ISA or PCI The mapping list of the 16 interrupt request lines is shown below Ni Paritycheckerror iRQO Sysem meroupt m4 Seralportii iRQ6 disk contoler 48 System Assignments SBC8233 All in One 386SX CPU Card Series User s Manual 1 MB Memory System Assignments 49 SBC8233 All in One 386SX CPU Card Series User s Manual This page does not contain any information 50 SBC8233 All in One 386SX CPU Card Series User s Manual Appendix C POST Error Codes Beep Codes Fatal errors which halt the boot process are communicated through a series of audible beeps If AMI BIOS POST can initialize the system video display it displays the error message Displayed error messages in most cases allow the system to continue to boot Displayed error messages are described on the following table Beep Error Messages 1 DRAM Refresh Failure The memory refresh circuitry of the board is faulty a A parity error was detected in the base 2 Parity Circuit Failure memory first 64k Block of the system 3 Base 64 KB Memory
33. inued POST Error Codes 61 SBC8233 All in One 386SX CPU Card Series User s Manual Optional ROM control is done About to give control to do any required processing after optional ROM returns control Any initialization required after optional ROM test over Going to setup timer data area and printer base address Return after setting timer and printer base address Going to set the RS 232 base address Retumed after RS 232 base address Going to do any initialization before coprocessor test Required initialization before coprocessor is over Going to initialize the coprocessor next Coprocessor initialized Going to do any initialization after coprocessor test 0 Initialization after co processor test is complete Going to check extd keyboard keyboard ID and num lock Extd keyboard check is done ID flag set num lock on off keyboard ID command to be issued Keyboard ID command issued Keyboard ID flag to be reset Cache memory test over Going to set the keyboard typematic rate 0 Soft error display complete Going to set the keyboard typematic rate 0 Keyboard typematic rate set Going to program memory wait states Memory wait states programming over Going to clear the screen and enable parity NMI NMI and parity enabled Going to do any initialization required before giving control to optional ROM at E000 nitialization before E000 ROM control over E000 ROM to get control next Ret
34. inventory 4 2 Features RTL8019 software compatible Supports PnP auto detect mode 16k byte SRAM built in Supports flash memory read write Supports UTP and auto detect Supports IO address fully decode mode Makes PnP jumper option more user friendly Improves the blinking problem of CRS LED when the cable is not connected Ethernet 23 SBC8233 All in One 386SX CPU Card Series User s Manual 4 3 Drivers Supported Bundled with popular software drivers the SBC8233 Series Ethernet interface allows great flexibility to work with all major networking operating systems including Novell NetWare v2 x v3 x Microsoft LAN Manager Win3 1 Win95 IBM LAN Server SCO UNIX or other ODI NDIS and Packet drive compliant operating systems 24 Ethernet SBC8233 All in One 386SX CPU Card Series User s Manual Chapter 5 AMI BIOS Setup When the system is powered on the BIOS will perform diagnostics and initialize system components including the video system This is self evident when the screen first flicks before the Video Card header is displayed This is commonly referred as POST Power On Self Test Afterwards the computer will proceed its final boot up stage by calling the operating system Just before that the user may interrupt to have access to SETUP Pressing the DEL key after resetting CTRL ALT DEL or powering up the computer enters the AMI BIOS You can bypass the extended CMOS settings by holding the INS key d
35. l in One 386SX CPU Card Series User s Manual Checking for pressing of INS key during power on done Going to disable DMA and interrupt controllers DMA controller 1 2 interrupt controller 1 2 disabled Video display is disabled and port B is initialized Chipset init about to begin Chipset initialization over 8254 timer test about to start 8254 timer test over About to start memory refresh test Memory Refresh line is toggling Going to check 15 micro second ON OFF time Memory Refresh period 30 micro second test complete Base 64K test about to start Base 64K test passed Going to set BIOS stack and to do any setup before Interrupt vector init etup required before vector initialization complete Interrupt vector initialization about to begin m nterrupt Vector initialization done 25 Going to read input port of 9042 for turbo switch if any and to clear password if post diag switch is on Input port of 8042 is read Going to initialize global data for turbo switch Global data initialization for turbo switch is over Any initialization before setting Video mode to be done next nitialization before setting Video mode is complete Going for monochrome mode and color mode setting Different BUSes init system static output devices to start if present Please see Reference for details of different BUSes Aboutto give control for any setup required before optional Video ROM check Processin
36. missing or its Write Error memory is faulty This is not a fatal error ROM Checksum Error The ROM checksum value does not match the value 9 beeps 257 encoded in the BIOS CMOS Shutdown 10 beeps Register Read Write Error Cache Error E xternal T 11bee he external cache is faulty Cache Bad The shutdown register for CMOS RAM failed POST Error Codes 63 SBC8233 All in One 386SX CPU Card Series User s Manual This page does not conatin information 64
37. mov ax 00013h Lock config register call vritechip mov ax 04c00h int 21h main endp readchip proc out 22h al nop nop in al 23h nop nop ret readchip endp vritechip proc out 22h al nop nop xchg ah al out 23h al V atchdog Timer 45 SBC8233 All in One 386SX CPU Card Series User s Manual nop nop xchg ah al ret vritechip endp end main Reset watchdog timer Resets the watchdog timer periodically to prevent timeout mov ax 0c513h Unlock configuration register call writechip mov ax 03C3Ch Reset watchdog timer counter call readchip or al 00100000b The counter is reset at xchg ah al out 23h al call writechip mov ax 00013h Lock configuration register call writechip the above code uses readchip and writechip procedures 46 Watchdog Timer SBC8233 All in One 386SX CPU Card Series User s Manual Appendix B System Assignments System I O Ports The x86 CPU communicates via I O ports It has a total of 1KB port addresses able to be assigned to other devices via I O expansion cards 000 01F DMA controller 1 020 03F Interrupt controller 1 040 05F Timer Real time clock NMI 060 06F Keyboard controller 080 09F DMA page register OCO ODF DMA controller 22 Clear math co processor busy signal Reset math co processor OFG OFF 0A0 0BF nterrupt controller 22 Fixed disk controller RAM ROM disk program port address 0 370 Onboard 1 0 SMC37C669 Conf
38. n INDEX 38H Bit No output signal 1001 lR3 1000 10011 IRQS 100 10007 10100 102 RQ 1100 li 101 lgn 1100 IRQ 1111 Ing 5110 NM 1101 SystemRESET 110 Nov output signal Putt hooubutsignal W atchdog Timer INDEX 39H 3AH 3BH Bits For example 100 fom fom Laune on fon on fems 0h fom fon ram fon On oh i56m om fon fon Im on 45 Jm r Jm 152 42 V atchdog Timer SBC8233 All in One 386SX CPU Card Series User s Manual Timeout Status amp R eset INDEX 3CH 7 0 Timeout has not occurred 1 Timeout has ocurred 5 1 Reset timer 0 Has no meaning 40 __ Other function do notmodify these bits Programming the Watchdog To perform any operation on the M6117D configuration registers you always have to unlock first and lock the registers afterwards Unlock configuration register Lock configuration register mov al 013h mov al 013h out 22h al out 22h al nop nop nop nop mov al 5 mov al 000h out 23h al out 23h al nop nop nop nop Read the value ofa configuration register For example read INDEX 3CH Unlock configuration register mov al 03ch out 22h al nop nop in al 23h nop nop push ax Lock configuration register pop ax AL result V atchdog Timer 43 SBC8233 All in One 386SX CPU Card Series User s Manual Write data to configuration
39. ne Aboutto check for lock key Memory size check done Aboutto display soft error and check for password or by pass setup Password checked Aboutto do programming before setup Programming before setup complete Going to uncompress SETUP code and execute CMOS setup 81 82 83 85 87 88 B C SE 8 91 95 97 Returned from CMOS setup program and screen is cleared Aboutto do programming after setup Programming after setup complete Going to display power on screen message First screen message display lt WAIT gt message displayed About to do Main and Video BIOS shadow Main and Video BIOS shadow successful Setup options programming after CMOS setup about to start Set up options are programmed mouse check and init to be done next ouse check and initialization complete Going for hard disk controller reset F Hard disk controller reset done Floppy setup to be done next F 9 loppy setup complete Hard disk setup to be done next Hard disk setup complete Going to set base and extended memory size EN emory size adjusted due to mouse support hdisk type 47 Init of different Lock key checking over Aboutto check for memory size mismatch with CMOS BUSes optional ROMs from C800 to start Please see Reference for details of different BUSes Going to do any init before C800 optional ROM control Any init before C800 optional ROM control is over Optional ROM check and control will be done next Cont
40. o 9 EE 9 2 O arash eal Ge i H 40 e 1233 de 121 92 36 32 Installation 5 SBC8233 All in One 386SX CPU Card Series User s Manual Placement 2 2 External PS 2 amp AT K B External CRT Display Povver Connector Internal K B uld 0r 514 F0L Od ELNOD uid g9 sng SOLO ZLNOO 18059941 OddOL QZLLOW Y deyd 194 97610811 y ye d 1 2 1 2 1 2 1 2 11 CONT13 CONT14 9 9 10 9 10 Installation SBC8233 All in One 386SX CPU Card Series User s Manual 2 3 Jumper Settings Making the proper jumper settings configures the SBC8233 Series to match the needs of your application The following table shows the default jumper settings onboard SBC8233 Series 2 3 1 Reset Jumper JP1 Settings Open default 2 3 2 Clear CMOS Setting JP2 Settings Clear CMOS Short 1 2 Open default 2 3 3 VGA IRQ9 Operation JP7 VGA Operation w o IRQ9 Open default VGA Operation w IRQ9 Installation 7 SBC8233 All in One 386SX CPU Card Series User s Manual 2 3 4 IRQ3 4 10 11 selection for COM3 COM4 JP9 Mode ga ima mm mm COM3 Short 3 5 default COM4 Short 2 4 Short 4 6 default 2 3 5 COM2 RS 232 422 485 Setting JP10 COM2 Mode Settings RS 232 Short 1 2 CONT11 active default RS 422 Short 3 4 RS 485 Short 5 6 2 3 6 RS232 422 485 Selection for COM2 Mode JP11 JP12 S hort
41. otSector Virus Protection tis not exactly a virus protection All it does is whenever your boot sector is accessed for writing it gives a warning to the screen allowing you to disable the access or to continue Extremely annoying if you use something like 05 2 Boot Manager that needs to write to it It is completely useless for SCSI or ESDI Enhanced Small Device Interface drives as they use their own BIOS on the controller Disabled recommended If you want virus protection use a TSR Terminate and Stay Resident virus detection Norton Central Point etc Scan by McAfee is also a good idea Available on most FTP servers it is Shareware 5 2 Advanced CMOS Setup hHIDIOS SETUP nDVHCED CHOS SCTUP Available Options b C H CDRUN ni 28 AMI BIOS Setup SBC8233 All in One 386SX CPU Card Series User s Manual 1st Boot Device Specifies the first device for which to look and use for booting the system Options are Disabled 1st IDE HDD 2nd IDE HDD 3rd IDE HDD 4th IDE HDD Floppy ARMD FDD ARMD HDD ATAPI CDROM SCSI or NETWORK ARMD FDD HDD means ATAPI Removable Media Device 2nd Boot Device Specifies the second device for which to look and use for booting the system Options are Disabled 1st IDE HDD 2nd IDE HDD 3rd IDE HDD 4th IDE HDD Floppy ARMD FDD ARMD HDD ATAPI CDROM SCSI or NETWORK Floppy Drive Swap This field is effective only in systems with two floppy drives Selecting Enabled assigns
42. own during boot up This is really helpful especially if you bend the CMOS settings right out of shape and the computer won t boot properly anymore The following pages are meant to give you a better insight into the options you have to setup your system Many options depend on the choice of type of memory memory speed peripherals and the programs that you will be running The effect on many of these settings is related to system performance that can destabilize operation We urge you to proceed with caution DNIBIOS HIFLEX SETUP UTILITY WORSIOH L 16 Rule Con AMI BIOS Setup 25 SBC8233 All in One 386SX CPU Card Series User s Manual 5 1 Standard CMOS Setup fM10105 SETUP STAHDnRD CHOS SCTUP PAPAE 1 44 HE 2 Hot Installer iluto Hula Disable l Date The BIOS determines the day ofthe week from the other date information this field is for information only Time The time format is based on the 24 hour military time clock For example 1 p m is 13 00 00 Press the or key to move to the desired field Press the PgUp or PgDn key to increment the setting or type the desired value into the field Floppy Drive A B Select the correct specifications for the diskette drive s installed in the computer No diskette drive installed 5 25 in5 1 4 inch PC type standard drive 5 25 in5 1 4 inch AT type high density drive 3 5 in3 1 2 inch double sided drive 3 5 in3 1 2 inch double sided drive
43. p 3 10 1 Setup a DiskOnChip Flash Disk Installation Instructions 1 2 18 Make sure the powerof SBC8233 Series is OFF Plug the DiskOnChip device s into its socket Verify the direction is correct pin 1 of the DiskOnC hip is aligned with pin 1 of the socket Set address for both DiskOnChip devices note that the last two settings are for normal EPROM orFlash devices Povver up the system During povverup you may observe the messa ges displayed by the DiskOnC hip when its drivers are automatically loaded into system s memory At this stage the DiskOnChip can be accessed asany disk in the system If the DiskOnChip is the only disk in the system it willappear as the first disk drive C in DOS If there are more disks besides the DiskOnC hip the DiskO nChip will appearby default asthe last drive unless it was programmed as first drive Please referto the DiskO nC hip utilities user manual Hardware Description SBC8233 All in One 386SX CPU Card Series User s Manual 9 If you want the DiskO nC hip to be bootable a Copy the operating system files into the DiskO nC hip by using the standard DOS command for example sys d b The DiskOnC hip should be the only disk in the systems or should be configured asthe first disk in the system c using the DUPDATE utility For more information on DiskOnChip technology visit M Systems Web site http www m sys com where you can find Utilit
44. tor 512 528 Megabytes If user sets his HDD to NORMAL mode the maximum accessible HDD size will be 528MB even though its physical size may be greater than that W LBA Logical Block Addressing mode A new HDD accessing method to overcome the 528MB bottleneck The number of cylinders heads amp sectors shown in setup may not be the number physically contained in the HDD During HDD accessing the IDE controller will transform the logical address described by sector head amp cylinder number into its own physical address inside the HDD The maximum HDD size supported by LBA mode is 8 4GB which is obtained by the following formula no Cylinder 1024 X no Head 255 X no Sector 63 X bytes per sector 512 814 Gigabytes AMI BIOS Setup 33 SBC8233 All in One 386SX CPU Card Series User s Manual 34 m LARGE mode Extended HDD access mode supported by Award Software Some IDE HDDs contain more than 1024 cylinder without LBA support in some cases user does not want LBA The Award BIOS provides another alternative to support these kinds of HDD Example of LARGE mode CYLS HEADS SECTOR MODE 1120 16 59 NORMAL 560 32 59 LARGE BIOS tricks DOS or other OS that the number of cylinders is less than 1024 by dividing it by 2 At the same time the number of heads is multiplied by 2 A reverse transformation process will be made inside INT 13h in order to access the right HDD address Maximum HDD size
45. umed from E000 ROM control Going to do any initialization required after E000 optional ROM control Initialization after E000 optional ROM control is over Going to display the system configuration System configuration is displayed Going to uncompress SETUP code for hot key setup Continued 62 POST Error Codes MK 1555 Nu NE GE Cache memory testto follow pom SBC8233 All in One 386SX CPU Card Series User s Manual B1 Uncompressing of SETUP code is complete Going to copy any code to specific area Copying of code to specific area done Going to give control to INT 19h boot loader The following table contains all AMI BIOS beep codes Except for Beep Code 8 they are always fatal 57 1beep Refresh Failure The memory refresh circuitry the motherboard is faulty A parity error was detected in the first 64KB block of memory 5 Memory Memory failure in first 64KB A memory failure occurred within the first 64KB of memory or Timer 1 on the motherboard is not functioning 5 beeps Processor Error The CPU Central Processing Unit on the motherboard generated an error Timer Not Operational Gate A20 on the keyboard controller 8042 allows the 8042 Bate A20 Failure CPU to operate in protected mode The BIOS is not able to switch the CPU to protected mode 7 beeps Processor Exception The CPU generated an exception interrupt Interrupt Error 8beeps Display Memory Read The system video adapter is either
46. y test above 1M to follow emory testing initialization above 1M complete oing to save memory size information Shutdown successful CPU in real mode Going to disable gate A20 line A20 address line disable successful ing to adjust memory size depending on relocation shadow Go Memory size adjusted for relocation shadow Going to clear Hit lt DEL gt message Hit DEL message cleared WAIT message displayed About to start A and interrupt controller test A page register test passed About to go for DMA 1 base register test DMA 1 base register test passed About to go for DMA 2 base register test DMA 2 base register test passed About to program DMA unit 1 and 2 DMA unit 1 and 2 programming over Aboutto initialize 8259 interrupt controller 8259 initialization over About to start keyboard test Extended NMI sources enabling is in progress D D emory size information is saved CPU registers are saved Going to enter in real mode iz z c Continued 60 POST Error Codes SBC8233 All in One 386SX CPU Card Series User s Manual Keyboard test started Clearing output buffer checking for stuck key About to issue keyboard reset command Keyboard reset error stuck key found About to issue keyboard controller interface test command Keyboard controller interface test over Aboutto write command byte and init circular buffer Command byte written Global data init do
47. ystem memory for ISA adapter ROM When this area is reserved it cannot be cached The user information of peripherals that need to use this area of system memory usually discusses their memory requirements The memory hole can be configured as 1 MB 15 14MB 2 MB 15 13MB 4 MB 15 11MB 8 MB 15 7MB or disabled 5 4 Peripheral Setup 05 SETUP PCRIPICRAL SCTUP fcilable Options JEGh 2L h 76h Hornal 1 Onboard FDC Enable disable or Auto detect FDD Controller Onboard Serial Port1 Disable or enable wtih I O address 3E8h 3F8h as COM1 or 2E8h or 2F8h as COM2 Onboard Serial Port1 Disable or enable wtih I O address 3E8h 3F8h as COM1 or 2E8h or 2F 8h as COM2 Onboard Parallel Port This option specifies the parallel port mode ECP and EPP are both bidirectional data transfer schemes that adhere to the IEEE P 1284 specifications The settings are 378h 278h or Disabled AMI BIOS Setup 31 SBC8233 All in One 386SX CPU Card Series User s Manual The normal parallel port mode is used Supports bidirectional transfers on the parallel port The parallel port can be used with devices that adhere to the Enhanced Parallel P ort EPP specification EPP uses the existing parallel port signals to provide asymmetric bidirectional data transfer driven by the host device Capabilities P ort ECP specification ECP uses the DMA protocol to achieve transfer rates of approximately 2 5 Mbs ECP prov
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