PCI / Mini PCI / Mini PCI-E / LPC test card User Guide
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1. 9 Those pins definitions are optional in Mini PCle spec and not all notebook vendors use those pin definition so that not all notebooks can work with this Mini PCle interface But Our test shows more and more notebook manufacturers are beginning to use this such as IBM HP Fujitsu Toshiba Hasee TCL Acer and etc For the notebook which doesn t meet the above Mini PCle pin definition this interface will not work and user needs to use the www sintech cn PCI Mini PCI Mini PCI E LPC test card other interface in this interposer Note Please be aware that Mini PCle interface is supported with limitation and some notebooks will not work with this interface because it can t receive code from bios As reference below is part of the notebook type list which can work with this mini PCle interface HP V6000 series including CT6 V9000 series including AT8 AT9 IBM Lenovo CW3 CW4 LE4 LE5 Hasee 310 320 Fujitsu PROLAND 10 series Acer most of the new type With more and more notebook manufacturers begin to support this Mini PCle debug card interface just part of notebook part numbers are listed as above And users can expand this list by their experience 11 Debug Card Mini PCI interface in notebook interposer Mini PCI is a general interface which is used in notebook It includes 124 pins This notebook interposer doesn t fully use those pins and only 101 pins are used This interfa2. PCI Mini PCI Mini PCI E LPC test card PCI Mini PCI Mini PCI E LPC test card User Guide This Debug card uses LCD display technology and can show the error information in the LCD screen directly This Debug Card supports desktop PC s PCI bus and notebook s Mini PCI Mini PCle LPC buses With this debug Card User can be very easy to identify the motherboard ST8677 problems trl te i ex Debug Cara amp l structure TEEF L EEE cc 6 k 2 ro ise Vl a eri zz wm ean A Part is the Debug Card main board PCI interface to support desktop motherboard Extended interface to support notebook EEPROM chip to save the debug information LCD screen to show English information BIOS type selection Button BIOS type selection Button 12 LED indicators to show PCI bus status OAEOHOHO LED indicators to show BIOS type B part is the Notebook interposer G Mini PCI interface to support notebook 2 Mini PCIe interface to support notebook 8 LPC interface to support notebook 4 ASIC to deal with Mini PCI Mini PCIe LPC bus signals 6 LED indicators Connector to connect this interposer to debug card main board www sintech cn PCI Mini PCI Mini PCI E LPC test card 7 Reserved for manufacture test only 2 PCI interface PCI is a general interface which is used in desktop Debug Card supports all motherboard
3. RAME LADO L LAD3 LRESET LAD3 LAD1 LAD2 LADO LAD2 LAD2 l LAD1 LAD1 LAD1 L LAD3 L LADO LAD2 LADO LFRAME LRESET LAD3 LCLK LRESET L LFRAME LCLK LRESET F LCLK E LCLK W83L950D PC97551 PC87541 PC875S1 H8S 2149 AT97SC3202 Note This notebook interposer uses 3 3V as power supply and you can use any 3V3 and GND signals in your notebook main board Please be aware that connecting the interposer to a non 3 3V power may damage the Debug Card If your notebooks use LPC VBIOS you can also connect the notebook interposer LPC interface to your notebook s BIOS pin as below LPC BIOS Pin definition PIN2 RST PIN13 LADO PIN14 LAD1 PIN15 LAD2 LOOO 7 TI TIT Lit Lt www sintech cn PCI Mini PCI Mini PCI E LPC test card PIN16 GND PIN17 LAD3 PIN23 LFRAME PIN25 VCC PIN31 CLK 13 Debug Card LED Indicators in notebook interposer The Display includes CLK RST signal status display When the notebook is in RESET status the RST indicator will be lighted on and the CLK indicator will be off When the notebook is in running status the RST indicator will be off and the CLK indicator will be lighted on 14 Part of Error Code explanation When the notebooks are running this Combo Debug Card will show the corresponding debug code If there is a problem in the notebook you can judge the problem by the debug code Below is the ex
4. ce will work with all notebooks which are with Mini PCI slot 12 Debug Card LPC interface in notebook interposer For the user whose notebooks don t support the Mini PCI interface and the Mini PCle interface you can use the third port LPC interface LPC interface exists in all notebook main boards In the debug card notebook interposer from left to right the LPC definition is PINI LFRAME PIN2 LAD3 PIN3 LAD2 PIN4 LAD1 PIN5 LADO PIN6 GND PIN7 LRESET PIN8 LCLK PIN9 3 3V Most of IBM Lenovo ThinkPad series notebooks reserve the LPC interface in the motherboard For IBM X 60 notebooks the LPC interfaces are located in the U39 slot of the main board The Pin definitions are as below A2 gt LRESET A3 gt LFRAME Ad gt LCLK A9 gt LAD3 A10 gt LAD2 A11 gt LAD1 A12 gt LADO For IBM T6 R6 notebooks the LPC interfaces are located in the J26 slot of the main board The Pin definitions are as below A1 gt LCLK A3 gt LFRAME B2 gt LRESET B7 gt LAD3 A7 gt LAD2 B6 gt LADI A6 gt LADO But usually the notebook boards haven t LPC connectors or slots And the users will need to connect this LPC port to the notebook by using wires This requires that users have very good soldering sku Below are some LPC interface chips pins definitions and user can connect the Five In One Debug Card to the corresponding chip pins For more information please refer those chips datasheets U11 U12 U13 U14 LFRAME LF
5. code information The different motherboards may use different BIOS types Currently the main BIOS types include AMI AWARD and Phoenix Before using debug card users should set the correct BIOS type first When switching BIOS type first pushing the left button then pushing the right button without releasing the left bottom the BIOS type switching information will show in the LCD screen 7 Debug Card BIOS LED indicators Different motherboard may use different BIOS type Currently main BIOS types include AMI AWARD Phoenix AUTO BIOS is DEBUG CARD s smart BIOS type Users can set different BIOS type by pushing the buttons and these LEDs will show the corresponding BIOS type 8 Debug Card LCD extended connector Debug card has reserved this connector for user to support two LCD display screens so that they can view the LCD from different angles 9 Debug Card notebook interposer After connecting the notebook interposer to debug card main board the debug card can be used for notebook test Please be aware that 1 When using for desktop please don t connect the notebook interposer 2 When using Notebook interposer please don t connect debug card main board s PCI interface 10 Debug Card Mini PCle interface in notebook interposer Mini PCle is used as a trend in the new notebooks Comparing to Mini PCI Mini PCle occupies less space This notebook interposer uses the below pins PIN 8 PIN 10 PIN 12 PIN 14 PIN 16 PIN 17 and PIN 1
6. planation for some main error codes AWARD BIOS 6 0 version The explanation when the LCD shows the below debug codes co miee oe chips SY w fose o C ese SSC d j o a AMI BIOS 8 0 version The explanation when the LCD shows the below debug codes Finite the hie O OO Piers est a1 ener i a o PHOENIX BIOS 6 0 version The explanation when the LCD shows the below debug codes os initiate the ine SY eos tose a 3 a Initiate Display Card 15 QA Question RST indicator is off but CLK indicator is NOT twinkled Answer This symptom shows there is no CLK signal for interposer so that the CLK indicator isn t twinkled Usually it may mean the motherboard can NOT support this Mini PCle interface Please use Mini PCI or LPC interface to test it Question RST indicator is off and CLK indicator is twinkled But it shows 00 Answer In this case please check the connection between notebook interposer and the Debug Card main board www sintech cn
7. s which have PCI buses 3 LCD display Debug Card includes the English description of the debug code When PC is booting it will output the number to show the boot status and Debug card will translate those numbers into English description so user can be easy to understand the meaning In the bottom right corner of screen Debug Card will show the debug code as XX which is the same as the traditional LED debug code number A letter is followed up after the number to show the BIOS j type Usually m means AMI BIOS w means AWARD BIOS p means PHOENIX BIOS and u means AUTO BIOS AUTO BIOS is Debug Card s smart BIOS Code Debug Card uses English description for AMI AWARD PHOENIX BIOS and use Photos for Auto BIOS Please refer the appendix part to get more information about AUTO BIOS 4 Debug Card EEPROM All debug code English description is saved into this EEPROM chip Currently over 1 000 are saved in this chip When there is some version change in the description user can be easy to upgrade the product themselves by replacing or re writing this EEPROM chips 5 Debug Card LED indicators Debug card has 12 LED indicators and almost all critical PCI bus signals have been included such as 3 3V 3VSB 5V 12V 12V RSTJ FRAMEJ IRDYJ TRDYJ CLK DATA and etc 6 Debug Card menu button DEBUG CARD PCI has two buttons which are used to change BIOS type and up down to look for previous debug
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