Acrosser Technology AR-B1579 - Table of Contents

AR-B1579 User's Guide
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Table of Contents
0. PREFACE...............................................................................................................................................................0-3
0.1 COPYRIGHT NOTICE AND DISCLAIMER......................................................................................................................... 0-3
0.2 WELCOME TO THE AR-B1579 CPU BOARD.................................................................................................................... 0-3
0.3 BEFORE YOU USE THIS GUIDE ...................................................................................................................................... 0-3
0.4 RETURNING YOUR BOARD FOR SERVICE .................................................................................................................... 0-3
0.5 TECHNICAL SUPPORT AND USER COMMENTS ............................................................................................................ 0-3
0.6 ORGANIZATION................................................................................................................................................................ 0-4
0.7 STATIC ELECTRICITY PRECAUTIONS............................................................................................................................ 0-4
1. OVERVIEW.............................................................................................................................................................1-1
1.1 INTRODUCTION................................................................................................................................................................ 1-1
1.2 PACKING LIST .................................................................................................................................................................. 1-1
1.3 FEATURES........................................................................................................................................................................ 1-2
2. SYSTEM CONTROLLER .......................................................................................................................................2-1
2.1 DMA CONTROLLER.......................................................................................................................................................... 2-1
2.2 KEYBOARD CONTROLLER.............................................................................................................................................. 2-1
2.3 INTERRUPT CONTROLLER.............................................................................................................................................. 2-2
2.3.1 I/O Port Address Map................................................................................................................................................. 2-3
2.3.2 I/O Channel Pin Assignment....................................................................................................................................... 2-3
2.3.3 I/O Channel Signal Description................................................................................................................................... 2-4
2.3.4 Real-Time Clock and Non-Volatile RAM..................................................................................................................... 2-6
2.3.5 Timer.......................................................................................................................................................................... 2-6
2.4 SERIAL PORT ................................................................................................................................................................... 2-7
2.5 PARALLEL PORT.............................................................................................................................................................. 2-9
3. SETTING UP THE SYSTEM...................................................................................................................................3-1
3.1 OVERVIEW........................................................................................................................................................................ 3-1
3.2 SYSTEM SETTING............................................................................................................................................................ 3-2
3.2.1 CRT CONNECTOR (DB1).......................................................................................................................................... 3-2
3.2.2 Watchdog Transferring Select (JP6)........................................................................................................................... 3-2
3.2.3 Hard Disk (IDE) Connector......................................................................................................................................... 3-3
3.2.4 PC/104 Connector...................................................................................................................................................... 3-4
3.2.5 Keyboard Connector................................................................................................................................................... 3-6
3.2.6 FDD Port Connector (CN2)......................................................................................................................................... 3-7
3.2.7 Parallel Port Connector (CN3).................................................................................................................................... 3-7
3.2.8 Serial Port .................................................................................................................................................................. 3-8
3.2.9 PS/2 Mouse Connector ............................................................................................................................................ 3-10
3.2.10 External Speaker Header (J1) .............................................................................................................................. 3-10
3.2.11 Reset Header (J8)................................................................................................................................................ 3-10
3.2.12 Power Connector (J9)........................................................................................................................................... 3-11
3.2.13 LED Header ......................................................................................................................................................... 3-11
3.2.14 CPU Setting ......................................................................................................................................................... 3-11
3.2.15 DRAM Configuration............................................................................................................................................. 3-15
3.2.16 D.O.C. Memory Address Select (SW1-7).............................................................................................................. 3-15
4. INSTALLATION......................................................................................................................................................4-1
4.1 OVERVIEW........................................................................................................................................................................ 4-1
4.2 UTILITY DISKETTE ........................................................................................................................................................... 4-1
4.2.1 WIN 3.1 Driver............................................................................................................................................................ 4-2
4.2.2 WIN 95 Driver............................................................................................................................................................. 4-2
4.2.3 WINNT Driver............................................................................................................................................................. 4-3
4.2.4 OS/2 Warp 3.0 Driver................................................................................................................................................. 4-3
4.3 WATCHDOG TIMER.......................................................................................................................................................... 4-4
4.3.1 Watchdog Timer Setting............................................................................................................................................. 4-4
4.3.2 Watchdog Transferring Select (JP6)........................................................................................................................... 4-5
4.3.3 Watchdog Timer Enabled........................................................................................................................................... 4-5
4.3.4 Watchdog Timer Trigger............................................................................................................................................. 4-5
4.3.5 Watchdog Timer Disabled .......................................................................................................................................... 4-6
5. BIOS CONSOLE ....................................................................................................................................................5-1
5.1 BIOS SETUP OVERVIEW.................................................................................................................................................. 5-1
5.2 STANDARD CMOS SETUP............................................................................................................................................... 5-2
5.3 ADVANCED CMOS SETUP............................................................................................................................................... 5-3
5.4 ADVANCED CHIPSET SETUP.......................................................................................................................................... 5-6
5.5 POWER MANAGEMENT ................................................................................................................................................... 5-7
5.6 PCI/PLUG AND PLAY........................................................................................................................................................ 5-8
5.7 PERIPHERAL SETUP........................................................................................................................................................ 5-9
5.8 AUTO-DETECT HARD DISKS......................................................................................................................................... 5-10