P4BWA

Full size ATX motherboard

User’s Manual
Edition: 1.1
2008/05/14
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Copyright

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Any questions please visit our website at http://www.commell.com.tw.

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Packing List
Please check package component before you use our products.

Hardware:
P4BWA Full size ATX motherboard x 1

Cable Kit:

Floppy flat cable x 1

DB25 & DB9 cable x 1

Serial ATA ribbon cable x 2

I/O Shield x 1

RAID driver Disk for Windows 2000,

Windows XP and Windows Server 2003

Other Accessories:

Divers CD (including User’s Manual) x 1

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Index
Chapter1 <Introduction> ..................................................................... 6
1.1 <Product Overview>................................................................................. 6
1.2 <Product Specification> ........................................................................... 7
1.3 <Component Placement> ........................................................................ 9
1.4 <Block Diagram>.................................................................................... 10
1.5 <Mechanical Drawing >.......................................................................... 11
Chapter 2 <Hardware Setup> ......................................................... 12
2.1 <Connector Location>............................................................................ 12
2.2 <Jumper Location> ................................................................................ 13
2.3 <Connector Reference>......................................................................... 14
2.3.1 <Internal Connectors> ..............................................................14
2.3.2 <External Connectors> .............................................................14
2.4 <CPU and Memory Setup> .................................................................... 15
2.4.1 <CPU installation> ...................................................................15
2.4.2 <Memory installation> ..............................................................16
2.5 <CMOS Setup> ...................................................................................... 17
2.6 <Serial ATA installation>......................................................................... 18
2.7 <Floppy Installation> .............................................................................. 19
2.8 <LAN installation> .................................................................................. 20
2.9 <Audio Installation>................................................................................ 21
2.10 <Display Installation> ........................................................................... 23
2.11 <USB Installation>................................................................................ 24
2.12 <Power and Fan Installation> .............................................................. 26
2.13 <GPIO & SMBUS interface> ................................................................ 28
2.14 <Serial Port> ........................................................................................ 29
2.15 <Switch & Indicator> ............................................................................ 30
2.16 <Expansion Interface> ......................................................................... 32

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Chapter 3 <System Configuration> ........................................... 34
3.1 <SATA configuration>............................................................................. 34
3.2 <SATA RAID Configuration> .................................................................. 35
3.3 <Audio Configuration> ........................................................................... 39
3.4 <Video Memory Setup> ......................................................................... 40
Chapter 4 <BIOS Setup>.................................................................... 42
Appendix A <I/O Port Pin Assignment> ................................. 44
A.1 <Floppy Port> ........................................................................................ 44
A.2 <Serial Port> .......................................................................................... 45
A.3 <VGA Port>............................................................................................ 45
A.4 <LAN Port> ............................................................................................ 46
A.5 <SMBus> ............................................................................................... 46
A.6 <Parallel Port> ....................................................................................... 47
A.7 <IrDA Port> ............................................................................................ 47
Appedix B <System Resources> ................................................ 48
Appedix C <Flash BIOS> ................................................................... 52
C.1 BIOS Auto Flash Tool ...................................................................... 52
C.2 Flash Method................................................................................... 52
Appendix D <Programming GPIO’s>........................................ 53
Appendix E <What Dog timer Setting >.................................. 54
Contact Information .............................................................................. 55

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Chapter1 <Introduction>
1.1 <Product Overview>
P4BWA is the motherboard with last Intel desktop technology with industrial motherboard
form factor. Based on Intel® Q965 and ICH8DO, the board integrates a new Core 2 Quad

processor 775-pin socket, DDR2 memory slot, Intel® Graphic Media Accelerator 3000

technology, PCI express interface and Serial ATA II with RAID function for a powerful

desktop system.
Intel® LGA775 processor
The Intel® Core 2 Quad processor now comes with a new form factor with 775-pin PLGA

package, for 533/800/1066MHz front-side-bus, 4MB L2 cache, and for 65nm manufacturing

technology, the PLGA processor without pin header on solder side can make user installing

the processor on the socket easier.

Intel® Q965 and ICH8DO chipset
The Intel Q965 integrates DDR2 533/667/800MHz for memory, and Graphic Media

Accelerator (GMA) 3000 technology for new graphic engine. It can provide up to 256MB of

frame buffer when you install over 512MB of system memory. The ICH8DO integrates with

up to 10 USB2.0 interfaces (6 ports for P4BWA) I/O panel, and serial ATA II interface with

RAID function.

Dual Intel 82573L Gigabit LAN

Dual Gigabit LAN with Intel 82573L, P4BWA comes with a powerful network function for the

system that requires large transfer data of NAS system or Server platform.

PCI-Express interface
P4BWA integrates one x16 and x4 PCI-Express interface, it can provide up to 8GB/s of

bandwidth, which AGP 8x can only provide up to 2GB/s.

Multimedia interfaces
P4BWA also integrates 7.1 channel HD audio, Mini-PCI, PCI and ISA interface, for these
flexible function, system integrator can built more powerful systems for many applications.

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1.2 <Product Specification>

General Specification
Form Factor Full size ATX motherboard
CPU Intel® Core 2 Quad/Core 2 Duo/Pentium 4/Pentium D/
Celeron D series processor with LGA775 socket
Package type: PLGA 775
Front side bus: 533/800/1066MT/s (133/200/266/QuadMHz x 4)
Intel® Hyper-Threading Technology and Dual/Quad core
supported, EM64T supported
Memory 4 x 240-pin DDR2 533/667/800MHz SDRAM up to 8GB
Unbufferred, none-ECC memory supported only
Chipset Intel® Q965 (Northbridge) and ICH8DO (Southbridge)
BIOS Phoenix-Award v6.00PG 8Mb SPI flash BIOS
Green Function Power saving mode includes doze, standby and suspend modes.
ACPI version 1.0 and APM version 1.2 compliant
Watchdog Timer System reset programmable watchdog timer with 1 ~ 255
sec./min. of timeout value
Real Time Clock Intel® ICH8DO built-in RTC with lithium battery
Serial ATAII Intel® ICH8DO integrates 6 Serial ATA II interface
RAID 0, 1,5,10 Intel Matrix Storage Technology supported
Multi-I/O Port
Chipset Intel® 82801HDO(ICH8DO) with Winbond® W83627DHG and
Fintek F81216D controller
Serial Port Five RS-232 and one RS232/422/485 serial ports
USB Port Ten Hi-Speed USB 2.0 ports with 480Mbps of transfer rate
Parallel Port One internal bi-direction parallel port with SPP/ECP/EPP mode
Floppy Port One internal Floppy port
IrDA Port One IrDA compliant Infrared interface supports SIR
K/B & Mouse External PS/2 keyboard and mouse port on rear I/O
GPIO One 12-pin Digital I/O connector with 8-bit programmable I/O
interface
Smart Fan One CPU fan connector for fan speed controllable
VGA Display Interface
Chipset Intel® Q965 GMA3000 (Graphic Memory Controller Hub)
Frame Buffer Up to 256MB shared with system memory
Connector External DB15 female connector on rear I/O

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Ethernet Interface
Controller Two Intel 82573L Gigabit Ethernet controller
Type Triple speed 10/100/1000Base-T
Auto-switching Fast Ethernet
Full duplex, IEEE802.3U compliant
Connector Two External RJ45 connectors with LED on rear I/O
Audio Interface
Chipset Intel integrated with Realtek ALC888 HD Audio
Intel High Definition Audio compliance
Interface 7.1 channels sound output
Connector External Audio phone jack for Line-out, Line-in, MIC-in, Surround,
Center and Backsurround
Onboard front audio connector with pin header
Onboard CD-IN and external optical S/PDIF connector
Expansive Interface
PCI-Express One x16 PCI-Express slot (compatible with x1 slot)
One x4 PCI-Express slot (compatible with x 1 slot)
Up to 8GB/s of transfer bandwidth
Power supply: +3.3V, +12V
PCI Four-PCI slot (32-bit, 33MHz)
Power supply: +3.3V, +5V, +12V, -12V
Mini PCI One Mini-PCI socket TYPE III A (32-bit, 33MHz)
Power supply: +3.3V, +5V, 3VSB
ISA Two ISA slots (without DMA supported)
Power and Environment
Power Requirement Standard 24-pin ATX power supply (20-pin is compatible)
Standard 8-pin 12v power Input connector (4-pin is compatible)
Dimension 307mm x 244mm (L x W)
Temperature Operating within 0 ~ 60oC (32 ~ 140oF)
Storage within -20 ~ 85oC (-4 ~ 185oF)
Ordering Code
P4BWA Support Intel Core 2 Quad LGA775 with DDRII, Onboard VGA, Dual
Intel Gigabit LAN 10 x USB2.0, Realtek ALC888 HD Audio, 6 x
COM Ports, GPIO, SATA and ISA slot
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1.3 <Component Placement>

DIMM
Mini PCI

PCI

ISA
PCI-Express

LAN

Serial port

PS2 USB VGA Audio SPDIF

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1.4 <Block Diagram>

Intel Core 2 Quad / Duo with 775 pin PLGA processor

6.4GB/s

Intel GMA3000 Graphics

4 x 240-pin DDR2
PCI-Express x16
8GB/s 533/667/800MHz
Intel Q965 up to 8GB

2GB/s DMI

SMBus 2.0
6 x Serial ATA II ports
300MB/s

10 x USB2.0 ports 2 x Intel

ICH8DO 82573L

Mini-PCI slot

HD Audio ALC888

2 x Serial port
W83627DHG x4 & x16 PCI-Express
SPI
4 x PCI bus
1 x Floppy port
F81216D
8-bit GPIO 2 x ISA bus

4 x serial port BIOS

1 x IrDA

1 x Parallel Port

KB/MS

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1.5 <Mechanical Drawing >

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Chapter 2 <Hardware Setup>

COM Port 3~6
2.1 <Connector Location> FDD
CN_USB1/2
ATX JRTC

JFRNT
SATA II
CN_DIO
CN_AUDIO
CPUFAN SYSFAN
CN_LPT

IrDA

CN_12V

CN_SMBUS
NBFAN
CDIN
COM2

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2.2 <Jumper Location>

Jumper Function
JRTC CMOS Operating/Clear Setting

JRTC

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2.3 <Connector Reference>

2.3.1 <Internal Connectors>

Connector Function
CPU PLGA775 CPU socket
DDRII1/2/3/4 240 -pin DDR2 SDRAM DIMM socket
S_ATAII1/2/3/4/5/6 7-pin Serial ATA II connector
ATX 24-pin power supply connector
CN_12V 8-pin +12V additional power supply connector
CN_AUDIO 5 x 2-pin audio connector
CDIN 4-pin CD-ROM audio input connector
CN_DIO 6 x 2-pin digital I/O connector
CN_USB1/2 10-pin USB connector
CPUFAN 4-pin CPU cooler fan connector
SYSFAN 3-pin system cooler fan connector
NBFAN 3-pin Northbridge cooler fan connector
CN_IR 5-pin IrDA connector
CN_SMBUS 5-pin I2C connector
JFRNT 14-pin front panel switch/indicator connector
FDD 26-pin slim type floppy connector
CN_COM2~6 5 x 2-pin com connector

2.3.2 <External Connectors>

Connector Function
VGA DB15 VGA connector
USB Dual USB Ports
COM DB9 Serial port connector
PS2 PS/2 Keyboard/Mouse connector
AUDIO Audio connector
USB_RJ45_A/B Quad USB and Dual RJ45 LAN connectors
SPDIF Optical SPDIF digital audio output connector

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2.4 <CPU and Memory Setup>
2.4.1 <CPU installation>
P4BWA has a PLGA775 CPU socket onboard; please check following steps to install the
processor properly.

Attention If P4BWA need RMA, please Keep CPU socket cover on the CPU Socket.
Warring If CPU Socket internal Pin damage, we could not provide warranty.

Intel® Core 2 Quad/Duo processor

Package type: 775 pin PLGA
L2 Cache: 4MB
FSB: 533/800/1066MT/S (266MHz x 4)
Manufacturing: 65nm, 90nm
Intel Hyper Threading Technology
And Core 2 Quad/Core 2 Duo support
1. Lift this bar Check point

3. Place the CPU on the top of

2. Uncover this plate the pins

4. Lock this bar 3. Cover this plate

Notice: Please place the CPU on the pins tenderly to avoid bending the pins
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2.4.2 <Memory installation>
P4BWA has four 240-pin DDR2 DIMM support up to 8GB of memory capacity. The memory

frequency supports 533/667/800 MHz. Only Non-ECC memory is supported. Dual-Channel

technology is supported while applying two modules with A+B channel.

DDRII B2
DDRII B1
DDRII A2
DDRII A1

128-pin 112-pin

Please check the pin number to match the socket side well

before installing memory module.

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2.5 <CMOS Setup>
The board’s data of CMOS can be setting in BIOS. If the board refuses to boot due to
inappropriate CMOS settings, here is how to proceed to clear (reset) the CMOS to its
default values.
Jumper: JRTC

Type: Onboard 3-pin jumper

JRTC Mode
1-2 Clear CMOS
2-3 Normal Operation
Default setting
3

JRTC
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2.6 <Serial ATA installation>
P4BWA has six Serial ATA II interfaces with RAID function, the transfer rate of the Serial
ATA II can be up to 300MB/s. Please go to http://www.serialata.org/ for more about Serial
ATA technology information. Based on Intel® ICH8DO, it supports Intel® Matrix Storage

Technology with combination of RAID 0,1,5 and 10. The main features of RAID on
ICH8DO are listed below:

1. Supports for up to RAID volumes on a single, two-hard drive RAID array.

2. Supports for two, six-hard drive RAID arrays on any of six Serial ATA ports.

3. Supports for Serial ATA ATAPI devices.

4. Supports for RAID spares and automatic rebuild.

5. Supports on RAID arrays, including NCQ and native hot plug.

For more information please visit Intel’s official website.

For more about the system setup for Serial ATA, please check the chapter of SATA

configuration.

S_ATA1
S ATA2
S_ATA3
S_ATA6
S_ATA5
S_ATA4

(Associate accessory)

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2.7 <Floppy Installation>

P4BWA has one 34-pin floppy interface, it supports use floppy and powering from onboard,
please follow up the steps below to install the device.

FDD

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2.8 <LAN installation>
P4BWA integrates two Gigabit LAN interfaces with Dual Intel 82573L; they provide a
standard IEEE 802.3 Ethernet interface for 1000BASE-T, 100BASE-TX and 10BASE-T

applications. P4BWA provides two RJ45 connectors on the rear I/O panel.

LAN

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2.9 <Audio Installation>
The board integrates onboard audio interface with REALTEK ALC888 codec, with Intel next

generation of audio standard as High Definition Audio, it offers more vivid sound and other

advantages than former AC97 audio compliance.

The main specifications of ALC888 are:

High-performance DACs with 97dB S/N ratio

10 DAC channels support 16/20/24-bit PCM format for 7.1 audio solution

16/20/24-bit S/PDIF-OUT supports 44.1K/48K/96K/192KHz sample rate

The board provides 7.1 channels audio phone jacks on rear I/O port, and Line-in/MIC-in

ports for front I/O panel through optional cable.

10 9

2 1
CN_AUDIO

CDIN
SPDIF

Center LINE-IN

Rear Speaker LINE-OUT Rear I/O phone jacks

Side Speaker MIC-IN

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Connector: CN_AUDIO
Type: 10-pin (2 x 5) header (pitch = 2.54mm)

Pin Description Pin Description

1 MIC_L 2 Ground
3 MIC_R 4 ACZ_DET
5 Front_R 6 MIC_JD
7 Sense 8 N/C
9 Front_L 10 Line_JD

Connector: CDIN
Type: 4-pin header (pitch = 2.54mm)
Pin Description
1 CD – Left
2 Ground
3 Ground
4 CD – Right

10 9

2 1
CN_AUDIO

CDIN

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2.10 <Display Installation>

P4BWA integrates with Intel® Q965 GMCH for Intel Graphic Media Accelerator (GMA)
3000 technology. It supports Intel® DVMT (Dynamic Video Memory Technology) 3.0 for up

to 256MB frame buffer size shared with system memory. With a 400MHz core and DirectX 9

and OpenGL acceleration, P4BWA provides the powerful onboard graphics interface
without additional graphic card. (More information please visit Intel’s website)

For more information of configuring the frame buffer size, please check the chapter of video

memory configuration.

Intel Q965 GMCH

VGA (DB15)

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2.11 <USB Installation>

P4BWA integrates 10 USB2.0 ports. The specifications USB2.0 are listed below:

Interface USB2.0

Controller Intel ICH8DO

Transfer Rate Up to 480Mb/s

The Intel® ICH8DO contains and Enhanced Host Controller Interface (EHCI) and six

Universal Host Controller Interfaces (UHCI), it can determine whether your connected

device is for USB1.1 or USB2.0, and change the transfer rate automatically.

USB

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Connector: CN_USB1/2
Type: 10-pin (5 x 2) header for USB1/2 Ports

Pin Description Pin Description

1 VCC 2 VCC
3 Data0- 4 Data1-
5 Data0+ 6 Data1+
7 Ground 8 Ground
9 Ground 10 N/C

10 9

2 1
CN_USB1/2

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2.12 <Power and Fan Installation>

The P4BWA provides a standard ATX power supply with 24-pin ATX connector and

additional 12V connector, and the board provides one 4-pin fan connectors supporting
smart fan for CPU cooler and two 3-pin cooler fan connectors for system and Northbridge

chip. The 8-pin additional power connector is necessary for CPU powering; please connect

this well before you finishing the system setup.

Connector: ATX
Type: 24-pin ATX power connector

PIN assignment
1 3.3V 13 3.3V
2 3.3V 14 -12V
3 GND 15 GND
4 5V 16 PS_ON
5 GND 17 GND
6 5V 18 GND
7 GND 19 GND
8 PW_OK 20 -5V
9 5V_SB 21 5V
10 12V 22 5V
11 12V 23 5V
12 3.3V 24 GND

Connector: CN_12V
Type: 8-pin standard Pentium 4 additional +12V power connector

Pin Description Pin Description

1 Ground 5 +12V
2 Ground 6 +12V
3 Ground 7 +12V
4 Ground 8 +12V

Connector: CPUFAN
Type: 4-pin fan wafer connector
Pin Description Pin Description
1 Ground 2 +12V
3 Fan Speed Detection 4 Sense

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Connector: NBFAN, SYSFAN
Type: 3-pin fan wafer connector
Pin Description Pin Description Pin Description
1 Ground 2 +12V 3 Sense

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2.13 <GPIO & SMBUS interface>

The board provides a programmable 8-bit digital I/O interface, and one SMBus (System

management bus) interface for control panel application.

Connector: CN_DIO
Type: onboard 2 x 6-pin header, pitch=2.0mm

Pin Description Pin Description

1 Ground 2 Ground
3 GP10 4 GP14
5 GP11 6 GP15
7 GP12 8 GP16
9 GP13 10 GP17
11 VCC 12 +12V

12 11

CN_DIO

2 1

Connector: CN_SMBUS
Type: 5-pin 2.54-pitch header
SMBUS
Pin Description
1 VCC
2 N/C
3 SMBDATA
4 SMBCLK
5 Ground

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2.14 <Serial Port>

The board supports one RS232 serial port and one jumper selectable RS232/422/485 serial
ports. The jumper JCSEL1 & JCSEL2 can let you configure the communicating modes for
COM2.
2 10
Connector: CN_COM2
Type: 10-pin (5 x 2) 2.54mm x 2.54mm-pitch box header for COM2
1 9
Pin Description Pin Description
1 DCD/422TX-/485- 2 RXD/422TX+/485+
3 TXD/422RX+ 4 DTR/422RX-
5 GND 6 DSR
7 RTS 8 CTS
9 RI 10 N/C

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JCSEL1 JCSEL2
2 8 2 12

SIR
1 7 1 11

RS-422
RS-485

RS-232

JCSEL2 JCSEL1

2.15 <Switch & Indicator>

The JFRNT provides front control panel of the board, such as power button, reset and

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beeper, etc. Please check well before you connecting the cables on the chassis.
Connector: JFRNT
Type: onboard 14-pin (2 x 7) 2.54-pitch header

Function Signal PIN Signal Function

HDLED+ 1 2 PWDLED+
IDE LED Power
HDLED- 3 4 N/C
LED
Reset+ 5 6 PWDLED-
Reset
Reset- 7 8 SPKIN+

N/C 9 10 N/C
Speaker
Power PWRBT+ 11 12 N/C

Button PWRBT- 13 14 SPKIN-

14 13

JFRNT

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2.16 <Expansion Interface>
P4BWA has one x16 and x4 PCI-Express slot. PCI-Express is the last expansion interface
technology, for its serial data transfer scheme, each lane will be up to 500MB/s (duplex),

and the x16 (16 lanes) can be up to 8GB/s more than 2GB/s as AGP 8x bus transfer rate.

The x4 slot can be also for x1 compatible use.

PCIE (PCI-Express x16 slot)

PCIE (PCI-Express x4 slot)

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Chapter 3 <System Configuration>

3.1 <SATA configuration>
SATA Mode:

This option can let you select whether the Serial ATA hard drives would work under normal

IDE mode or RAID mode. The RAID mode need more than one HDD is applied.

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3.2 <SATA RAID Configuration>

The board integrates Intel® ICH8DO with RAID function for Serial ATA II drives, and

supports the configurations below:

RAID 0 (Stripping): Two hard drives operating as one drive for optimized data R/W
performance. It needs two unused drives to build this operation.

RAID 1 (Mirroring): Copies the data from first drive to second drive for data security, and if
one drive fails, the system would access the applications to the workable drive. It needs two

unused drives or one used and one unused drive to build this operation. The second drive

must be the same or lager size than first one.

RAID 5 (striping with parity)

A RAID 5 array contains three or more hard drives where the data is divided into

manageable blocks called strips. Parity is a mathematical method for recreating data that

was lost from a single drive, which increases fault-tolerance. The data and parity are striped

across all the hard drives in the array. The parity is striped in a rotating sequence to reduce

bottlenecks associated with the parity calculations.

RAID 10 (RAID 0+1)

A RAID 10 array uses four hard drives to create a combination of RAID levels 0 and 1. The

data is striped across a two-drive array forming the RAID 0 component. Each of the drives

in the RAID 0 array is then mirrored by a RAID 1 component.

Intel Matrix Storage Technology: This technology would allow you to use RAID 0+1 mode
on only two drives (4 drives needed on traditional RAID 0+1). It will create two partitions on

each hard drive to simulate RAID 0 and RAID 1. It also can let you modify the partition size
without re-formatted.

For more information of Intel Matrix Storage Technology, please visit Intel’s website.

If you need to install an operation system on the RAID set, please use the driver disk
attached in the package when it informs you to obtain the RAID drivers.

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Please press <CTRL+I> to enter the RAID configuration menu.

You can setup the RAID under operation system for Microsoft® Windows XP SP1 or

Windows 2000 SP4 version, please install the Intel® Application Accelerator Ver.4.5 later to

support RAID configuration with Intel® Matrix Storage Technology.

1. After installing Intel Application Accelerator, please execute Intel® Storage Utility.

Demo configuration for 2 SATA Drives and

set as Intel Matrix Storage Technology set

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2. Select Actions to Create RAID Volume

Rename the Volume name

Select RAID Level as 0

Left as default

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3. Please select two hard drives to prepare to set the RAID volume

4. Specify the Volume size

Tune this bar to specify

the volume size, if you
specify the volume size
lower than maximum,
you can create a second
volume for another
RAID set.
(Make RAID 0+1 on only
two hard drives)

5. Repeat the step 1 to create second volume as RAID Level 1.

For other configuration set please click Help on tool bar.

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3.3 <Audio Configuration>

The board integrates Intel® ICH8DO with REALTEK® ALC888codec. It can support

7.1channel sound under system configuration. Please follow the steps below to setup your

sound system.

1. Install REALTEK AC97 Audio driver.

2. Lunch the control panel and Sound Effect Manager.

3. Select Speaker Configuration

4. Select the sound mode to meet your speaker system.

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3.4 <Video Memory Setup>

Based on Intel® Q965 chipset with GMA (Graphic Media Accelerator) 3000, the board

supports Intel® DVMT (Dynamic Video Memory Technology) 3.0, which would allow the

video memory be triggered up to 256MB.

To support DVMT, you need to install the Intel GMA 3000 Driver with supported OS.

BIOS Setup:

On-Chip Video Memory Size: This option combines three items below for setup.

On-Chip Frame Buffer Size:

This item can let you select video memory which been allocated for legacy VGA and SVGA

graphics support and compatibility. The available option is 1MB and 8MB.

Fixed Memory Size:

This item can let you select a static amount of page-locked graphics memory which will be

allocated during driver initialization. Once you select the memory amount, it will be no

longer available for system memory.

DVMT Memory Size:

This item can let you select a maximum size of dynamic amount usage of video memory,

the system would configure the video memory depends on your application, this item is

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strongly recommend to be selected as MAX DVMT.

Fixed + DVMT Memory Size:

You can select the fixed amount and the DVMT amount at the same time for a guaranteed

video memory and additional dynamic video memory, please check the table below for

available setting.

System On-Chip Fixed DVMT Total

Frame Memory Memory Graphic
Memory Buffer Size Size Size Memory
1MB 128MB 0MB 128MB
1MB 0MB 128MB 128MB
256MB ~ 511MB
8MB 128MB 0MB 128MB
8MB 0 128MB 128MB
1MB 128MB 0 128MB
1MB 256MB 0 256MB
1MB 0 128MB 128MB
1MB 0 256MB 256MB
512MB~1023MB 8MB 128MB 0 128MB
8MB 256MB 0 256MB
8MB 0 128MB 128MB
8MB 0 256MB 256MB
Notice:

1. The On-Chip Frame Buffer Size would be included in the Fixed Memory.

Please select the memory size according to this table

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Chapter 4 <BIOS Setup>

The motherboard uses the Award BIOS for the system configuration. The Award
BIOS in the single board computer is a customized version of the industrial standard
BIOS for IBM PC AT-compatible computers. It supports Intel x86 and compatible CPU
architecture based processors and computers. The BIOS provides critical low-level
support for the system central processing, memory and I/O sub-systems.

The BIOS setup program of the single board computer let the customers modify the
basic configuration setting. The settings are stored in a dedicated battery-backed
memory, NVRAM, retains the information when the power is turned off. If the battery
runs out of the power, then the settings of BIOS will come back to the default setting.

The BIOS section of the manual is subject to change without notice and is provided here
for reference purpose only. The settings and configurations of the BIOS are current at
the time of print, and therefore they may not be exactly the same as that displayed on
your screen.

To activate CMOS Setup program, press ＜DEL＞ key immediately after you turn on
the system. The following message “Press DEL to enter SETUP” should appear in the
lower left hand corner of your screen. When you enter the CMOS Setup Utility, the Main
Menu will be displayed as Figure 4-1. You can use arrow keys to select your function,
press ＜Enter＞ key to accept the selection and enter the sub-menu.

Figure 4-1 CMOS Setup Utility Main Screen

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Appendix A <I/O Port Pin Assignment>

33 1
A.1 <Floppy Port>
Connector: FDD
Type: 34-pin (2 x 17) 2.54-pitch box header 34 2

Pin Description Pin Description

1 Ground 2 DRIVE DENSITY SELECT 0
3 Ground 4 DRIVE DENSITY SELECT 1
5 Ground 6 N/C
7 Ground 8 INDEX-
9 Ground 10 MOTOR ENABLE A-
11 Ground 12 DRIVER SELECT B-
13 Ground 14 DRIVER SELECT A-
15 Ground 16 MOTOR ENABLE B-
17 Ground 18 DIRECTION-
19 Ground 20 STEP-
21 Ground 22 WRITE DATA-
23 Ground 24 WRITE GATE-
25 Ground 26 TRACK 0-
27 Ground 28 WRITE PROTECT-
29 Ground 30 READ DATA-
31 Ground 32 HEAD SELECT-
33 Ground 34 DISK CHANGE-

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A.2 <Serial Port> 1

2 6
3 7
4 8
Connector: COM1 5 9
Type: 9-pin D-sub male connector on I/O Panel
Pin Description Pin Description
1 DCD 6 DSR
2 SIN 7 RTS
3 SO 8 CTS
4 DTR 9 RI
5 Ground

10 9
Connector: COM2/3/4/5/6
Type: 10-pin (2x5) 2.54-pitch box header
2 1
Pin Description Pin Description
1 DCD- 6 DSR-
2 SIN- 7 RTS-
3 SO- 8 CTS-
4 DTR- 9 RI
5 Ground 10 N/C

A.3 <VGA Port> 6

1 11
2 12
Connector: VGA 3 13
Type: 15-pin D-sub female connector on I/O Panel 4 14
5 15
10
Pin Description Pin Description Pin Description
1 RED 6 Ground 11 N/C
2 GREEN 7 Ground 12 5VCDA
3 BLUE 8 Ground 13 HSYNC
4 N/C 9 LVGA5V 14 VSYNC
5 Ground 10 Ground 15 5VCLK

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A.4 <LAN Port>

Connector: RJ45
Type: RJ45 connector with LED on I/O Panel

Pin 1 2 3 4 5

Description TRD0+ TRD0- TRD1+ TRD1- NC

Pin 6 7 8 9 10

Description NC TRD2+ TRD2- TRD3+ TRD3-

A.5 <SMBus>
Connector: CN_SMBUS
Type: 5-pin SMBus (1x5)2.54 pitch header

Pin Description Pin Description

1 VCC 2 N/C
3 SMBDATA 4 SMBCLK
5 Ground

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A.6 <Parallel Port>

Connector: LPT (PRINTER)

Type: 26-pin (2 x 13) 2.54-pitch box header 14 26
1 13

Pin Description Pin Description

1 STROBE- 14 AUTO FEED-
2 D0 15 ERROR-
3 D1 16 INITIALIZE-
4 D2 17 SELECT INPUT-
5 D3 18 Ground
6 D4 19 Ground
7 D5 20 Ground
8 D6 21 Ground
9 D7 22 Ground
10 ACKNOWLEDGE- 23 Ground
11 BUSY 24 Ground
12 PAPER EMPTY 25 Ground
13 SELECT+ 26 N/C

A.7 <IrDA Port>

Connector: CN_IR 5 1
Type: 5-pin header for SIR Port

Pin Description
1 Vcc
2 N/C
3 IRRX
4 Ground
5 IRTX

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Appedix B <System Resources>
B1. <I/O Port Address Map>

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B2. <Memory Address Map>

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B3. <System IRQ Resources>

IRQ :

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Appedix C <Flash BIOS>
C.1 BIOS Auto Flash Tool
The board is based on Award BIOS and can be updated easily by the BIOS auto flash
tool. You can download the tool online at the address below:

http://www.award.com
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http://www.commell.com.tw/support/support.htm
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File name of the tool is “awdflash.exe”, it’s the utility that can write the data into the BIOS
flash ship and update the BIOS.

C.2 Flash Method

1. Please make a bootable floppy disk.
2. Get the last .bin files you want to update and copy it into the disk.
3. Copy awardflash.exe to the disk.
4. Power on the system and flash the BIOS. (Example: C:/ awardflash XXX.bin)
5. Re-star the system.

Any question about the BIOS re-flash please contact your distributors or visit the
web-site at below:
http://www.commell.com.tw/support/support.htm

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Appendix D <Programming GPIO’s>

The GPIO can be programmed with the MSDOS debug program using simple
IN/OUT commands.The following lines show an example how to do this.

GPIO0…..GPIO7 bit0……bit7
-o 4E 87 ;enter configuration
-o 4E 87
-o 4E 07
-o 4F 09 ;enale GPIO function
-o 4E 30
-o 4F 02 ;enable GPIO configuration
-o 4E F0
-o 4F xx ;set GPIO as input/output; set ‘1’ for input,’0’for
output
-o 4E F1
-o 4F xx ;if set GPIO’s as output,in this register its value can
be set

Optional :
-o 4E F2
-o 4F xx ; Data inversion register ; ‘1’ inverts the current valus
of the bits ,’0’ leaves them as they are
-o 4E 30
-o 4F 01 ; active GPIO’s

For further information, please refer to Winbond W83627DHG datasheet.

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Appendix E <What Dog timer Setting >
The watchdog timer makes the system auto-reset while it stops to work for a period. The

integrated watchdog timer can be setup as system reset mode by program.

Timeout Value Range

- 1 to 255
- Second or Minute

Program Sample
Watchdog timer setup as system reset with 5 second of timeout

-o 4E, 87
-o 4E, 87
-o 4E, 07
-o 4F, 08 Logical Device 8
-o 4E, 30 Activate
-o 4F, 01
-o 4E, F5 Set as Second*
-o 4F, 00
-o 4E, F6 Set as 5
-o 4F, 05
* Minute: bit 3 = 0; Second: bit 3 = 1

You can select Timer setting in the BIOS, after setting the time options, the system will
reset according to the period of your selection.

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Contact Information

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we can help you please don’t hesitate to contact with us. We will do
our best to support you for your products, projects and business.

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