Advantech PCA-6145B User manual

PCA-6145B
Half-size 486 All-in-one
CPU Card with
Panel/CRT and Ethernet
Interface
PCA-6145L
Half-size 486 All-in-one
CPU Card with
Panel/CRT Interface

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Acknowledgements
AMD is a trademark of Advanced Micro Devices, Inc.
Award is a trademark of Award Software International, Inc.
IBM, PC AT and VGA are trademarks of International Business
Machines Corporation.
Microsoft Windows® and MS-DOS are trademarks of Microsoft Corpo-
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SMC is a trademark of Standard Microsystems Corporation.
TGUI 9440 is a trademark of Trident MicroSystems, Inc.
Cyrix is a trademark of Cyrix Corporation.
Intel is a trademark of Intel Corporation.
Part No. 200K614510 2nd Edition
Printed in Taiwan May 2004

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Advantech Customer Services
Each and every Advantech product is built to the most exacting specifica-
tions to ensure reliable performance in the unusual and demanding condi-
tions typical of industrial environments. Whether your new Advantech
equipment is destined for the laboratory or the factory floor, you can be
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Technical Support
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you run into technical difficulties, we are here to help. But please consult
this manual first.
If you still can’t find the answer, gather all the information or questions
that apply to your problem and, with the product close at hand, call your
dealer. Our dealers are trained and ready to give you the support you need
to get the most from your Advantech products. In fact, most problems
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In addition, free technical support is available from Advantech engineers
every business day. We are always ready to give advice on application
requirements or specific information on the installation and operation of
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ucts will be free from defects in materials and workmanship for one year
from the date of purchase.
This warranty does not apply to any products which have been repaired or
altered by other than repair personnel authorized by Advantech, or which
have been subject to misuse, abuse, accident or improper installation.
Advantech assumes no liability as a consequence of such events under the
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Because of Advantech’s high quality-control standards and rigorous test-
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service. If an Advantech product ever does prove defective, it will be
repaired at no charge during the warranty period. For out-of-warranty
repairs, you will be billed according to the cost of replacement materials,
service time and freight. Please consult your dealer for more details.
If you think you have a defective product, follow these steps:
1. Collect all the information about the problem encountered (e.g. type
of PC, CPU speed, Advantech products used, other hardware and soft-
ware used etc.). Note anything abnormal and list any on-screen mes-
sages you get when the problem occurs.
2. Call your dealer and describe the problem. Please have your manual,
product and any other information readily available.
3. If your product is diagnosed as defective, obtain an RMA (return
material authorization) number from your dealer. This allows us to
process your return more quickly.
4. Carefully pack the defective product, a completely filled-out Repair
and Replacement Order Card and a photocopy of a dated proof of pur-
chase (such as your sales receipt) in a shippable container. A product
returned without dated proof of purchase is not eligible for warranty
service.
5. Write the RMA number visibly on the outside of the package and ship
it prepaid to your dealer.

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Packing list
Before you begin installing your card, please make sure that the following
materials have been shipped:
• 1 PCA-6145B/6145L CPU card
• 1 6-pin mini-DIN keyboard & PS/2 mouse adapter
• 1 Hard disk drive (IDE) interface cable (40 pin)
• 1 Floppy disk drive interface cable (34 pin)
• 1 Parallel port adapter (26 pin) and COM2 adapter (9 pin) kit
• 1 Utility disk with system VGA BIOS, utility with Win.95 driver &
LAN driver
• 1 Utility disk with SVGA program and driver for Windows
If any of these items are missing or damaged, contact your distributor or
sales representative immediately.

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vii Table of Contents
Contents
Chapter 1 Hardware Configuration ................................2
1.1 Introduction ....................................................................... 2
1.2 Specifications .................................................................... 2
1.3 Board layout ...................................................................... 5
Figure 1.1:Dimensions(component side)........................ 5
Figure 1.2:Jumper & Conn (component side) ................ 6
Figure 1.3:Jumper &Conn (solder side) ......................... 7
1.4 Jumpers and connectors .................................................... 8
Table 1.1:PCA-6145B/PCA-6145L Jumpers ................. 8
Table 1.2:PCA-6145B/PCA-6145L Connectors............. 8
1.5 Safety precautions ............................................................. 9
1.6 Jumper settings................................................................ 11
Chapter 2 Connecting peripherals..................................18
Table 2.1:Connectors .................................................... 18
2.1 Enhanced IDE connectors (CN1).................................... 19
2.2 LCD interface connection (CN2) .................................... 19
2.3 Floppy drive connector (CN3) ........................................ 20
2.4 Parallel port connector (CN4) ......................................... 20
2.5 Keyboard & PS/2 mouse connectors (J5) ....................... 20
2.6 Reset switch (JP30) ......................................................... 21
2.7 Hard disk drive LED (JP3).............................................. 21
2.8 VGA display connector (J2)............................................ 21
2.9 Serial Ports ...................................................................... 21
Table 2.2:Serial port connections (COM1, COM2) ..... 22
Table 2.3:RS-232 connector pin assignments............... 22
Table 2.4:RS-232/485 connector pin assignments ....... 23
Chapter 3 AWARD BIOS Setup.....................................26
3.1 AWARD BIOS Setup...................................................... 26
Figure 3.1:Setup program initial screen........................ 26
3.1.1 Entering setup ............................................................... 26
3.1.2 Standard CMOS setup .................................................. 27
Figure 3.2:CMOS setup screen..................................... 27
3.1.3 BIOS features setup ...................................................... 28
3.1.4 CHIPSET features setup ............................................... 32
3.1.5 Power management setup ............................................. 33
3.1.6 Load BIOS defaults ...................................................... 34
3.1.7 Load setup defaults ....................................................... 34
3.1.8 Password setting ........................................................... 34
3.1.9 IDE HDD auto detection............................................... 34

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3.1.10 Save & Exit setup ......................................................... 34
3.1.11 Exit without saving ....................................................... 34
Chapter 4 Display & Ethernet Soft/Hardware Config .36
4.1 PCA-6145B/PCA-6145L Utility Disk ............................ 36
4.2 VGA Display Software Configuration............................ 37
Figure 4.1:VGA Setup screen ....................................... 38
4.3 VGA Win 95 Driver Support .......................................... 39
4.4 Ethernet Software Configuration .................................... 39
4.5 Ethernet Driver Support .................................................. 40
Chapter 5 SVGA Setup....................................................42
5.1 Sleep mode ...................................................................... 42
5.2 Software support ............................................................. 43
5.3 Driver installation............................................................ 44
5.3.1 Windows setup.............................................................. 44
5.3.2 AutoCAD R12 .............................................................. 46
5.3.3 Lotus 1-2-3 and Lotus Symphony ................................ 48
5.3.4 VESA ............................................................................ 49
5.3.5 Word ............................................................................. 50
5.4 WordPerfect .................................................................... 51
Appendix A Programming the Watchdog Timer .............54
A.1 Programming the watchdog timer ................................... 54
Appendix B Upgrading .......................................................56
B.1 Installing PC/104 modules (CN5,CN6) .......................... 56
Figure B.1:PC/104 module dimensions (mm)(+/-0.1).. 57
B.2 Installing DRAM (SIMMs)............................................. 58
Appendix C Detailed system information..........................60
Table C.1:Parallel/printer connector (CN4).................. 60
Table C.2:HDD connector (CN1)................................. 60
Table C.3:FDD connector (CN3).................................. 61
Table C.4:Keyboard conn pin assignment (J4, J5) ....... 61
C.0.1 VGA display connector (J2)............................................ 62
Table C.5:PCA-6145 CRT display connector .............. 62
C.0.2 Flat panel display connector (CN2) mini pin header .... 62
Table C.6:PCA-6145 Flat panel display connector ...... 62
C.0.3 RS-232 connections (COM1, COM2)............................. 63
Table C.7:RS-232 connector pin assignment ............... 63
Table C.8:PC/104 Connector Pin Assignments............ 64
Table C.9:System I/O ports .......................................... 65
Table C.10:System information I/O addresses ............. 66
Table C.11:DMA channel assignments ........................ 67
Table C.12:DMA controller registers ........................... 67
Table C.13:DMA Page Addresses ................................ 67

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Table C.14:Interrupt assignments ................................. 68
Table C.15:Timer channel assignments........................ 68
Appendix D Detailed system information..........................70
D.1 POST LEDs..................................................................... 71

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Hardware Configuration
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Chapter 1 Hardware Configuration
1.1 Introduction
The PCA-6145B/6145L is a full-function CPU card which integrates the
VGA LCD panel, Ethernet and other enhanced I/O interfaces on a half-
size CPU card. This card uses a 80486 DX, DX2, DX4 CPU or 5x86
series and can have up to 32 MB DRAM and EDO RAM. It also provides
an optional 128 KB cache RAM.
The PCA-6145B/6145L offers power management to minimize power
consumption. It complies with the "Green Function" standard and sup-
ports three power saving features: doze, sleep, and suspended mode.
Its high performance VGA display supports both CRT and panel displays
with a display memory of up to 1 MB and a resolution of up to 640x480
with 1.6 million colors. The VGA controller is a VL bus C&T 65545,
which comes equipped with a windows accelerator.
The PCA-6145B/6145L also offers several industrial features such as a
63-level watchdog timer with jumperless setup, supports M-systems Dis-
kOnChip Flash Disk (refer to M-systems Data base and a face-up PC/104
connection for additional functions with PC/104 modules.
1.2 Specifications
System
•CPU:
Intel 80486DX/DX2/DX4 series
AMD 80486DX2/DX4 series, 5x86-133
Cyrix 80486DX2/DX4 series, 5x86-100/120
•BIOS: AWARD Flash BIOS, supports plug & play
•Chipset: VIA VT82C496G
•Secondary level cache: 128 KB
•Green function: Supports power management option via BIOS, acti-
vated by keyboard or mouse activity. Supports doze, sleep, and sus-
pended mode. APM 1.1 compliant
•RAM: 1 MB to 32 MB, one 72-pin SIMM socket, accepts 1, 2, 4, 8,
16, and 32 MB SIMMs and EDO RAM

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•EIDE interface: Supports up to two IDE devices. BIOS supports up
to 8.4 GB HDD. 32-bit host data transfer, PIO Mode 3 transfer capa-
bilities (>10 MB/sec)
•Floppy disk drive interface: Supports up to two floppy disk drives,
5¼” (360 KB and 1.2 MB) and/or 3½” (720 KB, 1.44 MB, and 2.88
MB)
•Parallel port: One enhanced parallel port, supports EPP/ECP parallel
mode
•Serial ports: Two 16C550 UARTs, one RS-232, one RS-232/422/485
interface
•Watchdog timer: 63-level timer interval, with jumperless setup, gen-
erates system reset or IRQ15
•Keyboard/mouse connector: Mini DIN connector for keyboard and
PS/2 mouse, 5-pin male keyboard connector is also available
•I/O bus expansion: PC/104 connector with face-up installation
•SSD: Supports M-systems DiskOnChip flash disk
•Flash Backup: CMOS Data
Ethernet controller functions (PCA-6145B only)
•Controller: UMC UM9008, built-in 8k x 16 SRAM
• I/O address switchless setting
• Software compatible with NE-1000 and NE-2000
• Loopback capability for diagnostics
•Connector: RJ-45
•Boot ROM: Built-in system BIOS (optional)
Local bus VGA functions
•Controller: VL-bus C&T 65545 VGA controller with Windows
accelerator
•Display memory: 1 MB on-board DRAM
•Display resolution: Supports resolutions up to 1280 x 1024
- Non-interlaced CRT display up to 1024 x 768 with 256 colors
- Flat panel display up to 640 x 480 resolution
- Support True-color and Hi-color display capability
•Display output: DB-15 VGA connector, 22 x 2 pin header general
purpose flat panel display connector

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•Display BIOS: Default CRT/Toshiba TFT panel BIOS, Flash BIOS
can be easily updated
Mechanical and environmental
•Board size: 185 mm x 122 mm
•Max. power requirements: +5 V, 3.5 A
•Power supply voltage: +5 V (4.75 V to 5.25 V)
•Operating temperature: 32 to 140oF (0 to 60oC)
•Storage temperature: -40 to +176°F (-40 to +80oC)
•Humidity: 5 to 95%, non-condensing
•Board size: 7.3" (L) x 4.8" (W) (185 mm x 122 mm)
•Board weight: 1.2 lb. (0.5 kg)

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1.3 Board layout
Figure 1.1: Dimensions(component side)

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Figure 1.2: Jumper & Conn (component side)

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Figure 1.3: Jumper &Conn (solder side)

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1.4 Jumpers and connectors
Connectors on the board link it to external devices such as hard disk
drives, a keyboard, or floppy drives. In addition, the board has a number
of jumpers which you use to configure it for your application.
The table below lists the function of each of the board jumpers and con-
nectors. Later sections in this chapter give instructions on setting jumpers
and detailed information on each jumper setting. Chapter 2 gives instruc-
tions for connecting external devices to your card.
Table 1.1: PCA-6145B/PCA-6145L Jumpers
Number Function
JP1 Turbo LED
JP2 Turbo Switch
JP3 HDD LED
JP4 Clock select
JP5 Clock select
JP6 Clock select
JP7 CPU type select
JP8 CPU type select
JP9 Battery backup
JP11 CPU type select
JP13 CPU type select
JP14 Voltage selection
JP15 PS/2 mouse set
JP20, JP21 CPU type select
JP22-JP24 S.S.D. Function set
JP28 LCD Control
JP29 Watchdog timer
JP30 Rest switch
JP35-JP39 COM2 select
Table 1.2: PCA-6145B/PCA-6145L Connectors
Number Function
CN1 Enhanced IDE connector
CN2 LCD connector
CN3 FDD connector
CN4 Parallel port connector
COM1 Serial port 1 connector

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COM2 Serial port 2 connector
J1 SBC power connector
J2 VGA connector
J3 Ethernet connector
J4 External Keyboard connector
J5 Keyboard connector
J6 Keyboard lock
J7 Speaker
1.5 Safety precautions
Follow these simple precautions to protect yourself from harm and your
PC from damage.
Warning! 1.Please read these safety instructions carefully
2.Please keep this User‘s Manual for later reference
3.Please disconnect the board from AC outlet before cleaning.
Do not use liquid or sprayed detergent for cleaning
4. Keep the board from humidity
5. Lay the board on a reliable surface when installing. A drop or
fall could cause injury
6. Check the voltage of the power source when connecting the
board to the power outlet
7. Place the power cord in such a way that people can not step
on it. Do not place anything over the power cord. The power cord
must be rated for the product and for the voltage and current
marked on the product’s electrical ratings label. The voltage and
current rating of the cord should be greater than the voltage and
current rating marked on the product.
8. If the board is not used for long time, disconnect the equip-
ment from mains to avoid being damaged by transient over-volt-
age.
9.If one of the following situations arises, get the equipment
checked by service personnel:
a.The power cord or plug is damaged
b.Liquid has penetrated into the equipment
c.The board has been exposed to moisture
d.The board has not worked well or you can not get it to work
according to the user‘s manual
e.The board has been dropped and damaged
f.The board has obvious sign of breakage

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This device complies with the requirements in part 15 of the
FCC rules: Operation is subject to the following two conditions:
1.This device may not cause harmful interference, and
2.This device must accept any interference received, including
interference that may cause undesired operation
This equipment has been tested and found to comply with the
limits for a Class A digital device, pursuant to Part 15 of the
FCC Rules. These limits are designed to provide reasonable
protection against harmful interference when the equipment is
operated in a commercial environment. This equipment gener-
ates, uses, and can radiate radio frequency energy and, if not
installed and used in accordance with the instruction manual,
may cause harmful interference to radio communications. Op-
eration of this device in a residential area is likely to cause
harmful interference in which case the user will be required to
correct the interference at his/her own expense. The user is ad-
vised that any equipment changes or modifications not ex-
pressly approved by the party responsible for compliance
would void the compliance to FCC regulations and therefore,
the user's authority to operate the equipment.
Caution! The computer is provided with a battery-powered real-time
clock circuit. There is a danger of a new battery exploding if it
is incorrectly installed. Do not attempt to recharge, force open,
or heat the battery. Replace the battery only with the same or
equivalent type recommended by the manufacturer. Discard
used batteries according to the manufacturer’s instructions.
All cautions and warnings should be noted