E-TOP ATX-E15 User manual

ATX-E15
Intel® Core™2 Quad Q35 EATX Main-Board
User’s Manual
Version 1.0

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Contents
INTRODUCTION..................................................................................1
CHAPTER 1 .........................................................................................2
FEATURES & SPECIFICATIONS.............................................................2
FEATURES.............................................................................................. 3
SPECIFICATIONS ...................................................................................... 4
CHAPTER 2 .........................................................................................9
JUMPER SETTING & CONNECTORS .....................................................9
2.1 JUMPERS ON THE ATX-E15 .............................................................. 10
Jumper Locations on the ATX-E15 ................................................ 11
JP1: Clear CMOS RAM Data.......................................................... 12
JP2, JP3, JP4: Front Side Bus Selection.......................................... 13
JP5: CF Card Mode Selection ........................................................ 13
JP6: COM1 Power Selection.......................................................... 13
JP7: COM4 Power Selection.......................................................... 14
AT_MODE: Power Supply Mode Selection.................................... 14
2.2 CONNECTORS ON THE ATX-E15 ........................................................ 15
Connector Locations on the ATX-E15 ........................................... 16
DIO Connector .............................................................................. 17
USB12, USB34, USB56 Connectors ............................................... 17
SATA1~6 Connectors .................................................................... 18
VGA Connector ............................................................................. 18
LANRJ45+USBx2 Connectors ........................................................ 19
LAN- RJ45 Connectors .................................................................. 19
LAN RJ45 LEDs .............................................................................. 20
AUDIO Connector ......................................................................... 20
INT_AUDIO Connector.................................................................. 21
CD_IN Connector .......................................................................... 21
ATX-24P Connector ...................................................................... 22
PS/2 Keyboard & Mouse Connector ............................................. 22
FRONT_PANEL Connector............................................................. 23
System FAN Connector................................................................. 24
CPU FAN Connector...................................................................... 24
PWR FAN Connector..................................................................... 24
LPT Port ........................................................................................ 25
IRDA Connector ............................................................................ 25
CF-II Connector............................................................................. 26
COM1 Serial Port.......................................................................... 27
COM2 Serial Port.......................................................................... 27

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COM3 Serial Port.......................................................................... 28
COM4 Serial Port.......................................................................... 28
PIDE Connector ............................................................................ 29
LAN_LED1 Connector ................................................................... 29
LAN_LED2 Connector ................................................................... 30
SPDIF Connector........................................................................... 30
ATX_12V Power Connector .......................................................... 30
Floppy Drive Connector ................................................................ 31
CHAPTER 3 BIOS SETUP ....................................................................33
BIOS Introduction ......................................................................... 34
Starting Setup .............................................................................. 34
3.1 MAIN MENU.................................................................................. 35
Setup Items .................................................................................. 35
Standard CMOS Features ............................................................. 35
Advanced BIOS Features .............................................................. 35
Advance Chipset Features ............................................................ 35
Integrated Peripherals ................................................................. 36
Power Management Setup .......................................................... 36
PnP/PCI Configurations ................................................................ 36
PC Health Status........................................................................... 36
Load Fail-Safe Defaults ................................................................ 36
Load Optimized Defaults.............................................................. 36
Set Supervisor/ User Password .................................................... 36
Save & Exit Setup ......................................................................... 36
Exit Without Saving...................................................................... 36
3.2 STANDARD CMOS FEATURES............................................................ 37
IDE Channel 0, 1 Master/ Slave.................................................... 39
IDE Channel 2, 3 Master............................................................... 40
Extended IDE Drive..............................................................................40
Drive A/B ...................................................................................... 42
Video ............................................................................................ 42
Halt On......................................................................................... 42
3.3 ADVANCED BIOS FEATURES.............................................................. 43
CPU Feature ................................................................................. 44
PPM Mode...........................................................................................44
Limit CPUID Max Val............................................................................44
C1E Function........................................................................................44
Execute Disabled Bit ............................................................................44
Virtualization Technology....................................................................44
Core Multi-Processing .........................................................................44
Hard Disk Boot Priority................................................................. 45
Bootable Add-in Cards.........................................................................45

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Virus Warning .............................................................................. 46
CPU L3 Cache................................................................................ 46
Quick Power On Self Test ............................................................. 46
First/Second/Third Boot Device.................................................... 46
Boot Other Device ........................................................................ 47
Swap Floppy Drive ........................................................................ 47
Boot Up Floppy Seek..................................................................... 47
Boot Up Num Lock Status............................................................. 47
Gate A20 Option........................................................................... 47
Typematic Rate Setting ................................................................ 47
Typematic Rate (Chars/Sec) ......................................................... 48
Typematic Delay (Msec) ............................................................... 48
Security Option............................................................................. 49
APIC Mode.................................................................................... 49
MPS Version Control For OS ......................................................... 49
OS Select For DRAM > 64MB ........................................................ 49
Report No FDD For WIN 95 .......................................................... 49
3.4 ADVANCED CHIPSET FEATURES .......................................................... 50
DRAM Timing Selectable .............................................................. 51
CAS Latency Time ......................................................................... 51
DRAM RAS# to CAS# Delay........................................................... 51
DRAM RAS# Precharge................................................................. 51
Precharge dealy (tRAS)................................................................ 51
System Memory Frequency .......................................................... 51
System BIOS Cacheable ................................................................ 51
Memory Hole At 15M-16M .......................................................... 52
PCI Express Root Port Func........................................................... 52
PCI Express Port 1, 2, 3, 4, 5................................................................ 52
PCI-E Compliancy Mode ...................................................................... 52
PEG/Onchip VGA Control ............................................................. 52
On-Chip Frame Buffer Size............................................................ 52
DVMT Mode ................................................................................. 52
DVMT / FIXED Memory Size ......................................................... 53
LAN1 Chip Control ........................................................................ 53
LAN2 Chip Control ........................................................................ 53
3.5 INTEGRATED PERIPHERALS................................................................. 54
On Chip IDE Device ....................................................................... 54
IDE HDD Block Mode........................................................................... 55
IDE DMA transfer access ..................................................................... 55
IDE Primary/Secondary, Master/Slave PIO........................................ 55
IDE Primary/Secondary, Master/ Slave UDMA.................................... 55
On-Chip Secondary PCI IDE ................................................................. 56
SATA Mode.......................................................................................... 56

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LEGACY Mode Support ........................................................................56
Super IO Device ............................................................................ 56
Onboard FDC Controller ......................................................................56
Onboard Serial Port 1 ..........................................................................56
Onboard Serial Port 2 ..........................................................................57
UART Mode Select...............................................................................57
RxD, TxD Active..................................................................................57
IR Transmission Delay..........................................................................58
UR2 Duplex Mode ...............................................................................58
Onboard Parallel Port..........................................................................58
Parallel Port Mode...............................................................................58
EPP Mode Select..................................................................................59
ECP Mode Use DMA ............................................................................60
EPP Mode Select..................................................................................60
ECP Mode Use DMA ............................................................................60
PWRON After PWR-Fail .......................................................................60
Onboard Serial Port 3................................................................... 61
Serial Port 3 Use IRQ .................................................................... 61
Onboard Serial Port 4................................................................... 61
Serial Port 4 Use IRQ .................................................................... 61
Watch Dog Timer Select............................................................... 61
USB Device Setting ....................................................................... 61
USB 1.0 Controller ...............................................................................62
USB 2.0 Controller ...............................................................................62
USB Operation Mode...........................................................................62
USB Keyboard Function .......................................................................62
USB Mouse Function ...........................................................................62
USB Storage Function ..........................................................................62
SanDisk Cruzer Crossfire0....................................................................62
3.6 POWER MANAGEMENT SETUP........................................................... 63
ACPI Function ............................................................................... 63
Power Management .................................................................... 64
Video off Method ......................................................................... 64
Video Off In Suspend .................................................................. 64
Suspend Type.............................................................................. 64
MODEM Use IRQ ...................................................................... 64
Suspend Mode.............................................................................. 65
HDD Power Down......................................................................... 65
Soft-Off by PWR-BTTN................................................................ 65
CPU THRM-Throttling................................................................... 65
Wake-Up by PCI card ................................................................... 65
Power On by Ring......................................................................... 65
Resume by Alarm...................................................................... 66
Date (of Month) Alarm................................................................. 66
Time (hh: mm: ss) Alarm .............................................................. 66

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Primary/ Secondary IDE 0/1 ......................................................... 66
FDD, COM, LPT Port...................................................................... 67
PCI PIRQ [A-D] #.......................................................................... 67
3.7 PNP/PCI CONFIGURATION ............................................................... 68
Init Display First............................................................................ 68
Reset Configuration Data ............................................................. 69
Resources Controlled By ............................................................... 69
IRQ Resource ................................................................................ 70
IRQ-3,4,5,7,9,10,11,12,14,15 assigned to ........................................... 70
PCI/VGA Palette Snoop................................................................. 71
INT Pin 1/2/3/4/5/6/7/8 Assignment........................................... 71
Maximum Payload Size ................................................................ 71
3.8 PC HEALTH STATUS ......................................................................... 72
CPU Warning Temperature .......................................................... 72
Current System Temp ................................................................... 72
Current CPU Temp........................................................................ 72
CPU FAN Speed............................................................................. 73
CHASSIS Fan Speed....................................................................... 73
POWER Fan Speed........................................................................ 73
Shutdown Temperature ............................................................... 73
3. 9LOAD FAIL-SAFE DEFAULTS............................................................... 74
3.10 LOAD OPTIMIZED DEFAULTS............................................................ 74
3.11 SET SUPERVISOR/USER PASSWORD.................................................. 75
3.12 SAVE &EXIT SETUP ....................................................................... 77
3.13 EXIT WITHOUT SAVING .................................................................. 77
CHAPTER 4 APPENDIX ......................................................................79
A. I/O PORT ADDRESS MAP ................................................................... 80
B. INTERRUPT REQUEST LINES (IRQ) ........................................................ 81
C. POST BEEP...................................................................................... 82

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ATX-E15 User`s Manual 1
Introduction
This manual is designed to give you information on the ATX-E15
Single Board Computer card. The topics covered in this manual
are as follows:
Features
Specification
Jumper setting and Connectors
BIOS Setup
Appendix

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Chapter 1
Features & Specifications
FEATURES ..............................................................................................3
SPECIFICATIONS.......................................................................................4

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Features
Support Intel® Core 2 Quad, Core 2 Duo, Pentium-D, Pentium 4,
Celeron D processor in LGA775 package with FSB
800/1066/1333MHz.
Four DDR2 1.8V DIMM sockets support up to 8GB system
memory in Dual Channel Mode. System memory speed can be
DDR2 800 or 667MHz.
Six SATA ports support up to 6 SATA 3Gbps devices. Support
RAID0, RAID 1, RAID 5, and RAID10.
Dual GbE LAN design maximized the communication
bandwidth for both internet and intranet connection. Root
Boot and Wake Up on LAN supported.
Multiple I/O functions: 10 x USB2.0, 4x COM ports, 6x SATA,
IRDA, 1x PIDE, 1x CF, 1x LPT.
High-Definition Audio Codec support Line-out, Line-in and
Microphone, CD-IN, SPDIF and surrounding sounds.
Five standard 32-bits 5V PCI slots for PCI add-on cards.
One PCI-Express x16 slot for high-end graphics add-on card.
One PCI-Express x4 slot for high-end Storage RAID Cards or
Multiple-ports LAN Cards.

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Specifications
Processor Support:
Intel® Core 2 Quad, Core 2 Duo, Pentium-D, Pentium 4,
Celeron D processor .
Support Front Side Bus speed 800MHz, 1066MHz and
1333MHz.
LGA775 socket
Major Chipset:
Intel Q35 and ICH9DO chipset.
RealTek RTL8111C LAN chip.
Winbond 83627HF Super I/O.
ALC888 AC97 Audio chip.
System Memory:
Four DDR2 DIMM 240pins Sockets support DDR2 667/800
unregistered non-ECC Memory up to 8.0 GB.
Dual channel mode operation supported.
Video Controller:
Intel Q35 Integrated GMA3100 Graphic Engine. Support
DVMT 4.0 for memory allocation up to 256MB.
One 15-Pins D-Sub Female connector on Rear plane for CRT
displays.
Super I/O:
Winbond 83627HF LPC I/F Super I/O chip.
Four Serial ports as COM1~COM4. COM2 is RS232/422/485
selectable by jumpers
COM1 is D-Sub 9-pins male on rear panel. Pin9 are powered
with either +5V or +12V by jumper.
COM2~COM4 are pin-header (2x5 pin-header/ 2.54mm
pitch) for internal connections.
One Floppy connector supports up to floppy drives.
One Parallel port supports SPP/ECP/EPP mode. (25-Pins
D-Sub Female on Rear).
One IrDA port; (5-pins pin-header with +5V powered).
Six USB2.0 ports for internal or front panel connection.
( 2x5 pin-header/ 2.54mm pitch).
Four USB2.0 ports integrated with RJ45 connector on rear
panel.
One PS2 Keyboard and one PS2 mouse connector on rear
panel.

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USB Interface:
Ten USB 2.0 ports compliant with USB Specification Rev.
2.0 and support USB Hot-Plug function.
Four ports on rear penal with type-A connector for external
USB devices.
Six ports in two 2x5/2.54mm box header for internal USB
devices connection.
Support Legacy USB devices and Boot from USB devices like
USB-HDD, USB-Floppy and USB-CDROM.
All USB ports support USB type keyboard and mouse.
SATA and PIDE:
One USB bridged PIDE controller support up to UltraDMA
mode 5 or ATA100 speed. It is for 2’nd storage for DVD
player, CF cards and Backup HDD.
One standard 40-pins Box header to support 3.5” HDD, DVD
Player or DOM Flash Disk.
One Compact Flash-II socket shared with PIDE Channel. One
jumper to select as Master or Slave device.
Six SATA ports support up to 6 SATA devices. Support RAID0,
RAID 1, RAID 5, and RAID10. SATA RAID BIOS is integrated in
System BIOS.
Gigabit and 10/100M Ethernet:
Two Realtek RT8111C chips on board for dual GbE LAN
support.
Support Wake-on-LAN.
Remote Boot Agent is supported with PXE or RTL protocol.
Audio:
RealTek ALC888 High-Definition Audio chip on-board.
Three Audio-Jack on rear panel for Audio Line-Out, Line-In
and Microphone.
One 14-pins pin-header to provide internal audio device
connection or surrounding speaker connection.
One CD-IN to support DVD player audio input.
One SPDIF interface to support SPDIF digital audio input and
output.
PCI and PCI-Express Expansion Slot:
Five 5V 32-bits PCI slots for PCI 32-bits 5V/3V Add-on Cards.
One PCI-Express x16 slot for high-end graphics add-on card.
One PCI-Express x4 slot for high-end Storage RAID Cards or
Multiple-ports LAN Cards.
Hardware Monitor:
83627HF integrated hardware monitor chip to monitor

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Voltages, temperatures and FAN speed.
Temperature Monitor: One sensor close to CPU socket for
CPU temperature detection. One sensor close to 83627HF
chip for board temperature detection.
One CPU FAN for CPU cooler, one SYS FAN for chassis FAN,
One Power FAN for PSU FAN. All FAN speeds are monitored.
Watchdog Timer:
The WatchDog timer can be disable/enable through BIOS
setup.
The timeout interval 1~255 seconds can be programmed
through I/O address 842h/843h. The timeout event will
generate the RESET.
CMOS:
On-board RTC with 242 bytes of Battery-back CMOS RAM.
One 3-pins Jumper to clear CMOS data.
BIOS:
Phoenix-Award Standard PnP BIOS 6.2.
8Mbit FlashROM with BootBlock for Fail-safe.
Enhanced ACPI and DMI2.0 compliant.
BIOS utility for field update.
VBIOS and LAN remote Boot Agent integrated.
Power Connector:
Support both AT mode and ATX mode operation. Selectable
by jumper.
One Standard ATX 24-pins power connector for system
power
One ATX-12V 8-pins connector for CPU power input.
Cooling:
One CPU cooling FAN connector nearby CPU socket.
Two System cooling FAN connectors on board for Chassis
and PSU cooling.
Digital Input and Output:
Support 8-bits Digital I/O.
Software programmable to configure as 4-IN/4-OUT or 8-IN
or 8-OUT.
Others:
One Buzzer (9mm) on-board for beep message.
Operating Temperature:
0~60°C Operation Range.
-40C to 70C storage.
Relative Humility: 5~95%, non-condensing.

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Dimensions:
9.6”(L) x 12” (W); or 244mm (L) x 305mm (W).
Standard Full-Size ATX form factor.

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Chapter 2
Jumper setting & Connectors
2.1 JUMPERS ON THE ATX-E15...............................................................10
2.2 CONNECTORS ON THE ATX-E15.........................................................15

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2.1 Jumpers on the ATX-E15
The jumpers on the ATX-E15 allow you to configure your Single Board
Computer card according to the needs of your applications.
If you have doubts about the best jumper configuration for your
needs, contact your dealer or sales representative.
The following table lists the jumpers on ATX-E15 and their respective
functions.
Jumper Locations on the ATX-E15.................................................11
JP1: Clear CMOS RAM Data ..........................................................12
JP2, JP3, JP4: Front Side Bus Selection ..........................................13
JP5: CF Card Mode Selection.........................................................13
JP6: COM1 Power Selection ..........................................................13
JP7: COM4 Power Selection ..........................................................14
AT_MODE: Power Supply Mode Selection ....................................14

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Jumper Locations on the ATX-E15

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JP1: Clear CMOS RAM Data
This 3-pin Jumper allows the user to disconnect the built-in 3V
battery power to clear the information stored in the CMOS RAM.
To clear the CMOS data:
(1) Turn off the system power.
(2) Remove Jumper cap from pin1&2.
(3) Short the pin2 and pin3 for three seconds.
(4) Put Jumper cap back to pin1 & 2.
(5) Turn on your computer.
(6) Hold Down <Delete> during boot up and enter BIOS setup to
enter your preferences.
Clear CMOS
Content
Normal Operation
(default)