E-TOP PISA-E1 User manual

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PI IS SA A- -E E1 1
Pentium III Half-Size CPU Card With VGA,
Audio & Dual LAN
User’s Manual
Version 1.4

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Contents
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Contents
Chapter 1 Introduction..................................1
Checklist..................................................................................2
Description ..............................................................................2
Features ...................................................................................4
Specifications...........................................................................6
Intelligence ..............................................................................9
Chapter 2 Installation..................................11
CPU Installation....................................................................12
Memory Installation.............................................................13
Jumpers on the PISA-E1......................................................13
Jumper Locations on the PISA-E1..........................................14
JP5 ~ JP6: CPU Frequency Selector.......................................15
JP7 LCD PANEL Power Selection.........................................16
JP8: CMOS RAM Data ..........................................................16
JP9 JP10: WatchDog Timer Period Selection ........................17
JPCOM4: COM2 RS232/RS422/RS485 Selection.................17
Connectors on the PISA-E1.................................................18
Connector Locations on the PISA-E1.....................................19
Front Panel Connector............................................................20
CPU Fan Power Connector.....................................................21
USB Connectors .....................................................................21
EIDE Connectors....................................................................22
Floppy Drive Connector.........................................................24
Parallel Port Connector...........................................................25
COM1 Serial Port...................................................................26
COM2 Serial Port...................................................................26
COM3 Serial Port...................................................................27
COM4 Serial Port...................................................................27
External PS2 Keyboard Connector.........................................28
PS/2 Keyboard & Mouse Connector ......................................28
VGA Connector.....................................................................29
ISO_CAN Connector..............................................................29
CANBUS Connector ..............................................................29
ATX Power Connector...........................................................30
LAN- RJ45 Connector............................................................30

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LAN LEDs .............................................................................31
AT Power P8 Connector.........................................................31
CD_IN Connectors.................................................................32
Audio Connectors...................................................................32
TTL LCD Connector..............................................................33
LVDS LCD Connector...........................................................33
Watchdog Timer Configuration..........................................36
Chapter 3 BIOS Configuration ................37
BIOS Introduction................................................................38
Starting Setup.........................................................................38
Using Setup............................................................................39
Getting Help...........................................................................40
In Case of Problems ...............................................................40
Main Menu............................................................................41
Standard CMOS Features...........................................................41
Advanced BIOS Features ............................................................41
Advanced Chipset Features.........................................................41
Integrated Peripherals ................................................................42
Power Management Setup...........................................................42
PnP / PCI Configuration.............................................................42
PC Health Status.........................................................................42
Frequency/Voltage Control.........................................................42
Load Fail-Safe Defaults ..............................................................42
Load Optimized Defaults.............................................................42
Supervisor / User Password........................................................42
Save & Exit Setup........................................................................42
Exit Without Save ........................................................................42
Standard CMOS Setup........................................................43
Primary HDDs / Secondary HDDs.........................................45
Drive A / Drive B...................................................................47
Video......................................................................................47
Halt On...................................................................................47
Advanced BIOS Features ....................................................48
Virus Warning........................................................................48
CPU Internal Cache/External Cache ......................................49
CPU L2 Cache ECC Checking...............................................49
Processor Number Feature .....................................................49
Quick Power On Self Test......................................................49
First/Second/Third/Other Boot Device ..................................49
Swap Floppy Drive.................................................................49
Boot Up Floppy Seek.............................................................49

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Boot Up NumLock Status.......................................................50
Gate A20 Option.....................................................................50
Typematic Rate Setting...........................................................50
Typematic Rate (Chars/Sec)...................................................50
Typematic Delay (Msec) ........................................................50
Security Option.......................................................................50
OS Select For DRAM > 64MB ..............................................51
Video BIOS Shadow...............................................................51
C8000 - CBFFF Shadow/DC000 - DFFFF Shadow...............51
Advanced Chipset Features.................................................52
DRAM Settings ......................................................................52
DRAM Timing By SPD..........................................................53
DRAM Clock .........................................................................53
SDRAM Cycle Length ...........................................................53
Memory Hole..........................................................................53
System BIOS Cacheable.........................................................53
Video RAM Cacheable...........................................................53
Frame Buffer Size...................................................................54
AGP Aperture Size.................................................................54
Panel Type..............................................................................54
Boot Device Select .................................................................55
Power-Supply Type................................................................55
OnChip USB...........................................................................55
USB Keyboard Support..........................................................55
USB Mouse Support...............................................................55
OnChip Sound ........................................................................56
Integrated Peripherals..........................................................57
OnChip IDE Channel 0...........................................................57
OnChip IDE Channel 1..........................................................57
IDE Prefetch Mode.................................................................58
Primary/Secondary Master/Slave PIO....................................58
Primary/Secondary Master/Slave UDMA ..............................58
Init Display First.....................................................................58
IDE HDD Block Mode...........................................................58
Onboard FDC Controller........................................................58
Onboard Serial Port 1/Port 2...................................................59
UART 2 Mode........................................................................59
IR Function Duplex ................................................................59
TX,RX inverting enable..........................................................59
Onboard Parallel Port .............................................................59
Onboard Parallel Port Mode...................................................59

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ECP Mode Use DMA.............................................................59
EPP Mode Select....................................................................60
Onboard Serial Port 3/Port 4..................................................60
Serial Port 3/Port 4 Use IRQ..................................................60
Power Management Setup...................................................61
ACPI Function........................................................................61
Power Management................................................................61
PM Control by APM ..............................................................62
Video Off Option....................................................................62
Video Off Method..................................................................63
MODEM Use IRQ..................................................................63
PM Events..............................................................................63
VGA.............................................................................................63
LPT & COM................................................................................63
HDD & FDD...............................................................................63
PCI Master..................................................................................63
Modem Ring Resume...................................................................63
RTC Alarm Resume.....................................................................63
IRQs Activity Monitoring ............................................................64
PnP/PCI Configuration Setup.............................................65
PNP OS Installed....................................................................65
Reset Configuration Data.......................................................65
Resource controlled by...........................................................65
IRQ Resources........................................................................66
DMA Resources.....................................................................66
PCI/VGA Palette Snoop.........................................................66
Assign IRQ For VGA/USB....................................................66
PC Health Status ..................................................................67
Current CPU Temperature......................................................67
Current System Temp.............................................................67
Current CPU FAN Speed.......................................................67
Vcore/2.5V/3.3V/5V/12V Voltages.......................................67
Frequency/Voltage Control.................................................68
Auto Detect DIMM/PCI CLK................................................68
Spread Spectrum Modulated ..................................................68
CPU Host Clock (CPU/PCI) ..................................................68
Load Fail-Safe Defaults........................................................69
Load Optimized Defaults.....................................................69
Supervisor/User Password Setting......................................70
Exit Selecting ........................................................................71
Save & Exit Setup .................................................................71
Exit Without Saving...............................................................71

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Appendix..........................................................72
A. I/O Port Address Map.....................................................73
B. Interrupt Request Lines (IRQ).......................................74
C. POST Beep........................................................................75

Chapter 1 Introduction
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Introduction
This manual is designed to give you information on the PISA-E1 SBC
card. The topics covered in this chapter are as follows:
♦ Checklist
♦ Description
♦ Features
♦ Specifications
♦ Intelligence

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Checklist
Please check that your package is complete and contains the items
below. If you discover damaged or missing items, please contact your
dealer.
 The PISA-E1 Industrial SBC Card
 1 ATA66/100 IDE Ribbon Cable
 1 Floppy Ribbon Cable
 1 Serial Port Ribbon Cable and 1 Parallel Port attached to a
Mounting Bracket
 1 Serial Port Ribbon Cable attached to a Mounting Bracket
 1 CD Disc Containing S3 VGA Drivers, RealTek 8100B
LAN Driver, VIA chipset drivers, BIOS Update Utility and
this User’s manual.
 PS/2 Keyboard and Mouse 1-to-2 Y-cable
Description
The PISA-E1 is a Pentium III Industrial single board computer (SBC)
card based on VIA 8606 chipset and is fully designed for harsh
industrial environment. It features one Socket370, that is compatible
with Intel FC-PGA package Pentium III processor. This card
accommodates up to 512MB of PC133 SDRAM memory.
The PISA-E1 is a high integration design. Two RealTek 8100B Fast
Ethernet Controllers, ALC201A Audio codec and S3 4X AGP Video
controller are integrated into the system. The high-integration design
prevents the system compatibility issues and increases the PCI add-on
cards scalability. This makes PISA-E1 an ideal SBC card for
Automation, Embedded control, Thin client as well as other industrial
applications.
PISA-E1 provides the most complete features needed for system
operation. These include 10/100 TX LAN adapter, Ultra DMA 66/100
IDE drive controllers, high performance serial ports, enhanced parallel
port, and the most updated BIOS. Two USB ports, one RS232/422/485

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port and a programmable watchdog timer are available on-board. The
CPU card also provides a LCD panel interface for connecting a
Direct-Drive LCD Panel. The LVDS interface is also reserved to
support latest LVDS Panel. What’s more, the VIA Twister-T chipset
on-board card incorporates the latest microprocessor technology to
provide the increased bandwidth needed to operate your system bus at
speeds up to 133 MHz.
The PISA-E1 comes with VIA integrated hardware monitoring
device that monitors system and CPU temperature, voltages of all
system power rails, and CPU fan speeds to prevent system crashes by
warning the user of adverted conditions. The power management
feature provides power savings by slowing down the CPU clock,
turning off the monitor screen and stopping the HDD spindle motor.

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Features
• High-Speed Processors: Supports Intel FC-PGA Pentium III
and Celeron Processor from 500 to 1.4GHz or above with
66/100/133MHz FSB Speed.
• Low-Power Processors: Fully support Intel Coppermine,
Tualatin and VIA C3 processor. Both Intel Tualatin and VIA
C3 CPU adapt 0.13 process and operate at lower voltage. This
provide the PISA-E1 system as a low power consumption
system.
• VIA Twister-T AGPset: Features VIA Twsiter-T AGPset
with I/O subsystems and front-side bus (FSB) platform,
which boosts the traditional 66/100MHz internal bus speed to
133MHz.
• PC133 Memory Support: Equipped with one DIMM sockets
to support Intel PC100/PC133-compliant SDRAM (8, 16, 32,
64, 128MB, 256MB or 512MB). Up to 512MB of PC133
SDRAM system memory.
• Flexible Memory Speed: The System memory bus speed can
be equal to CPU FSB and –33MHz or +33MHz of FSB Speed.
This gives users more flexibility to choose different memory
technology.
• ECC function support: Processor front-side bus (FSB) and
Memory subsystem support ECC function for Fault-tolerant
application.
• 10/100Base-T Fast Ethernet: Features Two RealTek Fast
Ethernet controllers that boost network performance, increase
the networking bandwidth and reliability, enhanced system
manageability and offers the proven compatibility.
• Integrated S3 Savage4 2D/3D/Video Accelerator: The
VIA Twister-T chipset integrated S3 Savage4 2D/3D/Video
accelerator in Shared Memory Architecture (SMA). The 2D
hardware accelerator, 3D rendering engine, MPEG-2/DVD
decoder are integrated. The frame-buffer size can be adjust in
BIOS setup and stored in CMOS.
• Direct Interface to broad range of LCDs: Two LCD
connectors support wide range of LCD panels, includes
SXGA+ TFT color panel with 9-, 12-, 18- (both 1 pixel/clock
and 2 pixels/clock), and 24-bit; VGA, SVGA, XGA
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24-bit interface; Enhanced STN hardware with 256 gray scale
support and advanced frame rate control to provide 16M
colors. The latest LVDS panel is also supported.
• PCI Bus Master IDE Controller: Two enhanced IDE
channels for up to four devices, support PIO Mode 3/4 or
Ultra DMA/33/66 IDE Hard Disk, ATAPI CD-ROM, LS-120
drive and DOM. The Secondary IDE is interfaced with a
44-pin 2mm pitch connector. It supports 2.5” HDD directly as
well as 44-pin DOM without additional power connector.
• Watch-Dog Timer: 4 level programmable watchdog timer,
from 10-80 seconds.
• Super Multi-I/O: Provides four high-speed UART
compatible serial ports and one parallel port with SPP, EPP
and ECP capabilities. The COM4 can be configured as
RS-232, RS-422 or RS485 interface.
• IrDA: Support an optional infrared port module for wireless
interface.
• Concurrent PCI: Allows multiple PCI transfers from PCI
master buses and AGP bus to memory to CPU.
• Hardware Monitoring: Features VIA integrated Hardware
Monitor to monitor all the power rails as well as CPU and
board temperature.
• Enhanced ACPI: Features a programmable BIOS (Flash
EEPROM), Offering enhanced ACPI for Windows
compatibility and auto-detection of most devices for virtually
automatic setup.
• 3D Enhanced AC97 Audio Codec: ALC201A features the
high S/N ratio (> 90dB) and 3D enhancement. Two
pin-headers allow user to wire CD_IN, Line-out and Mic
signals to Front panel or bridge board. Complete OS drivers
and Applications are bundled in Driver CD.

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Specifications
• Processor Socket: Socket370 for FC-PGA and FC-PGA2 CPU.
• Processor:
 Intel FC-PGA/FC-PGA2 Pentium III
600/650/667/750/800/850/866/933/1000/1113MHz/1.2G/1.4
G and above (100MHz FSB or 133 MHz FSB)
 Intel Celeron Processor
533/566/600/633/337/700/733/766/800/850/900/1000/1200
MHz and above (66MHz FSB or 100MHz FSB)
 VIA C3 Processor
700/766/800/866/933 MHz and above (66M/100M/133MHz
FSB)
 Intel latest Tualatin and VIA C3 low power processors are
supported.
• Chipset: VIA Twister-T and 82686B with PCI EIDE, Super-IO
and RTC built-in.
• Secondary Cache: 512K(Tualatin), 256K(Coopermine) or
128KB(Celeron) L2 cache integrated in CPU and runs on CPU
core frequency.
• Memory Sockets:
One 168-pin DIMM socket
Memory types: 3.3V SDRAM (Synchronous DRAM) support
8MB to 512MB memory capacity. Both ECC and non-ECC
Memory module are supported.
NOTE: Only SDRAM modules that support SPD (Serial
Presence Detect) should be use. Use PC133 modules when
running 133MHz Memory bus speed and use PC133/PC100
modules when running133MHz memory bus speed.
• BIOS: Award BIOS, PnP support
 FLASH EEPROM (256KB) for BIOS update
 Enhanced ACPI BIOS and DMI 2.0
 ISA Plug and Play (PnP) extension
 Power management
 Anti-Boot Virus
• DMI BIOS Support:
Desktop Management Interface (DMI) allows users to download
system hardware-level information such as CPU type, CPU speed,
internal/external frequencies and memory size.

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• Multi I/O:
 Parallel Port: One high-speed parallel port, SPP/EPP/ECP
mode.
 Serial Port: Four 16550 UART compatible ports with COM1,
COM2 and COM3 as RS232. COM4 can be RS-232/422/485.
 IrDA Interface: Pin-header connector for the optional IrDA
external connector
• Enhanced IDE: Two EIDE interfaces for up to four devices,
support PIO Mode 3/4 or Ultra DMA/33/66 IDE Hard Disk,
ATAPI CD-ROM, DOM and LS-120 drive
• FDD Interface: Two floppy drives (360KB, 720KB, 1.2MB,
1.44MB, 2.88MB)
• S3 Savage4 : VIA 8606 integrates S3 Savage4 2D/3D/Video
accelerator.
 Optimized Shared Memory Architecture (SMA).
 8 / 16 / 32 MB frame buffer using system memory, selected
by user through BIOS setup.
 High quality DVD video playback.
 2D/3D resolutions up to 1920x1440.
 Motion compensation for full speed DVD playback and
MPEG-2 video textures.
 Extensive LCD Support, includes 36-bit DSTN/TFT flat
panel interface with 256 gray shade support, one 110 MHz
LVDS interface, Support for all resolutions up to 1600x1200,
Panel power sequencing, Hardware Suspend/Standby control.
 Drivers for major operating systems and APIs: [Windows 9x,
Windows NT 4.0, Windows 2000, Direct3D, DirectDraw and
DirectShow, OpenGL ICD for Windows 9x, NT, and 2000]
• USB Interface: Two USB ports interfaced with one 2x5
pin-header, compliant with USB Specification Rev. 1.1 and
support USB Hot-Plug function.
• ATX Power Supply support:
 On-board 4-pin ATX power supply header (requires the
passive backplane supports ATX power supply)
 On-board power button header for Soft power off, i.e. front
panel turn off system power.
 Support Win95 and Win98 shutdown automatically turn off
the system power.

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• Hardware Monitor System:
 PC Health Monitoring ASIC supports system power voltages,
FAN speed and system temperatures monitoring.
 One FAN connector and one thermal couple header reserved
for chassis FAN and temperature monitoring.
• Watchdog Timer:
 Read I/O port 0443H to enable watchdog.
 Read I/O port 043H to disable watchdog.
 10s, 20s, 30s and 80s timeout period selectable.
• Green unction: Power management via BIOS, activated through
mouse/keyboard movement or SMI button
• Keyboard and Mouse Connectors: One 6-pin mini-DIN
connector is located on the mounting bracket for easy connection
to a keyboard and PS/2 mouse. A 5-pin on-board pin-header is
also available to support PS2 mouse.
• PISA Compliance: Fully compliant to PISA Rev 1.7
specification.
• Environmental and Mechanical:
 Power Supply: 5A@ +5v typical; 300mA@ +12v typical
100mA@ -12V typical; 200mA@ +5VSTB (Option)
 Temperature: 0°C to 60°C operating; -40°C to 70°C storage
 Humidity: 5% to 95%
 Dimensions: 7.28"(L) x 5.0"(W) or
185mm (L) x 127mm (W)

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Intelligence
• Support 133MHz CPU and SDRAM: The VIA 8606 Twister-T
chipset boosts the CPU FSB bus and Memory interface speed to
133MHz.
• Flexible Memory Speed: The Memory bus speed can be same
with CPU FSB speed (Default). It is also allow users to run
133MHz PC133 memory while CPU runs on 100MHz FSB. Or
Boost CPU FSB speed to 133MHz while use low cost PC100
zMemory module. No compromise and better flexibility.
• High-Integrated 2D/3D/VIDEO Accelerator: The built-in S3
Savage4 VGA chip support AGP 4X mode with Sideband
Addressing and AGP Texturing (Execute mode) to realize all the
benefits of AGP. The Share Memory Architecture (SMA) allows
user to decide how many main memory size will be allocated for
video graphic buffer. This saves system cost yet reserve room for
applications which require large frame buffer size.
• Dual LAN Design: Two 10/100M Ethernet provide aggregated
bandwidth can be up to 400Mbps while two ports working on
full-duplex 100-BaseT. The dual port design fulfill the needs of
emerging Internet appliances, NAS as well as servers
applications. . The drivers for most popular Operation systems and
NOS have been validated and proved the compatibility. It also
supports latest network standards and protocols like speed
auto-negotiation between 10Base-T and 100Base-T, half/full
duplex (IEEE8023.3u), flow-control (IEEE8023X), VLAN
(IEEE802.3Q), Priority packet(IEEE802.3P) and etc. The
multi-protocols support ensures the best interoperability.
• Two EIDE channels: Two IDE channels designed in the small
PISA form factor. The Secondary IDE connector is designed with
44-pin 2mm pitch connector. This allow user connector to a 2.5”
HDD directly with out any bridge board. DOM users can choose
44-pin DOM for small package and save power cable connector.

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Installations
This chapter provides information on how to use the jumpers and connectors on
the PISA-E1 in order to set up a workable system. The topics covered are:
CPU Installation..................................................................... 12
Memory Installation............................................................... 13
Jumpers on the PISA-E1........................................................ 13
Connectors on the PISA-E1................................................... 18
Watchdog Timer Configuration............................................. 36

Chapter 3 BIOS Configuration
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CPU Installation
The PISA-E1 Industrial SBC Card provides a 370-pins ZIF socket for Pentium
II/III-processors and Celeron with FC-PAG and PPGA (Plastic Pin Grid Array)
package.
Before installing the processor into the Socket, ensure that the CPU fan is
installed first. Without a fan circulating air on the CPU, the CPU can overheat and
cause damage to both CPU and SBC card.
To Install a CPU, first turn off your system and remove its cover. Locate the ZIP
socket and open it by first pulling the lever sideways away from the socket then
upwards to a 90-degree right angle. Insert the CPU with the correct orientation.
Use the notched corner of the CPU with the white dot as your guide. The white
dot should point towards the end of the lever. Notice that there is a blank area
where one hole is missing from that corner of the square array of pin holds.
Because the CPU has a corner pin for three of the four corners, the CPU will only
fit in one orientation. With the added weight of the CPU fan, no force is required
to insert the CPU. Once completely inserted, hold down on the fan and close the
socket lever.
To disassembly the processor, simply pull the lever sideways away from the
socket then upward to a 90-degree right angle. You can take the CPU out from the
socket without help of any tool.
WARNING!: If no FAN circulating Air on the CPU, the processor might been
overheated and damage both CPU and SBC components.