IEI Technology NOVA-7800 User manual

October 22, 2003
©Copyright 2003 by ICP Electronics Inc. All Rights Reserved.
NOVA-7800
Mobile CPU embedded board
With 10/100Mbps Ethernet,
VGA, Audio Version 1.1
User Manual
Version 1.2

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Table of Contents
CHAPTER 1. INTRODUCTION ........................................5
1.1 SPECIFICATIONS .......................................................... 6
1.2 PACKAGE CONTENTS...................................................... 8
CHAPTER 2. INSTALLATION..........................................9
2.1 NOVA-7800’S LAYOUT ................................................. 9
2.2 CLEAR CMOS SETUP................................................... 12
2.3 COMPACT FLASH SETTING ............................................. 12
2.4 AUDIO AMPLIFIER SELECT ............................................. 12
CHAPTER 3. CONNECTION ..........................................13
3.1 FLOPPY DISK DRIVE CONNECTOR ..................................... 14
3.2 VIDEO IN CONNECTOR................................................. 14
3.3 ULTRA ATA33/66/100 IDE DISK DRIVE CONNECTOR ........... 15
3.4 PARALLEL PORT ......................................................... 15
3.5 USB PORT CONNECTOR................................................ 16
3.6 SERIAL PORTS........................................................... 16
3.7 POWER CONNECTOR .................................................... 17
3.8 KEYBOARD CONNECTOR ................................................ 18
3.9 IRDA INFRARED INTERFACE PORT .................................... 18
3.10 FAN CONNECTOR ...................................................... 19
3.11 AUDIO CONNECTORS ................................................. 19
3.12 VGA CONNECTOR..................................................... 20
3.13 LAN RJ45 CONNECTOR.............................................. 20
3.14 COMPACT FLASH CONNECTOR--TYPEII ............................ 21
3.15 EXTERNAL SWITCHES AND INDICATORS ............................ 22
3.16 IEEE-1394 CONNECTOR ............................................ 22
3.17 CARDBUS/PCMCIA CONNECTOR ................................... 23
3.18 DIGITAL I/O ........................................................... 24
CHAPTER 4. AMI BIOS SETUP .....................................26
4.1 INTRODUCTION .......................................................... 26
4.2 STARTING SETUP........................................................ 26
4.3 SETUP SUMMARY ........................................................ 26

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4.4 STANDARD CMOS SETUP SELECTIONS ............................. 28
4.5 ADVANCED CMOS SETUP SELECTIONS ............................. 30
4.6 ADVANCED CHIPSET SETUP SELECTIONS............................. 36
4.7 POWER MANAGEMENT SETUP SELECTIONS........................... 38
4.8 PCI / PLUG AND PLAY SETUP SELECTIONS .......................... 41
4.9 PERIPHERAL SETUP SELECTIONS ...................................... 43
4.10 HARDWARE MONITOR SETUP SELECTIONS ......................... 46
APPENDIX A. WATCHDOG TIMER ..................................47
APPENDIX B. DIGITAL I/O ............................................49
APPENDIX C. ADDRESS MAPPING .................................50
IO ADDRESS MAP ............................................................ 50
1ST MB MEMORY ADDRESS MAP........................................... 51
IRQ MAPPING TABLE ........................................................ 51
DMA CHANNEL ASSIGNMENTS ............................................. 51
APPENDIX D. HOW TO USE WAKE-UP FUNCTION .........52
APPENDIX E. HOW TO USE VIDEO-IN FUNCTION ........53

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Chapter 1. Introduction
Thank you for choosing the NOVA-7800 Mobile Intel®Celeron®
and Pentium III®(Micro-FCBGA) with Multimedia & LAN
Ethernet Embedded Little Board. This board comes equipped
with low power mobile Pentium®III, or Celeron Processor with
the Intel advanced chipset 815E especially designed to fit the
needs of the system manufacturers, integrators, or VARs that
want to build a low power consumption system.
In addition, the NOVA-7800 provides on-chip VGA which
provides up to 1600x1200 in resolution.
An advanced high performance super I/O chip – W83627 is
used in the NOVA-7800 board, providing two UARTs that are
compatible with the NS16C550. The parallel port and FDD
interface are compatible with IBM PC/AT architectures.
The NOVA-7800 has one Fast Ethernet Multifunction PCI
Controller working as a LAN controller, which is fully a
integrated 10BASE-T/100BASE-TX LAN solution that provides
high performance networking functions as well as low power
consumption features.
This CPU board has a built-in Compact Flash Disk Socket,
CardBus, FireWire for embedded applications.
For multimedia applications, NOVA-7800 provides many
functions such as IEEE 1394 ,5.1 channel Audio and video in.

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1.1 Specifications
•CPU : Intel Mobile CPU( Micro-FCBGA )
•DMA channels : 7
•Interrupt levels : 15
•Chipset : Intel 815E
•Memory : One 168 pin DIMM sockets. The memory
capability is up to 512MB/133MHz.
•Ultra ATA/33/66/100 IDE Interface : One PCI
Enhanced IDE channels (2 IDE devices). The south bridge
ICH2 supports Ultra ATA/33/66/100 IDE interface. To
support Ultra ATA66/100 Hard disk, a specific cable
(maximum length -- 45 cm) is available.
•Floppy disk drive interface : Single 2.88 MB, 1.44MB,
1.2MB, 720KB, or 360KB floppy disk drive.
•Serial ports : Two high-speed 16C550 compatible UARTs
with 16-byte FIFO buffer. Up to 115Kbps in speed.
•Parallel Port : One IEEE1284 compatible Bi-directional
ports. Supports SPP/ECP/EPP.
•IrDA :Supports Serial Infrared(SIR) and Amplitude Shift
Keyed IR(ASKIR) interface.
•USB : Supports two USB 1.1 compatible ports.
•Audio : Onboard CMI8738 chipset, supports 5.1 channel
sound that include LINEOUT, REAR, and CENTER/BASS.
•Watchdog timer :
 Software programmable – enable/disabled.
 Timer interval is 1 ~ 255 second.
 System Reset will be generated while time out.

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•VGA Controller : Embedded VGA controller, screen
Resolution : up to 1600x1200 in 256 Colors at 85Hz Refresh.
•Intel 82801BA embedded LAN : IEEE 802.3u Auto-
Negotiation support for 10BASE-T/100BASE-TX. Fast back-
to-back transmission support with minimum interframe
spacing. Connected to your LAN through RJ45 connector.
•Keyboard Controller : 8042 compatible for keyboard and
PS/2 mouse
•4 Digital Inputs and 4 Digital Outputs.
•4 Channels of composite video input.
•FireWire : The TSB43AA22 provides the digital and analog
transceiver functions to implement a two-port mode in a
cable-based IEEE 1394. Provides two P1394a fully compliant
cable ports at 100/200/400 megabits per second (Mbits/s).
•CardBus : Compliant with CardBus/PCMCIA PC Card 95/97
standard specification.
•Power Consumption : 5V/3.5A and 12V/0.18A, as running
by PIII 800MHz and 256MB.
•Operating Temperature : 0°~ 60°C ( CPU needs cooler)

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1.2 Package Contents
In addition to this User's Manual, the NOVA-7800 package
includes the following items:
•NOVA-7800 Mobile CPU bases Single board computer.
•One FDD cable.
•One HDD cable.
•Keyboard / Mouse adapter Y cable.
•One RS-232 serial port and one Printer port cable.
•One AUDIO ports cable.
•Two 4 Channels of composite video cable.
•One CPU cooler.
•One IEEE-1394 cable.

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Chapter 2. Installation
This chapter describes how to install the NOVA-7800. At first,
the layout of NOVA-7800 is shown and then comes the
unpacking information that you should be careful is described.
Jumpers and switches setting for the NOVA-7800’s
configuration, such as CPU type selection, system clock setting,
and watch dog timer, are also included.
2.1 NOVA-7800’s Layout
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