Nexcom Peak 550 User manual

Peak 550/PISA 550
Single Board Computer
User ′ s Guide
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Manual edition 1, June 1997
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of the manufacturer.
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Peak 550 and PISA 550 are registered trademarks of Nexcom International Co., Ltd., IBM
PC is a registered trademark of International Business Machines Corporation. Intel and
Pentium are registered trademarks of Intel Corporation. Award is registered trademarks
of Award Software, Inc. Other product names mentioned herein are used for
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their respective companies.

Table of Contents
How to Use This Guide
Chapter 1. Introduction
1.1 Specifications................................................................................1-2
1.2 What you have...........................................................................…1-6
Chapter 2. Jumpers and Connectors
2.1 Jumpers..........................................................................................2-1
2.2 Connectors.....................................................................................2-5
Chapter 3. Capability Expanding
3.1 System Memory.............................................................................3-1
3.2 Cache Memory ..........................................................................…3-3
3.3 Change CPU……………………………………………………...3-3
Chapter 4. Award BIOS Setup
4.1 Entering Setup...............................................................................4-1
4.2 The Main Menu.............................................................................4-4
4.3 Standard CMOS Setup..................................................................4-7
4.4 BIOS Features Setup.................................................................…4-11
4.5 Chipset Features Setup..................................................................4-16
4.6 Power Management Setup.............................................................4-17
4.7 PCI & On board I/O setup.............................................................4-22
4.8 Integrated Peripherals…………………………………………….4-24
4.9 Password Setting......................................................................…..4-27
4.10 IDE Auto Detection..................................................................... 4-28
4.11 Hard Disk Low Level Format Utility.......................................….4-32
4.12 Power On Boot.........................................................................….4-34
4.13 BIOS Reference-POST Message..............................................…4-35
4.14 BIOS Reference-POST Code ………………...........................…4-40
Appendix Watch Dog Timer

How to use this guide
ThismanualiswrittentohelpyouusePeak550/PISA550. Themanualdescribes how to
arrange various settings on the Pentium CPU board to meet your requirements. It’s
briefed as follows:
Chapter 1, “Introduction” gives an overview of the product’s specifications. It also
tells you what are included in the product package.
Chapter 2, “Jumpers and Connectors” describes the definitions and positions of
JumpersandConnectorsthatyoumayeasilyconfigureandsetupperyourrequirement.
Chapter 3, “Capability Expanding” describes how to change or expand the CPU Board
bychanging the system memory, cache memory, and CPU to get more power out from
the CPU board.
Chapter 4,“AwardBIOS Setup”describes howto usethe advancedPCI/GreenBIOSto
control almost every feature of the Peak 550/PISA 550, including the watchdog timer.
The Appendix describes how to set up the Watch Dog Timer (WDT) and gives an
example to program the WDT.

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  !"  !
560%D1 B"
9(%!"%  "
! ' !#    "" 4     ! " 


Peak 550/PISA 550 User's Guide
 , 

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
   
  
  
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•
   !"#$"%&"'(
  )**+,,+-.)-/&"*
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•
  (.",*,*/(.0,#/
  1"#,#2
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•
  ,*""(-!%,*!!34(-!"*2)&-0,"2&-
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•
  !!5',++""6#6,2#7*#
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•
  &,##$#,*,21,1,#$
  62#"
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•
  .1/,*!.1/
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•
  80*,#2#.8/
  3*,1,#$1+
  ,"#0"2,
9 '262# 
  '99%# 
  9 '%#%,#*
  '99%262#%,#*
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  34*7""*
  -!%:*";%:*"<;9%-!:,;9%:*"5

•
  !262"*",%,,,"0,,  
  6,,191,***

Peak 550/PISA 550 User's Guide
 @ 
•
  !))1+*#,,,
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• !
  !2,#*)2,**"$+&-*7*-,*
  *,"%,"",
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•"#
  80*7""*
  =%9%;(%= 9%;(%;(%;''("
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•$
  6,,1"
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•%&$
  %%%'%%%"#+7,
  (-!!*
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•
  !#$"7*0"$20+""%(#,,#
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•'
  !"6,",0*"9!#,*"
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•()
  (2+2,*,*++*##"*1,#$
  ,
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•*
  (++*##
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•"&
,$92",*,*!6*06"
  !92)!$6*06"1!"6,"

•+
  6*6,2"%99>99"

•+,-
?3@;9.,;/%?+3@9

Peak 550/PISA 550 User's Guide
  
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  "A'
  :62A996
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•#
  -,6,A9°>9°
  !,6,A+9°>'9°
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Peak 550/PISA 550 User's Guide
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