Portwell ROBO-8122VG2R User manual

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Non‐StandardPICMG1.3SingleHostBoard
Version 1.0
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Revision History
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Contents
1 Introduction..............................................................................................................................................................................................................................10
2 Specifications............................................................................................................................................................................................................................11
2.1 Supported Operating Systems.........................................................................................................................................................................................12
2.2 Mechanical Dimensions...................................................................................................................................................................................................13
2.3 Power Consumption.........................................................................................................................................................................................................15
2.4 Environmental Specifications...........................................................................................................................................................................................16
3 Hardware Configuration ...........................................................................................................................................................................................................18
3.1 Jumpers and Connectors.................................................................................................................................................................................................18
3.2 Jumpers Settings.............................................................................................................................................................................................................19
3.3 Connector Settings ..........................................................................................................................................................................................................22
4 Signal Descriptions...................................................................................................................................................................................................................26
4.1 Watch Dog Signal ............................................................................................................................................................................................................26
5 System Resources...................................................................................................................................................................................................................32
5.1 Intel® Skylake-S PCH......................................................................................................................................................................................................32
5.2 Main Memory...................................................................................................................................................................................................................32
5.3 Installing the Single Board Computer...............................................................................................................................................................................33
5.3.1Chipset Component Driver.....................................................................................................................................................................................33
5.3.2 Intel® HD Graphics...............................................................................................................................................................................................34
5.3.3 Intel LAN I210AT/I217LM Gigabit Ethernet Controller...........................................................................................................................................34
6 BIOS Setup Items.....................................................................................................................................................................................................................35

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6.1 Introduction......................................................................................................................................................................................................................35
6.2 BIOS Setup......................................................................................................................................................................................................................36
6.2.1 Main......................................................................................................................................................................................................................37
6.2.2 Configuration.........................................................................................................................................................................................................39
6.2.3 Security.................................................................................................................................................................................................................72
6.2.4 Boot.......................................................................................................................................................................................................................74
6.2.5 Save & Exit............................................................................................................................................................................................................76
7 Troubleshooting........................................................................................................................................................................................................................78
7.1 Hardware Quick Installation.............................................................................................................................................................................................78
7.2 BIOS Setting....................................................................................................................................................................................................................81
7.3 FAQ................................................................................................................................................................................................................................ 82
8 Portwell Software Service.........................................................................................................................................................................................................87
9 Industry Specifications .............................................................................................................................................................................................................88

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Preface
This user’s guide provides information about the components, features, connectors and BIOS Setup menus available on the ROBO-8122VG2R. This document
should be referred to when designing PICMG 1.3 application. The other reference documents that should be used include the following:
Intel SkyLake-S Design Guide
Intel SkyLake-S Specification
Please contact Portwell Sales Representative for above documents.
Disclaimer
The information contained within this user’s guide, including but not limited to any product specification, is subject to change without notice.
Portwell provides no warranty with regard to this user’s guide or any other information contained herein and hereby expressly disclaims any implied warranties
of merchantability or fitness for any particular purpose with regard to any of the foregoing. Portwell assumes no liability for any damages incurred directly or
indirectly from any technical or typographical errors or omissions contained herein or for discrepancies between the product and the user’s guide. In no event
shall Portwell be liable for any incidental, consequential, special, or exemplary damages, whether based on tort, contract or otherwise, arising out of or in
connection with this user’s guide or any other information contained herein or the use thereof.
Trademarks
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trademark holders. These trademark holders are not affiliated with Portwell, our products, or our website.

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Warranty
Portwell makes no representation, warranty or guaranty, express or implied regarding the products except its standard form of limited warranty (“Limited
Warranty”). Portwell may in its sole discretion modify its Limited Warranty at any time and from time to time.
Beginning on the date of shipment to its direct customer and continuing for the published warranty period, Portwell represents that the products are new and
warrants that each product failing to function properly under normal use, due to a defect in materials or workmanship or due to non conformance to the agreed
upon specifications, will be repaired or exchanged, at Portwell’s option and expense.
Certification
Portwell is certified to DIN EN ISO 9001:2000 standard.
Technical Support
Portwell technicians and engineers are committed to providing the best possible technical support for our customers so that our products can be easily used and
implemented.
We request that you first visit our website at http://www.portwell.com.tw/support/ for the latest documentation, utilities and drivers, which have been made
available to assist you. If you still require assistance after visiting our website then contact our technical support department by email at
[email protected]for further assistance. Thank you!

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Handling and Installing SBC
Caution: Do not just hold any single side of the SBC; hold evenly on both sides!
zHeavy processor cooler may bend the SBC when SBC being held just on one side.
zThe bending may cause soldering or components damaged.
Notice
SBC Handling and Installation Notice

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Fix your SBC in System
Caution: Suggest your S.I or vendor to use a metal bracket to hold/fix the desktop or server grade SBC to avoid the vibration damage during
transportation. Heavy processor cooler may bend the SBC when systems are during transportation without any holder.
Example:
z4U chassis :
ÎUse Ltype mental or plastic or rubber bracket to hold SBC.

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z2U or 1U chassis: a mental bracket on the bottom of chassis to balance and support SBC from bending.

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1Introduction
ROBO-8122VG2R, a non-standard PICMG 1.3 Single Host Board (SHB) with the Intel Server grade Xeon E5-2600Lv3 and v4 series processors. Portwell's
ROBO-8122VG2R implements flexible PCI Express Gen 3 expansion by one PCI Express x16 or two PCI Express x 8 or one PCI Express x8 and two PCI
Express x4 from each processor, which is ideal for a range of applications, such as Data Center, Military.
ROBO-8122VG2R adopt Intel C612 PCH. Providing up to 256GB DDR4 RDIMM system memory capacity on right long DIMM sockets. ROBO-8122VG2R build
with Intel® Haswell-EP/Broadwell-EP E5-2600Lv3 and v4 processor family features, and with on-board ASPEED AST1400 GPU to generate for 2D performance.
It supports only VGAoutput on bracket. It supports four SATAIII ports, which two are on board and the others are on backplane. Besides, it also supports six
USB ports (dual USB 3.0 ports on board and four USB 2.0 on backplane), and one Gigabit Ethernet.
The dimension of ROBO-8122VG2R is defined the same as standard PICMG 1.3 SHB, but w/the different golden finger pin definition on section D. It can
provide customers 2nd PCIEx16 lanes route to backplane to save the PCIE switch cost. For Data Center storage application, the system emphasizes not only
memory capacity but also the speed and performance on PCIE lanes. ROBO-8122VG2R can use with dedicated backplanes, such as PBPE-04P/05P and
PBPE-06A/07A/08A, to generate more PCIE Gen 3 lanes for I/O cards, GPU cards, and storage cards, and so on. It’s an ideal solution w/high power
consumption and performance.

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2 Specifications
Main Processor ◆Intel® Xeon E5-2600v3 and v4 Processors (up to 75W per CPU socket)
System BIOS ◆AMI UEFI BIOS
Main Memory ◆Up to 256GB RDIMM DDR4 on two Long-DIMM sockets. Supports four channel DDR4
1866/2133 MHz SDRAM
Graphics ◆Controller: ASPEED AST1400
◆VGA: Resolution up to 1920 x 1200 @ 60Hz
Expansion Interface ◆From CPU: 1x PCI Express x16 or 2x PCI Express x8 or 1x PCI Express x8 + 2x PCI Express x4 by bios setting from each CPU (Gen3 up to 8.0 GT/s)
◆From PCH: 1x PCI Express x4 or 4x PCI Express x1 by different bios support (Gen 3 up to 8.0 GT/s)
SATA Interface ◆Four SATA III ports (SATA 6Gb/s), dual ports via backplane
Input/Output
◆Serial Ports: 2x Tx/Rx two pins header on BP
◆USB Port: 2x USB 3.0 on bracket, 4x USB 2.0 ports through backplane
◆GPIO connector: N/A
◆Audio Interface: N/A
Ethernet
◆Supports dual 10/100/1000 Mbps Ethernet port (s) via PCI Express x1 interface by Intel WGI217LM
and WGI210AT controller
◆One RJ45 connector on bracket
◆The other LAN port route to gold finger section C (w/o LAN LED support)
High Drive GPIO ◆N/A

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Mechanical and
environmental specifications
◆Operating temperature: 0 ~ 50° C (for 75W CPU limitation)
◆Storage temperature:-20 ~ 80° C
◆Humidity: 5 ~ 90% non-condensing
◆Power supply voltage: ATX
◆Board size: 338.5mm x 126.39mm, 13.33" (L) x 4.98" (W)
2.1 Supported Operating Systems
The ROBO-8122VG2R supports the following operating systems.
Windows Server support
Linux support

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2.2 Mechanical Dimensions

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2.3 Power Consumption
CPU T
yp
e Intel® Xeon® CPU E5-2648Lv3
@
1.80GHz *2
SBC BIOS Portwell, Inc. ROBO-8122VG2AR TESTBIOS (61208T00)
Memory VENTURADDR4 RDIMM 2133/32GB *8
VGACard OnboardASPEED Graphics Family(WDDM)
VGADriver ASPEED Graphics Family(WDDM) ,Version:9.0.10.101
LAN Card Onboard Intel® Ethernet Connection I217-LM
LAN Driver Intel® Ethernet Connection I217-LM ,Version:12.6.47.1
LAN Card #2 Onboard Intel® I210 Gigabit Network Connection
LAN Driver #2 Intel® I210 Gigabit Network Connection ,Version:12.6.47.1
Chip Driver Intel® Chipset Device Software ,Version:10.1.2.10
USB2.0 Driver Intel® C610 series/X99chipset USB Enhance Host Controller ,Version: 10.1.210
USB3.0 Driver Intel® USB 3.0 eXtensible Host Controller – 0100 (Microsoft) , Version: 6.3.9600.16384
CDROM DVR-S21LBK
Power Supply PLUTO-D3501JP
Carrier Board PBPE-08A

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Power consumption
Item Power ON Full Loading 10Min Full Loading 30Min
CPU +12V 6.8A 7.0A 7.0A
System +12V 7.1A 6.5A 6.5A
System +3.3V 3.8A 2.8A 2.8A
System +5V 0.3A 0.2A 0.1A
System+ Device +12V 8.0A 7.3A 6.9A
System+ Device +5V 1.0A 0.9A 0.4A
USB 3.0 Loading Test 4.83V/ 960 mA
USB 2.0 Loading Test 4.96V/ 500 mA
2.4 Environmental Specifications
Storage Temperature : -20~80°C
Operation Temperature : 0~50°C (up to 75W CPU limitation per socket)
Storage Humidity : 5~90%
Operation Humidity: 10~90%

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Block Diagram

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3 Hardware Configuration
3.1 Jumpers and Connectors
This chapter indicates jumpers’, headers’and connectors’ locations. Users may find useful information related to hardware settings in this chapter.
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3.2 Jumpers Settings
For users to customize ROBO-8122VG2R’s features. In the following sections, Shortmeans covering a jumper cap over jumper pins; Open or N/C (Not
Connected) means removing a jumper cap from jumper pins. Users can refer to Figure 1 for the Jumper allocations.
Jumper Table
The jumper settings are schematically depicted in this manual as follows:
Jump Function List:
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Jump Function Remark
JP1 BUZZER Header 2Px1 P=2.0mm
JP2 SMBUS Header3Px1/2mm
JP3 SECURITY Override for ME Header2Px1/2.54mm
J3 Clear CMOS Header 3Px1 P=2.54mm

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JP1: BUZZER
JP2: SMBUS
JP3: ME Disable
PIN No. Signal Description
1 +5V
2 BUZZER
PIN No. Signal Description
1 SMBus_CLK
2 SMBus_DAT
3 GND
PIN No. Signal Description
Open Not Override ★
1-2 shorts SECURITY Override for ME