Advantech PPC-A84 - Manuals

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Contents Chapter 1 General Information ................................. 1 1 . 1 Introduction .................................................................. 2 1 . 2 Specifications ............................................................... 3General ..............................................

Chapter 8 Award BIOS Setup ................................. 87 8 . 1 Award BIOS Setup .................................................... 8 8 8 . 2 CMOS Setup Utility .................................................. 8 8 8 . 3 Standard CMOS Setup ............................................. 8 98...

Tables Table 3-1: Jumpers and their functions .................................................................. 36Table 3-2: Panel PC connectors .............................................................................. 37Table 3-3: Wake-on LAN selection (JP1) .....................................

Figures Figure 1-1: Front view of the PPC-A84 .................................................................... 7Figure 1-2: Dimensions of the PPC-A84 ................................................................... 8Figure 1-3: Dimensions of cutout and panel mounting holes ......................

1 General Information This chapter gives backgroundinformation on the PPC-A84 Sections include: • Introduction • Specifications • Front View • Dimensions • Cutout Dimensions • Panel Mounting • Universal Mounting Arm CHAPTER

Chapter 1 General Information 3 1.2 Specifications General • Construction: Aluminium die-cast housing with a plastic front mask • Dimensions (W x H x D): 271x 212 x 84.4 mm (10.67"x 8.35" x 3.32") • Weight: 3.4 kg (7.5 lbs) • Free air cooling cause no fan noise • Resistive touchscreen fr...

4 PPC-A84 User's Manual • Audio chip: AD1819A, fully compliant AC 97 analog I/O compo- nent,16-bit stereo full-duplex codec, audio interface for Micro-phone-in, line-in and speaker-out. • PCI Ethernet chip: Realtek RTL8139 PCI local bus Ethernet controller full compliance with IEEE 802.3u 10/100 Bas...

Chapter 1 General Information 5 Notes: The 24V DC power module is standard, while the 12V DC power module is optional upon the custom- ers' requrement. • Actuation force: 10 grams for stylus pen, 30-45 grams for finger • Operating temperature: -20 ~ +60° C • Controller: PS/2 interface • Power consum...

6 PPC-A84 User's Manual PCMCIA module (Optional) • Chipset: TI PCI1225 • 1997 PC Card™ Standard Compliant • Supports two PC Card or CardBus slots with hot insertion and removal. • Mixed-and-match 5 V/3.3 V 16-bit PC Cards and 3.3 V CardBus slots • PCI local bus specification revison 2.2 compliant No...

Chapter 1 General Information 7 1.3 Front View The front view of the PPC-A84 is shown below: P o w e rI n d i c a t o r Figure 1-1: Front view of the PPC-A84

Chapter 1 General Information 9 1.5 Cutout Dimensions(Suggestion) The PPC-A84 will stand on a shelf or a table, or you can mount it intoa panel. Cutout panel dimensions are the following: Figure 1-3: Dimensions of cutout and panel mounting holes

10 PPC-A84 User's Manual 1.6 Panel Mounting If you decide to panel mount your PPC-A84, Please find four screwsand four nuts in the accessory box. To mount the PPC-A84 into a panel: 1. Removed the four caps from the front mask. 2. Insert the screws from the front side into the holes and tighten then ...

2 System Setup • A Quick Tour of the Panel PC • Preparing for First-time Usage • Installation Procedure • Installing I/O Equipment • How to Install the software to HDD • Running the BIOS Setup Program • Installing the System Software • Installing the Drivers CHAPTER

14 PPC-A84 User's Manual 2.1 A Quick Tour of the Panel PC Before you start to set up the panel PC, take a moment to become familiarwith the locations and purposes of the controls, drives, connectors and ports,which are illustrated in the figures below. When you place the panel PC upright on the desk...

Chapter 2 System Setup 15 When you look at the top side of the panel PC, you will see two door for DCpower supply, hard disk drive, and PCMCIA expansion sockets, as shown inFig. 2-2. Figure 2-2: Top side view of the panel PC

16 PPC-A84 User's Manual When you turn the panel PC around and look at its rear cover, you will findthe FDD/IDE expansion connectors located in the center side. These connec-tors are covered by a metal cover. The sunken I/O section is at the bottomof the panel PC, as shown in Fig. 2-3 and Fig.2-4. (...

Chapter 2 System Setup 19 2.2 Preparing For First-time Usage Before you start to set up the panel PC system, you should have at least thefollowing items ready: • Power inlet cable (in the accessory box) • Male contact pin x 3 and female contact pin x 3 (in the accessory box) • A pair of DC power ins...

20 PPC-A84 User's Manual 2.3.2 Connecting the insulator to your power sources There are three male contact pins, three female contact pins and a pair ofinsulators in the accessory box. The installation procedure is described asfollows: STEP 1. Connect the three contact pins individually to the negat...

Chapter 2 System Setup 21 STEP 4: Use the metal plate and the two screws to secure the cables to the bottom tray. Please refer to the illustration above. Bottom tray Metal plate STEP 3 : Mount the front part of the male insulator onto the bottom tray.

22 PPC-A84 User's Manual Upper cap STEP 5 : Attach the upper cap to the bottom tray and secure it with the screws. STEP 6 : Now that you have completed the assembly of the male insulator, plug it into the female insulator.

Chapter 2 System Setup 23 2.3.3 Installing a primary 2.5" HDD (plug-in) You can attach one enhanced Integrated Device Electronics (IDE) hard diskdrive to the PPC-A84's internal controller which uses a PCI local-businterface. The advanced IDE controller supports faster data transfer rates andallo...

Chapter 2 System Setup 25 2.4 Installing I/O Equipment 2.4.1 Installing one external IDE (3.5" HDD/CD-ROM) deviceand an external FDD Three connectors are located on the rear panel above the PPC-A84's I/Ooutput connectors. The 40-pin connector is for an external slave IDE devices(3.5 hard drive o...

Chapter 2 System Setup 27 2.4.4 External VGA The PPC-A84 can be connected to an external CRT monitor. To connect anexternal CRT monitor, connect the monitor's VGA cable to the PPC-A84'sVGA port and connect the monitor's power cable to an AC outlet. The PPC-A84's external CRT display (VGA) connector ...

Chapter 2 System Setup 29 2.5 How to Install Software to the HDD Installing software requires an installed HDD. Software can be loaded in thePPC-A84 using any of four methods: 2.5.1 Method 1: Use the Ethernet You can use the Ethernet port to download software to the HDD. 2.5.2 Method 2: Use an FDD T...

30 PPC-A84 User's Manual 2.6 Running the BIOS Setup Program Your panel PC is likely to have been properly set up and configured by yourdealer prior to delivery. You may still find it necessary to use the panel PC'sBIOS (Basic Input-Output System) setup program to change system configu-ration informa...

Chapter 2 System Setup 31 The BIOS of the panel PC supports system boot-up directly from theCD-ROM drive. You may also insert your system installation CD-ROM intothe CD-ROM drive. Refer to Chapter 8 - BIOS Setup if you wish to changethe BIOS settings. Power on your panel PC or reset the system by pr...

36 PPC-A84 User's Manual 3.3 Jumpers and Connectors 3.3.1 Setting jumpers You can configure your panel PC to match the needs of your applicationby setting jumpers. A jumper is the simplest kind of electrical switch. Itconsists of two metal pins and a small metal clip (often protected by aplastic cov...

Chapter 3 The Engine of PPC-A84T (PCM-5821) 39 3.3.4 Locating jumpers and connectors NS GXmprocessor ChipsetCx5530 Buzzer enable (JP10) Brightness VR(JS2) Power Fanpower connector(CN6) Power type of Lan (JP1) Primary IDE Connector (J3) CD IN connector(CN3) Power test connector (PS1) CPU Fanpowerconn...

Chapter 3 The Engine of PPC-A84T (PCM-5821) 41 3.4 Wake on LAN Selection (Reserved) (JP1) The PCM-5821 provides Wake-on LAN function when ATX power is used.To enable Wake-on LAN function, the JP1 should be set as shown below: Table 3-3: Wake-on LAN selection (JP1) *Normal Power Wake-on LAN * default...

42 PPC-A84 User's Manual 3.6.1 Watchdog activity selection (JP2) When the watchdog timer activates (i.e. CPU processing has come to a halt),it can reset the system or generate an interrupt on IRQ11. This can be set viajumper JP2 as shown below: Table3-5: Watchdog activity selection (JP2) System rese...

Chapter 3 The Engine of PPC-A84T (PCM-5821) 43 3.8 Buzzer enable (JP10) Table 3-8: Buzzer enable (JP10) *Enable Disable * default setting

46 PPC-A84 User's Manual 4.1 Introduction The PPC-A84 is equipped with a high performance 32-bit Ethernet chipsetwhich is fully compliant with IEEE 802.3 100 Mbps CSMA/CD standards. Itis supported by major network operating systems. It is also both 100Base-Tand 10Base-T compatible. The medium type c...

Chapter 4 PCI Bus Ethernet Interface 55 4.3 Further Information Realtek web site: www.realtek.com.tw Advantech web site: www.advantech.com www.advantech.com.tw

5 PCI SVGA Setup • Introduction • Installation of SVGA Driver - Installation for WINDOWS 95 - Installation for WINDOWS 98- Installation for WINDOWS NT • Further Information CHAPTER

58 PPC-A84 User's Manual 5.1 Introduction The PPC-A84 has an on-board PCI flat panel/VGA interface. The specifica-tions and features are described as follows: 5.1.1 Chipset The PPC-A84 Series uses a NS CX5530 chipset for its SVGA controller. Itsupports many popular 18-bit LCD displays and convention...

Chapter 5 PCI SVGA Audio Setup 59 Note1: The following windows illustrations are examples only. You must follow the flow char t instructions and pay attention tothe instructions which then appear on your screen. Note2: The CD-ROM drive is disgnated as "D" throughout this chapter. Note3: <...

Chapter 5 PCI SVGA Audio Setup 63 6 . C l i c k " F i n i s h " t o c o m p l e t e i n s t a l l a t i o n . 5 . F o l l o w i n g t h e i n s t r u c t i o n t o i n s e r t" W i n d o w s 9 8 C D - R O M ". E N D Note: A common driver for Windows98 is used on both SVGA and Audio. ...

66 PPC-A84 User's Manual 5.3 Further Information For further information about the PCI/SVGA and audio installation in yourPPC-A84, including driver updates, troubleshooting guides and FAQ lists,visit the following web resources: NS web site: www.nsc.com Advantech web sites: www.advantech.com www.adv...

6 Touchscreen • Introduction • Installation of Touchscreen Driver - Installation for DOS - Installation for WINDOWS 95- Installation for WINDOWS 98- Installation for WINDOWS NT CHAPTER

7 Audio Setup • Introduction • Installation of Audio Driver - Installation for WINDOWS 95 - Installation for WINDOWS 98- Installation for WINDOWS NT • Further Information CHAPTER

78 PPC-A84T User's Manual 7.1 Introduction The PCM-5821 on-board audio interface provides high-quality stereo soundand FM music synthesis (ESFM) by using the NS CX5530 audio controllerfrom National Semiconductor Corporation. The audio interface can record,compress, and play back voice, sound, and mu...

Chapter 5 PCI SVGA Audio Setup 79 7.2.1 Installation for Windows 95 a . R e m o v e i t e m s " P C I M u l t i m e d i a A u d i oD e v i c e " , a n d " U n k n o w nD e v i c e " f o l d e r o f D e v i c e a . S e l e c t " N o " , a n d t h e n c l i c k 1 . 2 . 3 . 4 . ...

Chapter 5 PCI SVGA Audio Setup 83 6 . C l i c k " F i n i s h " t o c o m p l e t e i n s t a l l a t i o n . 5 . F o l l o w i n g t h e i n s t r u c t i o n t o i n s e r t" W i n d o w s 9 8 C D - R O M ". E N D Note: A common driver for WINDOWS 98 is used on both SVGA and Audio....

86 PPC-A84T User's Manual 7 . a . P r e s s t h e " R e s t a r t N o w " b u t t o n t o r e b o o t y o u r c o m p u t e r . E N D 7.3 Further Information For further information about the audio installation in your PPC-A84,including driver updates, troubleshooting guides and FAQ lists, v...

8 Award BIOS Setup This chapter describes how to set BIOSconfiguration data. CHAPTER

88 PPC-A84T User's Manual 8.1 Award BIOS Setup The PPC-A84 comes with an Award BIOS chip that contains the ROM setupfor your system. This chip serves as an interface between the processor andthe rest of the mainboard's components. This chapter explains the informa-tion contained in the setup program...

Chapter 8 Award BIOS Setup 89 A setup program, built into the system BIOS, is stored in the CMOS RAMthat allows the configuration settings to be changed. This program is execut-ed when the user changes the system configuration; when the user changesthe system backup battery; or when the system detec...

Chapter 8 Award BIOS Setup 91 8.4 BIOS Features Setup Figure 8-3: BIOS features setup screen Moving around the BIOS Features and Chipset Features setup programsworks the same way as moving around the Standard CMOS setupprogram. (Refer to the next section for Chipset Features setup.) The BIOSFeatures...

92 PPC-A84T User's Manual Q u i c k P o w e r O n S e l f T Q u i c k P o w e r O n S e l f T Q u i c k P o w e r O n S e l f T Q u i c k P o w e r O n S e l f T Q u i c k P o w e r O n S e l f Te s t e s t e s t e s t e s t When enabled, allows the BIOS to bypass the extensive memory test. The opti...

Chapter 8 Award BIOS Setup 93 TTTTTypematic Rate (Chars/Sec) ypematic Rate (Chars/Sec) ypematic Rate (Chars/Sec) ypematic Rate (Chars/Sec) ypematic Rate (Chars/Sec) Sets the rate of a character repeat when the key is held down. The options are: 6 (Default), 8, 10, 12, 15, 20, 24, 30. TTTTTypematic D...

94 PPC-A84T User's Manual 8.5 Chipset Features Setup Figure 8-4: Chipset features setup screen 16-bit/8-bit I/ORecovery (CLK) 16-bit/8-bit I/ORecovery (CLK) 16-bit/8-bit I/ORecovery (CLK) 16-bit/8-bit I/ORecovery (CLK) 16-bit/8-bit I/ORecovery (CLK) The options are: 1(Default), 2,...16 U S B C o n t...

Chapter 8 Award BIOS Setup 95 V i d e o M e m o r y S i z e V i d e o M e m o r y S i z e V i d e o M e m o r y S i z e V i d e o M e m o r y S i z e V i d e o M e m o r y S i z e The video memory size is set by the manufacturer, depend on how manyvideo memory on board. The options are: 1.5M (Defaul...

Chapter 8 Award BIOS Setup 97 Note: Under cer tain operating systems such as WINDOWS NT 4.0 (Build 1381), the CD auto-inser tion feature mighthave some effect on power management. It isrecommended that the CD-ROM drive use thesecondar y channel, and that the following PowerManagement Setup features ...

98 PPC-A84T User's Manual R e s e t C o n f i g u r a t i o n D a t a R e s e t C o n f i g u r a t i o n D a t a R e s e t C o n f i g u r a t i o n D a t a R e s e t C o n f i g u r a t i o n D a t a R e s e t C o n f i g u r a t i o n D a t a When enabled, this feature allows the system to clear ...

Chapter 8 Award BIOS Setup 99 The BIOS defaults screen contains the most appropriate values of the systemparameters that allow minimum system performance. 8.9 Load Setup Defaults Selecting this field loads the factory defaults for BIOS and Chipset Features.The system will automatically detect these ...

100 PPC-A84T User's Manual IDE HDD Block Mode IDE HDD Block Mode IDE HDD Block Mode IDE HDD Block Mode IDE HDD Block Mode This allows your hard disk controller to use the fast block mode to transferdata to and from your hard disk drive (HDD). The options are: Enabled (Default), Disabled. I D E P r i...

Chapter 8 Award BIOS Setup 101 W D T A c t i v e W h e n P o w e r O N W D T A c t i v e W h e n P o w e r O N W D T A c t i v e W h e n P o w e r O N W D T A c t i v e W h e n P o w e r O N W D T A c t i v e W h e n P o w e r O N This is Advantech's patented watchdog function which can reboot thesy...

Chapter 8 Award BIOS Setup 103 Figure 8-9: Save and exit setup screen After you have made changes in the BIOS setup, press "Esc" to return to themain menu. Move the cursor to "Save and Exit Setup", or press "F10" andthen press "Y", to change the CMOS Setup. If you did...

106 A.1 Programming the Watchdog Timer To program the watchdog timer, you must write a program whichwrites I/O port address 443 (hex). The output data is a time intervalvalue. The value range is from 01 (hex) to 3E (hex), and the relatedtime interval is from 1 sec. to 62 sec. Data Time Interval 01 1...

110 PPC-123 User’s Manual B.1 Full Disassembly Procedures If you want to completely disassemble the panel PC, follow thestep-by-step procedures below. Users should be aware that AdvantechCo., Ltd. takes no responsibility whatsoever for any problems ordamage caused by the user disassembly of the pane...

Appendix C Full Disassembly Procedures 113 Figure B-2: Disassembly steps 5 - 7 CPU board bracket Inverter Motherboard Touchscreen control board bracket Touchscreen control board Step 5 Step 6 and Step 7

114 PPC-123 User’s Manual 8. Remove the front bezel carefully by a flat screwdriver. 9. Unscrew the six screws on the LCD holding plate to seperate theLCD cabinet and LCD holding plate. 10. Detach the LCD cabinet. 11. Detach the LCD by unscrewing the four screws located on each of the corners. 12. T...

Pin Assignments • Inverter Power Connector (J1) • Flat Panel Display Connector (J2) • Primary IDE Connector (J3) • Keyboard Connector (J4) • Internal Touchscreen Connector (J5) • CompactFlash™ Disk Secondary IDE Connector (CN2) • CD IN (CN3) • Power Fan Power Connector (CN6) • External KBT2 (CN7) • ...

Appendix D Pin Assignments 119 29 P14 30 P15 31 P16 32 P17 33 GND 34 GND 35 SHFCLK 36 FLM 37 M/DE 38 LP 39 EVEN CLK 40 ENABKL C.3 Primary IDE Connector (J3) 4 4 4 4 3 3 4 2 4 1 1 2 Table C-3: Primary IDE connector (J3) Pin Signal Pin Signal 1 IDE RESET # 2 GND 3 DATA 7 4 DATA 8 5 DATA 6 6 DATA 9 7 D...

120 PPC-A84 User’s Manual 27 HD READY 28 Cable Select 29 HDACK 0 # 30 GND 31 IRQ14 32 N/C 33 ADDR 1 34 N/C 35 ADDR 0 36 ADDR 2 37 HDD SELECT 0 # 38 HDD SELECT 1 # 39 IDE ACTIVE 0 # 40 GND 41 V CC 42 V CC 43 GND 44 N/C # low active C.4 Keyboard Connector (J4) Table C-4: Keyboard Connector (J4) Pin Si...

Appendix D Pin Assignments 121 C.5 Internal Touchscreen Connector(J5) Table C-5: Internal Touchscreen Connector (J5) Pin Signal 1 -DCD4 2 -DSR4 3 RX4B 4 -RTS4 5 TX4 6 -CTS4 7 -DTR4 8 -R14 9 GND 10 GND 11 PC_MSDAT 12 EXT_MSDAT 13 PC_MSCLK 14 EXT_MSCLK 15 V CC 16 V CC 2 1 5 1 6 1 4 3 1 3 1 4

122 PPC-A84 User’s Manual C.6 ComapctFlash™ Disk Secondary IDE Connector (CN2) Table C-6: CompactFlash™ Disk Secondary IDE Connector (CN2) Pin Signal Pin Signal 1 GND 26 GND 2 DATA3 27 DATA11 3 DATA4 28 DATA12 4 DATA5 29 DATA13 5 DATA6 30 DATA14 6 DATA7 31 DATA15 7 -CS0S 32 -CS1S 8 NC 33 NC 9 GND 34...

Appendix D Pin Assignments 125 5 4 2 3 1 6 C.11 Power Switch Connector (CN10) Table C-11: Power Switch Connector (CN10) Pin Signal 1 V CC 2 GND 3 SUS_LED 4 -FPRST 5 -FPSW 6 -FPSLP C.12 Speaker and Microphone Connector (CN20) Table C-12: Speaker and Microphone Connector (CN20) Pin Signal 1 LINOUT_L 2...

128 PPC-A84 User’s Manual C.15 External IDE Connector Table C-15: External IDE connector Pin Signal Pin Signal 1 IDE RESET# 2 GND 3 DATA7 4 DATA8 5 DATA6 6 DATA9 7 DATA5 8 DATA10 9 DATA4 10 DATA11 11 DATA3 12 DATA12 13 DATA2 14 DATA13 15 DATA1 16 DATA14 17 DATA0 18 DATA15 19 SIGNAL GND 20 N/C 21 HDD...

Appendix D Pin Assignments 129 C.16 External Floopy Drive Connector Table C-16: External floppy drive connector Pin Signal Pin Signal 1 GND 2 DENSITY SELECT* 3 GND 4 N/C 5 GND 6 DRIVE TYPE 7 GND 8 INDEX* 9 GND 10 MOTOR 0* 11 GND 12 DRIVE SELECT 1* 13 GND 14 DRIVE SELECT 0* 15 GND 16 MOTOR 1* 17 GND ...

130 PPC-A84 User’s Manual C.17 External FDD and HDD Power Connector Table C-17: External FDD and HDD Power Connector Pin Signal 1 +12 V 2 GND 3 GND 4 V CC C.18 System I/O ports Table C-18: System I/O ports Addr. range (Hex) Device 000-01F DMA controller 020-021 Interrupt controller 1, master 022-023...