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Manual P/N MAN-0CM33-001 Designed, and Manufactured specifically for Mitsubishi Electric Automation, Inc., by AVG Mitsubishi Electric Automation, Inc. (MEAU) 500 Corporate Woods Parkway, Vernon Hills, IL 60061 Phone: (847) 478-2100 • Fax: (847) 478-2253 • www.meauic.com AVG Automation Mitsubishi Approved IC Service Center 4140 Utica Ridge Rd.
Introduction Safety Precautions ................2 Technical Support ................. 2 Features and Specifications ..............3 CHAPTER 2 HARDWARE INSTALLATION CM33-TL System Board Layout ............7 System Memory ..................8 Jumpers ..................9 Jumper Settings for Clearing the CMOS Data ......9 Jumper Settings for Selecting the USB Power ......
CONTENTS APPENDIX B TROUBLESHOOTING Troubleshooting Checklist ..............B-1 Monitor/Display .................. B-1 Power Supply ..................B-2 Floppy Drive ..................B-2 Hard Drive ................... B-2 Parallel Port ................... B-2 Serial Port ................... B-3 Keyboard ................... B-3 System Board ................... B-3 MC Series Computer Products MAN-0CM33-001...
INTRODUCTION Manual Organization The table, below, provides an overall description of the topics covered within this manual. Chapters This chapter introduces you to the background of this Introduction manual, and the features and specifications for this system board. The final page of this chapter will indicate how to avoid damaging the Embedded CPU Card.
In keeping with these performance demands, the CM33-TL Embedded Sys- tem Board has been installed in your MC400 Series Industrial Node Computer. The CM33-TL is a Micro ATX Style CPU Card for a Single Intel Pentium ®...
INTRODUCTION Features and Specifications Features Processor: Pentium ® FCPGA2 133MHz FSB (1.13GHz-1.26GHz on 0.13 µ) FCPGA 133 MHz FSB (5.33EB-1GHz) System Memory: • Supports up to 1 GB using VCM (Virtual Channel Memory) or PC SDRAM DIMM (unbuffered or registered) •...
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INTRODUCTION • 2D hardware acceleration features • Motion video architecture • Software drivers — Windows 98/98SE/ME/2000/XP ® — Windows NT ® Onboard LAN Features • Uses Realtek RTL8100 fast ethernet controller • Integrated IEEE 802.3 10BASE-T and 100BASE-TX compatible • 32-bit PCI master interface •...
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INTRODUCTION • Bus mastering reduces CPU utilization during disk transfer • Supports ATAPI CD-ROM, LS-120 and ZIP USB Ports The system board supports 2 USB ports. Two onboard USB ports are located at the ATX double deck ports of the board. USB allow data exchange between your computer and a wide range of simultaneously accessible external Plug and Play peripherals.
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INTRODUCTION Dual Function Power Button Depending on the setting in the “Soft-Off by PWRBTN” field of the Power Man- agement Setup, this switch will allow the system to enter the Soft-Off or Sus- pend Mode. AC Power Failure Recovery When power returns after an AC power failure, you may choose to either power- on the system manually, let the system power-on automatically or return to the state where you left off before power failure occurred.
2 HARDWARE INSTALLATION WARNING: Electrostatic discharge (ESD) can damage your system board, processor, disk drives, add-in boards, and other components. Perform the upgrade instruction procedures described at an ESD workstation only. If such a station is not available, you can provide some ESD protection by wearing an antistatic wrist strap and attaching it to a metal part of the system chassis.
2 HARDWARE INSTALLATION JUMPERS Jumper Settings for Clearing the CMOS Data If you encounter the following: a) CMOS data becomes corrupted; b) Supervisor or User Password is for- gotten; c) Unable to boot-up the com- puter system because processor’s bus clock was incorrectly set in the BIOS, you can reconfigure the system with the default values stored in the ROM BIOS.
2 HARDWARE INSTALLATION Jumper Settings for Selecting the USB Power Power Select for USB 1 and 2 (JP1) and This jumper is used to select the power for the USB devices that are con- nected to the USB ports. MC Series Computer Products MAN-0CM33-001...
2 HARDWARE INSTALLATION PORTS AND CONNECTORS PS/2 Mouse and PS/2 Keyboard Ports The system board is equipped with onboard PS/2 Mouse (Green) and PS/2 Keyboard (Purple) ports — both at location J1 of the ATX double deck ports of the system board. The PS/2 mouse port uses IRQ12. If a mouse is not con- nected to this port, the system will reserve IRQ12 for other expansion cards.
2 HARDWARE INSTALLATION Parallel Port The system board has a standard parallel port (J9 - Burgundy) located at the ATX double deck ports of the board for interfacing your PC to a parallel printer. It supports Normal, ECP and EPP modes. You can set the port’s mode in the Integrated Peripherals submenu of the BIOS.
2 HARDWARE INSTALLATION Universal Serial Bus Ports The system board supports 2 USB ports. USB allows data exchange between your computer and a wide range of simultaneously accessible external Plug and Play peripherals. You must have the proper drivers installed in your oper- ating system to use the USB ports.
2 HARDWARE INSTALLATION VGA Port The system board can only be used with an analog video monitor. Connect the monitor’s 15-pin D-shell cable connector to the VGA port (J3 - Blue) lo- cated at the ATX double deck ports of the board. Some monitors have a switch that chooses between analog and TTL (or digital) operation.
2 HARDWARE INSTALLATION RJ45 Fast-Ethernet Port (CM33-TL) The system board is equipped with an onboard RJ45 fast-ethernet LAN port at location J8 of the ATX double deck ports. It allows the system board to con- nect to a local area network by means of a network hub.
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3 AWARD BIOS SETUP UTILITY Award BIOS Setup Utility Basic Input/Output System The Basic Input/Output System (BIOS) is a program that takes care of the basic level of communication between the processor and peripherals. In addi- tion, the BIOS also contains codes for various advanced features found in this system board.
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3 AWARD BIOS SETUP UTILITY Date The date format is <day>, <month>, <date>, <year>. Day displays a day, from Sunday to Saturday. Month displays the month, from January to December. Date displays the date, from 1 to 31. Year displays the year, from 1994 to 2079.
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3 AWARD BIOS SETUP UTILITY Capacity Displays the approximate capacity of the disk drive. Usually the size is slightly greater than the size of a formatted disk given by a disk checking program. Access Mode For hard drives larger than 528MB, you would typically select the LBA type.
3 AWARD BIOS SETUP UTILITY Base Memory Displays the amount of base (or conventional) memory installed in the system. The value of the base memory is typically 512K for system with 512K memory installed on the motherboard or 640K for system with 640K or more memory installed on the motherboard.
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3 AWARD BIOS SETUP UTILITY Virus Warning This field protects the boot sector and partition table of your hard disk drive. When this field is enabled, the Award BIOS will monitor the boot sector and partition table of the hard disk drive. If an attempt is made to write to the boot sector or partition table of the hard disk drive, the BIOS will halt the system and an error message will appear.
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3 AWARD BIOS SETUP UTILITY Swap Floppy Drive When this field is enabled and the system is booting from the floppy drive, the system will boot from drive B instead of drive A. When this option is disabled and the system is booting from the floppy drive, the system will boot from drive A.
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3 AWARD BIOS SETUP UTILITY System The system will not boot and access to Setup will be denied unless the correct password is entered at the prompt. Setup The system will boot, but access to Setup will be denied unless the correct password is entered at the prompt. OS Select for DRAM >...
3 AWARD BIOS SETUP UTILITY Advanced Chipset Features This section gives you functions to configure the system based on the specific features of the chipset. The chipset manages bus speeds and access to sys- tem memory resources. These items should not be altered unless neces- sary.
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3 AWARD BIOS SETUP UTILITY System BIOS Cacheable When this field is enabled, accesses to the system BIOS ROM addressed at F0000H-FFFFFH are cached, provided that the cache controller is enabled. The larger the range of the Cache RAM, the higher the efficiency of the sys- tem.
3 AWARD BIOS SETUP UTILITY Integrated Peripherals The screen above lists all the fields available in the Integrated Peripherals submenu for you to reference. In the actual CMOS setup, you must scroll to view all of the fields. The settings on the screen are for reference only — your version may not be identical to this one.
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3 AWARD BIOS SETUP UTILITY Auto The BIOS will automatically set the system according to your hard disk drive’s timing. Mode 0-4 You can select a mode that matches your hard disk drive’s timing. Caution: Do not use the wrong setting or you will have drive errors.
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3 AWARD BIOS SETUP UTILITY Onboard Parallel Port 378/IRQ7, 3BC/IRQ7, 278/IRQ5 Selects the I/O address and IRQ for the onboard parallel port Disabled Disables the onboard parallel port Parallel Port Mode The options are Normal, EPP, ECP and ECP/EOO. These apply to a standard specification and will depend on the type and speed of your device.
3 AWARD BIOS SETUP UTILITY Power Management Setup The Power Management Setup allows you to configure your system to most effectively save energy. ACPI Function This function should be enabled only in operating systems that support ACPI. Currently, only Windows ®...
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3 AWARD BIOS SETUP UTILITY HDD Power Down After the set time of system inactivity, the hard disk drive will be powered down while all other devices remain active. Doze Mode This is configurable only when the Power Management field is set to User Define.
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3 AWARD BIOS SETUP UTILITY V/H SYNC + Blank This will cause the system to turn off the vertical and horizontal synchronization ports and write blanks to the video buffer. Blank Screen This only writes blanks to the video buffer. DPMS Support Initializes display power management signaling.
3 AWARD BIOS SETUP UTILITY IRQs Activity Monitoring Move the cursor to this field and press <Enter>. The “Primary INTR” field, when set to On will allow the system to respond and wake up to an IRQ activity that has been detected. When any of the “IRQ3” to “IRQ15” fields is enabled, access to the specified IRQ will cause the system to wake up completely from the power management mode.
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3 AWARD BIOS SETUP UTILITY IRQ Resources Move the cursor to this field and press <Enter>. The “IRQ-3” to “IRQ-15” fields will appear. Set each system interrupt to either Legacy ISA or PCI/ISA PnP. PCI/ISA PnP For devices compliant with the PCI bus architecture. Legacy ISA For devices compliant with the original PC AT bus specification.
3 AWARD BIOS SETUP UTILITY PC Health Status Current CPU Temperature, Current System Temp., Current CPU Fan Speed and Current Chassis Fan Speed These fields show the current temperature of the CPU, Internal temperature of the system, and the current fan speed of the CPU and chassis fans in RPM (Revolutions per Minute).
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3 AWARD BIOS SETUP UTILITY CPU Fan Protection The CPU Fan Protection function, when enabled, has the capability of monitor- ing the CPU fan during system boot-up and will automatically power-off the system once it has detected that the CPU fan did not rotate. Set this field to disabled if you are not using this function.
3 AWARD BIOS SETUP UTILITY Frequency/Voltage Control Auto Detect DIMM/PCI Clk When enabled, the system will automatically send clock signals to exiting DIMM or PCI devices. Spread Spectrum Modulated Leave this field in its default setting. Do not alter this setting unless advised by an engineer or technician.
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3 AWARD BIOS SETUP UTILITY Load Optimized Defaults This option loads optimal settings from the BIOS ROM. Use the default values as standard values for your system. Highlight this option in the main menu and press <Enter>. The message below will appear. Load Optimized Defaults (Y/N)? N Type <Y>...
3 AWARD BIOS SETUP UTILITY Save & Exit Setup When all the changes have been made, highlight “Save & Exit Setup” and press <Enter>. The message shown below will appear: Save to CMOS and Exit (Y/N)? N Type “Y” and press <Enter>. The modifications you have made will be written into the CMOS memory, and the system will reboot.
4 SUPPORTED SOFTWARE Supported Software (included on CD shipped with unit) VIA Hardware Monitor The system board comes with the VIA Hardware Monitor utility available on the CD that was provided with your unit. It is capable of monitoring the system’s hardware conditions such as the temperature of the CPU and system, voltage, and speed of the CPU and chassis fans.
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APPENDIX A - SYSTEM ERROR MESSAGES System Error Messages When the BIOS encounters an error that requires the user to correct some- thing, either a beep code will sound or a message will be displayed in a box in themiddle of the screen and the message, PRESS F1 TO CONTINUE, CTRL- ALT-ESC or DEL TO ENTER SETUP, will be shown in the information box at the bottom.
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APPENDIX A - SYSTEM ERROR MESSAGES Hard Disk(s) fail (80) HDD reset failed. Hard Disk(s) fail (40) HDD controller diagnostics failed. Hard Disk(s) fail (20) HDD initialization error. Hard Disk(s) fail (10) Unable to recalibrate fixed disk. Hard Disk(s) fail (08) Sector Verify failed.
APPENDIX B - TROUBLESHOOTING Troubleshooting Troubleshooting Checklist This section of the manual is designed to help you with problems that you may encounter with your computer. To efficiently troubleshoot your system, treat each problem individually. This is to ensure an accurate diagnosis of the prob- lem in case a problem has multiple causes.
APPENDIX B - TROUBLESHOOTING The screen seems to be constantly wavering. If the monitor is close to another montiro, the adjacent monitor may need to be turned off. Fluorescent lights adjacent to the montior may also cause screen wavering. Power Supply When the computer is turned on, nothing happens.
APPENDIX B - TROUBLESHOOTING Verify that the onboard LPT port’s I/O address and IRQ settings are configured correctly. Verify that the attached device works by attaching it to a parallel port that is working and configured correctly. If it works, the printer can be assumed to be in good condition.
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