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FabiaTech FX5503 User Manual

Manual is about: Fanless Series Small Cube System

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    Fabiatech corporation ipc solution website: http:// www.Fabiatech.Com email: support@fabiatech.Com small cube system fanless series fx5503 user’s manual fab 2006 version: 1.0 part number: fx5503.

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    Ii copyright ©copyright 2006fabiatech corporation, the content of this publication may not be reproduced in any part or as a whole, transcribed, stored in a retrieval system, translated into any language, or transcribed in any form or by any means, electronic, mechanical, and magnetic… or otherwise ...

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    Iii table of contents small cube system ....................................................................................................................I fanless series..............................................................................................................................I ...

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    Iv hardware monitor setup.......................................................................................................37 password setup .......................................................................................................................38 chapter 4 software installation....

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    Fabiatech corporation 1 chapter 1 introducing the fx5503 system overview the fx5503 is a compact size embedded system with low-power pentium ii grade cpu module inside. This user’s manual provides information on the physical features, installation, and bios setup of the fx5503. Built to unleash the ...

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    Fabiatech corporation 2 series comparison table model fx5503 processor intel (ulv) power cpu-650mhz so-dimm (max/standard.) 512mb/ 256mb crt vga yes watchdog timer yes multi i/o four rs232 enhanced ide one usb 1.1 two audio mic-in/ audio out rj45 port (10/100mbps) two ide cf socket one power connect...

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    Fabiatech corporation 3 2 3 4 ~ 1 layout.

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    Fabiatech corporation 4 specifications processor board – 650 mhz intel ultra low power cpu with 256mb sdram i/o outlets – two 100/10 base-tx ethernet ports. Four rs-232c ports and two usb 1.1 ports. One crt and one ps/2 compatible keyboard/mouse interface. One audio mic-in and one audio line-out ear...

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    Fabiatech corporation 5 packing list upon receiving the package, verify the following things. Should any of the mentioned happens, contact us for immediate service. • unpack and inspect the fx5503 package for possible damage that may occur during the delivery process. • verify the accessories in the...

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    Fabiatech corporation 7 chapter 2 hardware installation this chapter introduces the system connectors & jumper settings, and guides you to apply them for field application. Before installation before you install the system, make sure you follow the following descriptions. 1. Before removing the cove...

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    Fabiatech corporation 8 connecting the dc power jack, power switch power is supplied through an external ac/dc power adapter. Check the technical specification section for information about ac/dc power input voltage. Since the switch does include a power switch, plugging its power adapter into a pow...

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    Fabiatech corporation 9 note: use caution when handling the hard disk to prevent damage to ide connector as you insert hard disk. Gently slide the hard disk into the ide and stop when you feel resistance. Installing/ejecting 2.5” hdd if you are installing hardware option, you can remove the front co...

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    Fabiatech corporation 10 ejecting hdd–depend on screwdriver if you are removing hdd option, you can use i-type screwdriver or equivalent as shown on right-down figure and push ahead to eject the hard disk with guiders connecting the monitor, keyboard, mouse connect the monitor, keyboard and mouse to...

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    Fabiatech corporation 11 connecting the com1~com4 ports uses include com port adapter cable to transfer to standard 9-pin female d-sub connector for com3/com4 ports connecting the lan ports and usb ports the rj45 connector with 2 led’s for lan. The left side led (orange) indicates data is being acce...

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    Fabiatech corporation 12 note: the compact flash socket (on the fx5503) supports 3.3v compact flash and micro drives. The fx5503 supports a dual port usb connector. Any usb device can be attached to usb ports with plug-and-play supported. The left side port is usb #1 and the right side port is usb #...

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    Fabiatech corporation 13 installing additional memory: sodimm socket for sdram modules you may extend additional memory to fx5503, remove the backside cover, see as following figure and rear pictures. The dimm socket supports 128mb to 512mb of sdram modules..

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    Fabiatech corporation 14 installing mini pci card: mini pci socket for wlan modules you may extend additional mini pci wlan module to fx5503, remove the backside cover, and see as following figure and backside pictures. Release the screws on the bottom of the unit. (please see the spots circled.) re...

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    Fabiatech corporation 15 caution: be very carefulled guide when handling and moving cover. Removing front/top covers: release the screws the following figure will guide you how to release the front screws hard disk installing mini pci card.

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    Fabiatech corporation 16 installing the antenna connect the antenna cable from backside antenna hold to mini pci wlan (the auxiliary board). Please see the figure guide..

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    Fabiatech corporation 17 chapter 3 bios setup this chapter describes the bios setup. Overview the bios are a program located on a flash memory chip on a circuit board. It is used to initialize and set up the i/o peripherals and interface cards of the system, which includes time, date, hard disk driv...

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    Fabiatech corporation 18 bios functions on the menu, you can perform the following functions 1. Standard cmos setup 2. Advanced cmos setup 3. Advanced chipset setup 4. Power management setup 5. Pci/ plug and play setup 6. Peripheral setup 7. Hardware monitor setup 8. Auto-detect hard disks 9. Change...

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    Fabiatech corporation 19 keyboard convention on the bios, the following keys can be used to operate and manage the menu: item function esc to exit the current menu or message page up/page down to select a parameter f1 to display the help menu if you do not know the purpose or function of the item yo...

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    Fabiatech corporation 20 standard cmos setup this section describes basic system hardware configuration, system clock setup and error handling. If the cpu board is already installed in a working system, you will not need to select this option anymore. Date & time setup highlight the field and then p...

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    Fabiatech corporation 21 hard disk setup the bios supports various types for user settings, the bios supports , slave>, and so the user can install up to four hard disks. For the master and slave jumpers, please refer to the hard disk’s installation descriptions and the hard disk jumper settings. Yo...

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    Fabiatech corporation 22 advanced cmos setup this section describes the configuration entries that allow you to improve your system performance, or let you set up some system features according to your preference. Some entries here are required by the cpu board’s design to remain in their default se...

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    Fabiatech corporation 23 1 st –3 rd boot device these fields determine where the system attempts to look for the boot drive priority for an operating system. The default procedure is to check the hard disk, and then the floppy drive, and last the cdrom. Available options: disabled, ide0-1, ide-2, id...

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    Fabiatech corporation 24 boot up num-lock this field is used to activate the num lock function upon system boot. If the setting is on, after a boot, the num lock light is lit, and user can use the number key. Available options: on, off default setting: on floppy drive swap the field reverses the dri...

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    Fabiatech corporation 25 default setting: absent primary display the field specifies the type of monitor installed in the system. Available options: absent, vga/ega, cga40x25, cga80x25, and mono default setting: absent password check this field enables password checking every time the computer is po...

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    Fabiatech corporation 26 it will prevent the message from appearing on the first bios screen when the computer boots. Available options: disabled, enabled default setting: enabled c000, 32k shadow - e800, 32k shadow these fields control the location of the contents of the 32kb of rom beginning at th...

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    Fabiatech corporation 27 advanced chipset setup this section describes the configuration of the board’s chipset features. Configure sdram timing by spd spd represents serial presence detect. It is an 8-bit, 2048 bits eeprom, built on the sdram for 100 mhz frequencies. If the installed sdram supports...

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    Fabiatech corporation 28 agp mode this field select agp transfers video data. Available options: 1x, 2x and 4x default setting: 4x agp aperture size this field specifies the system memory size that can be used by the accelerated graphics port (agp). Available options: 4mb, 8mb, 16mb, 32mb, 64mb, 128...

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    Fabiatech corporation 29 onchip vga frame buffers size this field is share memory architecture (sma) for frame buffer memory. Sma allows system memory to be efficiently share by the host cpu and allocated depending on user preference, application requirements, and total size of system memory. Availa...

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    Fabiatech corporation 30 power management power management /apm select enabled to activate the chipset power management and apm (advanced power management) features. Available options: disabled, enabled default setting: enabled video power down mode this field specifies the power conserving state th...

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    Fabiatech corporation 31 standby time out (minute) this field specifies the length of a period of system inactivity (like hard disk or video) while in full power on state. When this length of time expires, the system enters standby power state. Available options: disabled, 1 minute, 2 minute, 4 minu...

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    Fabiatech corporation 32 pci/plug and play plug and plug aware o/s set to yes to inform bios that the operating system can handle plug and play (pnp) devices. Available options: yes, no default setting: no pci latency timer this field specifies the latency timings (in pci clock) pci devices installe...

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    Fabiatech corporation 33 pci vga palette snoop when enabled is selected, multiple vga devices operating on different buses can handle data from the cpu on each set of palette registers on every video device. Bit 5 of the command register in the pci device configuration space is the vga palette snoop...

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    Fabiatech corporation 34 peripheral setup this section describes the function of peripheral features. Onboard serial port 1/2 these fields select the i/o port address for serial port 1. Available options: auto, disabled, 3f8h/com1, 2f8h/com2, and 3e8h/com3, 2e8h/com4. Default setting: 3f8/com1 onboa...

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    Fabiatech corporation 35 onboard parallel port this field selects the i/o port address for parallel port. Available options: auto, disabled, 378, 278, and 3bch default setting: auto epp version this field specifies the epp version for the parallel port mode specification used in the system and is no...

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    Fabiatech corporation 36 onboard ac’97 audio this field specifies the internal audio control. Available options: disable, enable default setting: enable sound blaster this field if you want to use the sound blaster emulation feature. Available options: disable, enable default setting: disable sb i/o...

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    Fabiatech corporation 37 hardware monitor setup on the hardware monitor setup screen, you can set up or monitor the system temperature, cpu voltage, and via c3 cpu ration and cpu fan speed… system hardware monitor in this field, you can monitor or detect the followings items. These items are view-on...

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    Fabiatech corporation 38 password setup there are two security passwords: supervisor and user. Supervisor is a privileged person that can change the user password from the bios. According to the default setting, both access passwords are not set up and are only valid after you set the password from ...

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    Fabiatech corporation 39 chapter 4 software installation the enclosed diskette includes fx5503 vga, audio, system and lan drivers. To install and configure you fx5503 system, you need to perform the following steps. Vga drivers win98_me/winxp_2k driver 1 to install the vga driver, insert the cd rom ...

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    Fabiatech corporation 40 audio drivers win 98_me/winxp_2k driver 1 to install the audio driver, insert the cd rom into the cd rom device, and enter driver>audio>vt686b>win9x_2k_xp. If your system is not equipped with a cd rom device, copy the vga driver from the cd rom to cf. 2 execute setup.Exe fil...

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    Fabiatech corporation 41 lan utility & driver 1 to install the lan utility or driver, insert the cd rom into the cd rom device, and enter driver>lan>rtl8139c. If your system is not equipped with a cd rom device, copy the lan vga driver from the cd rom to a 1.44” diskette. 2 execute install.Exe file....

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    Fabiatech corporation 42 watchdog timer this section describes how to use the watchdog timer, including disabled, enabled, and trigger functions. The fx5503 is equipped with a programmable time-out period watchdog timer. You can use your own program to enable the watchdog timer. Once you have enable...

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    Fabiatech corporation 43 watchdog timer setting the watchdog timer is a circuit that may be used from your program software to detect system crashes or hang-ups. The watchdog timer is automatically disabled after reset. Once you have enabled the watchdog timer, your program must trigger the watchdog...

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    Fabiatech corporation 45 chapter5 error coding this section outlines the errors that may occur when you operate the system, and also gives you the suggestions on solving the problems. Topic include: trouble shooting for post beep & error messages trouble shooting for post beep and error messages the...

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    Fabiatech corporation 46 cmos checksum error this error informs that the cmos has corrupted. When the battery runs weak, this situation might happen. Please check the battery and change a new one when necessary. Disk boot failure when you can‘t find the boot device, insert a system disk into drive a...

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    Fabiatech corporation 47 memory address error when the memory address indicates error. You can use this location along with the memory map for your system to find and replace the bad memory chips. Memory size has changed memory has been added or removed since last boot. In eisa mode, use configurati...

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    Fabiatech corporation 49 appendix dimension 217(ref) 203 55 1 4 3 . 5( r e f ) 1 4 8( r e f ) 7 . 1 1 2 5 5 5 5 8 2 6 r4.5 r2.25 o4.5 3 4 ~.

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    Fabiatech corporation 50 technical reference physical and environmental dc inputs: +12~+24v/22va minimal temperature: operating 0°c ~ 45°c relative humidity 5 % to 95 % non-condensing ac-dc adapter input ac voltage range: 100v~240v, 50hz ~60hz.

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    Fabiatech corporation 51 serial ports the aces (asynchronous communication elements ace1 to ace2) are used to convert parallel data to a serial format on the transmit side and convert serial data to parallel on the receiver side. The serial format, in order of transmission and reception, is a start ...

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    Fabiatech corporation 52 bit 1: enable transmitter holding empty interrupt (etbei) bit 2: enable receiver line status interrupt (elsi) bit 3: enable modem status interrupt (edssi) bit 4: must be 0 bit 5: must be 0 bit 6: must be 0 bit 7: must be 0 interrupt identification register (iir) bit 0: “0” i...

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    Fabiatech corporation 53 bit 5: stick parity bit 6: set break bit 7: divisor latch access bit (dlab) modem control register (mcr) bit 0: data terminal ready (dtr) bit 1: request to send (rts) bit 2: out 1 (out 1) bit 3: out 2 (out 2) bit 4: loop bit 5: must be 0 bit 6: must be 0 bit 7: must be 0 lin...

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    Fabiatech corporation 54 bit 4: clear to send (cts) bit 5: data set ready (dsr) bit 6: ring indicator (ri) bit 7: received line signal detect (rsld) divisor latch (ls, ms) ls ms bit 0: bit 0 bit 8 bit 1: bit 1 bit 9 bit 2: bit 2 bit 10 bit 3: bit 3 bit 11 bit 4: bit 4 bit 12 bit 5: bit 5 bit 13 bit ...

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    Fabiatech corporation 55 parallel ports register address port address read/write register base + 0 write output data base + 0 read input data base + 1 read printer status buffer base + 2 write printer control latch printer interface logic the parallel portion of the smc37c669 makes the attachment of...

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    Fabiatech corporation 56 bit 7: this signal may become active during data entry, when the printer is off-line during printing, or when the print head is changing position or in an error state. When bit 7 is active, the printer is busy and cannot accept data. Bit 6: this bit represents the current st...

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    Fabiatech corporation 57 bit 5: direction control bit. When logic 1, the output buffers in the parallel port are disabled allowing data driven from external sources to be read; when logic 0 they work as a printer port. This bit is write-only. Bit 4: a 1 in this position allows an interrupt to occur ...