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Octagon 5420 User Manual - Description

Manual is about: Super VGA Video Video Card

Summary of 5420

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    Notice the drivers and utilities for octagon products, previously provided on a cd, are now in a self-extracting zip file located at the octagon systems web site on the product-specific page. Download this file to a separate directory on your hard drive, then double click on it to extract the files....

  • Page 2: 5420 Super

    5420 super 5420 super 5420 super 5420 super 5420 super v v v v vga ga ga ga ga video car video car video car video car video card d d d d copyright copyright copyright copyright copyright copyright 1993–95, 1998—octagon systems corporation. All rights reserved. However, any part of this document may...

  • Page 3: Impor

    Impor impor impor impor import t t t tant! Ant! Ant! Ant! Ant! Please read before installing your product. Octagon's products are designed to be high in performance while consuming very little power. In order to maintain this advantage, cmos circuitry is used. Cmos chips have specific needs and some...

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    Using cmos circuitry in industrial control industrial computers originally used lsttl circuits. Because many pc components are used in laptop computers, ic manufac- turers are exclusively using cmos technology. Both ttl and cmos have failure mechanisms, but they are different. This section describes...

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    Octagon has never found a single case where multiple ic failures were not caused by misuse or accident. It is very probable that multiple component failures indicate that they were user-induced. ■ testing “dead” cards - for a card that is “completely nonfunctional”, there is a simple test to determi...

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    ■ serial and parallel - customers sometimes connect the serial and printer devices to the micro pc while the power is off. This can cause the failure mentioned in the above section, failure upon power-up. Even if they are connected with the micro pc on, there can be another failure mechanism. Some s...

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  • Page 8: Description

    Description description description description description the 5420 vga card is a small, low power, video card that supports a wide variety of crt and flat panel displays for high performance applications. The 5420 has 512k of video memory and 1 mb of vram for frame buffering when using simultaneou...

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    Equipment you will need the following equipment (or equivalent): • 5420 svga video card and utility disk • octagon pc control card • micro pc card cage • power module • ibm compatible monitor w/cable or flat panel display w/cable • pc smartlink • your pc to install the 5420: 1. Please refer to figur...

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    The 5420 svga video card contains static– sensitive cmos components. The card is most susceptible to damage when it is plugged into a card cage. The 5420 card becomes charged by the user, and the static discharges to the backplane from the pin closest to the card connector. If that pin happens to be...

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    3. Slide the 5420 into the octagon card cage. The components on the card should face to the left or upward depending on the type of card cage. 4. Power on your system. 5. Refer to figure 3 for a functional diagram of the 5420 card: pc bus 65530 svga controller 82c404 clock decode 29c256 ext bios dc-...

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    Programming the 5420 video bios programming the 5420 video bios programming the 5420 video bios programming the 5420 video bios programming the 5420 video bios the 5420 is factory configured and programmed to support a standard vga monitor and a 640 x 480 stn color dual drive lcd flat panel. If you ...

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    Bios enable/disable: w2 pins jumpered description [1-2]* enables the video bios [2-3] disables the video bios * = default 4. Start pc smartlink on your desktop pc. 5. Power on the micro pc system. The control card logon message should display on your pc monitor. 6. Download the file, pgmvideo.Exe, a...

  • Page 14: Inverted Shift Clock:  W4

    The designator is the ramdisk where you trans- ferred the files from your pc. The *.Dat file will change depending on the type of display you are using. The following message will be displayed: video bios programming utility ------------------------------------------------------ pgmvideo vers. X.Xx ...

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    Connecting the monitor/display connecting the monitor/display connecting the monitor/display connecting the monitor/display connecting the monitor/display the 5420 supports both a crt monitor and a flat panel display. The programs ct.Com and fp.Com allow you to toggle between displaying the monitor ...

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    5. A bios and dos message similar to the following should appear on your video monitor: octagon 50xx bios vers x.Xx copyright (c) 1992-1995, octagon systems corp. All right reserved. Flat panel display some panels require a bias voltage for contrast control. This voltage is available on j1, pins 24 ...

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    Note: without a flat panel bios programmed into the eeprom and w2[1-2] installed, vee will not come up. 4. Power off the 5420 and connect the flat panel display to the 5420 using a 50–position idc connector. Improperly attaching a flat panel to the 5420 svga card could damage the chips & technolo- g...

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    The following table lists the pin number and function for the flat panel connector at j1: flat panel connector: j1 pin # function pin # function 1 acdclk 2 gnd 3 flm 4 gnd 5 lp 6 gnd 7 blank* 8 gnd 9 shfclk 10 gnd 11 enavdd* 12 gnd 13 pnl0 14 gnd 15 pnl1 16 gnd 17 pnl2 18 gnd 19 pnl3 20 vdd (+5v) 21...

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    5. Make sure the bios jumper is enabled — w2[1–2]. 6. Power on your micro pc system. 7. A bios and dos message similar to the following should appear on your display: octagon 50xx bios vers x.Xx copyright (c) 1992-1995, octagon systems corp. All rights reserved. 8. Due to loading of the vee source, ...

  • Page 20: Emi Noise Reduction

    4. To program the 5420 for the appropriate flat panel display, type the following: a:pgmvideo .Dat the .Dat file will change depending on the type of display you are using. The following message will be displayed: video bios programming utility ------------------------------------------------------ ...

  • Page 21: Technical Data

    Technical data technical data technical data technical data technical data power specifications 5v +/–5% at 380 ma environmental specifications –40° to 70° c operating –40° to 90° c nonoperating rh 5% to 95%, noncondensing interface 8–bit isa bus i/o map standard ibm compatible video i/o addresses r...

  • Page 22: Pc Bus Pinouts

    Pc bus pinouts pc bus pinouts pc bus pinouts pc bus pinouts pc bus pinouts micro pc "a" pin# description signal pin# description signal a1 i/o ch ck* o a17 a14 i a2 d7 i/o a18 a13 i a3 d6 i/o a19 a12 i a4 d5 i/o a20 a11 i a5 d4 i/o a21 a10 i a6 d3 i/o a22 a9 i a7 d2 i/o a23 a8 i a8 d1 i/o a24 a7 i a...

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    Micro pc "b" pin# description signal pin# description signal b1 gnd i b17 dack1* i b2 reset i b18 drq1 o b3 +5v o b19 dack0* i b4 irq2 o b20 clock i b5 –5v not used b21 irq7 o b6 drq2 o b22 irq6 o b7 –12v o b23 irq5 o b8 reserved not used b24 irq4 o b9 +12v o b25 irq3 o b10 analog gnd o b26 dack2* o...

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    5420 super vga video card – 17 flat panel connector reference the following table references the functional nomenclature for pins of the various flat panels that can be driven by the 5420 card. Flat panel connector summary 5420 video card corresponding flat panel signal names flat panel connector: j...

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    5420 super vga video card – 18 flat panel connector summary continued 5420 video card corresponding flat panel signal names flat panel connector: j1 pin# function mono single panel mono dual panel color tft 4–bit color stn 4–bit pack color stn extended 4–bit pack color stn dd 16–bit 34 pnl8 — ud7 — ...

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    5420 super vga video card – 19 flat panel connector summary continued 5420 video card corresponding flat panel signal names flat panel connector: j1 pin# function mono single panel mono dual panel color tft 4–bit color stn 4–bit pack color stn extended 4–bit pack color stn dd 16–bit 9 shfclk cl2 cl2...

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