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FabiaTech Corporation IPC Solution Website: http:// w ww.fabiatech.com Email: s upport@fabiatech.com Multi LAN System FR9100 User’s Manual MAR 2011 Version: 1.0 Part Number: FR9100...
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Table of Contents FR9100 Multi LAN System User’s Manual ............i Chapter 1 Introducing the FR9100 System........... 1 Overview..........................1 Series Comparison Table .......................2 Layout............................3 Specifications..........................4 Packing List ..........................5 Chapter 2 Hardware Installation ..............7 Before Installation ........................7 Removing Covers –Installing Hardware............8 ...
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Boot Setup ..........................40 Boot Setting Configuration ................41 Boot Device .......................43 Hard Disk Drives ....................44 Security setup........................45 Chipset Setup........................47 North Bridge Configuration ................48 South Bridge Configuration ................50 Chapter 4 Software Installation ..............53 System Driver .........................53 Windows XP/S2003/S2008/7- X32/X64 System Driver ..........53 VGA Driver..........................54 WIN XP/Vista/7- X32/X64 VGA Driver ..............54...
FabIATech Corporation Chapter 1 Introducing the FR9100 System Overview The FR9100 is a 1U rack-mount embedded system with Intel® low-power CPU board inside. This user’s manual provides information on the physical features, installation, and BIOS setup of the FR9100. Built to unleash the total potential of the Intel® Celeron® or Core™ 2 Duo Processor, Able to supports optional 1.9GHz or 2.53GHz CPU, this system supports six PCI-e...
FabIATech Corporation Specifications Processor Board – Supports Intel® T9400-Core™ 2Duo2.53GHz/P8400-Core™2Duo2.26GHz /T3100- Celeron® 1.9GHz /Celeron® 575 2.0GHz Two 204-pin SoDIMM socket support DDRIII 800/1066 RAM up to 8GB. I/O Outlets – Six PCIe Interface 10/100/1000 Base–TX Ethernet ports. Six USB ports (V2.0), One RS232 Port, and one VGA Port.
Verify the accessories in the package according to the packing list and see if there is anything missing or incorrect package is included. • If the cable(s) you use to install the FR9100 is not supplied from us, please make sure the specification of the cable(s) is compatible with the FR9100 system.
FabIATech Corporation 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 cover, shut down the operation System and disconnect the power cords.
If you are installing hardware option, you can remove the top cover. The following figure will guide you how to install SATA 2.5" or SATA 3.5" HDD inside, and DDRIII-RAM module the FR9100 and how to install the FR9100 fixers. (Please see the spots circled.) a.
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FabIATech Corporation b2. Installing CPU Heat Sink on CPU 6#-32 THERMAL PAD (On CPU DIE) Note: When installing CPU, make sure heat sink paste (thermal pad) to stand between CPU DIE and heat sink in order to protect CPU and enhance...
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Installing SATA Hard Disk and SATA Disk On Module The FR9100 system supports three 2.5” SATA HDD or two 3.5” SATA HDD space., If a PCI card is added onto the system, the HDD space can supports two 2.5” SATA HDD or one 3.5”...
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FabIATech Corporation c1-2. 2.5” SATA Hard Disk Space 2.5" HDDx1 2.5" HDDx2 c2. Installing 3.5” SATA Hard Disk with SATA mount kit 6#-32 Note: Use caution when handling the hard disk to prevent damage to SATA connector as you insert hard disk.
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FabIATech Corporation c2-1. Installing 3.5” SATA Hard Disk 3.5" HDD RUBBER WASHERS 6#-32 c2-2. 3.5” SATA Hard Disk Space 3.5" HDDx1 3.5" HDDx1...
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FabIATech Corporation c3. Installing SATA DOM When installing the SATA DOM on SATA4 port connector, must set to 1, 2 close by JP1. (Defaulted 2, 3 closed for SATA HDD or SATA CDROM.) Note: 1. Use caution when handling the SATA Disk On Module to prevent damage to SATA connector as you inserted DOM.
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FabIATech Corporation d. Installing Memory: So-DIMM Socket For DDRIII Modules You may extend additional memory to system, See as following figure and rear pictures. The So-DIMM socket supports 1GB, 2GB or 4GB of DDRIII 800/1066 RAM modules is memory maximum up to 8GB.
FabIATech Corporation f. Installing the Rack-Mount handle kit on FR9100 Please refer to the down side figure for installing the FR9100 with rack-mount handle fixers. 6#-32 LED Indicators (On the Front Panel) The Power LED (with power Button), HDD LED and Status LED’s have two distinctive statuses: Off for inactive operation and blinking light for activity.
RS-232 Signal -DCD -DSR -RTS -TXD -CTS -DTR Ground Case Case Ground Connecting USB Ports The FR9100 supports a six port USB connector. Any USB device can be attached to USB ports with plug-and-play supported. Signal USBV USBD- USBD+ USBG...
AC/110V~240V Power Button and Reset Button (Front Panel) Pushing the Power button once will switch the FR9100 on and off, And Reset push button is switcher for system reset; Push and release the button will cause hard ware reset of FR9100 and restart system booting.
FabIATech Corporation Jumper Setting The JP2 of CPU board is used to clear CMOS data and JP1 for SATA 4 socket connector select SATA Hard-Disk or SATA DOM (Disk On Module). JP2: Clear CMOS Setting The JP2 is used to select clear CMOS data. The CMOS stores information like system date, time, boot up device, password, IRQ…...
FabIATech Corporation Chapter 3 BIOS Setup This chapter describes the BIOS setup. Overview 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 drive, and connected devices such as the video display, diskette drive, and the keyboard.
FabIATech Corporation BIOS Functions On the menu, you can perform the following functions 1. Main 2. Advanced CPU Configuration IDE Configuration SuperIO Configuration Hardware Health Configuration NCT702 Hardware Health Configuration ACPI Function AHCI Configuration PCI Express Configuration Remote Access Configuration USB Configuration 3.
FabIATech Corporation 6. Chipset North Bridge Configuration South Bridge Configuration 7. Power 8. Exit Save Changes and Exit: Exit system setup after saving the changes.F10 key can be used for this operation. Discard Changes and Exit: Exit system setup without saving any changes.
FabIATech Corporation Main Setup This section describes basic system hardware configuration, system clock setup and BIOS version information. If the CPU board is already installed in a working system, you will not need to select this option anymore. System Memory This option is display-only which is determined by POST (Power On Self Test) of the BIOS.
FabIATech Corporation Advanced Setup Select the Advanced tab from the setup screen to enter the Advanced BIOS Setup screen. You can select any of the items in the left frame of the screen, such as SuperIO Configuration, to go to the sub menu for that item. You can display an Advanced BIOS Setup option by highlighting it using the <Arrow>...
FabIATech Corporation IDE Configuration You can use this screen to select options for the ATA/IDE Configuration Settings. Use the up and down <Arrow> keys to select an item. Use the <Plus> and <Minus> keys to change the value of the selected option. A description of the selected item appears on the right side of the screen.
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FabIATech Corporation IDE Primary/Secondary Master/Slave IDE hard drive controllers can support up to two separate hard drives. These drives have a master/slave relationship, which is determined by the cabling configuration used to attach them to the controller. Your system supports one IDE controller – a primary and a secondary –...
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FabIATech Corporation IDE Detect Time Out (Sec.) Set this option to stop the AMIBIOS from searching for IDE devices within the specified number of seconds. Basically, this allows you to fine-tune the settings to allow for faster boot times. Adjust this setting until a suitable timing that can detect all IDE disk drives attached is found.
FabIATech Corporation SuperIO Configuration This section describes the function of Super I/O settings. Serial Port 1 Address These fields select the I/O port address for each Serial port. Available Options: Disabled, 3F8H/COM1, 3E8H/COM3, and 2E8H/COM4. Default setting: 3F8H/COM1 KBC Clock Rate Selection This field is select Keyboard clock rate selecting 6MHz/8MHz/12MHz/16MHz Controller.
FabIATech Corporation Restore On AC Power Lose This field specifies the option controls how the PC will behave once power is restored following a power outage (or other unexpected or ungraceful shutdown). The "Last State" option returns the PC to the state in effect at the time the power outage or shutdown occurred.
FabIATech Corporation NCT702 Hardware Health Configuration On the NCT702 Hardware Heath Setup screen, you can select the CPU/System Smart FAN controller temperature. Smart FAN Controller This field is select Enabled or Disabled the Smart FAN controller. If select to Disabled, the FAN is full speed.
FabIATech Corporation Advanced ACPI Settings This filed specifies allow you set this value to utilize the ACPI (Advanced Configuration and Power Interface) specification. Advanced ACPI Configuration ACPI Version Feature Set this value to allow or prevent the system to be complaint with the ACPI Specification.
FabIATech Corporation Available Options: Enabled, and Disabled Default setting: Enabled AMI OEMB Table Set this value to allow the ACPI BIOS to add a pointer to an OEMB table in the Root System Description Table (RSDT) table. Available Options: Enabled, and Disabled...
FabIATech Corporation PCI Express Configuration Active State Power-Management This filed is select Enable or Disable PCI Express L0s and L1 link power states. Available Options: Enabled and Disabled Default setting: Disabled...
This option turns on remote access support in the BIOS and is the default setting. The remote access feature requires the use of the serial port1 connector located at the front panel of the FR9100. Remote Access This field is select remote access type.
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FabIATech Corporation Serial Port Mode This field is select Serial port1 can use any mode. Just keep in mind that the bits per second, data bits, parity, and stop bits must match terminal setting. Available Options: 115200 8,n,1/57600 8,n,1/38400,8,n,1/19200,8,n,1/09600,8,n,1 Default setting: 09600, 8, n, 1 Flow Control This field is Serial port1 can use flow control for console redirection.
FabIATech Corporation USB Configuration You can use this screen to select options for the USB Configuration. Legacy USB Support Legacy USB Support refers to the USB mouse and USB keyboard support. Normally if this option is not Enabled; any attached USB mouse or USB keyboard will not become available until a USB compatible operating system is fully booted with all USB drivers loaded.
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FabIATech Corporation BIOS ECHI Hand-Off This is a workaround for OS without ECHI Hand-Off support. The ECHI ownership change should claim by ECHI driver. Available Options: Enabled and Disabled Default setting: Disabled...
FabIATech Corporation PCIPnP Setup Select the PCI/PnP tab from the setup screen to enter the Plug and Play BIOS Setup screen. You can display a Plug and Play BIOS Setup option by highlighting it using the <Arrow> keys. All Plug and Play BIOS Setup options are described in this section. The Plug and Play BIOS Setup screen is shown below.
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FabIATech Corporation PCI IDE BusMaster This option is to specify that the IDE controller on the PCI local bus have bus-mastering capability. Available Options: Enabled, Disabled Default setting: Disabled IRQ 3 –15 When I/O resources are controlled manually, you can assign each system interrupt...
FabIATech Corporation Boot Setup Select the Boot tab from the setup screen to enter the Boot BIOS Setup screen. You can select any of the items in the left frame of the screen, such as Boot Device Priority, to go to the sub menu for that item. You can display a Boot BIOS Setup option by highlighting it using the <Arrow>...
FabIATech Corporation Boot Setting Configuration Quick Boot This field is used to activate the quick boot function of the system. When set to Enabled, 1. BIOS will not wait for up to 40 seconds if a Ready signal is not received from the IDE drive, and will not configure its drive.
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FabIATech Corporation Default setting: On PS/2 Mouse Support The setting of Auto or Enabled allows the system to detect a PS/2 mouse on boot up. If detected, IRQ12 will be used for the PS/2 mouse. IRQ 12 will be reserved for expansion cards if a PS/2 mouse is not detected.
FabIATech Corporation Boot Device Use this screen to specify the order in which the system checks for the device to boot from. To access this screen, select Boot Device Priority on the Boot Setup screen and press <Enter>. First /Second /Third Hard Disk Boot Device Set the boot device options to determine the sequence in which the computer checks which device to boot from.
FabIATech Corporation Hard Disk Drives Use this screen to view the hard disk drives in the system. To access this screen, select Hard disk drives on the Boot Setup screen and press <Enter>.
FabIATech Corporation Security 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 the BIOS.
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FabIATech Corporation Always: a visitor who attempts to enter BIOS or operating system will be prompted for password. Setup: a visitor who attempts to the operating system will be prompted for user password. You can enter either User password or Supervisor password.
FabIATech Corporation Chipset Setup This section describes the configuration of the board’s chipset features. • NorthBridge Configuration • SouthBridge Configuration...
FabIATech Corporation North Bridge Configuration You can use this screen to select options for the North Bridge Configuration. Use the up and down <Arrow> keys to select an item. Use the <Plus> and <Minus> keys to change the value of the selected option.
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FabIATech Corporation Max TOLUD This specifies the Maximum Value of Top Of Low Usable DRAM (TOLUD). Available Options: 2GB, 2.5GB, and 3GBHz Default setting: 3GB Video Function Configuration DVMT Mode Select This field is the DVMT mode is memory that is dynamically allocated based on memory requests made by application and are released back to the system once the requesting application has been terminated.
FabIATech Corporation South Bridge Configuration You can use this screen to select options for the South Bridge Configuration. South Bridge is a chipset on the motherboard that controls the basic I/O functions, LAN port function. SMBUS Controller This field is select Enabled or Disable the SMBUS controllers...
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FabIATech Corporation PCIE Ports Configuration On Board LAN1~LAN6 Controller This field specifies the Enabled or Disable of the onboard (G) LAN1~ (G) LAN6 chip. Available Options: Disabled, Enabled Default setting: Enabled LAN Boot ROM Controller This field specifies the PXE boot ROM of the onboard LAN chip.
FabIATech Corporation Chapter 4 Software Installation The enclosed diskette includes FR9100 VGA, AHCI, RAID, System and LAN driver. To install and configure you FR9100 system, you need to perform the following steps. System Driver Windows XP/S2003/S2008/7- X32/X64 System Driver Installs ICH9M Chipset, Core PCI, PCIe, SATA, USB, ISAPnP and IDE/ATA Device Drive.
FabIATech Corporation VGA Driver WIN XP/Vista/7- X32/X64 VGA Driver Step 1: To install the VGA driver, insert the CD ROM into the CD ROM device, and enter DRIVER>VGA>GM45. Step 2: Execute SETUP.EXE file. Step 3: The screen shows the SETUP type. Press any key to enter the main menu.
FabIATech Corporation AHCI & RAID Driver Windows XP-SP3/S2003/S2008/7-X32/X64 AHCI&RAID Driver To install the RAID utility OR AHCI driver, insert the CD ROM into the CD ROM device, and enter DRIVER>IDE>RST. If your system is not equipped with a CD ROM device, copy the AHCI&RAID driver from the CD ROM to Execute IATA_CD.EXE...
This section describes how to use the Watchdog Timer, including disabled, enabled, and trigger functions. The FR9100 is equipped with a programmable time-out period watchdog timer. You can use your own program to Enabled the watchdog timer. Once you have Enable the watchdog timer, the program should trigger the I/O every time before the timer times out.
FabIATech Corporation 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 Watch/Power LED on front panel is the watchdog timer indicator, which is located at left side on the front panel.
FabIATech Corporation Watchdog Timer Enabled To Enabled the watchdog timer, you have to output a byte of timer factor to the watchdog register whose address is 2Eh and data port is 2fH. The following is an Assemble program, which demonstrates how to Enabled the watchdog timer and set the time-out period at 28 seconds.
FabIATech Corporation Watchdog Timer Disabled To disable the watchdog timer, simply write a 00H to the watchdog register. ;------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ ; Enter the extended function mode, interruptible double-write ;------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ dx,2eh ; Enter to extended function mode al,87h dx,al dx,al ;------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ ; Logical device 8, configuration register CRF5 Bit 3(Sec./Min.), CRF6 Bit 0~7 (Count.) ;-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------...
Status LED Programming The FR9100 can define the Status LED to Light/Blinking. When I/O Port 2Eh/2Fh, device 9, index F3 Bit 6 & bit7 is set to 0 the Status LED is active, if bit 6 set to 1 the status LED is not active.
FabIATech Corporation Chapter 5 Technical Reference 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 Error Messages Technical Reference Trouble Shooting for Post Beep and Error Messages The following information informs the Post Beep &...
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FabIATech Corporation 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 and press <...
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FabIATech Corporation MEMORY SIZE HAS CHANGED Memory has been added or removed since last boot. In EISA mode, use Configuration Utility to re-configure the memory configuration. In ISA mode enter BIOS Setup and enter the new memory size in the memory fields.
Output DC Voltage: +12V/6A,+5V/17A,+3.3V/14A,-12V/0.8A,+5V Real-Time Clock and Non-Volatile RAM The FR9100 contains a real-time clock compartment that maintains the date and time in addition to storing configuration information about the computer system. It contains 14 bytes of clock and control registers and 114 bytes of general purpose RAM.
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FabIATech Corporation Address Description Diskette drive type byte, drive A and B Fixed disk type byte, drive C Fixed disk type byte, drive D Reserved Equipment byte Low base memory byte High base memory byte Low expansion memory byte High expansion memory byte...
FabIATech Corporation CMOS RAM Map Register Description 00h -10h Standard AT-compatible RTC and Status and Status Register data definitions 11h – 13h Varies Equipment Bits Number of Floppy Drives 1 Drive 2 Drives Bits Monitor Type Not CGA or MDA 01 40x25 CGA...
FabIATech Corporation I/O Port Address Map Each peripheral device in the system is assigned a set of I/O port addresses, which also becomes the identity of the device. There is a total of 1K-port address space available. The following table lists the I/O port addresses used on the Industrial CPU Card.
FabIATech Corporation Interrupt Request Lines (IRQ) There are a total of 15 IRQ lines available on the Industrial CPU Card. Peripheral devices use interrupt request lines to notify CPU for the service required. The following table shows the IRQ used by the devices on the Industrial CPU Card.
FabIATech Corporation 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 bit, followed by five to eight data bits, a parity bit (if programmed) and one, one and half (five-bit format only) or two stop bits.
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FabIATech Corporation Bit 1: Enabled Transmitter Holding Empty Interrupt (ETBEI) Bit 2: Enabled Receiver Line Status Interrupt (ELSI) Bit 3: Enabled MODEM Status Interrupt (EDSSI) Bit 4: Must be 0 Bit 5: Must be 0 Bit 6: Must be 0...
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FabIATech Corporation 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)
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FabIATech Corporation 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) Bit 0: Bit 0 Bit 8 Bit 1: Bit 1...