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Advanced/RH
LPX Motherboard
Technical Product Specification
Order Number 281809-003
April 1996
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THIS SPECIFICATION [DOCUMENT] IS PROVIDED "AS IS" WITH NO WARRANTIES WHATSOEVER, INCLUDING ANY WARRANTY OF MERCHANTABILITY, FITNESS FOR ANY PARTICULAR PURPOSE, OR ANY WARRANTY OTHERWISE ARISING OUT OF ANY PROPOSAL, SPECIFICATION OR SAMPLE. No other license, express or implied, by estoppel or otherwise, to any other intellectual property rights is granted herein. Intel disclaims all liability, including liability for infringement of any proprietary rights, relating to implementation of informati
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Advanced/RH Technical Product Specification Table of Contents Introduction 5 MOTHERBOARD MANUFACTURING OPTIONS 6 BOARD LEVEL FEATURES 7 LPX FORM FACTOR 8 CPU 8 PROCESSOR UPGRADE 9 SECOND LEVEL CACHE 9 SYSTEM MEMORY 9 PERIPHERAL COMPONENT INTERCONNECT (PCI) PCISET 10 NATIONAL SEMICONDUCTOR PC87306B SUPER I/O CONTROLLER 11 GRAPHICS SUBSYSTEM 12 AUDIO SUBSYSTEM 13 UNIVERSAL SERIAL BUS (USB) 14 Connectors 14 MOTHERBOARD CONNECTORS 14 FRONT PANEL CONNECTIONS (J3A1, J2A1) 16 AUDIO CONNECTORS 18 BACK
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Appendix G -- Connectors 32 POWER SUPPLY 32 FRONT PANEL- J3A1 33 BACK PANEL I/O 34 PERIPHERALS 35 MULTIMEDIA 36 Appendix-H Motherboard BIOS 39 FLASH MEMORY IMPLEMENTATION 39 BIOS UPGRADES 39 SETUP UTILITY 40 PCI AUTO-CONFIGURATION 40 ISA PLUG ‘N’ PLAY 40 ADVANCED POWER MANAGEMENT 40 LANGUAGE SUPPORT 41 PCI IDE 41 BOOT OPTIONS 41 FLASH LOGO AREA 41 SECURITY FEATURES 41 Appendix I -- PCI Configuration Error Messages 43 Appendix J-- AMIBIOS Error messages and Beep Codes 44 BEEP CODES 44 ERROR MESSA
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Introduction The Advanced/RH motherboard integrates the latest advances in processor, memory, and I/O technologies into a standard LPX form factor that provides leading edge technology. This combination of high integration and high performance makes the Advanced/RH motherboard the ideal platform for the increasing requirements of today's (and tomorrow's) desktop applications in the corporate workspace. ® The flexible LPX design will accept Pentium processors operating at 75 MHz, 90 MHz, 100 MHz
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MOTHERBOARD MANUFACTURING OPTIONS The following manufacturing options are available. Details for each option are found in the corresponding section of this specification. AUDIO SUBSYSTEM Business audio Consumer audio No audio VIDEO SUBSYSTEM ATI VT graphic controller ATI CT graphic controller CACHE SUBSYSTEM Soldered SRAM CELP socket UNIVERSAL SERIAL BUS USB No USB Advanced/RH Technical Product Specification • • Page 6
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BOARD LEVEL FEATURES A BCF D E G H I J JJ K L II M N O HH P GG Q FF R EE S DD T CC U BB V AA W Z YX OM04270 Figure 1. Advanced/RH Motherboard Features † A - VGA connector S - PCI / ISA expansion connector B - Parallel port connector T - National PC87306B I/O controller C - COM2 Header U - Flash BIOS D - COM2, or Dual in-line USB Connector V - PCI ISA/IDE Xcelerator (PIIX3) E - COM1 connector W - Battery for the Real-time clock F- Four Pin CD-ROM audio connector X - Two PCI IDE interfaces † G -
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LPX FORM FACTOR The Advanced/RH motherboard is designed to fit into a standard LPX form factor chassis. Figure 2 illustrates the mechanical form factor for the Advanced/RH. The Advanced/RH LPX form factor does adhere to the standard LPX guidelines in that the outer dimensions are 13” x 9”. Location of the I/O connectors, riser slot, and mounting holes are in strict compliance with the LPX specification. However, if business audio is selected by an OEM, a slight modification to the OEM’s chas
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PROCESSOR UPGRADE The Advanced/RH motherboard is manufactured with the 321-pin (socket 7) ZIF processor socket. Socket 7 provides a processor upgrade path that includes higher performance Pentium OverDrive processors than can be supported with socket 5. The motherboard is built to support uniplane CPUs. However, a manufacturing option allows the socket 7 design to support split voltage planes that can supply different voltages for a processor’s CPU core and for the I/O core. Installing a spli
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EXPANSION RISER An expansion slot riser connector of EISA form factor provides the capability to support either two or three PCI slots by changing a motherboard jumper to route any extra IRQ and ID selects. A riser board can also support up to five ISA expansion slots. The PCI bus is compliant with the PCI 2.1 specification. To ensure that the lowest positioned slot on the riser card can support a full length add-in card the following conditions must be met. 1) The minimum height requirement
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IDE SUPPORT The Advanced/RH motherboard provides two independent high performance bus-mastering PCI IDE interfaces capable of supporting PIO Mode 3 and Mode 4 devices. The system BIOS supports Cylinder Sector Head (CHS), Logical Block Addressing (LBA) and Extended Cylinder Sector Head (ECHS) translation modes as well as ATAPI (e.g. CD-ROM) devices on both IDE interfaces. IDE device transfer rate and translation mode capability can be automatically determined by the system BIOS. Normally, progra
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The integrated 8042 microcontroller contains the AMI Megakey keyboard/mouse controller code which, besides providing traditional keyboard and mouse control functions, supports Power-On/Reset (POR) password protection. The POR password can be defined by the user via the Setup program. The keyboard controller also provides for the following "hot key" sequences: • : System software reset. This sequence performs a software reset of the system by jumping to the beginning of the BIOS c
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ATI-264VT RESOLUTIONS SUPPORTED BY THE MOTHERBOARD 1 MB 2 MB Max Vertical Resolution SGRAM SGRAM Refresh Rate 640x480x4bpp X X 100 Hz 640x480x8bpp X X 100 Hz 640x480x16bpp X X 100 Hz 640x480x24bpp X X 100 Hz 640x480x32bpp X 60 Hz 800x600x4bpp X X 100 Hz 800x600x8bpp X X 100 Hz 800x600x16bpp X X 100 Hz 800x600x24bpp X 100 Hz 1024x768x4bpp X X 100 Hz 1024x768x8bpp X X 100 Hz 1024x768x16bpp X 100 Hz 1280x1024x4bpp X X 75 Hz 1280x1024x8bpp X 75 Hz Table 1. Advanced/RH Audio resource mapping GRAPHI
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AUDIO DRIVERS Audio software and utilities are provided for the Advanced/RH motherboard. A Windows setup program installs all of the software programs and utilities onto the system hard drive. Included in the Creative audio software are DOS utilities that allow the user to play a CD-ROM, control sound volume and mixer settings, run diagnostics, and switch between Sound Blaster Pro and Windows Sound System modes. Windows drivers and utilities include the Windows sound driver, audio input contr
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Simm PCI/ISA Expansion Bank 0(J2D1, J2D2) Socket(6) Connector(J6J2) Bank 1(J2E1, J2F1) 1 Bank 2(J2E1, J2F1) CDROM J6N1 J9N2 4 Modem/Audio Connector J9N1 1 2 1 1 5 2 Floppy Drive 7 8 J9K1 J9K2 Wave Table 13 PS Remote 33 34 Connector 34 33 ATI Media 1 Connector 3.3V (J1H1) Power MIDI Audio J9H1 CELP 6 Connector 2 1 (J1D1) 1 J9L1 Primary Power 1 2 J9H1 PCI IDE Connector(2) 12 J5C1 J6C1 39 40 J3A1 29 1 Front Panel I/O Connector OM04275 Figure 3. Advanced/RH connector locations Advanced/RH Techn
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POWER SUPPLY CONTROL (J9H1,J9K2) When used with a power supply that supports remote power on/off, the Advanced/RH motherboard can turn off the system power via software control (“soft-off”). The Powerman utility supplied for Windows 3.1x allows for soft-off as does the shutdown icon in Windows 95 Start menu. The system BIOS will turn the system power off when it receives the proper APM command from the OS. For example, Windows 95 will issue this APM command when the user selects the “Shutdown
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SPEAKER The external speaker provides error beep code information during the Power-On Self Test if the system cannot use the video interface. If no speakers are plugged into the audio output jack, the audio output is redirected to the external PC speaker. SLEEP / RESUME When Advanced Power Management (APM) is activated in the system BIOS and the operating system’s APM driver is loaded, Sleep mode (Stand-By) can be entered in one of three ways: an optional front panel “Sleep/Resume” button, a us
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AUDIO CONNECTORS There are two methods of accessing the audio features on the Advanced/RH. The method installed depends on the audio option that has been selected. For business audio, audio is accessed using audio jacks provided on the motherboard. These two 1/8” jacks supply Line Out, and Mic In connections and are available through the back I/O panel. MIDI/AUDIO I/O CONNECTOR Consumer audio is provided by using an audio riser card connected to the audio/midi connector of the motherboard. T
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WAVE TABLE UPGRADE An eight pin header is provided as part of the consumer audio option to connect to a wave table upgrade card for richer sound quality in both DOS and Windows environments. The wave table upgrade module is simply installed into a standard ISA slot with a cable routed to the connector. Compatible wave table upgrade cards are available from several venders; the ICS WaveFront upgrade module and the CrystaLake Series 2000 wave table product family add a complete General MIDI compa
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BACK PANEL CONNECTORS The back panel provides external access to PS/2 style keyboard and mouse connectors as well as two serial and one parallel port, which are integrated on the Advanced/RH motherboard. If a USB connector is present, COM2 can be routed to a back panel knockout from the COM2 header on the motherboard. Audio jacks for Speaker Out and Microphone are provided for business audio on the back I/O panel. By adding an audio riser for consumer audio solutions a Midi/Game port can be ma
