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- HP Vectra VEi8 | HP Vectra VEi7, VEi8 & VLi8, Technical Reference Manual (V - Page 1
Manual Vectra Technology This manual is a technical reference document for engineers and technicians providing system level support been reproduced. This manual contains summary information only. For additional reference material, refer to the bibliography inside this document. HP Vectra VEi 7, VEi - HP Vectra VEi8 | HP Vectra VEi7, VEi8 & VLi8, Technical Reference Manual (V - Page 2
- HP Vectra VEi8 | HP Vectra VEi7, VEi8 & VLi8, Technical Reference Manual (V - Page 3
Processor Packages 9 Chip Sets 11 The Intel 440ZX AGPset ATA Hard Disk Drives 22 DVD Drives 24 AGP Graphics Controllers 26 Matrox Millennium G200 AGP Graphics (VEi 8, VLi 8 and VLi 8SF PCs) . . . 26 SiS Super AGP Graphics (VEi 7 PCs 29 Crystal Integrated PCI Audio 30 Network Features 33 HP - HP Vectra VEi8 | HP Vectra VEi7, VEi8 & VLi8, Technical Reference Manual (V - Page 4
HP 10/100 Intel PRO/100+ Management Adapter (D7506A and D7507A) . . 34 LAN Card Ready Program 34 Input Devices 35 Standard HP Keyboard 35 Enhanced HP Keyboard 35 Scrolling Mouse 36 Specifications 36 Connectors and Sockets 37 iv Francais - HP Vectra VEi8 | HP Vectra VEi7, VEi8 & VLi8, Technical Reference Manual (V - Page 5
vectra Ì Crystal Audio www.cirrus.com/products/overviews/cs4280.html www.cirrus.com/products/overviews/cs4297.html Ì Intel LAN card www.intel.com/network/products/pro100mgmt.htm Hewlett-Packard white papers are available on a variety of subjects including AGP graphics, SDRAM memory and the Ultra ATA - HP Vectra VEi8 | HP Vectra VEi7, VEi8 & VLi8, Technical Reference Manual (V - Page 6
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Core Components and Technologies This chapter describes core components of the PCs such as processors, chip sets, mass storage devices, graphics controllers, audio controllers, network features and input devices. - HP Vectra VEi8 | HP Vectra VEi7, VEi8 & VLi8, Technical Reference Manual (V - Page 8
Intel Pentium II The Pentium II processor connects to the motherboard via a single edge 242-contact slot (Slot 1) dedicated 64- bit L2 cache bus (supporting level cache sizes of 512K), plus Intel MMX technology, which improves video compression/decompression, image manipulation, encryption - HP Vectra VEi8 | HP Vectra VEi7, VEi8 & VLi8, Technical Reference Manual (V - Page 9
. This brings substantial improvements to 3D graphics, video encoding and decoding and other floating point-intensive operations that operate on large sets of data such as voice recognition. Like the Pentium II, the Pentium III processor connects to the motherboard by a Slot 1 connector. It comes in - HP Vectra VEi8 | HP Vectra VEi7, VEi8 & VLi8, Technical Reference Manual (V - Page 10
SECC package Core Components and Technologies Processors The heat sink is supplied with the processor, and is bolted to it by the manufacturer. The processor is held in place by a retention mechanism. Pentium II processors use either a Single Edge Contact Cartridge (SECC) or a Single Edge Contact - HP Vectra VEi8 | HP Vectra VEi7, VEi8 & VLi8, Technical Reference Manual (V - Page 11
to the Technical Reference Manual - Product Line Overview. The 440ZX chip set is derived from and has the same benchmarks as the 440BX. The only differences in features are: • 512MB of RAM supported instead of 1GB on the 440BX • One less PCI master • No ECC memory support. The Intel 440ZX AGPset - HP Vectra VEi8 | HP Vectra VEi7, VEi8 & VLi8, Technical Reference Manual (V - Page 12
Sets Features of the Intel 440ZX Chip Processor Local Bus Interface The 440ZX chip monitors each cycle that is initiated by the processor, and forwards those to the PCI bus that are not targeted at the local memory Main Memory Controller The main memory controller in the 440ZX chip supports two - HP Vectra VEi8 | HP Vectra VEi7, VEi8 & VLi8, Technical Reference Manual (V - Page 13
Core Components and Technologies Chip Sets Read/Write Buffers The 440ZX chip defines a data buffering scheme to support the required level of concurrent operations and provide adequate sustained bandwidth between the DRAM subsystem and all other system interfaces (Host, AGP and PCI). System - HP Vectra VEi8 | HP Vectra VEi7, VEi8 & VLi8, Technical Reference Manual (V - Page 14
Host Bus Core Components and Technologies Chip Sets Intel PIIX4E PCI-ISA Bridge Chip Block Diagram Second Level Cache Processor Matrox G200 AGP Bus Host-to-PCI Bridge (440ZX) Memory Bus Main Memory SDRAM PCI Bus (3.3V or 5V, 33 MHz) Audio Hard Disk BMI IDE Ultra DMA/33 PCI/ISA Bridge ( - HP Vectra VEi8 | HP Vectra VEi7, VEi8 & VLi8, Technical Reference Manual (V - Page 15
Components and Technologies Chip Sets Features of the Intel PXII4E PCI-ISA Bridge Chip PCI Bus Interface This part of the chip is responsible for transferring data between the PCI bus and the ISA expansion bus. It performs PCI-to-ISA, and ISA-toPCI bus cycle translation. It supports the Plug-and - HP Vectra VEi8 | HP Vectra VEi7, VEi8 & VLi8, Technical Reference Manual (V - Page 16
Core Components and Technologies Chip Sets Interrupt Controller The interrupt controller incorporates the functionality of two 82C59 interrupt controllers. The two controllers are cascaded, supporting 15 interrupts (edge/level triggered). Counter / Timer The chip contains a three-channel 82C54 - HP Vectra VEi8 | HP Vectra VEi7, VEi8 & VLi8, Technical Reference Manual (V - Page 17
Sets The SiS 620/5595 Chip Set (VEi 7 PCs) The SiS 620/5595 chip set is used in conjunction with a Socket 370 Celeron processor. The SiS 620/5595 chip set accelerator and video playback accelerator. memory. It translates PL (Processor Local) bus cycles into PCI bus cycles. The chip can support - HP Vectra VEi8 | HP Vectra VEi7, VEi8 & VLi8, Technical Reference Manual (V - Page 18
Core Components and Technologies Chip Sets DRAM (Main Memory) Controller The DRAM controller supports two DIMM slots. The maximum system memory size supported is 512MB. The memory clock frequency can be operated at up to 100MHz and can be in synchronous or asynchronous modes with respect to host - HP Vectra VEi8 | HP Vectra VEi7, VEi8 & VLi8, Technical Reference Manual (V - Page 19
Block Diagram Second Level Cache Processor Core Components and Technologies Chip Sets Hard Disk Hard Disk BMI IDE Ultra DMA/33 DVD/Zip CD-ROM PCI Bus (3.3V or 5V, 33 MHz) Host Bridge & super AGP (SiS620) Memory Bus Main Memory SDRAM ISA/EIO Bus (5V) PCI/ISA Bridge (SiS5595) KBD Mouse - HP Vectra VEi8 | HP Vectra VEi7, VEi8 & VLi8, Technical Reference Manual (V - Page 20
Core Components and Technologies Chip Sets Features of the SiS 5595 Chip PCI Bus Interface This part of the chip is responsible for transferring data between the PCI bus and the ISA expansion bus. It performs PCI-to-ISA, and ISA-toPCI bus cycle translation. It supports the Plug-and-Play mechanism - HP Vectra VEi8 | HP Vectra VEi7, VEi8 & VLi8, Technical Reference Manual (V - Page 21
Counter / Timer Core Components and Technologies Chip Sets The chip contains a three-channel 82C54 counter/timer. The counters use a division of the 14.318 MHz OSC input as the clock source. For tips on where to find more information on the SiS 620/5595 chip set, refer to the bibliography at the - HP Vectra VEi8 | HP Vectra VEi7, VEi8 & VLi8, Technical Reference Manual (V - Page 22
Ultra-ATA Hard Disk Drives ATA (AT Attachment) is a disk drive implementation designed to integrate the controller into the drive itself, thereby reducing interface costs. Ultra-ATA bridges the gap between the current standard (ATA-3) and the upcoming standard ATA-4. Ultra-ATA adds a new, high - HP Vectra VEi8 | HP Vectra VEi7, VEi8 & VLi8, Technical Reference Manual (V - Page 23
protocol of Ultra-ATA also implements a significant feature new to ATA called Cyclical HP's white paper on the Ultra ATA/33 protocol, refer to www.hp.com/desktop/library/wp.html. S.M.A.R.T. Technology S.M.A.R.T. or Self Monitoring Analysis and Reporting Technology allows the hard disk drive - HP Vectra VEi8 | HP Vectra VEi7, VEi8 & VLi8, Technical Reference Manual (V - Page 24
and Technologies Mass-Storage Devices DVD Drives Digital Versatile Disk (DVD) Technology Digital up to nine hours of studio quality video and multi-channel surround-sound audio, highly interactive multimedia computer programs, 30 hours of CDquality audio, or anything else that can be represented - HP Vectra VEi8 | HP Vectra VEi7, VEi8 & VLi8, Technical Reference Manual (V - Page 25
supported. The variable bitrate is 32 kbps to 912 kbps, with 384 being the normal average rate. MPEG-1 is limited to 384 kbps. Linear PCM is uncompressed (lossless) digital audio first DVD-Video disc played on a DVD device is from Region 1, the device can subsequently only play DVD-Video discs from - HP Vectra VEi8 | HP Vectra VEi7, VEi8 & VLi8, Technical Reference Manual (V - Page 26
as a viable alternative to augmenting the memory of the graphics subsystem needed for high quality 3D graphics applications. All the PCs covered in this manual support an AGP device (Matrox MGA-G200, 8MB, not upgradeable, or SiS super AGP, 4MB upgradeable to 8MB). Matrox Millennium G200 AGP Graphics - HP Vectra VEi8 | HP Vectra VEi7, VEi8 & VLi8, Technical Reference Manual (V - Page 27
cases. The first level is the large on-chip cache, the second level is the 8MB of local video memory and the third level is the AGP memory from each MIP, bilinearly filtering each set of four pixels and then averages the rendering unless the application specifically provides lower resolution MIP - HP Vectra VEi8 | HP Vectra VEi7, VEi8 & VLi8, Technical Reference Manual (V - Page 28
Core Components and Technologies AGP Graphics Controllers Full Scene Anti-aliasing Full scene anti-aliasing is a technique where all low resolution aliasing artifacts are removed from the image. This is done in an independent manner, meaning that it is application independent. Full scene - HP Vectra VEi8 | HP Vectra VEi7, VEi8 & VLi8, Technical Reference Manual (V - Page 29
hardware acceleration features can be enabled by the SiS driver under Direct 3D and OpenGL. Supported 3D quality acceleration includes: Gouraud Shading, Z graphics accelerator is compatible with AGP1.0 and PCI 2.2 configurations. Display memory can be up to 8MB of SGRAM. The super AGP architecture - HP Vectra VEi8 | HP Vectra VEi7, VEi8 & VLi8, Technical Reference Manual (V - Page 30
an internal connection for CD-ROM and DVD drives, and external stereo in, stereo out and microphone in sockets. Crystal audio is not SoundBlaster compatible. The Crystal audio solution has been optimized for Windows-based platforms, while supporting the other major operating systems. It is therefore - HP Vectra VEi8 | HP Vectra VEi7, VEi8 & VLi8, Technical Reference Manual (V - Page 31
and Technologies Crystal Integrated PCI Audio File Formats Windows audio files RealAudio and RealVideo streams AVI (Audio Visual Interleave) video files MPEG video files QuickTime® audio video files Sun™ Microsystems and NeXT™ audio files File Extension .wav .asx .asf .ra .ram .rm .rmm .avi .mpg - HP Vectra VEi8 | HP Vectra VEi7, VEi8 & VLi8, Technical Reference Manual (V - Page 32
PCI Audio CS4280 PCI Audio Interface Features • PCI Version 2.1 Bus Master • Windows® 95, Windows 98, Windows NT 4.0, Windows NT 5.0 (WDM) Drivers • (or VIDEO) connection • Single stereo line level output • Extensive power management support • Meets Microsoft's PC'97 and PC'98 audio performance - HP Vectra VEi8 | HP Vectra VEi7, VEi8 & VLi8, Technical Reference Manual (V - Page 33
• MAC address DOS report tool • User Diag for MS-DOS, Windows 95, Windows 98 and Windows NT 4.0 Drivers Windows 95, Windows 98, Windows NT 4.0, Windows 3.11, Windows NT 3.5.1, OS2 (Warp4), MS-DOS Specifications Network Interface • 10 Mbps Ethernet 10BASE-T: Ethernet IEEE 802.3 industry standard - HP Vectra VEi8 | HP Vectra VEi7, VEi8 & VLi8, Technical Reference Manual (V - Page 34
2.0 Component Code Diagnostics Drivers • Production Diag • MAC address DOS report tool • User Diagfor MS-DOS, Windows 95, Windows 98 and Windows NT 4.0 Windows 95, Windows 98, Windows NT 4.0, Windows 3.11, Windows NT 3.5.1, OS2 (Warp4), MS-DOS Specifications Network Interface Physical Dimensions - HP Vectra VEi8 | HP Vectra VEi7, VEi8 & VLi8, Technical Reference Manual (V - Page 35
drivers tested on your PC. Input Devices Standard HP Keyboard The standard HP keyboard has the following features: • Euro symbol available on selected localizations if supported by the operating system (Windows 98, Windows You can control and mute the PC's audio volume, put the PC in suspend or lock - HP Vectra VEi8 | HP Vectra VEi7, VEi8 & VLi8, Technical Reference Manual (V - Page 36
it as a third button. The scrolling mouse kit includes 1 scrolling mouse and 2 driver floppies. Specifications • PS/2 compatible mouse with rubber scrolling wheel, including miniDIN connector • Allows scrolling in Windows 95, 98, NT applications (not only Office 97-compatible applications) • Allows - HP Vectra VEi8 | HP Vectra VEi7, VEi8 & VLi8, Technical Reference Manual (V - Page 37
20 orientation key 22 Ground 2 24 Ground 3 26 Ground 4 28 CSEL 30 Ground 5 32 IOCS16# 34 PDIAG# 36 DA2 38 CS3FX 40 Ground 6 Floppy Disk Drive Data Connector Pin Signal Pin Signal 1 Ground 3 Ground 5 Ground 7 Ground 9 Ground 11 Ground 13 Ground 15 Ground 17 Ground 19 Ground 21 Ground 23 Ground - HP Vectra VEi8 | HP Vectra VEi7, VEi8 & VLi8, Technical Reference Manual (V - Page 38
Core Components and Technologies Connectors and Sockets Status Panel Connector (where available) and USB Stacked Connector Status Panel Connector Pin Signal Pin Signal 1 Red Led 2 Green Led 3 Reset 4 Lock 5 Ground 6 Power Leds 7 On_Off Button 8 Lan Led 9 Lock Leds 10 IDE/SCSI Led USB - HP Vectra VEi8 | HP Vectra VEi7, VEi8 & VLi8, Technical Reference Manual (V - Page 39
Power Supply 3V3 for System and PCI Wakeup Connector Power Supply 3V3 for System Pin Signal Pin Signal 1 Ground 2 Ground 3 Ground 4 + 3V3 Volt supply 5 + 3V3 Volt supply 6 + 3V3 Volt supply Power Supply 3V3 and Fan Connector (where available) Power Supply 3V3 on Backplane Pin Signal - HP Vectra VEi8 | HP Vectra VEi7, VEi8 & VLi8, Technical Reference Manual (V - Page 40
Core Components and Technologies Connectors and Sockets External Audio Connectors A Line In jack, Line Out jack and Mic In jack connector are located on the PCs' rear panel. These external jacks are standard connectors. - HP Vectra VEi8 | HP Vectra VEi7, VEi8 & VLi8, Technical Reference Manual (V - Page 41
Socket Pin Layouts Ethernet UTP Connector Core Components and Technologies Connectors and Sockets VGA Connector Keyboard and Mouse Connector Serial Port Connector Parallel Port Connector 41 - HP Vectra VEi8 | HP Vectra VEi7, VEi8 & VLi8, Technical Reference Manual (V - Page 42
detailed BIOS information and summary information on the hardware components in the PC. • Vectra Technology The document you are reading. A detailed look at the hardware components in all the PCs in the product line. Includes information on processors, chip sets, graphics controllers, network cards
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Technical Reference Manual
Vectra Technology
This manual is a technical reference document for engineers and
technicians providing system level support. It is assumed that the reader
possesses a detailed understanding of AT-compatible microprocessor
functions and digital addressing techniques.
Technical information that is readily available from other sources, such as
manufacturer’s proprietary publications, has not been reproduced.
This manual contains summary information only. For additional reference
material, refer to the bibliography inside this document.
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