Everex EV-159 Bedienungshandbuch

~~IVERE RAM 3000 Deluxe™ (AT Memory Expansion Board) OWNER'S MANUAL AND REFERENCE GUIDE EV-159 (VERSION 2.1) EVER for EXcellence MAN-OOI09-21

Section 1.' How to Use This Manual Checklist contains a list of items that should be inside the RAM 3000 Deluxe carton. Please make sure all l

Examples of Optional Command Lines: 1. DEVICE = EMM.SYS CCOO [ENTER] This command line locates the page frame address at CCOO. If the page frame addr

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Appendix 1: Memory Basics explains how memory works on an AT (first-time users should read this appendix). Appendix 2: Dipswitch Setting Table provi

Section 2.' Introduction 2.1 Features Congratulations on purchasing your new RAM 3000 Deluxe AT-compatible memory board. This memory board includ

2.2 Physical Layout Below is a diagram of the RAM 3000 Deluxe with all the jumper and switch locations you need to know. See Section 3.1: Defa

2.3 Installation Summary 1. Make any adjustments to the switches and/or jumpers on the RAM 3000 Deluxe for your chosen board con-figuration (see S

Section 3.' Configuration Please note the following helpful hints for configuring the dipswitches and jumpers on the RAM 3000 Deluxe. Helpful H

Helpful Hint 2: There is a hole at the top of the black plastic jumper shunts to make the removal of the jumper from the connector pins easier. To

3.1 Default Settings The RAM 3000 Deluxe leaves the factory in this default configuration (see Table 1 on the following page for the jumper and dip

TABLE 1 Jumper/Switch Settings of the RAM 3000 Deluxe SWITCH! JUMPER DEFAULT SETTING AND DEFINITION W1 This jumper block selects the speed of

3.2 Configuring With Software NOTE: If you plan to test your RAM 3000 Deluxe to ensure you did the board configuration and RAM chip i

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you must fill. 5. Press the [FS] key to save the current configuration. The EVI59.EXE program will suggest the configuration file name EVI59.001; p

A Note About Installing Two Or More RAM 3000 Deluxe Boards: If you install more than one RAM 3000 Deluxe board and will use the EV159.EXE progr

TABLE 2 0 RAM 3000 Deluxe Memory Starting Address (SW3 Positions 2-8) RAM 3000 Deluxe Memory Starting SW3 Position Address 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 '-O

~ 3.3 Configuring Without Software ~JI') o o 3.3.1 Memory Configuration Part One: Memory Starting Address The starting address of the RAM 300

Part Two: Amount Of Memory Banks Filled Positions 1-3 of dipswitch SW2 set the number of banks of RAM chips installed on the RAM 3000 Deluxe. Alth

Part Three: RAM 3000 Deluxe Contiguous Memory Space SW2 positions 4-8 define the amount of contiguous memory space used on the RAM 3000 Deluxe fo

3.3.2 EMS Mode Configuration You can configure the RAM 3000 Deluxe for up to three megabytes of RAM memory under the Lotus/In-tel/Microsoft (LIM) Ex

To determine how many EMS I/O ports you need to enable, you must know how much memory on the RAM 3000 Deluxe is available for EMS mode. Use the fol

Step Two: Selecting EMS I/0 Port Address Unlike base memory and extended memory spaces on the A T, expanded memory space is accessed by mapping ea

+ ++ • •• ... 22 I/O Port Address • Y2X8 Y208 Y218 •• Y258 ••• Y268 Y2A8 Y2B8 Y2E8 TABLE 6 EMS I/O Port Selections (Dipswitch SWI and SW2) SWI and SW2

Notice Everex Systems, Inc. reserves the right to make improve-ments in the product described in this manual at any time and without notice. DISCLAI

NOTES: 1. The factory configuration for the RAM 3000 Deluxe uses 258 and 268 EMS 1/0 port addresses. If you install another expanded memory boar

Step Three: EMS Mode Data Path Size Normally, the data transfer to and from expanded memory space is done with 8-bit wide data paths. However,

3.3.3 Setting Chip Speed And Enabling Parity Checking The RAM 3000 Deluxe is factory-configured for the board to use 256K-bit DRAM chips with a

Due to the large amount of DRAM chips on the RAM 3000 Deluxe and the need for parity checking to insure the in-tegrity of the data, please leave the j

3.3.4 Setting The AT Motherboard Your system's motherboard mayor may not have a switch/jumper which determines the maximum amount of memory that

256K AT 512K AT Figure 4: The IBM PC AT Motherboard 28

3.4 Installing The DRAM Chips The process of adding DRAM memory chips to your RAM 3000 Deluxe is called populating. This may have been done by y

others at a later date. The only consequence will be less RAM available for base andlor extended memory up-grading. If you choose to upgrade base me

Each 256K-bit DRAM chip has eight metal pins along each side. Each row of pins goes into a corresponding row of holes in the socket. The pins and hol

Install the chip by first inserting the tips of the pins into the chip socket holes and then checking the alignment of the tips. If chip alignment

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Section 4: Installation When you finish configuring your RAM 3000 Deluxe, you can now install your board into your system. 4.1 Physical Installati

3. Choose an open 16-bit expansion slot on the mother-board. A 16-bit expansion slot has two sets of gold-edge connector slots. 8·BIT SLOT 16·BIT

5. Carefully insert the RAM 3000 Deluxe all the way into the expansion slot; remember to slide the board fully into the card guide on the front of t

tive. Refer to Appendix 5: If System Boot Fails on how to remedy this problem. 8. Run the EV159.EXE program to check out the board's memory ch

4.2 Testing The RAM 3000 Deluxe The RAM 3000 Deluxe utility diskette includes a program that will test the chips on the RAM 3000 Deluxe board

3. When the memory test points out the location of any bad chips (bad chips are shown blinking), check the chips at the locations represented on

Section 5.' RAM 3000 Deluxe Software Several utility programs are included on your RAM 3000 Deluxe utility software diskette. These programs in

5.1 EMM.8YS EMS Device Driver Expanded memory did not exist when your PC and its operating system (DOS) were invented. Because of this, DOS by

1. If your system disk already has a CONFIGSYS file, use a text editor to add the line device == emm.sys to your CONFIGSYS file. 2. If a CON

5.1.2 EMM.syS Parameters Though the command line device = emm.sys is fine for most circumstances, you can also add parameters to your EMMSYS comman

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[pppp] [port,page] This parameter tells EMMSYS where to look for a valid page frame. The page frame is the first address of the EMS mapping window.

frame address at C400 (Hex). If the page frame address is occupied, it will try to look for 64KB address space in as-cending order up to EOOO (Hex)

5.2 EDISK.8YS RAM Disk Device Driver The Everex utility EDISK.syS is a software device driver that allows you to set aside part of the compute

The RAM disk consists of RAM only, which is volatile. Any attempt to reboot the system or loss of power to the computer will result in a loss of da

EDISKSYS is an excellent way for AT owners who have extended memory available to take advantage of this memory space. Identify which types of memo

Follow these steps to create a RAM disk with EDISK.syS: 1. EDISK.syS is called up during the boot-up process from a special file called CONFIG.sy

5.2.2 EDISK.8YS Parameters You can add special parameters to change the RAM disk's buffer size, sector size, maximum number of root directory e

[sss] If your RAM disk resides in base memory, you must leave at least 64KB of base memory free for DOS. EDISK.syS will check that you have 64KB

[II] elude [:n], the values are 1 to 8. The [Ix] option informs EDISK.syS to load the RAM disk in expanded (EMS) memory. This parameter allows you to

A Note About Expanded Memory RAM Disks: If you define your EDISKSYS RAM disk in expanded memory (using the "Ix" parameter), it is very i

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5.3 ESPOOL.EXE Print Spooler One of the most frustrating things about using a computer is the fact that whenever you send ~ata out to your printer

5.3.2 ESPOOL.EXE Parameters When you install ESPOOL.EXE by typing ESPOOL [Enter], the resulting print spooler will be 64KB in size, located in

[/p:n] represents which parallel port the contents of the print spooler will be directed to. N or-mally, not including this parameter will direct

[lr] are 1 and 2), and h (which enables the XON/XOFF handshaking protocol to prevent the sending of spooler contents to a serial printer if the seria

\util\espool Ib:256 Ix Ip:2 This looks for the ESPOOL.EXE program In the \util sub-directory, then enables a 256KB print spooler in expanded memory

Section 6: Troubleshooting If you have trouble using the RAM 3000 Deluxe, this section contains answers to commonly asked user questions. In additi

2 The chips on Bank 0 and Bank 1 (which are used for base memory upgrading) are either improperly installed or defective. See Appendix 5: If System

6.2 How To Get Assistance If Section 6.1: Common Questions And Answers does not assist you in solving the problem that occurred when using the RA

5. In order to simplify the troubleshooting of your RAM 3000 Deluxe, the Technical Support Department sug-gests you give the following details wh

8. Finally, try to be near your system when you call, so you can follow the suggestions from Technical Support while on the phone in order to solv

5.2.3 EDISK.SYS ExamplesM ... _ ... M ... M... 51 5.3 ESPOOL.EXE Print Spooler ...

Appendix 1: Memory Basics: AI.I Description Of Memory The RAM 3000 Deluxe is designed to provide up to three megabytes of extended memory for AT-c

This type of memory allows program data to be as large as eight megabytes in size when several boards that meet this memory specification are installe

Al.2 AT Memory Line Figure 11 shows how memory is allocated on the AT and highlights the locations of base, extended and system reserved m

EMS expanded memory space is not linear, but addressed through 110 port-controlled memory addresses called pages. This means that on the EMS boa

Appendix 2.' Dipswitch Setting Table A2.1 Dipswitch SW2 POSITION 1-3 4-5 6-8 TABLES SW2 Functions FUNcrION Selects number of 512KB memory b

TABLE 10 Position 6-8 of SW3 Memory Represented Position (128KB Increments) 6 7 8 OKB OFF OFF OFF I28KB OFF OFF ON 256KB OFF ON OFF 384KB OFF O

A2.2 Dipswitch SW3 POSITION 1 2-5 6-8 TABLE 11 SW3 Functions FUNCTION Selects between 8 bit (OFF) and 16 bit (ON) EMS transfer mode. Selects RAM 300

TABLE 13 Positions 2-5 of SW3 RAM 3000 Deluxe Starting Address Position (1 M Increments) 2 3 4 5 o M (OOOOOOH) OFF OFF OFF OFF 1 M (100000H) OFF O

If you have a CS8220-based A T motherboard with 512KB base and 512KB extended memory installed: You choose the "640K" option from

Appendix 3.' EMS Technz'cal Reference Applications programmers writing software for the EMS mode on the RAM 3000 Deluxe should refer to th

Checklist The RAM 3000 Deluxe carton should include the following items: RAM 3000 Deluxe AT memory expansion board in an anti-static bag RAM

A3.2 Page Frame Addressing And Register Output "Paging" is a method of memory mapping that allows a computer to utilize more memory t

74 .----. 2048 KB (2MB) 1024 KB &4K ,--~~E-l;Ya~)-WINOOW PAGE -m3~ _'"-----i ,---PHYSICAL PAGE 640KB BASE MEMORY PC ADDRESS MAPPING SPA

A3.3 EMS I/O Port Address Selections EMS uses 110 ports to set up mapping information. These 1/0 ports are selectable and a number of 110 ports

A3.4 Mapping Registers Every page of EMS memory is 16KB in size. By setting the mapping registers to values from 0 to 127, one of the 16KB pages

For those who wish to write their own software to use ex-panded memory, all 15 values (0 to E) can be used as the X variable as long as the resulti

A3.5 Page Frame Registers The page frame registers are used to store the mapping values which determine the starting address for the page frame in

Generally, all EMS boards should have the same values in their page frame registers so that they all use the same 64K window in the physical memor

Appendix 4.' Regarding the AST PCnet II If you enable the RAM 3000 Deluxe for EMS mode and also install the AST PC net II network adapter board

Appendix 5: If System Boot Fails If you have set the RAM 3000 Deluxe to upgrade base memory and have installed the board, some AT compatibles may no

Appendix 6.. For Extended Memory Users If you plan to use the RAM 3000 Deluxe in conjunction with an extended-memory only operating system (for exam

NOTE 1: Please save all the packaging materials that accom-pany the RAM 3000 Deluxe board; if you need to return the board to Everex S

PRT-00034-99 Addendum Expanded Memory Manager (EMM.SYS) Driver to Support EMS Version 4.0 Everex Systems is shipping a new software device driver tha

DEVICE = EMM.SYS If you have any other Everex memory board model numbers, you must use the [port,page] parameter in the EMM.SYS command line as follo

Installing the EMM.SYS Program Expanded memory in your computer can only be accessed when it is managed by the expanded memory manager program EMM.SYS

3. Once the CONFIG.SYS file is loaded, add the following line: For Everex memory boards with model numbers EV-165, EV-165A, and EV-173: device = emm.s

Using the DOS COpy CON Command to Create or Modify the CONFIG.SYS File We recommend using your editor or word processing program to create or modi

3. Type in one of the following EMM.SYS command lines depending upon which Everex memory board you have: For Everex memory boards with model numbers E

"Expanded Memory Manager Installed" will be displayed. EMM.SYS Command Line Arguments Although the command line "device=emm.sys" w

Where: \path Ie pppp 8 defines the location of the directory where the EMM.SYS program is stored for those who prefer not to have the program in their

port,page search will continue up to, and including, address EOOO. If the search fails to find an unused 64 kbyte area, a message is printed and the s

/V:nnn /D /H:nnn 10 use logical pages 00-07; these pages are used for the memory upgrade. The next available logical page would be 08. informs