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EPSON ActionPC 8000, ActionTower 8000

hard disk

access light

RESET

SPEED light POWER light

(HDD)

drive bays button

POWER

diskette drive

button

POWER light

SPEED light

access light

(HDD)

drive bays

option

slots

printer (parallel

AC inlet

voltage selector switch

AC outlet

9/95

Computer Specifications

CPU and Memory

64-bit CPU

Green PC

energy saver

586-class processor

Energy Star compliant, low power

standby, doze, and suspend modes for the

CPU, hard disk drive, and VGA display;

select timeout periods, power-saving

rates, and other options in SETUP

Memory

ROM

Video RAM

Shadow RAM

Cache

Math

coprocessor

Clock/

calendar

64-bit DRAM interface supporting 8MB

RAM standard on two 4MB SIMMs;

expandable to 128MB using 1MB, 2MB,

4MB, 8MB, 16MB, 32MB, and 64MB

SlMMs; SIMMs must be tin-plated, 72-pin,

32-bit or 36-bit, fast-page mode type with

access speed of 70ns or faster

128KB Phoenix’s system BIOS, video BIOS,

and SETUP code in Flash ROM on main

system board

1MB video DRAM on main system board;

expandable to 2MB using two 512KB,

40-pin, SOJ flat pack video DRAM chips

Supports shadowing of system and video

BIOS ROM into RAM; video and option

ROM shadowing selectable in SETUP

Internal cache in the 586-class processor;

256KB, 512KB, or 1MB of external cache

installed on 32K x 8, 64K x 8, or 128K x 8,

3.3 volt, 15ns cache SRAM DIP chips and

two 32K x 8, 28-pin, 5 volt, 15ns tag chips

(one for the tag and one for the ALT bit);

internal and external cache controllable

through SETUP

Math coprocessor built into the 586-class

processor

Real-time clock, calendar, and CMOS

RAM socketed on main

system board

with

on-chip backup battery

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Summary of content (10 pages)

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EPSON ActionPC 8000, ActionTower 8000 SPEED light POWER light hard disk access light (HDD) RESET drive bays button Computer Specifications CPU and Memory I POWER button diskette drive POWER light 64-bit CPU 586-class processor Green PC energy saver Energy Star compliant, low power standby, doze, and suspend modes for the CPU, hard disk drive, and VGA display; select timeout periods, power-saving rates, and other options in SETUP Memory 64-bit DRAM interface supporting 8MB RAM standard on two 4
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EPSON ActionPC 8000, ActionTower 8000 Controllers PCI chipset Video Diskette Hard disk and other IDE devices Provides PCI caching, memory, and control for the PCI bus and the twochannel PCI IDE interface (described under ‘Hard disk and other IDE devices” below); integrated PCI bridge translates CPU bus cycles to PCI bus cycles and CPU-to-PCI memory write cycles to PCI burst cycles Connector card with five I/O expansion slots; three ISA compatible (8.
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EPSON ActionPC 8000, ActionTower 8000 Physical Characteristics Dimension Width Jumper Settings Slimline computer Tower computer 16.8 inches (427 mm) 7.125 inches (181 mm) Depth 15.8 lnches (401 mm) 16.25 Inches (413 mm) Height 4.4 inches (112 mm) 13.25 inches (337 nun) Weight 16.2 lb (8.3 kg) with one diskette drive, but without 20.6 lb (9.3 kg) with one diskette drive.
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EPSON ActionPC 8000, ActionTower 8000 System Board Components The diagram below illustrates the components on the ActionPC 8000/ActionTower 8000 board. The table following it describes these components. / 1 JP2 - diskette drive / Interface .
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EPSON ActionPC 8000, ActionTower 8000 The table below lists all the possible SIMM not install SIMMs in any other configuration.
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EPSON ActionPC 8000, ActionTower 8000 External Cache Hard Disk Drive Information The computer has 256KB of external cache installed. You can expand the external cache to 512KB or 1MB with 64K x 8 or 128K x 8, 3.3 volt, 15ns SRAM DIP chips. The IDE hard disk drives listed in the tables below are qualified for use in the computer. IDE hard disk drive parameters You must install chips in one of the configurations in the table below (each bank contains four cache memory sockets). Use only 3.
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EPSON ActionPC 8000, ActionTower 8000 DMA Assignments System I/O address map (Continued) Hardware Interrupts Wm.
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EPSON ActionPC 8000, ActionTower 8000 riser board connector pin assignment VGA port connector pin assignments (J5) HDD LED connector pin assignments (J15) Pin (Signal 1 Red IPin ISignal 12 1 White Power supply connector pin assignments (J10) l All odd-numbered pins are grounds IDE drive connector pin assignments (J12 and J13) *Active low logic 13 ID2 1 D13 14 *Active low logic 127 128 1 IOCHRDY* IBAlE 1 I 8 - ActionPC 8000, ActionTower 8000 I 9/95
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EPSON ActionPC 8000, ActionTower 8000 SIMM socket connector pin assignments Installation/Support Tips Installing Diskette Drives 0 Make sure that the drive type has been correctly selected in the SETUP program. 0 Make sure jumper JP4 is set to position 1-2 to enable the diskette drive controller.
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EPSON ActionPC 8000, ActionTower 8000 Information Reference List Engineering Change Notices Technical Information Bulletins None. Product Support Bulletins None.