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NEW EPSON ActionPC 5000, ActionTower 5000

speed light

power lightpower light

hard

diskhard disk

drive baysdrive bays

reset buttonreset button

diskette drive

button

/-\

inlet

AC outlet

MOUSE

COM2

VGA

power

power light

speed light

hard disk

access light

drive bays

PARALLEL

COM1

MOUSE

AC Inlet

option skits

AC &let\

voltage switch

Computer Specifications

CPU and Memory

32-bit CPU

486SX/25 or /33; SX2/50 or /66;

DX/33, /40, or /50; DX2/50 or /66;

DX4/75 or /100; or Pentium™OverDrive™

processor

Green PC

energy saver

Energy Star compliant, low-power,

standby mode for the hard disk drive and

video signals

sent

by the computer to the

monitor; select timeout periods in SETUP;

in a standard

configuration

of one hard

disk drive and one diskette drive,

system

consumes less than 30 watts in standby

mode

System speed

Fast and slow processor speeds available;

fast is the speed of your processor and

slow is 8 MHz; 0 wait state memory access

at fast speed

Press

Ctrl Alt

and - to select slow speed or

Ctrl Alt

and + to select fast speed

Memory

ROM

Video RAM

Shadow RAM

Memory

relocation

4MB or 8MB RAM standard on a SIMM;

expandable to 64MB using 1MB, 2MB,

4MB, 8MB, 16MB, and 32MB SIMMs;

SIMMs must be tin-plated, 72-pin, 32-bit

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

access speed of 70ns or faster

128KB Phoenix@ system BIOS, video BIOS,

and SETUP program located in EPROM

on main system board

1MB DRAM on main system board;

expandable to 2MB using eight,

4 x 4 x 256, 20-pin DIP chips

Supports shadowing of system and video

BIOS ROM into RAM

Supports relocation of 256KB of memory

from A0000h to BFFFFh and D0000h to

EFFFFh to extended

memory

8/94

NEW EPSON ActionPC 5000, ActionTower 5000 - 1

Summary of content (12 pages)

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NEW EPSON ActionPC 5000, ActionTower 5000 speed light power light hard hard disk drive bays reset button Computer Specifications CPU and Memory 32-bit CPU 486SX/25 or /33; SX2/50 or /66; DX/33, /40, or /50; DX2/50 or /66; DX4/75 or /100; or Pentium™OverDrive™ processor Green PC Energy Star compliant, low-power, standby mode for the hard disk drive and video signals sent by the computer to the monitor; select timeout periods in SETUP; in a standard configuration of one hard disk drive and one diskett
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NEW EPSON ActionPC 5000, ActionTower 5000 Cache 8KB of internal cache; supports 64KB, 128KB, or 256KB of external cache using 28-pin, 8 x 8 or 32 x 8, 20ns DIP chips; in 486DX/50 or Pentium OverDrive systems, use a 15ns tag chip.
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NEW EPSON ActionPC 5000, ActionTower 5000 SETUP Program Stored in ROM; accessible by pressing F2 during boot Major Subassemblies System security User and Supervisor level passwords (8 characters) available for system boot or diskette access The following diagrams illustrate the major subassemblies in the ActionPC 5000 and ActionTower 5000 systems.
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NEW EPSON ActionPC 5000, ActionTower 5000 System Board Components The diagram below illustrates the components on the ActionPC 5000/ActionTower 5000 system board. The table following it describes these components.
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NEW EPSON ActionPC 5000, ActionTower 5000 External cache jumper settings components Socket I component Cache size* J24 J25 J26 J27 J28 U1, U2, U4, U6 U5 U12, U13 I SIMM sockets 64KB 128KB 256KB On On On Off On On Off Off On 1-2 2-3 1-2 Off 2-3 1-2 U15 U17 Keyboard/mouse controller Super I/O controller (UMC82C863,865); supports up to two diskette drives. two serial pods, and one parallel port Microprocessor (ZIF socket) Clock generator: 4V to 7V operating supply range, 1 ns skew.
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NEW EPSON ActionPC 5000, ActionTower 5000 SIMM Installation Video resolutions, colors, and refresh rates The computer comes with 4MB or 8MB of memory on a SIMM. You can increase the memory in this computer up to 64MB by installing additional SIMMs. There are four SIMM sockets on the main system board, and each can contain one SIMM. You can install 1MB, 2MB, 4MB, 8MB, 16MB, and 32MB SIMMs. Resolution 640X480 Memory Requirements Color (MB) 1 1 1 256 32K/64K 16.
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NEW EPSON ActionPC 5000, ActionTower 5000 Hard Disk Drive Types Drive Option Information Your computer comes with a hard disk auto-sensing feature. When you select the Autotype Fixed Disk option, the system detects the type of hard disk drive you have installed and fills in the drive information using values in the following table. IDE hard disk drive jumper settings Hard disk drive types l CS (cable selection) can also be jumpered for any configuration.
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NEW EPSON ActionPC 5000, ActionTower 5000 Diskette and magnet-optical drive specifications System Memory Map FFFFFFFFFh System BIOS ROM: 64KB Duplicated from 0F0000h FFFFF0000h Resewed for system board: 64KB Duplicated from 0E0000h 4000000h 64MB (Maximum system memory) Extended memory 001000000h DMA Assignments Level DMA0 DMA1 DMA2 DMA3 DMA4 DMA5 DMA6 DMA7 System BIOS ROM: 64KB Default Shadow RAM duplicated at FF0000h Assigned device Reserved (8-bit) Reserved (8-bit) FDD controller (8-bit) Reserved
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NEW EPSON ActionPC 5000, ActionTower 5000 System l/O Address Map Connector Pin Assignments -Hex address 000-01F 020 - 03F 022 - 024 034,03B,03C 040 - 05F 060-06F 070 - 07F (CMOS) Parallel port connector pin assignments (CN12) Assigned device DMA controller 1,8237 interrupt controller 1,8259 UMC 82C481 chip set configuration register AD12 chip set configuration registers Timer, 8254 Keyboard controller, 8042 I Real-time clock NMI (non-maskable interrupt) Pin 1 2 Signal Strobe’ Data 0 Pin Signal 10 AC
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NEW EPSON ActionPC 5000, ActionTower 5000 Option card riser board connector pin assignment: (S1) (continued) Diskette drive connector pin assignments (CN4) Pin* 2 4 6 Signal NC NC NC Pin* 20 22 24 Signal Step Write data Write enable * Ail odd-numbered pins are grounds Hard disk drive connector pin assignments (CN13) ‘Active low logic VESA 112-pin expansion slot 13 14 ID2 ID13 127 1 IOCHRDY* 1 128 IBALE I *Active low ioglc Speaker connector pin assignments (CN16) Pin 1 2 Signal +5VDC NC P
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NEW EPSON ActionPC 5000, ActionTower 5000 Option slot connector pin assignments SA16 S415 S414 SA13 SA12 SA11 SA10 SA9 SA8 IA25 IS48 l Active low logic Tested Operating Environments 1 B19 1 C13 1 SD10 I 1 Although your system will run most software applications, the following operating environments have been tested for compatibility with your system. *Active low logic VL-bus slot connectors pin assignments Microsoft MS-DOS 3.3 and later Novell DR DOS Novell NetWare* 2.2, 3.12, and 4.
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NEW EPSON ActionPC 5000, ActionTower 5000 Installation/Support Tips Installing Diskette Drives P Make sure that the drive type has been correctly selected in the SETUP program. Installing Option Cards If you are installing a video adapter card that doesn’t support VGA, make sure you disable the built-in VGA by removing jumpers J20 and J21. Installing External Cache Cl Make sure jumper J6 is set to position 1-2 to enable the diskette drive controller.