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Appendix f: limitations, Bios limitations, 13 appendix f: limitations – Kontron ETX-LX User Manual

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13 Appendix F: Limitations

Kontron User's Guide ETX®-LX

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13 Appendix F: Limitations

This list documents the limitations of Kontron‘s ETX®-LX board. It documents which BIOS- or hardware
revision will fix a certain limitation.

13.1

BIOS Limitations

External Super I/O does not work after S3

To disable LAN hardware Revision CE 3.2.0 or newer is necessary

13.2

Limitations of hardware revision CE B.3.x
(18027-0000-50-0 / 18027-0000-50-1)

PCI bus is only 3,3V and NOT 5V compatible

Note:

Do not use PCI hardware which only supports 5V.

ISA Bus limitations

SMEMR, SMEMW do not support 16bit ISA

16bit DMA signals DRQ5…7 and DACK5…7 are not available

16bit ISA memory and I/O access is not supported

The signals IOCHCK#, MASTER#, NOWS#, REFSH# and SBHE# are not supported

13.3

Limitations of hardware revision CE 2.x.x/3.x.x/4.x.x
(180027-0000-50-4 / 18027-0000-50-5)

For Modules with CE 3.4.0 (CPU Rev. C3) or newer BIOS MLX8R116 or newer is necessary

PCI bus is only 3,3V and NOT 5V compatible

Note:

Do not use PCI hardware which only supports 5V.

ISA Bus limitations

The signals IOCHCK#, MASTER#, NOWS#, REFSH# and SBHE# are not supported

16bit DMA signals DRQ5…7 and DACK5…7 are not available

16bit ISA memory access is not supported