SERVICE MANUAL & TROUBLESHOOTING GUIDE FOR
SERVICE MANUAL & TROUBLESHOOTING GUIDE FOR
SERVICE MANUAL & TROUBLESHOOTING GUIDE FOR
7521
7521
BYBY::::::::Jesse .Jan
Jesse .Jan
TESTING TECHNOLOGY DEPARTMENT / TSSC
TESTING TECHNOLOGY DEPARTMENT / TSSC
MAR. 2001
MAR. 2001
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CONTENTS
1. HARDWARE ENGINEERING SPECIFICATION……………………..
2. DEFINITION & LOCATION CONNECTORS/ SWITCHES…………..
3. DEFINITION & LOCATION MAJOR COMPONENTS………………..
4. PIN DESCRIPTIONS OF MAJOR COMPONENTS ……………………
5. SYSTEM VIEW & DISASSEMBLY ……………………………………….
6. MAINTENANCE DIAGNOSTICS………………….………………………
7. TROUBLE SHOOTING …………………………………….……………..
8. SPARE PARTS LIST ……………………………….………………………
9. BLOCK DIAGRAM ………………………………………………………..
10. EXPLODED DRAWING…………………………………………………..
11. CIRCUIT DIAGRAM……………………………………………………...
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1.1 HARDWARE ENGINEERING SPECIFICATION
1.1.1 General Description
This document describes the engineering specification for 7521 portable notebook computer system.
1.1.2 System Overview
The 7521 model motherboard will accept Intel Pentium III and Celeron processor with FC-PGA packaged. Which will 
supports the different levels of Pentium III CPU with FC-PGA package. Those are Pentium III 600/650/700/750/800 MHz, 
and Celeron 600/633/667/700/733 MHz . 
This system is based on PCI architecture and is fully compatible with IBM PC/AT specification, which have standard 
hardware peripheral interface and support Intel Pentium III with FC-PGA package. The power management complies with 
Advanced Configuration and Power Interface (ACPI) 1.0. It also provides easy configuration through CMOS setup, which 
is built in system BIOS software and can be pop-up by pressing F2 at system start up or warm reset. System also provides 
icon LEDs to display system status, such as AC Power indicator, FDD, HDD, NUM LOCK, CAP LOCK, SCROLL LOCK, 
SUSPEND MODE and battery present, capacity & charging status. It also equipped with LAN, FIR, USB port, 3D stereo 
audio functions.
The memory subsystem supports 64MB on board SDRAM, one 144pin DIMM socket for upgrading up to 192 MB of 
DRAM using SDRAM DIMM module.
The SiS 630 integrates the north bridge chip, super south bridge and the real 128-bit 3D graphics accelerator all into one 
single chip. It provides 10/100M Fast Ethernet, 3D Positional Audio, Advance H/W DVD playback and 2D/3D graphics 
engine.
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The TI 1225 cardbus controller supports PCMCIA and CARDBUS. The National Semiconductor PC97338 Super I/O 
controller integrates the standard PC I/O functions: floppy interface, two FIFO serial ports, one EPP/ECP capable 
parallel port, and support for an IrDA 1.1, 1.0 and sharp ASK compatible infrared interface. To provide for the 
increasing number of multimedia applications, an CODEC CS4299 is integrated onto the motherboard which support 
16-bit stereo, Sound Blaster Pro, Windows Sound System compatibility, and full-duplex capabilities to meet the 
demands of interactive multimedia applications
A full set of software drivers and utilities are available to allow advanced operating systems such as Windows 95 or 
Windows 98 to take full advantage of the hardware capabilities. Features such as bus mastering IDE, Windows 95-
ready Plug and Play, Advanced Power Management (APM) with application restart, software-controlled power 
shutdown..
1.2 Hardware System
1.2.1 System parts 
 Central Processing Unite : using Intel Pentium Ⅲ or Celeron  microprocessors in FC-PGA packaged. 
 Synthesizer : ICS9248-102.
 SiS 630 : CPU/ PCI and CPU/AGP bridge with memory controller/LAN/IDE/USB/PMU controller.
 Super I/O Controller : NS PC 97338VJG.
 PCMCIA Interface Controller : TI 1225.
 Keyboard System : Hitachi H8 (3434F) universal keyboard controller.
 3D Audio System : CRYSTAL CS 4299 CODEC.
 FIR port : HP HSDL-3600#007 FIR module.
 FAX/ MODEM : ASKEY 56Kbps Fax MODEM, software Modem (Option) . 
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1.2.2  CPU MODULE
 Intel Pentium Ⅲ/ Celeron Processors with 370 pins PGA package. 
 Pentium Ⅲ 600/650/700/750/800 MHz, FC-PGA package at FSB 100MHz.  
 Celeron 600/ 633/ 667/ 700/ 733 MHz, FC-PGA package.
1.2.3  Synthesizer
 System frequency synthesizer : ICS9248-102
- Maximized EMI suppression using Integrate Circuit System’s spread spectrum technology.
- Three copies of CPU output, output to output skew between them within 175ps and seven copies of PCI output, output to  
output skew between them 500ps, fourteen copies of SDRAM output, output to output skew between them within 250ps.
- One 48MHz outout for USB and selectable 24/48 MHz output ( pin25 ).
- Two buffer copies of 14.318MHz input reference signal.
- Supports up to 166MHz CPU or SDRAM operation. 
- Supports two SDRAM DIMMS.
- Ideal for high performance Desktop/ Notebook designed using SIS630 chip set.
- I²C serial configuration interface.
1.2.4  SiS630 Slot 1/Socket 370 2D/3D Ultra-AGP™ Single Chipset
The single chipset SiS630, provide a high performance/ low cost Desktop soloution for the Intel Slot 1 and socket 370 series 
CPUs based system by integrated a high performance North Bridge, advanced hardware 2D/3D GUI engine and Super-South 
bridge. In addition. SiS630 provides system-on-chip solution that complies with Easy PC Initiative which supports instantly
Available OnNow PC technology, USB, Legacy Removal and Slotless Design and FlexATX form factor.
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By integrating the UltraAGP™ technology and advanced 128-bit graphic display interface, SiS630 delivers AGP 4x-like 
performance and up to 2 GB/s memory bandwidth. Furthermore, SiS630 provides powerful hardware decoding DVD 
accelerator to improve the DVD playback performance. In addition to providing the standard interface for CRT monitors, 
SiS630 also
provides the Digital Flat Panel Port (DFP) for a standard interface between a personal computer and a digital flat panel 
monitor. To extend functionality and flexibility, SiS also provides the ?Video Bridge?(SiS301) to support the NTSC/PAL 
Video Output, Digital LCD Monitor and Secondary CRT Monitor, which reduces the external Panel Link transmitter and 
TV-Out encoder
for cost effected solution. SiS630 also adopts Share System Memory Architecture which can flexibly utilize the frame buffer 
size up to 64MB.
The “Super-South Bridge” in SiS630 integrates peripheral controllers / accelerators / interfaces. SiS630 provides a total 
communication solution including 10/100Mb Fast Ethernet for Office requirement and 1Mb HomePNA for Home 
Networking. SiS630 offers AC’97 compliant interface that comprises digital audio engine with 3D-hardware accelerator, on-
chip
sample rate converter, and professional wavetable along with separate modem DMA controller.  SiS630 also provides
interface to Low Pin Count (LPC) operating at 33 MHz clock which is the same as PCI clock on the host, and dual USB host 
controller with five USB ports that deliver better connectivity and 2 x 12Mb bandwidth.
The built-in fast PCI IDE controller supports the ATA PIO/DMA, and the Ultra DMA33/66 function that supports the data 
transfer rate up to 66 MB/s. It provides the separate data path for two IDE channels that can eminently improve the 
performance under the multi-tasking environment.
Features
Host Interface Controller
 Supports Intel Pentium III/Celeron  CPU at 100/66MHz Front Side Bus Frequency
 Synchronous Host/DRAM Clock Scheme
 Asynchronous Host/Dram Clock Scheme
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Integrated DRAM Controller
 3-DIMM/6-Bank of 3.3V SDRAM
 Supports NEC Virtual Channel Memory (VC-SDRAM) Technology
 Supports Memory Bus up to 133MHz
 System Memory Size up to 1.5GB
 Up to 512 MB per Row
 Supports 16Mb, 64Mb, 128Mb, 256Mb, 512Mb, SDRAM Technology
 Suspend-to-RAM (STR)
 Relocatable System Management Memory Region
 Programmable Buffer Strength for CS#, DQM[7:0], WE#, RAS#, CAS#, CKE, MA[14:0] and MD[63:0]
 Shadow RAM Size from 640KB to 1MB in 16KB incrementss
 Two Programmable PCI Hole Areas
Integrated A.G.P. Compliant Target /66Mhz Host-to-PCI Bridge
 AGP v2.0 Compliant
 Supports Graphic Window Size from 4MBytes to 256MBytes
 Supports Pipelined Process in CPU-to Integrated 3D A.G.P. VGA Access
 Supports 8 Way, 16 Entries Page Table Cache for GART to Enhance Integrated A.G.P. VGA Controller Read/Write 
Performance
 Supports PCI-to-PCI Bridge Function for Memory Write from 33MHz PCI Bus to Integrated A.G.P. VGA
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Meet PC99 Requirements PCI 2.2 Specification Compliant High Performance PCI Arbiter
 Supports up o 4 PCI Masters
 Rotating Priority Arbitration Scheme
 Advanced Arbitration Scheme Minimizing Arbitration Overhead
 Guaranteed Minimum Access Time for CPU and PCI Masters 
Integrated Host-to-PCI Bridge
 Zero Wait State Burst Cycles
 CPU-to-PCI Pipeline Access
 256B to 4KB PCI Burst Length for PCI Masters
 PCI Master Initiated Graphical Texture Write Cycles Re-mapping
 Reassembles PCI Burst Data Size into Optimized Block Size
Fast PCI IDE Master/Slave Controller
 Supports PCI Bus Mastering
 Native Mode and Compatibility Mode
 PIO Mode 0,1,2,3,4
 Multiword DMA Mode 0,1,2
 Ultra DMA 33/66
 Two Independent IDE Channels Each with 16 DW FIFO
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