Intel® 820E Chipset

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A standby power supply should be used in a desktop system to provide continuous power to the RTC when available, which will significantly increase the RTC battery life and thereby increase the RTC accuracy.

2.19.5.RTC External RTCRST Circuit

The ICH2 RTC requires additional external circuitry. The RTCRST# signal is used to reset the RTC well. The external capacitor and the external resistor between RTCRST# and the RTC battery (VBAT) were selected to create an RC time delay, such that RTCRST# will go high some time after the battery voltage becomes valid. The RC time delay should be within the range 10 ms–20 ms. When RTCRST# is asserted, bit 2 (RTC_PWR_STS) in the GEN_PMCON_3 (General PM Configuration 3) register is set to 1 and remains set until cleared by software. As a result, when the system boots, the BIOS knows that the RTC battery has been removed.

Figure 61. RTCRST External Circuit for ICH2 RTC

 

VCC3_3SBY

Diode/

 

Battery

 

Circuit

1 k

 

8.2 k

RTCRST

Circuit

VccRTC 1.0 µF

RTCRST#

2.2 µF

rtc_rtcrst_ich

This RTCRST# circuit is combined with the diode circuit (Figure 60. Diode Circuit Connecting RTC External Battery), which allows the RTC well to be powered by the battery when system power is unavailable. Figure 59 is an example of the circuit used in conjunction with the external diode circuit.

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Intel 820E manual RTC External Rtcrst Circuit, Rtcrst External Circuit for ICH2 RTC