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LV-678

Mini-ITX motherboard

User’s Manual

Edition: 1.00

2008/06/13

Summary of Contents for LV-678

Page 1: ...LV 678 Mini ITX motherboard User s Manual Edition 1 00 2008 06 13 ...

Page 2: ...ment are property of their respective owners Disclaimer The company shall not be liable for any incidental or consequential damages resulting from the performance or use of this product The company does not issue a warranty of any kind express or implied including without limitation implied warranties of merchantability or fitness for a particular purpose The company has the right to revise the ma...

Page 3: ...Hardware LV 678 Mini ITX motherboard x 1 Cable Kit Other Accessories Divers CD including User s Manual x 1 RAID drivers Disc for Windows 2000 Windows XP and Windows Server 2003 SATA Cable x 2 26 pin Slim Type Floppy Cable x 1 I O Shield x 1 SATA Power Y Cable x 1 USB Cable x 1 COM Port Cable x 1 ...

Page 4: ...onnectors 15 2 3 2 External Connectors 15 2 4 CPU and Memory Setup 16 2 4 1 CPU installation 16 2 4 2 Memory installation 17 2 5 CMOS Setup 18 2 6 Serial ATA installation 19 2 7 Floppy Installation 20 2 8 LAN installation 21 2 9 Onboard Display Interface 22 2 9 1 Analog Display 22 2 10 Audio Installation 23 2 11 GPIO interface 25 2 12 USB Installation 26 2 13 Power and Fan Installation 28 2 14 Ser...

Page 5: ... 4 BIOS Setup 41 Appendix A I O Port Pin Assignment 43 A 1 Serial ATA Port 43 A 2 Floppy Port 43 A 3 IrDA Port 44 A 5 VGA Port 44 A 6 LAN Port 45 Appedix B System Resources 46 Appedix C Flash BIOS 50 C 1 BIOS Auto Flash Tool 50 C 2 Flash Method 50 Appendix D Programming GPIO s 51 Appendix E Watch Dog timer Setting 52 Contact Information 53 ...

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Page 7: ...GA package for 800 1066 1333MHz front side bus 8MB L2 cache for 65nm and 45nm manufacturing technology the PLGA processor without pin header on solder side can make user installing the processor on the socket easier Intel Q35 and ICH9DO chipset The Intel Q35 integrates DDR2 667 800MHz for memory and Graphic Media Accelerator GMA 3100 technology for new graphic engine It can provide up to 384MB of ...

Page 8: ...al I O interface Extended Interface One PCIE x 16 slot one Mini PCI Type III A Internal I O Port 1 x RS232 422 485 1 x slim FDD port 1 x GPIO port 1 x CDIN connector 1 x Audio connector 1 x IrDA connector and 2 x USB ports External I O Port 2 x RJ45 LAN ports 1 x DB15 VGA port 1 x PS 2 Keyboard Mouse Port 6 x USB2 0 ports 1 x SPDIF connector and 1 x Serial Port External Audio Line in MIC in Front ...

Page 9: ...10 pin header for line in out MIC in 4 pin header for CD IN Expansive Interface Mini PCI One Mini PCI socket TYPE III A 32 bit 33MHz Power supply 3 3V 5V Power and Environment Power Requirement Standard ATX 24 pin 20 pin is compatible power supply Additional 12V 4 pin power connector Dimension 170 L mm x 170 H mm Temperature Operating within 0 60P o PC 32 140P o PF Storage within 20 85P o PC 4 185...

Page 10: ... Celeron with 775 pin PLGA Intel Q35 2 x 240 pin DDR2 667 800MHz up to 4GB PCI bus Mini PCI slot 2 x Serial ports 1 x Slim Floppy 8 bit GPIO 8 x USB2 0 ports HD Audio ICH9DO 6 x Serial ATAII ports Intel 82573L 2 x GLAN IrDA BIOS SPI Intel GMA3100 Graphics PCI Express x16 ...

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Page 13: ...3 PS2 Chapter 2 Hardware Setup 2 1 Connector Location CN_12V CN_USB CPUFAN JAT SYSFAN JFRNT JRTC CN_AUDIO SPDIF CN_IR FDD CRT RJ45_1 2 USB Audio CN_DIO S_ATA1 6 PCIE_16X Mini PCI ATX CN_COM2 JCSEL1 JCSEL2 DDRII 1 2 COM1 CDIN ...

Page 14: ... User s Manual Connector Reference 14 JAT 2 2 Jumper Reference Jumper Function JRTC CMOS Operating Clear Setting JAT Power mode select Power Mode JAT AT Mode ATX Mode Default setting ATX Mode JRTC 1 3 1 3 1 3 ...

Page 15: ...n CD ROM audio input connector CN_DIO 6 x 2 pin digital I O connector CN_USB 10 pin USB connector CPUFAN 4 pin CPU cooler fan connector SYSFAN 3 pin system cooler fan connector CN_IR 5 pin IrDA connector JFRNT 14 pin front panel switch indicator connector PCIE_16X 1 PCI Express 16x slot Mini PCI 1 x Mini PCI socket CN_COM2 5 x 2 pin com connector 2 3 2 External Connectors Connector Function Remark...

Page 16: ...et cover on the CPU Socket Warning Warranty void if CPU socket internal pin damage Intel Core2 Quad Core 2 Duo Celeron processor Package type 775 pin LGA L2 Cache 4 MB FSB 800 1066 1333MHz 266MHz x 4 Manufacturing 65nm and 45nm 1 Lift this bar 2 Uncover this plate Check point 3 Place the CPU on the top of the pins 3 Cover this plate 4 Lock this bar Notice Please place the CPU on the pins tenderly ...

Page 17: ...678 has two 240 pin DDR2 DIMM support up to 4GB of memory capacity The memory frequency supports 667 800MHz Only Non ECC memory is supported DDRII1 2 112 pin 128 pin Please check the pin number to match the socket side well before installing memory module ...

Page 18: ...an be setting in BIOS If the board refuses to boot due to inappropriate CMOS settings here is how to proceed to clear reset the CMOS to its default values Jumper JRTC Type Onboard 3 pin jumper JRTC Mode 1 2 Clear CMOS 2 3 Normal Operation Default setting 2 3 JRTC 1 3 ...

Page 19: ...ion of RAID 0 1 5 and 10 The main features of RAID on ICH8DO are listed below 1 Supports for up to RAID volumes on a single two hard drive RAID array 2 Supports for two two hard drive RAID arrays on any of six Serial ATA ports 3 Supports for Serial ATA ATAPI devices 4 Supports for RAID spares and automatic rebuild 5 Supports on RAID arrays including NCQ and native hot plug For more information ple...

Page 20: ...se floppy and powering from onboard please follow up the steps below to install the device FDD 1 Lift up this plastic bar 2 Slot the cable in Blue paste for outside 3 Press back the plastic bar Floppy rear side 4 Lift up the brown plastic bar 5 Slot the cable in Blue paste for brown bar side 6 Press back the plastic bar ...

Page 21: ...The board integrates with two Intel 82573L Gigabit Ethernet controllers as the PCI bus with 133MB s of transfer rate The Intel 82573L supports triple speed of 10 100 1000Base T with IEEE802 3 compliance and Wake On LAN supported RJ45 LAN Connector ...

Page 22: ... board provides one DB15 connector on real external I O port Notice When you install any PCI Express Graphic card the onboard graphics would be disabled automatically 2 9 1 Analog Display Please connect your CRT or LCD monitor with DB15 male connector to the onboard DB15 female connector on rear I O port VGA ...

Page 23: ...io compliance The main specifications of ALC888 are High performance DACs with 100dB S N ratio 8 DAC channels support 16 20 24 bit PCM format for 7 1 audio solution 16 20 24 bit S PDIF OUT supports 44 1K 48K 96kHz sample rate Compatible with HD Meets Microsoft WHQL WLP 2 0 audio requirements The board provides 7 1 channels audio phone jacks on rear I O port Line in MIC in ports for front I O panel...

Page 24: ...aker Connector CN_AUDIO Type 10 pin 2 x 5 header pitch 2 54mm Pin Description Pin Description 1 MIC_L 2 Ground 3 MIC_R 4 ACZ_DET 5 Speaker_R 6 MIC Detect 7 SENSE 8 N C 9 Speaker_L 10 Speaker Detect Connector CDIN Type 4 pin header pitch 2 54mm Pin Description 1 CD Left 2 Ground 3 Ground 4 CD Right ...

Page 25: ...gital I O interface and SMBus System management bus interface for control panel application Connector CN_DIO Type onboard 2 x 6 pin header pitch 2 0mm Pin Description Pin Description 1 Ground 2 Ground 3 GP10 4 GP14 5 GP11 6 GP15 7 GP12 8 GP16 9 GP13 10 GP17 11 VCC 12 12V CN_DIO 11 2 1 12 ...

Page 26: ...elow Interface USB2 0 Controller Intel ICH9DO Transfer Rate Up to 480Mb s Voltage 5V The Intel ICH9DO contains two Enhanced Host Controller Interface EHCI and six Universal Host Controller Interfaces UHCI it can determine whether your connected device is for USB1 1 or USB2 0 and change the transfer rate automatically USB ...

Page 27: ...678 User s Manual 27 Connector CN_USB Type 10 pin 5 x 2 header for USB5 6 Ports Pin Description Pin Description 1 VCC 2 VCC 3 Data0 4 Data1 5 Data0 6 Data1 7 Ground 8 Ground 9 Ground 10 N C CN_USB 10 1 2 9 ...

Page 28: ...onal 12V connector and the board provides one 4 pin fan connectors supporting smart fan for CPU cooler and one 3 pin cooler fan connectors for system fan The 4 pin CN_12V additional power connector is necessary for CPU powering please connect this well before you finishing the system setup CN_12V 1 24 ATX CPUFAN SYSFAN 1 3 1 4 3 1 2 4 2 23 ...

Page 29: ...V 11 12V 23 5V 12 3 3V 24 GND Connector CN_12V Type 4 pin standard Pentium 4 additional 12V power connector Pin Description Pin Description 1 Ground 2 Ground 3 12V 4 12V Connector CPUFAN Type 4 pin fan wafer connector Pin Description Pin Description 1 Ground 2 12V 3 Fan Speed Detection 4 Fan Control Connector SYSFAN Type 3 pin fan wafer connector Pin Description Pin Description Pin Description 1 G...

Page 30: ... jumper JCSEL1 JCSEL2 can let you configure the communicating modes for COM2 Connector CN_COM2 Type 10 pin 5 x 2 2 54mm x 2 54mm pitch header for COM2 Pin Description Pin Description 1 DCD 422TX 485 2 RXD 422TX 485 3 TXD 422RX 4 DTR 422RX 5 GND 6 DSR 7 RTS 8 CTS 9 RI 10 N C JCSEL1 JCSEL2 SIR RS 422 RS 485 RS 232 8 2 7 1 10 1 2 1 12 11 2 9 ...

Page 31: ...r etc Please check well before you connecting the cables on the chassis Connector JFRNT Type onboard 14 pin 2 x 7 2 54 pitch header Function Signal PIN Signal Function HDLED 1 2 PWDLED IDE LED HDLED 3 4 N C Reset 5 6 PWDLED Power LED Reset Reset 7 8 SPKIN N C 9 10 N C PWRBT 11 12 N C Power Button PWRBT 13 14 SPKIN Speaker JFRNT 14 1 2 13 ...

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Page 33: ... Chapter 3 System Configuration 3 1 SATA configuration SATA Mode This option can let you select whether the Serial ATA hard drives would work under normal IDE mode or RAID mode The RAID mode need more than one HDD is applied ...

Page 34: ... was lost from a single drive which increases fault tolerance The data and parity are striped across all the hard drives in the array The parity is striped in a rotating sequence to reduce bottlenecks associated with the parity calculations RAID 10 RAID 0 1 A RAID 10 array uses four hard drives to create a combination of RAID levels 0 and 1 The data is striped across a two drive array forming the ...

Page 35: ...for Microsoft Windows XP SP1 please install the Intel Application Accelerator Ver 4 5 later to support RAID configuration with Intel Matrix Storage Technology 1 After installing Intel Application Accelerator please execute Intel Storage Utility Demo configuration for 2 SATA Drives and set as Intel Matrix Storage Technology set ...

Page 36: ...LV 678 User s Manual 36 2 Select Actions to Create RAID Volume Rename the Volume name Select RAID Level as 0 Left as default ...

Page 37: ...lume size 5 Repeat the step 1 to create second volume as RAID Level 1 Tune this bar to specify the volume size if you specify the volume size lower than maximum you can create a second volume for another RAID set Make RAID 0 1 on only two hard drives For other configuration set please click Help on tool bar ...

Page 38: ...codec It can support 2 channel or 7 1 channel sound under system configuration Please follow the steps below to setup your sound system 1 Install REALTEK HD Audio driver 2 Lunch the control panel and Sound Effect Manager 3 Select Speaker Configuration 4 Select the sound mode to meet your speaker system ...

Page 39: ...pported OS BIOS Setup On Chip Video Memory Size This option combines three items below for setup On Chip Frame Buffer Size This item can let you select video memory which been allocated for legacy VGA and SVGA graphics support and compatibility The available option is 1MB and 8MB Fixed Memory Size This item can let you select a static amount of page locked graphics memory which will be allocated d...

Page 40: ... System Memory On Chip Frame Buffer Size Fixed Memory Size DVMT Memory Size Total Graphic Memory 1MB 128MB 0MB 128MB 1MB 0MB 128MB 128MB 8MB 128MB 0MB 128MB 256MB 511MB 8MB 0 128MB 128MB 1MB 128MB 0 128MB 1MB 256MB 0 256MB 1MB 0 128MB 128MB 1MB 0 256MB 256MB 8MB 128MB 0 128MB 8MB 256MB 0 256MB 8MB 0 128MB 128MB 512MB 1023MB 8MB 0 256MB 256MB 1MB 128MB 0 128MB 1MB 256MB 0 256MB 1MB 0 128MB 128MB 1M...

Page 41: ...ion when the power is turned off If the battery runs out of the power then the settings of BIOS will come back to the default setting The BIOS section of the manual is subject to change without notice and is provided here for reference purpose only The settings and configurations of the BIOS are current at the time of print and therefore they may not be exactly the same as that displayed on your s...

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Page 43: ...ATA_TXP1 RSATA_TXN1 GND RSATA_RXN1 RSATA_RXP1 GND A 2 Floppy Port Connector FDD Type 26 pin connector Pin Description Pin Description 1 VCC 2 INDEX 3 VCC 4 DRV0 5 VCC 6 DSKCHG 7 DRV1 8 N C 9 MTR1 10 MTR0 11 RPM 12 DIR 13 N C 14 STEP 15 Ground 16 WRITE DATA 17 Ground 18 WRITE GATE 19 N C 20 TRACK 0 21 N C 22 WRPTR 23 Ground 24 RDATA 25 Ground 26 SEL 1 7 ...

Page 44: ...tor on bracket Pin Description Pin Description 1 DCD 6 DSR 2 SIN 7 RTS 3 SO 8 CTS 4 DTR 9 RI 5 Ground A 5 VGA Port Connector CRT Type 15 pin D sub female connector on bracket Pin Description Pin Description Pin Description 1 RED 6 Ground 11 N C 2 GREEN 7 Ground 12 DDC_DA 3 BLUE 8 Ground 13 HSYNC 4 N C 9 5V 14 VSYNC 5 Ground 10 Ground 15 DDC_CLK 1 5 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 6 10 1 2 3 4 5 11 12 13 14 15 ...

Page 45: ...LV 678 User s Manual 45 A 6 LAN Port Connector RJ451 2 Type RJ45 connector with LED on bracket Pin 1 2 3 4 5 Description TRD0 TRD0 TRD1 TRD2 TRD2 Pin 6 7 8 9 10 Description TRD1 TRD3 TRD3 NC NC ...

Page 46: ...LV 678 User s Manual 46 Appedix B System Resources B1 I O Port Address Map ...

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Page 48: ...LV 678 User s Manual 48 B2 Memory Address Map ...

Page 49: ...LV 678 User s Manual 49 B3 System IRQ Resources ...

Page 50: ...tool is awdflash exe it s the utility that can write the data into the BIOS flash ship and update the BIOS C 2 Flash Method 1 Please make a bootable floppy disk 2 Get the last bin files you want to update and copy it into the disk 3 Copy awardflash exe to the disk 4 Power on the system and flash the BIOS Example C awardflash XXX bin 5 Re star the system Any question about the BIOS re flash please ...

Page 51: ...2E 87 o 2E 07 o 2F 09 enale GPIO function o 2E 30 o 2F 02 enable GPIO configuration o 2E F0 o 2F xx set GPIO as input output set 1 for input 0 for output o 2E F1 o 2F xx if set GPIO s as output in this register its value can be set Optional o 2E F2 o 2F xx Data inversion register 1 inverts the current valus of the bits 0 leaves them as they are o 2E 30 o 2F 01 active GPIO s For further information...

Page 52: ...by program Timeout Value Range 1 to 255 Second or Minute Program Sample Watchdog timer setup as system reset with 5 second of timeout 2E 87 2E 87 2E 07 2F 08 Logical Device 8 2E 30 Activate 2F 01 2E F5 Set as Second 2F 00 2E F6 Set as 5 2F 05 Minute bit 3 0 Second bit 3 1 You can select Timer setting in the BIOS after setting the time options the system will reset according to the period of your s...

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