Copyright FCC and DOC Statement on Class B This publication contains information that is protected by copyright. No part of it may be re- This equipment has been tested and found to comply with the limits for a Class B digital produced in any form or by any means or used to make any transformation/adaptation without device, pursuant to Part 15 of the FCC rules.
Warranty Static Electricity Precautions 1. Warranty does not cover damages or failures that arised from misuse of the product, in- It is quite easy to inadvertently damage your PC, system board, components or devices even ability to use the product, unauthorized replacement or alteration of components and prod- before installing them in your system unit.
The package contains the following items. If any of these items are missing or damaged, please contact your dealer or sales representative for assistance. • One SD170 motherboard • One COM port cable (Length: 250mm, 1 x COM port) •...
Chapter 1 • Wake-On-LAN Features • Watchdog Timer This feature allows the network to remotely wake up a Soft Power Down (Soft-Off) PC. It is supported via the onboard LAN port or via a PCI LAN card that uses the PCI PME (Power Man- agement Event) signal.
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Chapter 1 • Power Failure Recovery When power returns after an AC power failure, you may choose to either power-on the system manually or let the system power-on automatically. • USB The system board supports the new USB 3.0. It is capable of running at a maximum transmis- sion speed of up to 5 Gbit/s (625 MB/s) and is faster than USB 2.0 (480 Mbit/s, or 60 MB/s) and USB 1.1 (12Mb/s).
Chapter 2 Chapter 2 - Hardware Installation Board Layout COM 3 COM 4 RS232/Power RS232/Power USB 9 SATA 3.0 Select (JP17) Select (JP24) USB 1-2 USB 3.0 USB 3-4 SATA 2 SATA 3 CPU Fan USB 2.0 USB 3.0 USB 5-6 Standby COM 4 Power LED...
Chapter 2 The system board supports the following memory interface. Important: Electrostatic discharge (ESD) can damage your board, processor, disk drives, add-in Single Channel (SC) boards, and other components. Perform installation procedures at an ESD workstation only. If such a station is not available, you can provide some ESD protection by wear- Data will be accessed in chunks of 64 bits (8B) from the memory channels.
Chapter 2 Installing the SODIMM Module 6. Grasping the module by its edges, position the module above the socket with the “notch” in the module aligned with the “key” on the socket. The keying mechanism ensures the module can be plugged into the socket in only one way. Note: The system board used in the following illustrations may not resemble the actual board.
Chapter 2 Installing the CPU 1. Make sure the PC and all other peripheral devices connected to it has been powered down. The system board is equipped with a surface mount LGA 1151 socket. This socket is exclu- sively designed for installing a LGA 1151 packaged Intel CPU. 2.
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Chapter 2 Load lever 7. Insert the CPU into the 5. Lifting the load lever will at socket. The gold triangular the same time lift the load mark on the CPU must plate. align with the corner of Lift the load lever up to the CPU socket shown on the angle shown on the the photo.
Chapter 2 Installing the Fan and Heat Sink 8. Close the load plate then push the load lever down. The CPU must be kept cool by using a CPU fan with heat sink. Without sufficient air circula- While closing the load tion across the CPU and heat sink, the CPU will overheat damaging both the CPU and system Retention knob plate, make sure the front...
Chapter 2 Jumper Settings 4. Rotate each screw that are diagonally across the heat sink. Perform the same Clear CMOS procedure for the other screws. COM1 Heat sink 1-2 On: Normal (default) “Unlocked” position of screw 2-3 On: “Locked” position of Clear CMOS screw CPU fan connector...
Chapter 2 Mini PCIe/mSATA Signal Select COM1 1-2 On: mSATA (default) 2-3 On: Mini PCIe JP9 is used to select the Mini PCIe/mSATA signal. Chapter 2 Hardware Installation www.dfi .com...
Chapter 2 Rear Panel I/O Ports Graphics Interfaces The display ports consist of the following: The rear panel I/O ports consist of the following: • 1 VGA port • 2 x USB 3.0 • 1 DP++ port • 1 x RS-232/422/485 (DB-9) •...
Chapter 2 USB Ports Wake-On-USB Keyboard/Mouse The Wake-On-USB Keyboard/Mouse function allows you to use a USB keyboard or USB mouse to wake up a system from the S3 (STR - Suspend To RAM) state. USB 2.0 USB 3-4 Vertical USB 9 Important: USB 3.0 USB 1...
Chapter 2 COM (Serial) Ports COM 1 Port/COM 2 Header RS422 Pin RS232 RS485 Full Duplex DCD- DATA- COM 3 DATA+ 1 2 3 4 5 COM1 COM 1 COM 4 COM 3/4: RS232/RS232 with power DTR- 6 7 8 9 DSR- COM 2 RTS-...
Chapter 2 I/O Connectors RJ45 LAN Ports Front Audio Connector COM1 COM1 LAN 1 LAN 2 LAN 3 LAN 4 Front Audio Features • 4 Intel I210AT PCIe or Intel I211AT PCIe ® ® The LAN ports allow the system board to connect to a local area network by means of a Front Audio network hub.
Chapter 2 SATA (Serial ATA) Connectors Digital I/O Connector Digital I/O Power Connector SATA 3.0 6Gb/s SATA 2 SATA 3 COM1 COM1 Digital I/O Digital I/O Power +12V 5VDU The 16-bit Digital I/O connector provides powering-on function to external devices that are Features connected to this connector.
Chapter 2 Cooling Fan Connectors Power Connectors 12 24 +3.3V +12V +12V Sense +12V Speed Control CPU Fan ATX power +5VSB COM1 PWR_OK COM1 PS_ON# +3.3V -12V Sense +3.3V +3.3V ystem Fan 1 +12V +12V +12V Power Sense Ground Ground System Fan 2 Use a power supply that complies with the ATX12V Power Supply Design Guide Version 1.1.
Chapter 2 LPC Connector Front Panel Connector Front Panel COM1 COM1 PWR-LED HD-LED ATX-SW RESET The Low Pin Count Interface was defined by Intel Corporation to facilitate the industry’s tran- ® sition towards legacy free systems. It allows the integration of low-bandwidth legacy I/O com- HD-LED - Hard Drive LED ponents within the system, which are typically provided by a Super I/O controller.
Chapter 2 SMBus Connector S/PDIF Connector COM1 SMBus SMB_ALERT COM1 SMB_DATA SMB_CLK 3VDU S/PDIF The SMBus (System Management Bus) connector is used to connect SMBus devices. It is a multiple device bus that allows multiple chips to connect to the same bus and enable each one The S/PDIF connector is used to connect an external S/PDIF port.
Chapter 2 Expansion Slots Battery COM1 COM1 Battery Connector +3.3V SIM Slot M.2 M Key Mini PCI Express PCI Express x16 M.2 M Key Socket The M.2 socket is the Next Generation Form Factor (NGFF) which is designed to support mul- Connect to the tiple modules and make the M.2 more suitable in application for solid-state storage.
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