Micro atx motherboard with lga 775 socket (170 pages)
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User’s Manual Single Board Computer 2807870 Version 1.0, February 2008...
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Copyrights This manual is copyrighted and all rights are reserved. It does not allow any non authorization in copied, photocopied, translated or reproduced to any electronic or machine readable form in whole or in part without prior written consent from the manufacturer. In general, the manufacturer will not be liable for any direct, indirect, special, incidental or consequential damages arising from the use of inability to use the product or documentation, even if advised of the possibility of such...
2807870 User’s Manual Packing List Please check package component before you use our products. Hardware: 2807870 Mini-ITX motherboard x 1 Cable Kit: SATA Cable x 2 SATA Power Y Cable x 1 26-pin Slim Type Floppy Cable x 1 USB Cable x 1...
Chapter1 <Introduction> 1.1 <Product Overview> 2807870 is the motherboard with last Intel desktop technology with Mini-ITX form factor. Based on Intel® Q35 and ICH9DO, the board integrates a new Core2 Quad / Core 2 Duo processor 775-pin socket, DDR2 memory socket, Intel® Graphic Media Accelerator 3100 technology, Serial ATA II with RAID function for a powerful desktop system.
2807870 User’s Manual 1.2 <Product Specification> General Specification Form Factor Mini-ITX motherboard Support Intel Core 2 Quad / Core 2 Duo / Celeron processor Package type: LGA775 Front side bus: 800 / 1066 / 1333MHz Memory Two DDRII 667 / 800 MHz DIMM up to 4GB Chipset Intel Q35 &...
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2807870 User’s Manual Smart Fan One CPU fan connectors for fan speed controllable VGA Display Interface Chipset Intel Q35, ICH9DO Frame Buffer Up to 384MB shared with system memory Display Type CRT or LCD monitor display Ethernet Interface Controller Two Intel 82573L Gigabit Ethernet controller...
2807870 User’s Manual 2.4 <CPU and Memory Setup> 2.4.1 <CPU installation> 2807870 has a LGA775 CPU socket onboard; please check following steps to install the processor properly. Attention: If 2807870 need RMA please Keep CPU socket cover on the CPU Socket.
2807870 User’s Manual 2.4.2 <Memory installation> 2807870 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. DDRII1/2 128-pin 112-pin Please check the pin number to match the socket side well...
2807870 User’s Manual 2.5 <CMOS Setup> The board’s data of CMOS can 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.
2807870 User’s Manual 2.6 <Serial ATA installation> 2807870 has six Serial ATA II interfaces with RAID function, the transfer rate of the Serial ATA II can be up to 300MB/s. Please go to http://www.serialata.org/ for more about Serial ATA technology information. Based on Intel® ICH9DO, it supports Intel® Matrix Storage Technology with combination of RAID 0,1,5 and 10.
2807870 User’s Manual 2.7 <Floppy Installation> 2807870 has one slim type 26-pin floppy interface, it supports notebook use floppy and powering from onboard, please follow up the steps below to install the device. Floppy rear side Lift up this plastic bar...
2807870 User’s Manual 2.8 <LAN installation> 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...
2807870 User’s Manual 2.9 <Onboard Display Interface> Based on Intel Q35 chipset with built-in graphics, the 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.
2807870 User’s Manual 2.10 <Audio Installation> The board integrates onboard audio interface with REALTEK ALC888 codec, with Intel next generation of audio standard as High Definition Audio, it offers more vivid sound and other advantages than former HD audio compliance.
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2807870 User’s Manual Connector: CN_AUDIO Type: 10-pin (2 x 5) header (pitch = 2.54mm) Description Description MIC_L Ground MIC_R ACZ_DET Speaker_R MIC Detect SENSE Speaker_L Speaker Detect Connector: CDIN Type: 4-pin header (pitch = 2.54mm) Description CD – Left Ground Ground CD –...
2807870 User’s Manual 2.11 <GPIO interface> The board provides a programmable 8-bit digital 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 Description Description Ground Ground GP10 GP14...
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2807870 User’s Manual 2.12 < USB Installation> 2807870 integrates four USB2.0 ports. The specifications USB2.0 are listed below: Interface USB2.0 Controller Intel ICH9DO Transfer Rate Up to 480Mb/s Voltage 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.
2807870 User’s Manual 2.13 <Power and Fan Installation> The 2807870 provides a standard ATX power supply with 24-pin ATX connector and additional 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;...
2807870 User’s Manual 2.14 <Serial Port> The board supports one RS232 serial port and one jumper selectable RS232/422/485 serial ports. The 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...
2807870 User’s Manual 2.15 <Switch and Indicator> The JFRNT provides front control panel of the board, such as power button, reset and beeper, 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...
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2807870 User’s Manual 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.
2807870 User’s Manual 3.2 <SATA RAID Configuration> The board integrates Intel® ICH9DO with RAID function for Serial ATA II drives, and supports the configurations below: RAID 0 (Stripping): Two hard drives operating as one drive for optimized data R/W performance. It needs two unused drives to build this operation.
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2807870 User’s Manual Please press <CTRL+I> to enter the RAID configuration menu. You can setup the RAID under operation system for Microsoft® Windows XP SP1 or Windows 2000 SP4 version, please install the Intel® Application Accelerator Ver.4.5 later to support RAID configuration with Intel® Matrix Storage Technology.
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2807870 User’s Manual Demo configuration for 2 SATA Drives and set as Intel Matrix Storage Technology set 2. Select Actions to Create RAID Volume Rename the Volume name Select RAID Level as 0 Left as default...
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2807870 User’s Manual 3. Please select two hard drives to prepare to set the RAID volume 4. Specify the Volume size 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.
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2807870 User’s Manual For other configuration set please click Help on tool bar.
2807870 User’s Manual 3.3 <Audio Configuration> The board integrates Intel® ICH9DO with REALTEK® ALC888 codec. It can support 2-channel or 7.1 channel sound under system configuration. Please follow the steps below to setup your sound system. Install REALTEK HD Audio driver.
2807870 User’s Manual 3.4 <Video Memory Setup> Based on Intel® Q35 chipset with GMA (Graphic Media Accelerator) 3100, the board supports Intel® DVMT (Dynamic Video Memory Technology) 3.0, which would allow the video memory be triggered up to 384MB. To support DVMT, you need to install the Intel GMA 3100 Driver with supported OS.
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2807870 User’s Manual Fixed + DVMT Memory Size: You can select the fixed amount and the DVMT amount at the same time for a guaranteed video memory and additional dynamic video memory, please check the table below for available setting.
2807870 User’s Manual 3.5 <Display Properties Setting> Based on Intel Q35 GMCH with GMA3100 (Graphic Media Accelerator), the board supports two DACs for display device as different resolution and color bit. Please install the Intel Graphic Driver before you starting setup display devices.
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2807870 User’s Manual Appendix C <Programming GPIO’s> The GPIO’can be programmed with the MSDOS debug program using simple IN/OUT commands.The following lines show an example how to do this. GPIO0…..GPIO7 bit0……bit7 -o 2E 87 ;enter configuration -o 2E 87 -o 2E 07 -o 2F 09 ;enale GPIO function...
2807870 User’s Manual Appendix D <Watch Dog timer Setting > The watchdog timer makes the system auto-reset while it stops to work for a period. The integrated watchdog timer can be setup as system reset mode by program. Timeout Value Range...
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