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LV-678 User’s Manual Packing List Please check package component before you use our products. Hardware: LV-678 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> LV-678 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.
LV-678 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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LV-678 User’s Manual 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 Type Triple speed 10/100/1000Base-T Auto-switching Fast Ethernet Full duplex, IEEE802.3U compliant...
LV-678 User’s Manual 2.4 <CPU and Memory Setup> 2.4.1 <CPU installation> LV-678 has a LGA775 CPU socket onboard; please check following steps to install the processor properly. Attention If LV-678 need RMA please Keep CPU socket cover on the CPU Socket.
LV-678 User’s Manual 2.4.2 <Memory installation> LV-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. DDRII1/2 128-pin 112-pin Please check the pin number to match the socket side well...
LV-678 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.
LV-678 User’s Manual 2.6 <Serial ATA installation> LV-678 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.
LV-678 User’s Manual 2.7 <Floppy Installation> LV-678 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...
LV-678 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...
LV-678 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.
LV-678 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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LV-678 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 –...
LV-678 User’s Manual 2.12 < USB Installation> LV-678 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.
LV-678 User’s Manual 2.13 <Power and Fan Installation> The LV-678 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;...
LV-678 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...
LV-678 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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LV-678 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.
LV-678 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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LV-678 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 ,please install the Intel® Application Accelerator Ver.4.5 later to support RAID configuration with Intel® Matrix Storage Technology.
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LV-678 User’s Manual 2. Select Actions to Create RAID Volume Rename the Volume name Select RAID Level as 0 Left as default...
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LV-678 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.
LV-678 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.
LV-678 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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LV-678 User’s Manual DVMT Memory Size: This item can let you select a maximum size of dynamic amount usage of video memory, the system would configure the video memory depends on your application, this item is strongly recommend to be selected as MAX DVMT.
LV-678 User’s Manual Chapter 4 <BIOS Setup> The motherboard uses the Award BIOS for the system configuration. The Award BIOS in the single board computer is a customized version of the industrial standard BIOS for IBM PC AT-compatible computers. It supports Intel x86 and compatible CPU architecture based processors and computers.
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LV-678 User’s Manual Appedix C <Flash BIOS> C.1 BIOS Auto Flash Tool The board is based on Award BIOS and can be updated easily by the BIOS auto flash tool. You can download the tool online at the address below: h ttp://www.award.com...
LV-678 User’s Manual Appendix D <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...
LV-678 User’s Manual Appendix E <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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