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LV-674E User’s Packing List Please check package component before you use our products. Hardware: LV-674E Mini-ITX motherboard x 1 Cable Kit: 40-pin ATA100 IDE flat cable x 1 26-pin slim type floppy cable x 1 Serial ATA ribbon cable x 2...
4 USB2.0 interfaces (4 ports for LV-674), and serial ATA II interface with RAID function. Four Marvell E8053 Four Gigabit LAN with Marvell E8053, LV-674E comes with a powerful network function for the system that requires large transfer data of NAS system or Server platform.
LV-674E User’s Manual Introduction 1.2 <Product Specification> General Specification Form Factor Mini-ITX motherboard Intel® Pentium 4 / Pentium D/ Celeron D/ Core 2 Duo processor with LGA775 socket Package type: 775 pin PLGA Front side bus: 533/800/1066MT/s (133/200/266MHz x 4) Intel®...
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LV-674E User’s Manual Introduction Ethernet Interface Chipset 100/1000MT LAN interface with Marvell E8053 Type 10Base-T / 100Base-TX/1000Base-T, auto-switching Fast Ethernet Full duplex, IEEE802.3U compliant Connector Four External RJ45 connectors with LED on rear I/O panel Audio Interface Chipset Intel® ICH7R with Realtek® ALC880 codec...
LV-674E User’s Manual Hardware Setup 2.3 <Connector Reference> 2.3.1 <Internal Connectors> Connector Function Remark LGA775 CPU socket Standard DDRII1/2 240 -pin DDR2 SDRAM DIMM socket Standard IDE1 40-pin primary IDE connector Standard 26-pin slim type floppy connector Slim S_ATAII1/2/3/4 7-pin Serial ATA II connector...
Hardware Setup 2.4 <CPU and Memory Setup> 2.4.1 <CPU installation> LV-674E has a LGA755 CPU socket onboard; please check following steps to install the processor properly. Attention If LV-674E need RMA, please Keep CPU socket cover on the CPU Socket.
LV-674E User’s Manual Hardware Setup 2.4.2 <Memory installation> LV-674E has two 240-pin DDR2 DIMM support up to 3GB of memory capacity. The memory frequency supports 400/533/667MHz .Only Non-ECC memory is supported. Dual-Channel technology is supported while applying two same modules.
LV-674E User’s Manual Hardware Setup 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.
2.6 <Enhanced IDE interface> The Intel® ICH7R (south bridge chip) supports one enhanced IDE interface, dual channel for two ATAPI devices with ATA100. Based on this function, LV-674E has one 40-pin IDE connector with jumper selectable for pin-20 +5V supported.
LV-674E User’s Manual Hardware Setup 2.7 <Serial ATA installation> LV-674E has four 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.
LV-674E User’s Manual Hardware Setup 2.8 <Floppy Installation> LV-674E 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-674E User’s Manual Hardware Setup 2.9 <LAN installation> LV-674E integrates four Gigabit LAN interfaces with Marvell E8053; they provide a standard IEEE 802.3 Ethernet interface for 1000BASE-T, 100BASE-TX and 10BASE-T applications. LV-674E provides four RJ45 connectors on the rear I/O panel.
LV-674E User’s Manual Hardware Setup 2.10 <Audio Installation> The board integrates onboard audio interface with REALTEK ALC880 codec, with Intel next generation of audio standard as High Definition Audio, it offers more vivid sound and other advantages than former AC97 audio compliance.
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LV-674E User’s Manual Hardware Setup Connector: CN_AUDIO Type: 10-pin (2 x 5) header (pitch = 2.00mm) Description Description Line – Left Ground Line – Right MIC1 MIC2 Ground Line Out – Left Line Out – Right Ground Connector: CDIN Type: 4-pin header (pitch = 2.54mm) Description CD –...
Hardware Setup 2.11 <Display Installation> LV-674E integrates with Intel® 945G GMCH for Intel Graphic Media Accelerator (GMA) 950 technology. It supports Intel® DVMT (Dynamic Video Memory Technology) 3.0 for up to 224MB frame buffer size shared with system memory. With a 400MHz core and DirectX 9 and OpenGL acceleration, LV-674E provides the powerful onboard graphics interface without additional graphic card.
LV-674E User’s Manual Hardware Setup 2.12 <IEEE1394 and USB Installation> LV-674E integrates two IEEE1394 (FireWire) ports and four USB2.0 ports. The specifications of IEEE1394 and USB2.0 are listed below: Interface IEEE1394 USB2.0 Controller AGERE FW323-06 Intel ICH7R Transfer Rate 100/200/400Mb/s...
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LV-674E User’s Manual Hardware Setup Connector: CN_USB Type: 10-pin (5 x 2) header for USB5/6 Ports Description Description Data0- Data1- Data0+ Data1+ Ground Ground Ground CN_USB USB1/2 IEEE1394 and USB Installation...
LV-674E User’s Manual Hardware Setup 2.13 <Power and Fan Installation> The LV-674E provides a standard ATX power supply with 24-pin ATX connector and additional 12V connector, and the board provides one 8-pin fan connectors supporting smart fan for CPU cooler and two 3-pin cooler fan connectors for system and Northbridge chip.
LV-674E User’s Manual Hardware Setup 2.14 <GPIO interface> The board provides a programmable 8-bit digital I/O interface, and a 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...
LV-674E User’s Manual Hardware Setup 2.15 <Serial Port> The board has two RS232 serial ports on real I/O panel, and onboard one 3-pin additional TXD/RXD connector for POS application. Connector: CN_TXD/RXD Connector type: onboard 3-pin header (pitch = 2.00mm) Pin Number...
LV-674E User’s Manual Hardware Setup 2.16 <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...
Hardware Setup 2.17 <Expansion Interface> LV-674E has one PCI-Express 16x slot and one Mini-PCI socket onboard. PCI-Express is the last expansion interface technology, for its serial data transfer scheme, each lane will be up to 500MB/s (duplex), and the 16x (16 lanes) can be up to 8GB/s more than 2GB/s as AGP 8x bus transfer rate.
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LV-674E User’s Manual Hardware Setup (This Page is Left for Blank) Expansion Interface...
LV-674E User’s Manual System Configuration Chapter 3 <System Configuration> 3.1 <SATA configuration> Based on Intel® ICH7R Southbridge chip, the board supports 4 Serial ATA II ports; please follow the touring guide to setup your Serial ATA devices. For Windows 98/SE/ME, Windows NT4.0 and DOS system, they only support up to 4 IDE devices including SATA devices, and Windows 2000/XP/Server2003 have no such limitation.
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LV-674E User’s Manual System 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. Once you enable the RAID mode, the boot-up screen would pop up the RAID configuration option for setup.
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LV-674E User’s Manual System Configuration On-Chip Serial ATA mode: This option can let you select operation modes of Serial ATA drives. Disabled: To disable the onboard Serial ATA controller. Auto: To allow the system select the optimized mode automatically. Combined mode: PATA and SATA work as two channels for supporting two drives on each channel.
LV-674E User’s Manual System Configuration 3.2 <SATA RAID Configuration> The board integrates Intel® ICH7R 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.
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LV-674E User’s Manual System Configuration 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®...
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LV-674E User’s Manual System Configuration 2. Select Actions to Create RAID Volume Rename the Volume name Select RAID Level as 0 Left as default SATA Configuration...
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LV-674E User’s Manual System Configuration 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,...
LV-674E User’s Manual System Configuration 3.3 <Audio Configuration> The board integrates Intel® ICH7R with REALTEK® ALC880 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 AC97 Audio driver.
LV-674E User’s Manual System Configuration 3.4 <Video Memory Setup> Based on Intel® 945G chipset with GMA (Graphic Media Accelerator) 950, the board supports Intel® DVMT (Dynamic Video Memory Technology) 3.0, which would allow the video memory be triggered up to 224MB.
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LV-674E User’s Manual System Configuration 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.
LV-674E User’s Manual System Configuration 3.5 <Display Properties Setting> Based on Intel 945G GMCH with GMA 950 (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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LV-674E User’s Manual System Configuration 3. This setup options can let you define each device settings. Click Monitor to setup the CRT monitor for Colors, Resolution and Refresh Rate Click Digital Display to setup the DVI monitor for Colors, and Resolution Click Intel®...
LV-674E User’s Manual System Configuration 3.6 <PCI-Express interface setting> The board provides one 16 lanes PCI-Express slot, it can be used for x16 graphic cards, or 1x LAN cards. (4x SCSI cards can be also compatible with x1 transfer way). Please check BIOS setting before you using PCI-Express card.
LV-674 User’s Manual BIOS Setup 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-674E User’s Manual BIOS Setup (This Page is Left for Blank) PCI-Express Interface setting...
LV-674E User’s Manual I/O Port Pin Assignment 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-674E User’s Manual Flash BIOS 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...
LV-674E User’s Manual Programming GPIO’S 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.
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