Packing List Packing List Please check package component before you use our products. Hardware: LV-672 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...
NAS system or Server platform. PCI express interface LV-672 integrates a 16x PCI express interface, it can provide up to 8GB/s of bandwidth, which AGP 8x can only provide up to 2GB/s.
LV-672 User’s Manual Introduction 1.2 <Product Specification> General Specification Form Factor Mini-ITX motherboard Intel® Pentium 4 processor with LGA775 socket Package type: 775 pin PLGA L2 Cache: 1MB Front side bus: 800MHz (200MHz x 4) Intel® Hyper-Threading Technology supported Memory...
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LV-672 User’s Manual Introduction Ethernet Interface Chipset Intel® PRO/1000MT LAN interface with Intel 82541GI Type 10Base-T / 100Base-TX/1000Base-T, auto-switching Fast Ethernet Full duplex, IEEE802.3U compliant Connector Dual External RJ45 connectors with LED on rear I/O panel Audio Interface Chipset Intel® ICH6R with Realtek® ALC655 AC97 3D audio codec Interface 5.1 channel 3D audio with Line-in, Line-out and MIC-in...
LV-672 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 Standard S_ATA1/2/3/4 7-pin Serial ATA connector...
Hardware Setup 2.4.2 <Memory installation> LV-672 has two 240-pin DDR2 DIMM support up to 2GB of memory capacity. The memory frequency supports 400/533MHz (100MHz x 4 or 133MHz x 4). Only Non-ECC memory is supported. Dual-Channel technology is supported while applying two same modules.
LV-672 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.
The Intel® ICH6R (south bridge chip) supports one enhanced IDE interface, dual channel for two ATAPI devices with ATA100. Based on this function, LV-672 has one 40-pin IDE connector with jumper selectable for pin-20 +5V supported. The jumper JDOM is two-pin type for pin-20 supplied with +5V to apply the DOM (Disk on Module).
LV-672 User’s Manual Hardware Setup 2.6 <Serial ATA installation> LV-672 has four Serial ATA interfaces with RAID function, the transfer rate of the Serial ATA can be up to 150MB/s. Please go to http://www.serialata.org/ for more about Serial ATA technology information. Based on Intel® ICH6R, it supports Intel® Matrix Storage Technology with combination of RAID 0 and RAID 1 modes.
LV-672 User’s Manual Hardware Setup 2.7 <Floppy Installation> LV-672 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-672 integrates two Gigabit LAN interfaces with Intel 82541GI; they provide a standard IEEE 802.3 Ethernet interface for 1000BASE-T, 100BASE-TX and 10BASE-T applications. LV-672 provides two RJ45 connectors on the rear I/O panel. The JLAN1 and JLAN2 can let you set to enable/disable the onboard LAN function.
LV-672 User’s Manual Hardware Setup 2.9 <Audio Installation> LV-672 integrated with REALTEK® ALC655 Codec for 5.1 channel sound output. It supports 16-bit stereo full-duplex with 48 KHz sampling rate, compliant with AC97 Rev.2.3 specifications. The board has one phone jack on rear I/O panel for Line-out, Line-in, MIC(stereo)-in as 2-channel sound system, and Front, Rear, Center as 5.1-channel sound system.
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LV-672 User’s Manual Hardware Setup Connector: CN_AUDIO Type: 10-pin (2 x 5) header (pitch = 2.00mm) Description Description Line – Right Ground Line – Left Ground Line Out – Left Line Out – Right Ground Connector: CDIN Type: 4-pin header (pitch = 2.54mm) Description CD –...
Hardware Setup 2.10 <Display Installation> LV-672 integrates with Intel® 915G GMCH for Intel Graphic Media Accelerator (GMA) 900 technology. It supports Intel® DVMT (Dynamic Video Memory Technology) 3.0 for up to 224MB frame buffer size shared with system memory. With a 333MHz core and DirectX 9 and OpenGL acceleration, LV-672 provides the powerful onboard graphics interface without additional graphic card.
LV-672 User’s Manual Hardware Setup 2.11 <IEEE1394 and USB Installation> LV-672 integrates two IEEE1394 (FireWire) ports and six USB2.0 ports. The specifications of IEEE1394 and USB2.0 are listed below: Interface IEEE1394 USB2.0 Controller AGERE FW323-06 Intel ICH6R Transfer Rate 100/200/400Mb/s...
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LV-672 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 USB1/2/3/4 IEEE1394 and USB Installation...
LV-672 User’s Manual Hardware Setup 2.12 <Power and Fan Installation> The LV-672 needs a standard ATX power supply with 24-pin ATX connector and additional 12V connector, and the board provides two 4-pin fan connectors supporting smart fan. CN_12V CPUFAN SYSFAN...
LV-672 User’s Manual Hardware Setup 2.14 <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-672 User’s Manual Hardware Setup 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...
Hardware Setup 2.16 <Expansion Interface> LV-672 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 1x lane will be up to 500MB/s (duplex), and the 16x can be up to 8GB/s more than 2GB/s as AGP 8x bus transfer rate.
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LV-672 User’s Manual System Configuration Chapter 3 <System Configuration> 3.1 <SATA configuration> Based on Intel® ICH6R Southbridge chip, the board supports 4 Serial ATA 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-672 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-672 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-672 User’s Manual System Configuration 3.2 <SATA RAID Configuration> The board integrates Intel® ICH6R with RAID function for Serial ATA 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-672 User’s Manual System Configuration 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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LV-672 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-672 User’s Manual System Configuration 3.3 <Audio Configuration> The board integrates Intel® ICH6R with REALTEK® ALC655 codec. It can support 2-channel or 5.1 channel sound under system configuration. Please follow the steps below to setup your sound system. Install REALTEK AC97 Audio driver.
LV-672 User’s Manual 3.4 <Video Memory Setup> Based on Intel® 915G chipset with GMA (Graphic Media Accelerator) 900, the board supports Intel® DVMT (Dynamic Video Memory Technology) 3.0, which would allow the video memory be triggered up to 224MB. To support DVMT, you need to install the Intel GMA 900 Driver with supported OS.
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LV-672 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.
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LV-672 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-672 User’s Manual Flash BIOS Appendix B <Flash BIOS> B.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: http://www.award.com...
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