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LV-67A User’s Manual Packing List Please check package component before you use our products. Hardware: LV-67A Mini-ITX motherboard x 1 Cable Kit: SATA Cable x 2 26-pin Slim Type Floppy Cable x 1 VGA Cable x 1 USB Cable x 1...
Chapter1 <Introduction> 1.1 <Product Overview> LV-67A is the motherboard with last Intel desktop technology with Mini-ITX form factor. Based on Intel® Q45 and ICH10DO, the board integrates a new Core 2 Quad / Core 2 Duo Celeron processor 775-pin socket, DDR3 memory socket, Intel® Graphic Media Accelerator 4500 technology, Serial ATA II with RAID function for a powerful desktop system.
LV-67A User’s Manual 1.2 <Product Specification> General Specification Form Factor Mini-ITX motherboard Intel® Core 2 Quad / Core 2 Duo / Celeron processor With LGA775 socket Package type: PLGA 775 Front side bus: 800/1066/1333MHZ (200/266/333MHz x 4) Memory 2 x 240-pin DDR3 800/1066MHz SDRAM up to 4GB...
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LV-67A User’s Manual Ethernet Interface Controller Two Intel 82574L Gigabit Ethernet controller Type Triple speed 10/100/1000Base-T Auto-switching Fast Ethernet Full duplex, IEEE802.3U compliant Connector Two External RJ45 connectors with LED on rear I/O panel Audio Interface Chipset Intel® ICH10DO with Realtek ALC888HD Audio...
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LV-67A User’s Manual 1.3 <Block Diagram> Intel Core 2 Quad / Core Due with 775 Pin PLGA CRT1 CH7318 2 x 240-pin DDR3 LVDS CH7308 Intel Q965 800/1066MHz up to 4GB CRT2 CH7317 8 x USB2.0 ports 6 x Serial ATAII ports...
LV-67A User’s Manual 2.4 <CPU and Memory Setup> 2.4.1 <CPU installation> LV-67A has a LGA775 CPU socket onboard; please check following steps to install the processor properly. Attention If LV-67A need RMA please Keep CPU socket cover on the CPU Socket.
LV-67A User’s Manual 2.4.2 <Memory installation> LV-67A has two 240-pin DDR3 DIMM support up to 4GB of memory capacity. The memory frequency supports 800/1066 MHz. Only Non-ECC memory is supported. DDRIII A/B 96-pin 144-pin Please check the pin number to match the socket side well...
LV-67A 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-67A User’s Manual 2.6 <Serial ATA installation> LV-67A 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. Based on Intel® ICH10DO, it supports Intel® Matrix Storage Technology with combination of RAID 0,1,5 and 10.
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LV-67A User’s Manual 2.7 <Floppy Installation> LV-67A 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...
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LV-67A User’s Manual 2.8 <LAN installation> The board integrates with two Intel 82574L Gigabit Ethernet controllers, as the PCI Express bus. The Intel 82574L supports triple speed of 10/100/1000Base-T, with IEEE802.3 compliance and Wake-On-LAN supported. LAN2 LAN1...
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LV-67A User’s Manual 2.9 <Onboard Display Interface> Based on Intel Q45 chipset with built-in graphics, the board provides one DB15 Connector on real external I/O port, or optional Secondary CRT connector (LV-67AT) and One 40-pin LVDS interface with 5-pin LCD backlight inverter connector.
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LV-67A User’s Manual 2.9.2 <LVDS Display LV-67AX Only > The board provides one 40-pin LVDS connector for 18/24-bit dual channel panels, supports up to 1600 x 1200 (UXGA) of resolution, with one LCD backlight inverter connector and one jumper for panel voltage setting.
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LV-67A User’s Manual To setup the LCD, you need the component below: A panel with LVDS interfaces. An inverter for panel’s backlight power. A LCD cable and an inverter cable. For the cables, please follow the pin assignment of the connector to make a cable, because every panel has its own pin assignment, so we do not provide a standard cable;...
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LV-67A User’s Manual 2.9.3 <DVI Display LV-67AD and LV-67AD2> The board provides optional DVI1-D (LV-67AD) and two DVI (LV-67AD2) interfaces with Intel Q45, compliant with DVI 1.0 standard. Connector: CN_DVI1, CN_DVI2 Connector type: 26-pin header connector (pitch = 2.00mm) Pin Number...
LV-67A 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-67A 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 –...
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LV-67A User’s Manual 2.11 <GPIO and SMBUS 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-67A User’s Manual 2.12 <USB Installation> LV-67A integrates eight USB2.0 ports. The specifications of USB2.0 are listed below: Interface USB2.0 Controller Intel ICH10DO Transfer Rate Up to 480Mb/s Voltage The Intel® ICH10DO contains two Enhanced Host Controller Interface (EHCI) and five 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-67A User’s Manual 2.13 <Power and Fan Installation> The LV-67A 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 and Northbridge chip.
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LV-67A User’s Manual 2.14 <Serial Port> The board supports Three 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. COM1 COM2 COM3 Connector: COM2 Type: 9-pin D-sub male connector on bracket for COM2...
LV-67A 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-67A 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-67A User’s Manual 3.2 <SATA RAID Configuration> The board integrates Intel® ICH10DO 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-67A 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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LV-67A User’s Manual 1. After installing Intel Application Accelerator, please execute Intel® Storage Utility. 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...
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LV-67A 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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LV-67A User’s Manual 3.3 <Audio Configuration> The board integrates Intel® ICH10DO with REALTEK® ALC888 codec. It can support 2-channel sound under system configuration. Please follow the steps below to setup your sound system. Install REALTEK HD Audio driver. Lunch the control panel and Sound Effect Manager.
LV-67A User’s Manual 3.4 <Video Memory Setup> Based on Intel® Q45 chipset with GMA (Graphic Media Accelerator) 4500, 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 GMA4500 Driver with supported OS.
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LV-67A User’s Manual Total GFX Memory Size: This item can let you select a static amount of page-locked graphics memory; which will be allocated during driver initialization. Once you select the memory amount, it will be no longer available for system memory.
LV-67A User’s Manual 3.5 <Display Properties Setting> Based on Intel Q45 GMCH with GMA3000 (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-67A User’s Manual Click Monitor to setup the CRT monitor for Colors, Resolution and Refresh Rate Click Intel® Dual Display Clone setup dual display mode as same screen Set the main display device here Click Extended Desktop setup the dual display mode...
LV-67A 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-67A 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-67A 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-67A 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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