Commell LV-66A, User Manual

Page 1: ...LV 66A Mini ITX Motherboard User s Manual Edition 1 02 2009 02 17 ...

Page 2: ...ment are property of their respective owners Disclaimer The company shall not be liable for any incidental or consequential damages resulting from the performance or use of this product The company does not issue a warranty of any kind express or implied including without limitation implied warranties of merchantability or fitness for a particular purpose The company has the right to revise the ma...

Page 3: ...are LV 66A series motherboard x 1 Cable Kit Printed Matters Driver CD x 1 Including User s Manual 44 pin ATA33 IDE Cable x 1 40 pin ATA100 IDE Cable x 1 26 pin Slim Type Floppy Cable x 1 Printer Port Cable COM Port Cable x 1 DVI module with DVI Cable x 1 LV 66AD series only SATA Cable x 2 I O Shield x 1 ...

Page 4: ...2 3 1 Internal Connector 15 2 3 2 External Connector 15 2 4 CPU and Memory Setup 16 2 4 1 CPU 16 2 4 2 Memory 16 2 5 CMOS AT ATX Setup 17 2 6 Solid State Disk Interface 18 2 7 Serial ATA Interface 19 2 8 Floppy Port 20 2 9 LAN Interface 21 2 10 Onboard Display Interface 22 2 10 1 Analog VGA Interface 22 2 10 2 Digital Display 23 2 10 2 1 LVDS Display 23 2 10 2 2 DVI Display 27 2 11 Onboard Audio I...

Page 5: ...isplay Configuration 43 Chapter 4 BIOS Setup 47 Appendix A I O Port Pin Assignment 49 A 1 IDE Port 49 A 2 Floppy Port 51 A 3 Serial ATA Port 51 A 4 CRT Port 52 A 5 Serial Port 52 A 6 LAN Port 52 Appendix B Flash BIOS 53 B 1 BIOS Auto Flash Tool 53 B 2 Flash Method 53 Appendix C System Resources 54 C1 I O Port Address Map 54 C2 Memory Address Map 56 C3 System IRQ Resources 58 Appendix D Programming...

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Page 7: ...rome9 HC Integrated Graphics with 2D 3D Video Controllers The VT8251 provides the board to support Ultra V Link interface with 1 GB sec maximum bandwidth four serial ATA II ports with RAID array function 8 x USB2 0 ports and 7 1 channels HD audio Multimedia solution Based on VIA CN896 chipset the board provides single dual 18 24 bit LVDS or DVI interface which supports dual independent display wit...

Page 8: ...E port onboard Solid State Disk One Compact Flash Type II Optional Serial ATA VIA VT8251 integrates 4 Serial ATA II interface supporting 1 5 Gbit s and 3 Gbit s transfer rate RAID 0 1 0 1 5 and JBOD array Technology supported Multi I O Port Chipset VIA VT8251 with Winbond W83697HG controller Serial Port One RS 232 external one internal RS 232 RS 422 RS 485 serial ports USB Port Six external two in...

Page 9: ...ack Onboard CD IN connector Expansive Interface PCI 1 x PCI slot supports up to two PCI devices through riser card Mini PCI 1 x Mini PCI socket support Mini PCI type II Power and Environment Power Requirement Standard 20 Pin ATX power supply 12V DC Input Optional Dimension 170 L x 170 H mm Temperature Operating within 0 60 32 140 Storage within 20 85 4 185 Ordering Code LV 66A VIA C7 1 5G with Onb...

Page 10: ...LV 66A User s Manual Introduction 10 1 3 Mechanical Drawing ...

Page 11: ... pin DDR2 400 533 667 Up to 4GB CRT LCD Monitor VT1636 LVDS VT1632A DVI CN896 VT8251 Ultra V Link 533MB s 8 x USB2 0 Ports PCI Mini PCI 2 x 8111C LAN 4 x SATA HD ALC888 2 x Serial ports 1 x Floppy port 8 bit GPIO BIOS 40 Pin 44 Pin IDE 1 x Parallel port W83697HG 1 x IrDA CDIN SPDIF ...

Page 12: ...re Setup 2 1 Connector Location CN_DIO ATX CPUFAN CN_CRT IDE2 PCI MINIPCI CN_IR SYSFAN JFRNT SPDIF AUDIO CDIN IDE1 CN_FUSB JAT JRTC FDD CN_LPT CN_COM2 CRT COM USB USB RJ45_2 USB RJ45_1 PS2 CN_DVI CN_LVDS SATA2 4 SATA1 3 JCSEL2 JCSEL1 DDRIIB DDRIIA CN_FAUDIO ...

Page 13: ...LV 66A User s Manual Hardware Setup 13 PS2 USB CRT COM USB_RJ45_1 2 AUDIO SPDIF CDIN 170mm 170mm 14 25 ...

Page 14: ...e Setup 14 2 2 Jumper Reference Jumper Function JRTC CMOS Operating Clear Setting JVLCD LCD Panel Voltage Setting LV 66AX series only JAT AT ATX mode setting JCSEL1 2 CN_COM2 RS232 422 485 mode setting JRTC JVLCD JAT JCSEL2 JCSEL1 ...

Page 15: ...an connector Standard CN_COM2 5 x 2 pin RS232 serial port Standard CN_LVDS 20 x 2 pin LVDS LCD interface LV 66AX series only Standard CN_INV 5 pin LCD inverter connector LV 66AX series only Standard JVLCD 3 x 2 pin LCD connector LV 66AX series only Standard PCI Slim 32bit PCI slot Slim MINIPCI Mini PCI socket Standard CN_LPT 13 x 2 pin printer connector Standard CN_DVI 26 Pin connector LV 66AD ser...

Page 16: ...ratio is C7 1 5G 12W with cooler 2 4 2 Memory The board supports two 240 pin DDR2 400 533 667 SDRAM and up to 4GB Advanced 64 bit single channel of capacity only non ECC unbuffered memory is supported 112 pin 128 pin Please check the pin number to match the socket side well before installing memory module DDRIIA DDRIIB ...

Page 17: ...refuses to boot due to inappropriate CMOS settings here is how to proceed to clear reset the CMOS to its default values Jumper JRTC Type Onboard 3 pin jumper JRTC Mode 1 2 Clear CMOS 2 3 Normal Operation Default setting Jumper JAT Type Onboard 3 pin jumper JAT Mode 1 2 AT mode 2 3 ATX mode Default setting JRTC 1 3 JAT 1 3 ...

Page 18: ...Disk Interface The board has one Compact Flash Type II socket on the solder side with jumper JCFSEL for CF master slave mode selection Optional Jumper JCFSEL Type Onboard 3 pin jumper JCFSEL Mode 1 2 Master mode 2 3 Slave mode Default setting JCFSEL 1 3 CF ...

Page 19: ...Complies with Serial ATA II Specification 3 Supports up to 4 S ATA devices 4 SATA II AHCI Bus Masters or 2 SATA I Bus Masters 4 Integrated S ATA PHY supporting 1 5 Gbit s and 3 Gbit s transfer rate 5 Supports up to 32 entries command queue for each device 6 Supports port multiplier 7 Supports multiple RAID configurations including RAID Level 0 RAID Level 1 RAID Level 0 1 RAID Level 5 and JBOD For ...

Page 20: ...e use the 26 pin ribbon cable in the package to connect the floppy device FDD 4 Lift up this plastic bar 5 Slot the cable in Blue paste for outside 6 Press back the plastic bar Floppy rear side 1 Lift up the brown plastic bar 2 Slot the cable in Blue paste for brown bar side 3 Press back the plastic bar ...

Page 21: ...face The board provides two REALTEK RTL8111C GigaLAN interfaces and compliant Standard Integrated 10 100 1000 transceiver auto switching Fast Ethernet Full Duplex flow control IEEE 802 3x Fully compliant with IEEE 802 3 IEEE 802 3u IEEE 802 3ab RJ45_1 2 ...

Page 22: ...e Based on VIA CN896 the board supports Chrome9 HC Integrated Graphics with 2D 3D Video Controllers with BIOS selectable 64 128 256MB shared with system memory for frame buffer 2 10 1 Analog VGA Interface The board provided a DB15 VGA connector on the rear I O panel VGA ...

Page 23: ...isplay The board provides one 40 pin LVDS connector for single dual 18 24 bit channel panels supports up to 1920 x 1200 of resolution with one LCD backlight inverter connector and one jumper for panel voltage setting LV 66AX series only 2 1 1 5 CN_INV JVLCD CN_LVDS 40 1 2 39 5 6 ...

Page 24: ... GND Default setting 1 2 5 ENABKL Connector CN_LVDS Type onboard 40 pin connector for LVDS connector Connector model HIROSE DF13 40DP 1 25V Pin Signal Pin Signal 2 LCDVCC 1 LCDVCC 4 GND 3 GND 6 ATX0 5 BTX0 8 ATX0 7 BTX0 10 GND 9 GND 12 ATX1 11 BTX1 14 ATX1 13 BTX1 16 GND 15 GND 18 ATX2 17 BTX2 20 ATX2 19 BTX2 22 GND 21 GND 24 ACLK 23 BTX3 26 ACLK 25 BTX3 28 GND 27 GND 30 ATX3 29 BCLK 32 ATX3 31 BC...

Page 25: ...a cable because every panel has its own pin assignment so we do not provide a standard cable please find a local cable manufacture to make cables LCD Installation Guide 1 Preparing the LV 66AX LCD panel and the backlight inverter 2 Please check the datasheet of the panel to see the voltage of the panel and set the jumper JVLCD to 12v 5V or 3 3V 3 You would need a LVDS type cable 4 To connect all o...

Page 26: ...st below LV 66AX BIOS panel type selection form VGA ROM VERSION NO Resolution Color Channel 0 640x480 18 1 1 800x600 18 1 2 1024x768 18 1 3 1280x768 18 2 4 1280x1024 24 2 5 1400x1050 24 2 6 1440x900 24 2 7 1280x800 18 1 8 800x480 18 1 9 1024x600 18 1 A 1366x768 24 2 B 1600x1200 24 2 C 1680x1050 24 2 D 1920x1200 24 2 E 640x240 18 1 F 480x640 18 1 ...

Page 27: ...ries only Connector CN_DVI Type onboard 26 pin connector for DVI connector Type onboard 2 x 13 pin box header pitch 2 0mm Pin Signal Pin Signal 1 D1TX1 2 D1TX1 3 GND 4 GND 5 D1TXC 6 D1TXC 7 GND 8 5V 9 N C 10 N C 11 D1TX2 12 D1TX2 13 GND 14 GND 15 D1TX0 16 D1TX0 17 N C 18 HPD1 19 DVP_DAT 20 DVP_CLK 21 GND 22 N C 23 N C 24 N C 25 N C 26 N C CN_DVI 25 2 1 26 ...

Page 28: ...erface Connector CN_FAUDIO Type 10 pin 2 x 5 header pitch 2 54mm Pin Description Pin Description 1 MIC2_L 2 Ground 3 MIC2_R 4 AVCC 3 3V 5 FP_OUT_R 6 MIC2_JD 7 SENSE 8 N C 9 FP_OUT_L 10 LINE2_JD Connector CDIN Type 4 pin header pitch 2 54mm Pin Description 1 CD Left 2 Ground 3 Ground 4 CD Right CDIN 4 1 1 10 CN_FAUDIO 2 9 AUDIO ...

Page 29: ...SB2 0 Interface Based on VIA VT8251 the board provides eight USB2 0 ports The USB2 0 interface provides up to 480Mbps of transferring rate Interface USB2 0 Controller VIA VT8251 Transfer Rate Up to 480Mb s Output Current 500mA USB 1 CN_FUSB 10 2 9 ...

Page 30: ...a0 4 Data1 5 Data0 6 Data1 7 Ground 8 Ground 9 Ground 10 N C PS The USB2 0 will be only active when you connecting with the USB2 0 devices if you insert an USB1 1 device the port will be changed to USB1 1 protocol automatically The transferring rate of USB2 0 as 480Mbps is depending on device capacity exact transferring rate may not be up to 480Mbps ...

Page 31: ...8 bit digital I O interface you can use this general purpose I O port for system control like POS or KIOSK Connector CN_DIO Type onboard 2 x 6 pin header pitch 2 0mm Pin Description Pin Description 1 Ground 2 Ground 3 GP0 4 GP4 5 GP1 6 GP5 7 GP2 8 GP6 9 GP3 10 GP7 11 5V 12 12V CN_DIO 1 12 11 2 ...

Page 32: ...s with jumper selectable RS422 485 for CN_COM2 Connector CN_COM2 Type 10 pin 5 x 2 header pitch 2 54mm Pin Description Pin Description 1 DCD 422TX 485 2 RXD 422TX 485 3 TXD 422RX 4 DTR 422RX 5 GND 6 DSR 7 RTS 8 CTS 9 RI 10 N C JCSEL1 JCSEL2 RS 232 RS 485 RS 422 1 2 11 12 1 2 11 12 1 2 11 12 1 2 5 6 1 2 5 6 1 2 5 6 ...

Page 33: ...LV 66A User s Manual Hardware Setup 33 JCSEL2 JCSEL1 CN_COM2 ...

Page 34: ...A User s Manual Hardware Setup 34 2 15 Fan Connector Connector CPUFAN SYSFAN Type 3 pin fan wafer connector Pin Description Pin Description Pin Description 1 Ground 2 12V 3 Fan Control 3 1 SYSFAN CPUFAN 1 3 ...

Page 35: ...se check well before you connecting the cables on the chassis Connector JFRNT Type onboard 14 pin 2 x 7 2 54 pitch header Function Signal PIN Signal Function HDLED 1 2 PWRLED IDE LED HDLED 3 4 N C Reset 5 6 PWRLED Power LED Reset Reset 7 8 SPK N C 9 10 N C PWRBT 11 12 N C Power Button PWRBT 13 14 SPK Speaker 14 1 JFRNT 2 13 ...

Page 36: ... pin DC power connector Optional Pin Description Pin Description 1 Ground 2 Ground 3 12V 4 12V Attention When DC IN had power supplied the ATX become output Avoid DC IN and ATX power supply input at the same time Connector ATX When DC IN be used Type 20 pin ATX connector for 5V 12V Output PIN assignment 1 11 2 12 3 13 4 5V 14 5 GND 15 6 16 GND 7 GND 17 GND 8 18 9 19 10 12V 20 5V Note Maximum outpu...

Page 37: ... ATX Input Connector ATX It also can become Output Type 20 pin ATX power connector PIN assignment 1 3 3V 11 3 3V 2 3 3V 12 12V 3 GND 13 GND 4 5V 14 PSON 5 GND 15 GND 6 5V 16 GND 7 GND 17 GND 8 PW_OK 18 5V 9 5V_SB 19 5V 10 12V 20 5V 1 10 11 20 ATX ...

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Page 39: ...0 data redundancy No rebuild is necessary in case of a disk failure simply copy data from the remaining healthy disk to the replacement disk You can specify a disk as the auto selected replacement disk for a Mirror Array this replacement disk is called Spare Disk To add remove Spare Disk for a Mirror Array please refer to Add Remove Spare You can also select an ordinary disk to replace the failed ...

Page 40: ...lso called JBOD Just a Bunch Of Disks which uses a bunch of disks as a larger disk Span provides no fault tolerance and no I O performance enhancement it s just a measure to enlarge disk capacity Selectable Functions Disk Statement Option Instruction ...

Page 41: ...nder OS please install the VIA RAID Utility in the driver CD To getting start please click here to learn more information The RAID Mode block will list all available RAID type according to the number of available free disk You may select one type by clicking corresponding item ...

Page 42: ... audio interface with driver installed please install the Realtek ALC888 HD audio driver in the CD before getting start to enjoy the 7 1 channel sound system 1 Install REALTEK HD Audio driver 2 Lunch the control panel and Sound Effect Manager 3 Select Speaker Configuration 4 Select the sound mode to meet your speaker system ...

Page 43: ...unction for clone or extended desktop modes with secondary display device attached After installing video driver please launch the desktop display properties For secondary display device you have two options selectable or more display properties setting please click Advanced button Please select S3Display for advanced device setting When you set dual display clone mode you ll see the same screen d...

Page 44: ...LV 66A User s Manual System Configuration 44 Two controllers for each display device There are two options for secondary display device For more display properties setting please click Advanced button ...

Page 45: ...clone mode you ll see the same screen display on two devices When you set the dual display for extended desktop mode you can have the independent desktop on the second device Connected Devices Click check box to enable disable device Specified display setup if available Set dual display clone mode and extended desktop mode ...

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Page 47: ...ion when the power is turned off If the battery runs out of the power then the settings of BIOS will come back to the default setting The BIOS section of the manual is subject to change without notice and is provided here for reference purpose only The settings and configurations of the BIOS are current at the time of print and therefore they may not be exactly the same as that displayed on your s...

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Page 49: ...Pin Description 1 Reset 2 Ground 3 D7 4 D8 5 D6 6 D9 7 D5 8 D10 9 D4 10 D11 11 D3 12 D12 13 D2 14 D13 15 D1 16 D14 17 D0 18 D15 19 Ground 20 N C 21 REQ 22 Ground 23 IOW STOP 24 Ground 25 IOR HDMARDY 26 Ground 27 IORDY DDMARDY 28 IDESEL 29 DACK 30 Ground 31 IRQ 32 N C 33 A1 34 CBLID 35 A0 36 A2 37 CS0 MASTER CS 38 CS1 SLAVE CS 39 LED ACT 40 Ground 40 1 2 39 ...

Page 50: ...round 3 D7 4 D8 5 D6 6 D9 7 D5 8 D10 9 D4 10 D11 11 D3 12 D12 13 D2 14 D13 15 D1 16 D14 17 D0 18 D15 19 Ground 20 N C 21 REQ 22 Ground 23 IOW STOP 24 Ground 25 IOR HDMARDY 26 Ground 27 IORDY DDMARDY 28 Ground 29 DACK 30 Ground 31 IRQ 32 N C 33 A1 34 SD 35 A0 36 A2 37 CS1 38 CS3 39 ASP1 40 Ground 41 5V 42 5V 43 Ground 44 Ground 2 1 44 43 ...

Page 51: ... 5V 4 DRV0 5 5V 6 DSKCHG 7 DRV1 8 N C 9 MTR1 10 MTR0 11 RPM 12 DIR 13 N C 14 STEP 15 Ground 16 WRITE DATA 17 Ground 18 WRITE GATE 19 N C 20 TRACK 0 21 N C 22 WRPTR 23 Ground 24 RDATA 25 Ground 26 SEL A 3 Serial ATA Port Connector SATA1 2 3 4 Type 7 pin wafer connector 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 GND RSATA_TXP1 RSATA_TXN1 GND RSATA_RXN1 RSATA_RXP1 GND 7 1 26 1 ...

Page 52: ...ound 13 HSYNC 4 N C 9 LVGA5V 14 VSYNC 5 Ground 10 Ground 15 5VCLK A 5 Serial Port Connector COM Type 9 pin D sub male connector on rear panel Pin Description Pin Description 1 DCD 6 DSR 2 SIN 7 RTS 3 SO 8 CTS 4 DTR 9 RI 5 Ground A 6 LAN Port Connector RJ45_1 2 Type RJ45 connector with LED on rear panel Pin 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 Description TRD0 TRD0 TRD1 TRD2 TRD2 TRD1 TRD3 TRD3 1 2 3 4 5 11 12 13 14 15...

Page 53: ... the tool is awdflash exe it s the utility that can write the data into the BIOS flash ship and update the BIOS B 2 Flash Method 1 Please make a bootable floppy disk 2 Get the last bin files you want to update and copy it into the disk 3 Copy awardflash exe to the disk 4 Power on the system and flash the BIOS Example C awdflash XXX bin 5 Re star the system Any question about the BIOS re flash plea...

Page 54: ...LV 66A User s Manual System Resources 54 Appendix C System Resources C1 I O Port Address Map ...

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Page 56: ...LV 66A User s Manual System Resources 56 C2 Memory Address Map ...

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Page 58: ...LV 66A User s Manual System Resources 58 C3 System IRQ Resources ...

Page 59: ... 2E 07 o 2F 07 select logic device 7 o 2E 29 o 2F D4 General Purpose I O Port 1 pin121 128 select function o 2E 30 o 2F 01 undate Activate GPIO Svu04 o 2E F0 o 2F xx set GPIO as input output set 1 for input 0 for output o 2E F1 o 2F xx if set GPIO s as output in this register its value can be set Optional o 2E F2 o 2F xx Data inversion register 1 inverts the current value of the bits 0 leaves them...

Page 60: ...LV 66A User s Manual Programming GPIO s 60 datasheet ...

Page 61: ...Timeout Value Range 1 to 255 Second or Minute Program Sample Watchdog timer setup as system reset with 5 second of timeout 2E 87 2E 87 enter configuration 2E 07 2F 08 Logical Device 8 2E 29 2F 20 Set WDTO 2E 30 2F 01 Activate 2E F3 2F 00 Set as Second 2E F4 2F 05 Set as 5 Minute bit 2 1 Second bit 2 0 You can select Timer setting in the BIOS after setting the time options the system will reset acc...

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