User manual MSI K9A2 CF V1.0

[. . . ] K9A2 CF Series MS-7388 (v1. X) Mainboard i Copyright Notice T he material in this doc ument is the intellec tual property of M ICRO-STAR INTERNATIONAL. We take every care in the preparation of this document, but no guarantee is given as to the correctness of its contents. Our products are under continual improvement and we reserve the right to make changes without notice. Trademarks All trademarks are the properties of their respective owners. NVIDIA, the NVIDIA logo, DualNet, and nForce are registered trademarks or trademarks of NVIDIA Corporation in the United States and/or other countries. [. . . ] Time (HH:MM :SS) This allows you to set the system time that you want (usually the current time). IDE Primary Master/ Slave, SATA1/ 2/ 3/ 4 Press <Enter> to enter the sub-menu, and the following screen appears. Important IDE Primary Master/ Slave, SATA1/ 2/ 3/ 4 are appearing when you connect the HD devices to the IDE/ SATA connector on the mainboard. 3-6 BIOS Setup Device/ Vender/ Size It will showing the device information that you connected to the IDE/SATA connector. Setting to Auto enables LBA mode if the device supports it and the devices is not already formatted with LBA mode disabled. (Self-Monitoring Analysis & Reporting Technology) capability for the hard disks. S. M. A. R. T is a utility that monitors your disk status to predict hard disk failure. This gives you an opportunity to move data from a hard disk that is going to fail to a safe place before the hard disk becomes offline. Floppy A This item allows you to set the type of floppy drives installed. System Information Press <Enter> to enter the sub-menu, and the following screen appears. CPU Infromation/ BIOS Version/ M emory Information These items show the CPU information, BIOS version and memory status of your system (read only). 3-7 M S-7388 M ainboard Advanced BIOS Features Full Screen LOGO Display This item enables you to show the company logo on the bootup screen. Settings are: [Enabled] Shows a still image (logo) on the full screen at boot. Quick Booting Setting the item to [Enabled] allows the system to boot within 5 seconds since it will skip some check items. Boot Up Num-Lock LED This setting is to set the Num Lock status when the system is powered on. Setting to [On] will turn on the Num Lock key when the system is powered on. Setting to [Off] will allow users to use the arrow keys on the numeric keypad. 3-8 BIOS Setup IOAPIC Function This field is used to enable or disable the APIC (Advanced Programmable Interrupt Controller). Due to compliance with PC2001 design guide, the system is able to run in APIC mode. Enabling APIC mode will expand available IRQ resources for the system. MPS Table Version This field allows you to select which MPS (Multi-Processor Specification) version to be used for the operating system. You need to select the MPS version supported by your operating system. To find out which version to use, consult the vendor of your operating system. CPU Feature Press <Enter> to enter the sub-menu and the following screen appears: C1E Support W hen the C1E Support (Enhanced Halt Powerdown State) is enabled, the processor will transition to a lower core to bus ratio and lower voltage ID driven by the processor to the voltage regulator before entering Halt Powerdown State (C1). SVM Support SVM (Secure Virtual Machine) technology provides a set of hardware extensions designed to enable economical and efficient implementation of virtual machine systems. Generally speaking, hardware support falls into two complementary c ategories : v irtualiz ation s upport and s ec urity s upport. Chipset Feature Press <Enter> to enter the sub-menu and the following screen appears: HPET The HPET (High Precision Event Timers) is a component that is part of the chipset. [. . . ] RAID 1 or 10 only. B-4 SATA RAID · Stripe Block Size, the default 64KB is best for most applications. · Gigabyte Boundary, allows use of slightly smaller replacement drives. On the Drives Assignments window, use the arrow key to choose the hard drives which you want to make part of the LD, use the space key to change the assignment to "Y". A message will show up on the bottom, press any key to save the configuration or press [Ctrl-Y] to allocate the RAID capacity manually. Important 1. [. . . ]