User Manual
Table Of Contents
- Safety information
- Chapter 1: Product Introduction
- Chapter 2: Hardware Setup
- Chapter 3: Motherboard Information
- Chapter 4: BIOS Setup
- 4.1 Knowing BIOS
- 4.2 BIOS setup program
- 4.3 My Favorites
- 4.4 Main menu
- 4.5 Advanced menu
- 4.5.1 CPU Configuration
- 4.5.2 Platform Misc Configuration
- 4.5.3 System Agent (SA) Configuration
- 4.5.4 PCH Configuration
- 4.5.5 PCH Storage Configuration
- 4.5.6 Serial Port Console Redirection
- 4.5.7 CPU Storage Configuration
- 4.5.8 Onboard Devices Configuration
- 4.5.9 APM Configuration
- 4.5.10 Network Stack Configuration
- 4.5.11 HDD/SSD SMART Information
- 4.5.12 USB Configuration
- 4.5.13 Thunderbolt(TM) Configuration
- 4.5.14 PCH-FW Configuration
- 4.6 Boot menu
- 4.7 Tool menu
- 4.8 Exit menu
- 4.9 Server Mgmt menu
- 4.10 Updating BIOS
- Chapter 5: RAID Configuration
- Appendix
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Chapter 4: BIOS Setup
Menu bar
The menu bar on top of the screen has the following main items:
My Favorites
For saving the frequently-used system settings and conguration.
Main
For changing the basic system conguration
Advanced For changing the advanced system settings
Boot For changing the system boot conguration
Tool For conguring options for special functions
Exit For selecting the exit options and loading default settings
Server Mgmt For changing the server mgmt settings
Menu items
The highlighted item on the menu bar displays the specific items for that menu. For example,
selecting Main shows the Main menu items.
The other items (My Favorites, Advanced, Boot, Tool, Exit, and Server Mgmt) on the menu
bar have their respective menu items.
Submenu items
A greater than sign (>) before each item on any menu screen means that the item has a
submenu. To display the submenu, select the item and press <Enter>.
Language
This button above the menu bar contains the languages that you can select for your BIOS.
Click this button to select the language that you want to display in your BIOS screen.
My Favorites (F3)
This button above the menu bar shows all BIOS items in a Tree Map setup. Select frequently-
used BIOS settings and save it to MyFavorites menu.
Refer to section 4.3 My Favorites for more information.
EZ Tuning Wizard (F11)
This button above the menu bar allows you to view and tweak the overclocking settings of
your system. It also allows you to change the motherboard’s SATA mode from AHCI to RAID
mode.
Refer to section 4.2.3 EZ Tuning Wizard for more information.