Asus P7F-X SATA manuals

Asus P7F-X SATA Specifications (136 pages)

Brand: Asus | Category: Server/workstation motherboards | Size: 6.89 MB |

English

Table of contents

Motherboard

1

First Edition V1

2

August 2009

2

Contents

3

Safety information

8

About this guide

9

Typography

10

Product

13

1.1 Welcome!

15

1.2 Package contents

15

1.4 Special features

16

1.3 Serial number label

16

ASUS P7F-X Series 1-5

17

ASUS MIO Audio card

18

Hardware

19

2.1 Before you proceed

21

2.2 Motherboard overview

22

2.2.3 Motherboard layout

23

P7F-X/SATA

24

2.2.4 Layout contents

25

(P7F-X/SATA model only)

26

2.3.1 Installing the CPU

27

2.3.3 Uninstalling the CPU

31

2.4 System memory

33

2.4.3 Installing a DIMM

34

2.4.4 Removing a DIMM

34

2.5 Expansion slots

35

2.5.3 Interrupt assignments

36

2.5.4 MIO PCIE slot

37

2.5.7 PCI Express x1 slot

37

2.5.8 PCI slots

37

2.6 Jumpers

39

2.7 Connectors

43

2.7.2 Internal connectors

44

ASUS P7F-X Series 2-29

47

10. ATX power connectors

49

ASUS P7F-X Series 2-33

51

Powering up

53

ASUS P7F-X Series 3-3

55

3-4 Chapter 3: Powering up

56

BIOS setup

57

4.1.2 BUPDATER utility

60

ASUS P7F-X Series 4-5

61

4.2 BIOS setup program

63

4.2.2 Menu bar

64

4.2.3 Navigation keys

64

4.2.1 BIOS menu screen

64

ASUS P7F-X Series 4-9

65

4.3 Main menu

66

4.3.3 SATA1—6

67

DMA Mode [Auto]

68

SMART Monitoring [Auto]

68

32Bit Data Transfer [Enabled]

68

4.3.4 Storage Conguration

69

4.3.5 AHCI Conguration

70

4.3.6 System Information

71

4.4 Advanced menu

72

ASUS P7F-X Series 4-17

73

4-18 Chapter 4: BIOS setup

74

C6 State [Enabled]

75

C1 Auto Demotion [Enabled]

75

C3 Auto Demotion [Enabled]

75

North Bridge Conguration

76

DRAM Margin Ranks [Disabled]

77

Memory ECC Function [Enabled]

77

4-22 Chapter 4: BIOS setup

78

ASUS P7F-X Series 4-23

79

4.4.4 USB Conguration

80

4.4.5 PCIPnP

81

Advanced ACPI Conguration

82

Chipset ACPI Conguration

83

General WHEA Conguration

83

4.4.7 Event Log Conguration

84

4.5 Server menu

85

Base Address. IRQ [2F8h, 3]

86

4.6 Power menu

87

4.6.3 Hardware Monitor

89

4.7 Boot menu

90

ASUS P7F-X Series 4-35

91

4.7.3 Security

92

Change User Password

93

Password Check [Setup]

93

4.8 Tools menu

94

4.9 Exit menu

95

4-40 Chapter 4: BIOS setup

96

(Data striping)

99

(Data mirroring)

99

5.2 Intel

101

Matrix Storage Manager

101

Option ROM Utility

101

5.2.1 Creating a RAID set

102

ASUS P7F-X Series 5-7

103

5.2.3 Deleting a RAID set

105

See section

107

5.3.2 Creating a Recovery set

107

ASUS P7F-X Series 5-11

107

5.2.7 Rebuilding the RAID

108

5.2.6 Exiting the Intel

108

ASUS P7F-X Series 5-13

109

5.3 Marvell

111

88SE6145 RAID BIOS

111

conguration utility

111

5.3.1 Creating a RAID set

112

Arrays Information

114

5.3.2 Deleting an array

115

Chapter summary

118

6.1 RAID driver installation

119

Server OS

121

ASUS P7F-X Series

123

6.2 Intel

124

chipset device installation

124

6.3 LAN driver installation

126

6.4 VGA driver installation

128

installation

130

6.5.3 Utilities menu

131

6.5.4 Make disk menu

131

6.5.5 Contact information

131

Reference information

133

Appendix summary

134

88SE6145

135

(P7F-X/SATA only)

135

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