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Asus P7F-M User Manual (160 pages)

Brand: Asus | Category: Computer hardware | Size: 8.15 MB |

English

Table of contents

Motherboard

1

First Edition V1

2

October 2009

2

Contents

3

Safety information

8

About this guide

9

Typography

10

P7F-M specications summary

11

Product

13

1.1 Welcome!

15

1.2 Package contents

15

1.4 Special features

16

1.3 Serial number label

16

ASUS P7F-M 1-5

17

Hardware

19

2.1 Before you proceed

21

2. BMC LED (BMC_LED1)

22

2.2 Motherboard overview

23

2.2.3 Motherboard layout

24

2.2.4 Layout contents

25

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

2.5.6 PCI slots

37

2.5.8 Installing i Button

38

ASUS P7F-M 2-21

39

2.6 Jumpers

40

ASUS P7F-M 2-23

41

ASUS P7F-M 2-25

43

2.7 Connectors

44

2.7.2 Internal connectors

45

ASUS P7F-M 2-29

47

ASUS P7F-M 2-33

51

Powering up

53

ASUS P7F-M 3-3

55

3-4 Chapter 3: Powering up

56

BIOS setup

57

4.1.2 BUPDATER utility

60

ASUS P7F-M 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-M 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-M 4-17

73

4-18 Chapter 4: BIOS setup

74

C6 State [Enabled]

75

C1 Auto Demotion [Enabled]

75

C3 Auto Demotion [Enabled]

75

Uncore Conguration

76

DRAM Margin Ranks [Disabled]

77

Memory ECC Function [Enabled]

77

4-22 Chapter 4: BIOS setup

78

4.4.4 USB Conguration

79

4.4.5 PCIPnP

80

Advanced ACPI Conguration

81

Chipset ACPI Conguration

82

General WHEA Conguration

82

4.4.7 Event Log Conguration

83

4.5 Server menu

84

Base Address. IRQ [2F8h, 3]

85

4.6 Power menu

86

4.6.2 Hardware Monitor

88

4.7 Boot menu

89

4-34 Chapter 4: BIOS setup

90

4.7.4 Security

91

Change User Password

92

Password Check [Setup]

92

4.8 Tools menu

93

4.9 Exit menu

94

(Data striping)

97

(Data mirroring)

97

Utility

99

5.2.1 Creating a RAID set

100

Choose RAID Level For This VD

102

ASUS P7F-M 5-9

103

Using New Conguration

104

ASUS P7F-M 5-11

105

Using the Initialize command

107

Using the Objects command

109

BIOS Version A.09.04300936R

110

ASUS P7F-M 5-17

111

ASUS P7F-M 5-19

113

Check Consistency

113

Select VD

114

ASUS P7F-M 5-23

117

5.2.8 Enabling WriteCache

118

5.3 Intel

119

Matrix Storage Manager

119

Option ROM Utility

119

5.3.1 Creating a RAID set

120

ASUS P7F-M 5-27

121

5.3.3 Deleting a RAID set

123

ASUS P7F-M 5-31

125

See section

125

5.3.2 Creating a Recovery set

125

5.3.7 Rebuilding the RAID

126

5.3.6 Exiting the Intel

126

ASUS P7F-M 5-33

127

Chapter summary

130

6.1 RAID driver installation

131

PCH LSI RAID Driver

132

ASUS P7F-M

133

Server OS

134

Enterprise Linux OS 4.7/4.8

137

Enterprise Linux OS 5.0

142

SUSE Linux OS

145

6.2 Intel

147

chipset device installation

147

6.3 LAN driver installation

149

9. When finished, press

151

to continue

151

6.4 VGA driver installation

152

installation

154

6.5.3 Utilities menu

155

6.5.4 Make disk menu

155

6.5.5 Contact information

155

Reference information

157

Appendix summary

158

A.1 P7F-M block diagram

159

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