User manual GIGABYTE GA-7PXSL

[. . . ] 1001 Dual LGA2011 sockets motherboard for Intel® E5-2600 series processors Copyright © 2013 GIGA-BYTE TECHNOLOGY CO. , LTD. The trademarks mentioned in this manual are legally registered to their respective owners. Disclaimer Information in this manual is protected by copyright laws and is the property of GIGABYTE. Changes to the specifications and features in this manual may be made by GIGABYTE without prior notice. No part of this manual may be reproduced, copied, translated, transmitted, or published in any form or by any means without GIGABYTE's prior written permission. Documentation Classifications In order to assist in the use of this product, GIGABYTE provides the following types of documentations:  For detailed product information, carefully read the User's Manual. For product-related information, check on our website at: http://www. gigabyte. com Table of Contents Box Contents. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5 GA-7PXSL Motherboard Layout. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6 Block Diagram. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9 Chapter 1 Hardware Installation. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10 1-1 1-2 1-3 Installation Precautions. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . [. . . ] Conventional Intel SpeedStep Technology switches both voltage and frequency in tandem between high and low levels in response to processor load. When this item is enabled, tje processor will automatically ramp up the clock speed of 1-2 of its processing cores to improve its performance. When this item is disabled, the processor will not overclock any of its core. In HW_ALL mode, the processor hardware is responsible for coordinating the P-state among logical processors dependencies. The OS is responsible for keeping the P-state request up to date on all logical processors. In SW_ALL mode, the OS Power Manager is responsible for coordinating the P-state among logical processors with dependencies and must initiate the transition on all of those Logical Processors. In SW_ANY mode, the OS Power Manager is responsible for coordinating the P-state among logical processors with dependencies and may initiate the transition on any of those Logical Processors. Options available: HW_ALL/SW_ALL/SW_ANY. Default setting is HW_ALL. Turbo Mode P-STATE Coordination BIOS Setup - 52 - CPU C3/C6 Report (Note) Allows you to determine whether to let the CPU enter C3/C6 mode in system halt state. When enabled, the CPU core frequency and voltage will be reduced during system halt state to decrease power consumption. The C3/C6 state is a more enhanced power-saving state than C1. Configure state for the C-State package limit. Options available: C0/C1/C6/C7/No Limit. Energy Performance Bias is Intel CPU function. The larger value in MSR_ENERGY_PERFORMANCE_BIAS register, CPU will save more power but lose more performance. Note: This register will be changed by OS too if OS support it like Windows 2008 or newer Linux. Options available: Performance : Write value 0 into MSR_ENERGY_PERFORMANCE_BIAS Balanced Performance: Write value 7 into MSR_ENERGY_PERFORMANCE_BIAS Balanced Energy: Write value 11 into MSR_ENERGY_PERFORMANCE_BIAS Energy Efficient: Write value 15 into MSR_ENERGY_PERFORMANCE_BIAS Default setting is Performance. Package C State Limit Energy Performance (Note) This item is present only if you install a CPU that supports this feature. For more information about Intel CPUs' unique features, please visit Intel's website. - 53 BIOS Setup 2-2-4 Fan Configuration Fan Contol Policy Define the fan policies. Options available: Full Speed/Performance/Balanced/Quiet. Press <+> / <-> keys to increase or decrease the desired values. Fan Rise Curve BIOS Setup - 54 - 2-2-5 USB Configuration USB Configuration Legacy USB Support Enables or disables support for legacy USB devices. Options available: Auto/Enabled/Disabled. [. . . ] Setup Defaults are quite demanding in terms of resources consumption. If you are using low-speed memory chips or other kinds of low-performance components and you choose to load these settings, the system might not function properly. Press Enter to configure the device as the boot-up drive. Press <Enter> on this item to Launch EFI Shell from filesystem device. UEFI: Built-in in EFI Shell - 93 - BIOS Setup 2-8 BIOS Beep Codes # of Beeps 1 2 4 4 5 6 Description Invalid password Recovery started S3 Resume failed DXEIPL was not found No Console Input/Output Devices are found Flash update is failed BIOS Setup - 94 - 2-9 BIOS Recovery Instruction The system has an embedded recovery technique. [. . . ]