Biostar

If see "CMOS fail" error message during boot up, this is not motherboard's physical problem.

It can be resolve by load optmized default setting for the BIOS.

You can press F3 key in BIOS by load the optmized default setting, then press F10 key to save and exit the BIOS.

After next boot up, there should be no CMOS fail error message in the POST screen.

Note: For older motherboard model, it will need to press F9 key to load the optmized default setting.

Please refer the instruction here for the setting.

1. Open Network and Sharing Center by right click the internet logo on the desktop.

2. Select "Change adapter settings" in Network and Sharing Center.

3. There should be 2 LAN cards in the system to do the bridge setting.

4. Select both LAN cards, then right click and select "Bridge Connections".

5. It will take a while for system to bridge the LAN cards.

6. After the setting is done, system will have Network Bridge icon in Network Connections. Now two LAN cards will run in bridge mode.

CIR is an option device, so we did not include it in the motherboard package.
User need to purchase the CIR receiver and remote control unit to make this function work.
Otherwise there is no need to install the CIR driver.
We have Biostar remote control device if user need to purchase it.

Here is the link for Biostar accessories, Bio-Remote MCE controller device is in Others menu.

https://www.biostar.com.tw/app/en/accessory/index.php

Please follow the instruction here for enable the CIR function.

1. You will need to Enable the CIR device in BIOS. It's under BIOS>Advanced>Super IO> CIR controller.
If you don't Enable it, CIR driver will not install properly due to unable to detect the CIR device.

2. You can download the driver from our website or you can use the driver from our driver CD if you do the first step.
In driver CD, ITECIR Infrared Receiver will pop up once you enable the BIOS setting.

Driver download location:

https://www.biostar.com.tw/app/en/mb/introduction.php?S_ID=787#dl

3. You will be able to see the device manager has ITECIR Infrared Receiver(SIO2) device showed once you complete the driver intallation.
When you connect CIR receiver, then the function will work properly.

The second PCI-E 16x slot is 1x speed and it's PCI-E 2.0 speed.

Yes, if use FM2+ CPU, both HDMI ports will support 4k display.

Some of the SSD hard drive might produced few years ago. So the firmware on the SSD hard drive might not support newer motherboard chipset. Please contact SSD hard driver's manufacture website to update the latest firmware. It could help for resolve the detection problem.

Yes, GAMING Z97X's on-board display port will support 4k resolution (4096x2160 @ 24 Hz / 3840x2160 @ 60 Hz).

If see the "iastor.sys" blue screen error message, then it is related to the SATA device or it's driver.

The hard drive data might formated in SATA IDE mode from previus system or motherboard.

However, Hi-Fi H87S3+ board's default SATA setting is set to AHCI mode.

So these two modes cannot compatible, then windows will give you the blue screen error during boot up.

You can go to BIOS and set SATA to [IDE mode], then it should fix the problem for you.

There are two posibility for rear I/O shield no audio output.

First, you might use front audio cable for the audio output.

Second, the audio might goes to VGA card's HDMI port.

You might need to check these two places to let audio output work properly from rear I/O shield's audio port.

You can find RAID drivers from AMD's website here. It's contain in AMD Chipset's SATA controller driver.
http://support.amd.com/en-us/download
Choose Manual select
Step 1:  Chipsets
Step 2:  AMD 9-series
Step 3:  All 9-series
Step 4: OS version

Then you will be able to get the RAID driver from the link.

For the user manual, you can download from the link here.

https://www2.ati.com/relnotes/AMD_RAIDXpert_User_v2.1.pdf