Biostar

Due to RHEL 4.4 is an older version, it might not support newer AMD chipsets.

Please update to latest RHEL version 6 or 7 for support SB810 southbridge on A960D+.

For example to use Hi-Fi H77S and ATI HD 7750 VGA card, please follow the instruction to achieve UEFI VGA card boot.

System requirement:

1. motherboard need to support UEFI fast boot. 2. OS only support Windows 8 64 bit(UEFI mode for installation). 3. VGA card update latest BIOS for support UEFI.

BIOS settings:

1. Goto BIOS [Boot] menu CSM Parameters.

2. Boot option filter and Launch video opROM policy set to UEFI only.

3. Save BIOS setting and reboot system.

4. Goto BIOS [Boot] menu, set Boot option for Windows Boot manager as first boot device.

5. After next boot up, system will run as UEFI VGA card boot.

These two CPU marked as TDP 220W, however, TA990FXE's TDP design limit is 140W.

So there will be no support for these two FX 220W CPU.

This function will only support by server class motherboard. H61 chipset will not be able to support this function.

Please update the latest version BIOS for support FM2 Richland CPU. Otherwise, the old BIOS will be able to support up to DDR3-1333 memory for it.

https://www.biostar.com.tw/app/en/mb/introduction.php?S_ID=633#dl

Our latest beta BIOS will be able to reduce the boot up time for A960D+ with PCI-E VGA card.

https://www.biostar.com.tw/app/en/mb/introduction.php?S_ID=627#dl

Please update our latest BIOS on website for support K-SKU CPU overclock function.

https://www.biostar.com.tw/app/en/mb/introduction.php?S_ID=644#dl

Please use Windows 8's build in AHCI driver, then Hi-Fi A85W will be able to support SATA hard drive with Hotplug and Hotswap functions.

On-board RAID controller on Intel H77 chipset can only support one RAID array. So it will only be able to support RAID 1 or RAID 5 seperately.

There might be virus inside of USB flash drive to cause system disk fail to boot.

Please use 3rd party software to rebuild system hard drive's MBR table to make it boot up properly.