BIOS Settings

The following is a guide on BIOS settings for each system. When the CMOS battery drains the BIOS settings will be reverted leaving the system in a problematic state.

FMADIO-3103 (Portable 20G Gen3)

For the system

• FMADIO-3103

Battery information

Battery Polarity

Do pay attention to the battery polarity

BIOS Settings as follows

Advanced → Boot Feature

Advanced → Processor Configuration → Advanced Power Management → CPU P State Control

Advanced → Serial Port Console Redirection

Advanced → PCIe Configuration

Advanced → PCIe Configuration → Network Stack Configuration

IPMI → System Event Log

Boot

Boot → Hard Disk Drive Priorities

FMADIO-5412 (100Gv2)

Following is the BIOS settings for the FMADIO 100G Gen2 systems

Advanced → Serial Port Console Redirection

Advance → PCIe Subsystem

Advanced → Network Stack

Advance → NVME

Chipset → Common Refcode Configuration

Isoc Mode / NUMA settings

Chipset → Memory Configuration → Memory Map

Chipset → Advance Power Management → P State

Chipset → Power Policy

Server Management

Server Management → System Event Log

Boot (Legacy) Try this first

Boot → Harddisk Drive Priorities

(Set to NVMe P00)

Boot (newer system EFI boot) NOTE: 95% of systems are Legacy try this one last

FMADIO-3113 / 5113 / 3123 / 5123 (Gen3 20G/40G)

Following is the BIOS settings for the FMADIO 20G Gen3 and FMADIO40G Gen3, both 1U and 2U rack mount systems.

Advanced → Serial Port Console

Advanced → PCI Subsystem Settings

Advanced → Network Stack

Advanced → NVMe Configuration

Advanced → Chipset Configuration

Chipset → Common RefCode

Chipset → Memory Configuration → Memory Map

Server Mgmt → System Event Log

Boot

NOTE: if Boot mode Select was not LEGACY, save the config and reboot. Once set enter the BIOS again and additional options will be visibile

Boot → Hard disk Priority

NOTE: must be the P4 device

Save and exit