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TECHNICAL MANUAL Intel H61 Express Chipset Based Mini-ITX M/B NO. G03-NF9F-F Revision: 2.0 Release date: October 1, 2019 Trademark: * Specifications and Information contained in this documentation are furnished for information use only, and are subject to change at any time without notice, and should not be construed as a commitment by manufacturer.
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Environmental Protection Announcement Do not dispose this electronic device into the trash while discarding. To minimize pollution and ensure environment protection of mother earth, please recycle.
Environmental Safety Instruction Avoid the dusty, humidity and temperature extremes. Do not place the product in any area where it may become wet. 0 to 60 centigrade is the suitable temperature. (The figure comes from the request of the main chipset) ...
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Connectors and Headers 2-2-1 Connectors (1) Rear Panel Connectors RJ-45 LAN Port Serial Ports DVI-D Port USB Port Line-IN Line-OUT MIC-IN USB Ports VGA Port Serial Ports...
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(2) SATA II Port connector: SATA1/SATA2/SATA3/SATA4 These connectors are high-speed SATAII ports that support 3 Gbps transfer rate. Pin No. Defnition (3) Power Connector (24-pin block): ATXPWR...
(4) ATX12V Type Power Connector (4-pin block):ATX12V 2-2-2 Headers (1) FP_AUDIO (9-pin): Line-Out, MIC-In Header This header connects to Front Panel Line-out, MIC-In connector with cable. FP_AUDIO Pin 1 Line-Out, MIC Headers...
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(2) COM5/COM6(9-Pin): Serial Port Header Pin6 Pin1 Pin5 COM Port 9-pin Block (3) TX-RXCOM6 (4-Pin): RS232/422/485 Header Pin 1 TX-RXCOM6 Header...
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(4) GPIO_CON(10-pin): GPIO Header Pin 1 GPIO_CON Header (5) USB1/USB2 (9-pin): USB Port Headers +DATA +DATA -DATA -DATA Pin 1 USB Port Header...
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(6) JW-FP(9-pin): Front Panel Header JW_FP Pin 1 System Case Connections (7) PWRLED (3-pin): Power LED Header The Power LED is light on while the system power is on. Connect the Power LED from the system case to this pin. (8) SPEAK (4-pin): Speaker Header This 4-pin header connects to the case-mounted speaker.
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(9) SYSFAN1 (3-pin), SYSFAN2 (4-pin), CPUFAN1 (4-pin): FAN Headers Pin1 +12V Fan Power Fan Clock SYSFAN1 Pin1 Pin1 SYSFAN2 CPUFAN FAN Headers (10) CIR (4-Pin): CIR Header Pin 1 CIR Header...
Chapter 3 Introducing BIOS Notice! The BIOS options in this manual are for reference only. Different configurations may lead to difference in BIOS screen and BIOS screens in manuals are usually the first BIOS version when the board is released and may be different from your purchased motherboard. Users are welcome to download the latest BIOS version form our official website.
BIOS Menu Screen The following diagram show a general BIOS menu screen: Menu Bar General Help Items Current Setting Value Menu Items Function Keys BIOS Menu Screen Function Key In the above BIOS Setup main menu of, you can see several options. We will explain these options step by step in the following pages of this chapter, but let us first see a short description of the function keys you may use here: ...
Press ↑↓ (up, down) to choose, in the main menu, the option you want to confirm or to modify. Press <Enter> to select. Press <+>/<–> keys when you want to modify the BIOS parameters for the active option.
User can press the right or left arrow key on the keyboard to switch from menu bar. The selected one is highlighted. Main Menu Main menu screen includes some basic system information. Highlight the item and then use the <+> or <-> and numerical keyboard keys to select the value you want in each item.
3-7 Advanced Menu Launch External PXE OpROM/Launch LAN1 PXE OpROM Use this item to enable or disable boot option for legacy network devices. Launch Storage OpROM Use this item to enable or disable boot option for legacy mass storage devices with option ROM.
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Press [Enter] to enter and make settings for PCI Express Settings and PCI Express GEN2 Settings. ▶ PCI Express Settings Press [Enter] to make settings for the following PCI Express Device Register Settings: Relaxed Ordering Use this item to enable or disable PCI express device relaxed ordering. Extended Tag If set as [Enabled] it will allow device to use 8-bit tag field as a requester.
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Use this item to define number of microseconds software will wait before polling ‘Link Training’ bit in link status register. Unpopulated Links The optional settings are: [Keep Link On]; [Disable Link]. ▶ PCI Express GEN2 Settings Press [Enter] to make settings for the following PCI Express GEN Devices Settings: PCI Express GEN2 Device Register Settings: Completion Timeout...
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Target Link Speed The optional settings are: [Auto]; [Force to 2.5GT/s]. Selectable De-emphasis The optional settings are: [-3.5 dB]; [-6.0dB]. Clock Power Management The optional settings are: [Disabled]; [Enabled]. Compliance SOS The optional settings are: [Disabled]; [Enabled]. Hardware Autonomous Width The optional settings are: [Disabled];...
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Use this item to turn on/off the Mid Level Cache (L2) streamer prefetcher. Adjacent Cache Line Prefetch Use this item to turn on/off prefetching of adjacent cache lines. Intel Virtualization Technology The optional settings: [Enabled]; [Disabled]. When set as [Enabled], a VHM can utilize the additional hardware capabilities provided by Vanderpool Technology.
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The optional settings are: [Disabled]; [Enhanced]; [Compatible]. Serial-ATA Controller 1 The optional settings are: [Disabled]; [Enhanced]. ► Intel IGD SWSCI OpRegion IGD-Boot Type Use this item to select the video device which will be activated during POST. This has no effect if external graphics present.
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a hub port the delay is taken from hub descriptor. The optional settings: [Auto]; [Manual].Select [Manual] you can set value for the following sub-item: Device Power-up delay in seconds, the delay range in from 1 to 40 seconds in one second increments.
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CIR Controller Use this item to enable or disable CIR controller. Case Open Detect Use this item to detect case has already open or not, show message in POST. ► PC Health Status Press [Enter] to view hardware health status. ►...
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Serial Port Use this item to enable or disable serial port (COM). Change Settings Use this item to select an optimal setting for super IO device. Serial Port Mode Select The optional settings are: [RS232]; [RS422/RS485]. ► Voltage Configuration DIMM Voltage The optional settings are: [1.50V];...
Use this item to set a degree for CPU/System fan1/ System fan2 FAN will run at full speed when above the specific temperature set. CPUFAN / SYSFAN1/SYSFAN2 Idle Temp Use this item to set a degree for CPU/System fan1/ System fan2. FAN will idle speed when below this temperature.
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► North Bridge LOW MMIO Align The optional settings are: [64M]; [1024M]. VT-d The optional settings are: [Enabled]; [Disabled]. Initiate Graphics Adapter Select which graphics controller to use as the primary boot device. The optional settings are:[ IGD]; [PCI/IGD]; [PCI/PEG]; [PEG/IGD]; [PEG/PCI]. IGD Memory Use this item to set IGD share memory size.
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SLP_S4 Assertion Stretch Enable The optional settings are: [Enabled]; [Disabled]. Deep Sx The optional settings are: [Disabled]; [Enabled in S5]; [Enabled in S4 and S5]. Audio Configuration Azalia HD Audio The optional settings are: [Enabled]; [Disabled]. Azalia Internal HDMI Codec Use this item to enable or disable internal HDMI codec for Azalia.
3-9 Boot Menu Boot Configuration Setup Prompt Timeout Use this item to set number of seconds to wait for setup activation key. Bootup Numlock State Use this item to select keyboard numlock state.The optional settings are: [On]; [Off]. Quiet Boot The optional settings are: [Enabled];...
Security menu allow users to change administrator password and user password settings. 3-11 Save & Exit Menu Save Changes and Reset This item allows user to reset the system after saving the changes. Discard changes and Reset This item allows user to reset the system without saving any changes. Restore Defaults Use this item to restore /Load default values for all the setup options.
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Save as User Defaults Use this item to save the changes done so far as user defaults. Restore User Defaults Use this item to restore defaults to all the setup options. Launch EFI Shell from filesystem device This item is used for attempts to launch EFI shell application from one of the available file system devices.