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ASRock’s website with- out further notice. If you require technical support related to this motherboard, please visit our website for specific information about the model you are using. ASRock website http:// www.asrock.com.
Chapter 2 Software and Utilities Operation 2.1 Auto Driver Installer (ADI) Optical drive or driver DVD is no longer needed for driver installation. ASRock motherboard already has its Ethernet driver prepacked in BIOS ROM. When you finish installing the operation system, simply use the Auto Driver Installer to download and install all necessary drivers automatically.
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Step 2 Boot into the system, and a notification will pop up in the lower right corner of your screen saying, "Do you want to one-step-install the latest drivers simply from ASRock Auto Driver Installer?". Select “Yes” to install Auto Driver Installer.
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Step 4 The Auto Driver Installer panel lists all available drivers that your motherboard supports. Select one or more drivers to be installed. Click "Select All" to select all items. Click "Unselect All" to remove all of your selections. Click "Update" to start downloading and installing drivers. If there are no drivers to be installed, click “Finish”...
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Click “No” to exit. Step 6 Once all drivers are successfully installed, a message pops up saying, "Installation has been successfully completed! For further drivers and utilities, please visit ASRock's website." Click "Ok" to complete the procedure. When driver installation is completed, the Auto Driver Installer tool will be uninstalled automatically from your computer.
2.1.2 Updating Drivers Updating drivers ensures that your system work well without any issue. To update drivers, please go to ASRock' website (https://www.asrock.com) and select "Support" > "Latest Drivers Update".
Go to the product page of your motherboard, select "Support" > "Download" to download the APP Shop. After installation, double-click on your desktop to access ASRock Live Update & APP Shop utility. *You need to be connected to the Internet to download apps from the ASRock Live Update & APP Shop.
2.2.2 UI Overview Category Panel Hot News Information Panel Category Panel: The category panel contains several category tabs or buttons that when selected the information panel below displays the relative information. Information Panel: The information panel in the center displays data about the currently selected category and allows users to perform job-related tasks.
H510M-H2/M.2 SE 2.2.3 Apps When the "Apps" tab is selected, you will see all the available apps on screen for you to download. Installing an App Step 1 Find the app you want to install. The most recommended app appears on the left side of the screen. The other various apps are shown on the right.
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Step 3 If you want to install the app, click on the red icon to start downloading. Step 4 When installation completes, you can find the green "Installed" icon appears on the upper right corner. To uninstall it, simply click on the trash can icon *The trash icon may not appear for certain apps.
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H510M-H2/M.2 SE Upgrading an App You can only upgrade the apps you have already installed. When there is an available new version for your app, you will find the mark of "New Version" appears below the installed app icon. Step 1 Click on the app icon to see more details.
2.2.4 BIOS & Drivers Installing BIOS or Drivers When the "BIOS & Drivers" tab is selected, you will see a list of recommended or critical updates for the BIOS or drivers. Please update them all soon. Step 1 Please check the item information before update. Click on to see more details.
H510M-H2/M.2 SE 2.2.5 Setting In the "Setting" page, you can change the language, select the server location, and determine if you want to automatically run the ASRock Live Update & APP Shop on Windows startup.
Go to the product page of your motherboard, select "Support" > "Download" to download "ASRock Motherboard Utility". After the installation, you will find the icon “ASRock Motherboard Utility (A- Tuning)“ on your desktop. Double-click the “ASRock Motherboard Utility (A-Tuning)“ icon , ASRock Motherboard Utility (A-Tuning) main menu will pop up.
H510M-H2/M.2 SE OC Tweaker Configurations for overclocking the system. System Info View information about the system. *The System Browser tab may not appear for certain models.
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Settings Configure ASRock ASRock Motherboard Utility (A-Tuning). Click to select "Auto run at Windows Startup" if you want ASRock Motherboard Utility (A-Tuning) to be launched when you start up the Windows operating system.
Chapter 3 UEFI SETUP UTILITY 3.1 Introduction ASRock UEFI (Unified Extensible Firmware Interface) is a BIOS utility which offers tweak- friendly options in an advanced viewing interface. The UEFI system works with a USB mouse and offers users a faster, sleeker experience.
3.1.2 EZ Mode The EZ Mode screen appears when you enter the BIOS setup program by default. EZ mode is a dashboard which contains multiple readings of the system’s current status. You can check the most crucial information of your system, such as CPU speed, DRAM frequency, SATA information, fan speed, etc.
H510M-H2/M.2 SE 3.1.3 Advanced Mode The Advanced Mode provides more options to configure the BIOS settings. Refer to the following sections for the detailed configurations. To access the EZ Mode, press <F6> or click the "EZ Mode" button at the upper right corner of the screen.
3.1.5 Navigation Keys Use < > key or < > key to choose among the selections on the menu bar, and use < > key or < > key to move the cursor up or down to select items, then press <Enter>...
H510M-H2/M.2 SE 3.2 Main Screen (Advanced Mode) When you enter the UEFI SETUP UTILITY, the Main screen will appear and display the system overview. My Favorite Display your collection of BIOS items. Press F5 to add/remove your favorite items. Because the UEFI software is constantly being updated, the following UEFI setup screens and descriptions are for reference purpose only, and they may not exactly match what you see on your screen.
3.3 OC Tweaker Screen In the OC Tweaker screen, you can set up overclocking features. Base Frequency Boost Install non-K series CPU to ASRock motherboard and enjoy the base frequency boost with the hidden power of processors immediately. CPU Configuration AVX2 Ratio Offset AVX2 Ratio Offset specifies a negative offset from the CPU Ratio for AVX workloads.
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H510M-H2/M.2 SE BCLK Spread Spectrum Mode Use this item to determine method of clock spectrum distribution around base frequency. Configuration options: [Auto] [Disabled] [Up] [Center] [Down] BCLK Aware Adaptive Voltage Allows you to set BCLK Aware Adaptive Voltage as enabled or disabled. When it is en- abled, pcode will be aware of the BCLK frequency when calculating the CPU V/F curves.
Intel Speed Shift Technology Allows you to enable or disable the Intel Speed Shift Technology support. Enabling will expose the CPPC v2 interface to allow for hardware controlled P-states. To get the best support for Intel Turbo Boost Max Technology 3.0 (ITBMT 3.0), you have to enable Intel Speed Shift Technology.
H510M-H2/M.2 SE Primary Timing CAS# Latency (tCL) The time between sending a column address to the memory and the beginning of the data in response. RAS# to CAS# Delay and Row Precharge (tRCDtRP) RAS# to CAS# Delay : The number of clock cycles required between the opening of a row of memory and accessing columns within it.
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Read to Precharge (tRTP) The number of clocks that are inserted between a read command to a row pre-charge command to the same rank. Four Activate Window (tFAW) The time window in which four activates are allowed the same rank. CAS Write Latency (tCWL) Configure CAS Write Latency.
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H510M-H2/M.2 SE Configuration options: [Auto] [0] - [255] tRDWR_sg Configure between module read to write delay. Configuration options: [Auto] [0] - [255] tRDWR_dg Configure between module read to write delay. Configuration options: [Auto] [0] - [255] tRDWR_dr Configure between module read to write delay.
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Configuration options: [Auto] [0] - [127] tWRWR_dg Configure between module write to write delay. Configuration options: [Auto] [0] - [127] tWRWR_dr Configure between module write to write delay. Configuration options: [Auto] [0] - [127] tWRWR_dd Configure between module write to write delay. Configuration options: [Auto] [0] - [255] Round Trip Timing Round Trip Timing Optimization...
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Configuration options: [Auto] [34] [40] [48] [60] [80] [120] [240] [Disabled] ODT PARK (B1) Configure the memory on die termination resistors' PARK. Configuration options: [Auto] [34] [40] [48] [60] [80] [120] [240] [Disabled] Advanced Setting ASRock Timing Optimization Enable/Disable ASRock Timing Optimization. When enabled, the memory timing will...
ASRock optimized value. Configuration options: [Enabled] [Disabled] ASRock Second Timing Optimization Enable/Disable ASRock Second Timing Optimization. When enabled, the second memory timing will use ASRock optimized value. Configuration options: [Enabled] [Disabled] Memory Training Mode Configure Training Memory with legacy Cometlake setting.
H510M-H2/M.2 SE Configuration options: [Auto] [Offset Mode] [Fixed Mode] DRAM Voltage Allows you to configure the DRAM Voltage for CPU I/O to memory. VCCSA Voltage Configure the voltage for the VCCSA. Configuration options: [Auto] [0.940V] - [1.340V] (Rocket Lake) / [Auto] [0.950V] - [1.350V]...
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Save User UEFI Setup Profile to Disk It helps you to save current UEFI settings as an user profile to disk. Load User UEFI Setup Profile from Disk You can load previous saved profile from the disk.
H510M-H2/M.2 SE 3.4 Advanced Screen In this section, you may set the configurations for the following items: CPU Configuration, Chipset Configuration, Storage Configuration, Super IO Configuration, ACPI Configuration, USB Configuration and Trusted Computing. Setting wrong values in this section may cause the system to malfunction.
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[Disabled] When [Disabled] is selected, the resolution will be set to 1024 x 768 directly.
H510M-H2/M.2 SE 3.4.1 CPU Configuration Intel Hyper Threading Technology Intel Hyper Threading Technology allows multiple threads to run on each core, so that the overall performance on threaded software is improved. Configuration options: [Enabled] [Disabled] Active Processor Cores Allows you to select the number of cores to enable in each processor package.
CPU C7 State Support Allows you to enable C7 deep sleep state for lower power consumption. Configuration options: [Auto] [Enabled] [Disabled] Package C State Support Allows you to enable CPU, PCIe, Memory, Graphics C State Support for power saving. Configuration options: [Auto] [Enabled] [Disabled] CFG Lock Allows you to enable or disable the CFG Lock.
H510M-H2/M.2 SE Configuration options: [Enabled] [Disabled] Hardware Prefetcher Allows you to enable or disable Hardware Prefetcher that automatically prefetches data and code for the processor. Enable this item for better performance. Configuration options: [Enabled] [Disabled] Adjacent Cache Line Prefetch Allows you to enable or disable Adjacent Cache Line Prefetch that automatically prefetches the subsequent cache line while retrieving the currently requested cache line.
3.4.2 Chipset Configuration Primary Graphics Adapter Allows you to select a primary VGA. Configuration options: [Onboard] [PCI Express] (Options vary when you’ve installed a graphics card on your motherboard.) Above 4G Decoding Allows you to enable or disable above 4G MemoryMappedIO decoding. This is disabled automatically when Aperture Size is set to 2048MB.
H510M-H2/M.2 SE SR-IOV Support If system has SR-IOV capable PCIe Devices, this option Enables or Disables Single Root IO Virtualization Support. Configuration options: [Enabled] [Disabled] DMI Link Speed Allows you to configure DMI Slot Link Speed. Configuration options: [Auto] [Gen2] [Gen3] PCIE1 Link Speed Allows you to configure PCIE1 Slot Link Speed.
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PCH DMI ASPM Support Allows you to enable or disable the ASPM support for all PCH DMI devices. Configuration options: [Enabled] [Disabled] Share Memory Allows you to configure the size of memory that is allocated to the integrated graphics processor when the system boots up. Configuration options: [Auto] [32M] [64M] [128M] [256M] [512M] [1024M] Options vary depending on the memory you use on your motherboard.
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H510M-H2/M.2 SE down. We recommend disabling Deep Sleep for better system compatibility and stability. Configuration options: [Enabled] [Enabled in S5] [Enabled in S4-S5] Restore on AC/Power Loss Allows you to select the power state after a power failure. [Power Off] sets the power to remain off when the power recovers.
3.4.3 Storage Configuration SATA Controller(s) Allows you to enable or disable the SATA controllers. Configuration options: [Enabled] [Disabled] SATA Mode Selection AHCI: Supports new features that improve performance. Intel RST Premium(RAID): Combines multiple disk drives into a logical unit. Please press <CTRL - I>...
3.4.5 ACPI Configuration Suspend to RAM Allows you to select [Disabled] for ACPI suspend type S1. It is recommended to select [Auto] for ACPI S3 power saving. Configuration options: [Auto] [Disabled] PS/2 Keyboard S4/S5 Wakeup Support Allows the system to be waked up by a PS/2 Keyboard in S4/S5. This item appears only for the motherboard that supports the PS/2 port.
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H510M-H2/M.2 SE USB Keyboard/Remote Power On Allows the system to be waked up by an USB keyboard or remote controller. Configuration options: [Enabled] [Disabled] USB Mouse Power On Allows the system to be waked up by an USB mouse. Configuration options: [Enabled] [Disabled]...
3.4.6 USB Configuration Legacy USB Support Allows you to enable or disable Legacy OS Support for USB devices. [Enabled] enables legacy USB support. [Disabled] keeps USB devices available only for EFI applications. [UEFI Setup Only] sets to support USB devices under the UEFI setup and Windows/Linux operating systems only.
H510M-H2/M.2 SE 3.4.7 Trusted Computing NOTE: Options vary depending on the version of your connected TPM module. Security Device Support Allows you to enable or disable BIOS support for security device. O.S. will not show Security Device. TCG EFI protocol and INT1A interface will not be available.
Pending Operation Allows you to schedule an Operation for the Security Device. NOTE: Your computer will reboot during restart in order to change State of the Device. Configuration options: [None] [TPM Clear] Platform Hierarchy Allows you to enable or disable Platform Hierarchy. Configuration options: [Enabled] [Disabled] Storage Hierarchy Allows you to enable or disable Storage Hierarchy.
H510M-H2/M.2 SE 3.5 Tools UEFI Tech Service Contact ASRock Tech Service if you are having trouble with your PC. Please setup network configuration before using UEFI Tech Service. SSD Secure Erase Tool Use this tool to securely erase SSD. This tool only lists the SSDs that support the Secure Erase function.
Instant Flash Allows you to save UEFI files in your USB storage device and run Instant Flash to update your UEFI. Pleaes note that your USB storage device must be FAT32/16/12 file system.
H510M-H2/M.2 SE 3.6 Hardware Health Event Monitoring Screen This section allows you to monitor the status of the hardware on your system, including the parameters of the CPU temperature, motherboard temperature, fan speed and voltage. NOTE: Options vary depending on the features of your motherboard.
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Fan-Tastic Tuning Allows you to select a fan mode for CPU Fan, or choose Customize to set 5 CPU temperatures and assign a respective fan speed for each temperature. Select a fan mode or customize the profile Select a fan temperature source Select Fan(s)
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H510M-H2/M.2 SE Chassis Fan 1 Control Mode Allows you to select PWM mode or DC mode for Chassis Fan 1. [Auto] Select this mode to detect the type of installed fan and automatically switch the control modes. [DC Mode] Select this mode for 3-pin fan.
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[DC Mode] Select this mode for 3-pin fan. [PWM Mode] Select this mode for 4-pin fan. Chassis Fan 2 Setting Allows you to select a fan mode for Chassis Fan 2, or choose [Customize] to set 5 CPU temperatures and assign a respective fan speed for each temperature. Configuration options: [Customize] [Silent Mode] [Standard Mode] [Performance Mode] [Full Speed] Chassis Fan 2 Temp Source...
H510M-H2/M.2 SE 3.7 Security Screen In this section you may set or change the supervisor/user password for the system. You may also clear the user password. Supervisor Password Set or change the password for the administrator account. Only the administrator has authority to change the settings in the UEFI Setup Utility.
Install Default Secure Boot Keys Please install default secure boot keys if it’s the first time you use secure boot. Clear Secure Boot Keys This item appears only when you load the default Secure Boot keys. Use this item to clear all default Secure Boot keys.
Forbidden Signatures Enroll Factory Defaults or load certificates from a file: 1. Public Key Certificate: a) EFI_SIGNATURE_LIST b) EFI_CERT_X509 (DER) c) EFI_CERT_RSA2048 (bin) d) EFI_CERT_SHAXXX 2. Authenticated UEFI Variable 3. EFI PE/COFF Image(SHA256) Key Source: Factory, External, Mixed Authorized TimeStamps Enroll Factory Defaults or load certificates from a file: 1.
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H510M-H2/M.2 SE 3. EFI PE/COFF Image(SHA256) Key Source: Factory, External, Mixed Intel(R) Platform Trust Technology Allows you to enable or disable Intel PTT function. [Enabled] Enables Intel PTT in ME. [Disabled] Disables Intel PTT in ME. Use a discrete TPM Module.
3.8 Boot Screen This section displays the available devices on your system for you to configure the boot settings and the boot priority. Boot Option Priorities Boot Option #1 Sets the system boot order. Fast Boot Fast Boot speeds up your computer's boot time; however, you won't be able to boot from an USB storage device.
H510M-H2/M.2 SE Configuration options: [1] - [65535] Bootup Num-Lock Allows you to select whether Num Lock should be turned on or off when the system boots Configuration options: [On] [Off] Boot Beep Allows you to select whether the Boot Beep should be turned on or off when the system boots up.
CSM (Compatibility Support Module) Allows you to enable and launch the Compatibility Support Module. Please do not disable unless you’re running a WHCK test. Launch PXE OpROM Policy [UEFI only] Select this item to run those that support UEFI option ROM only. [Do not launch] Select this item to not execute both legacy and UEFI option ROM.
H510M-H2/M.2 SE 3.9 Exit Screen Save Changes and Exit When you select this option the following message, “Save configuration changes and exit setup?” will pop out. Press <F10> key or select [Yes] to save the changes and exit the UEFI SETUP UTILITY.
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