Gigabyte GA-7VA manual English, Except for beep code 8, these codes are always fatal

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Question 8: How do I disable onboard VGA card in order to add an external VGA card?

Answer: Gigabyte motherboards will auto-detect the external VGA card after it is plugged in, so you don't need to change any setting manually to disable the onboard VGA.

Question 9: Why cannot I use the IDE 2?

Answer: Please refer to the user manual and check whether you have connected any cable that is not provided with the motherboard package to the USB Over Current pin in the Front USB Panel. If the cable is your own cable, please remove it from this pin and do not connect any of your own cables to it.

Question 10: Sometimes I hear different continuous beeps from computer after system boots up. What do these beeps usually stand for?

Answer: The beep codes below may help you identify the possible computer problems. However, they are only for reference purposes. The situations might differ from case to case.

gAMI BIOS Beep Codes	g AWARD BIOS Beep Codes
*Computer gives 1 short beep when system boots successfully.	1 short: System boots successfully
*Except for beep code 8, these codes are always fatal.	2 short: CMOS setting error
1 beep Refresh failure	1 long 1 short: DRAM or M/B error
2 beeps Parity error	1 long 2 short: Monitor or display card error
3 beeps Base 64K memory failure	1 long 3 short: Keyboard error
4 beeps Timer not operational	1 long 9 short: BIOS ROM error
5 beeps Processor error	Continuous long beeps: DRAM error
6 beeps 8042 - gate A20 failure	Continuous short beeps: Power error
7 beeps Processor exception interrupt error
8 beeps Display memory read/write failure
9 beeps ROM checksum error
10 beeps CMOS shutdown register read/write error
11 beeps Cache memory bad

Question 11: How to set in the BIOS in order to bootup from SATA HDDs by either RAID or ATA mode?

Answer: Please set in the BIOS as follow:

1.Advanced BIOS features--> SATA/RAID/SCSI boot order: "SATA"

2.Advanced BIOS features--> First boot device: "SCSI"

3.Integrated Peripherals--> Onboard H/W Serial ATA: "enable"

Then it depends on the SATA mode that you need to set "RAID" to RAID mode or "BASE" to normal ATA mode in the item named Serial ATA function.

Question 12: For the M/B which have RAID function, how to set in the BIOS in order to bootup from IDE3, 4 by either RAID or ATA mode?

Answer:Please set in the BIOS as follow:

1.Advanced BIOS features-->(SATA)/RAID/SCSI boot order: "SATA"

2.Advanced BIOS features--> First boot device: "SCSI"

3.Integrated Peripherals--> Onboard H/W ATA/RAID: "enable"

Then it depends on the RAID mode that you need to set "RAID" to RAID mode or "ATA" to normal ATA mode in the item named RAID controller function.

Question 13: How to set in the BIOS to bootup from the IDE/ SCSI/ RAID card ?

Answer:Please set in the BIOS as follow:

1.Advanced BIOS features-->(SATA)/RAID/SCSI boot order: "SCSI"

2.Advanced BIOS features--> First boot device: "SCSI"

Then it depends on the mode(RAID or ATA) that you need to set in RAID/ SCSI BIOS.

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