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Questions about GIGABYTE products => Motherboards with Intel processors => Topic started by: Purgatory on September 22, 2014, 09:41:57 am

Title: H61M-S2PV -2 x bios settings - help required please.
Post by: Purgatory on September 22, 2014, 09:41:57 am

Hi Guys
need some assistance please as follows - I use the modest H61M - S2PV Mobo.  (Windows 7)

If I call up 'system' it correctly shows that 4Gb ram is installed - however 3.48Gb is shown as usable.  I would expect this 'loss' if I was using the on-board graphics, BUT, I have a nvidia PCIe card installed. Accordingly I went into the bios to make sure that this was being  recognised.

At the moment the setting is at AUTO. Should I in fact have this set to disabled (assuming that disable refers to the on-board graphics?)

The 2nd question relates to the sata mode setting. Presently this is set to IDE. As I understand things - the more desirable setting is AHCI. If I use this setting, the three hard drives (internal) then become 'removable', and a remove icon appears in systray. I am sure that other PC's I have used and are set to AHCI do not have this additional (annoying) icon displayed. Have I missed a further setting? etc, or is there another answer to make the icon disappear.
Thanks in advance for your much appreciated help.

Title: Re: H61M-S2PV -2 x bios settings - help required please.
Post by: autotech on September 23, 2014, 04:42:05 am

Disable onboard graphics.

if you are using platter drives set to SATA. If using a SSD set to AHCI.  I have 2 SSD and I get no icon. could be you installed the software that comes with it.

Title: Re: H61M-S2PV -2 x bios settings - help required please.
Post by: Purgatory on September 23, 2014, 09:56:09 am

Thanks for your response - I have changed / set on-board graphics to disabled. Surprisingly this did not alter the reported fitted / usable info at all.
So, that's one theory that's proved to be incorrect!

I presume that when you said "if you are using platter drives - set to SATA" you meant IDE.
Thanks for your thoughts

Title: Re: H61M-S2PV -2 x bios settings - help required please.
Post by: autotech on September 25, 2014, 01:19:29 am

Are you using windows 7 32 bit?

Title: Re: H61M-S2PV -2 x bios settings - help required please.
Post by: Purgatory on September 25, 2014, 11:28:55 am

Hi Autotech

yes I can confirm that I am using the 32 bit version of Win 7
regards

Title: Re: H61M-S2PV -2 x bios settings - help required please.
Post by: autotech on September 26, 2014, 02:17:40 am

With windows 32 bit it always has ram reserved for system and that is why you are only reading 3.48. The rest is reserved for system use and wont show in windows only in bios.

Title: Re: H61M-S2PV -2 x bios settings - help required please.
Post by: Purgatory on September 26, 2014, 03:14:27 pm

Thanks for the information - you learn something every day ;)
Is this attributable to just gigabyte motherboards, or this this now a general rule/standard?
Thanks again

Title: Re: H61M-S2PV -2 x bios settings - help required please.
Post by: autotech on September 27, 2014, 12:49:16 am

It is an operating system limitation. If you use 64 bit you will see all ram.