BIOS startup
If you received your GV I/O server from the factory, it has been configured with the necessary software and all server functionalities. Refer to Preparing for GV I/O installation to continue with the installation.
Prerequisite:
- Verify that the AJA Corvid 88 card or Mellanox ConnectX-5 card is installed with the desired feeds attached
- The Control and shared storage network cables are connected to 1G and 10G ports respectively
- Verify that the NVIDIA card or Matrox M264 card is installed with the relevant driver
After the power-up of GV I/O Live Ingest and Playout Server, the VGA monitor displays BIOS information, with instructions on how to access settings.
- Press the F2 key on the keyboard to enter System Setup pages.
- On the System Setup screen, select System BIOS.
- Configure settings as below:
- Boot Settings: Boot Mode set to BIOS (not UEFI)
- System Profile:
- System Profile set to Custom
- Energy Efficient Policy set to Performance
- Disable the C1E option
- Disable the C States option
- Processor Settings: Enable the Logical Processor option
- Memory Settings: Disable the Node Interleaving option
- Integrated Devices: (For SMPTE 2110
playout)
- If the NVIDIA card is installed : Disable the Embedded Video Controller option
- If the Matrox M264 card is installed : Enable the Embedded Video Controller option
Note: After disabling the on-board graphics and restarting the GV I/O system, it may start up with no graphics adapters enabled. In this case, you must hard power cycle the system for the NVIDIA GPU or Matrox M264 card to become active. It is also advisable to have both on-board VGA connector and a connector for the GPU to be connected to a single monitor, in case only the VGA connector is active.
When BIOS settings have been completed, the Windows operating system begins to load.
- Open Computer Management, Disk Management and do the following:
- Split the C: and D: drive equally on the RAID 1 SSDs.
- For Standalone client only - Create the V: Media drives on the four RAID 5 drives.