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2.5.3 SATA Conguration

While entering Setup, the BIOS automatically detects the presence of SATA devices. The

SATA Port items show Not Present if no SATA device is installed to the corresponding SATA

port.

SATA Mode Selection [IDE]

Allows you to set the SATA conguration.

[Disabled] Disables the SATA function.

[IDE] Set to [IDE Mode] when you want to use the Serial ATA hard disk drives as

Parallel ATA physical storage devices.

[AHCI] Set to [AHCI Mode] when you want the SATA hard disk drives to use the

AHCI (Advanced Host Controller Interface). The AHCI allows the onboard

storage driver to enable advanced Serial ATA features that increases

storage performance on random workloads by allowing the drive to

internally optimize the order of commands.

• Due to H61 chipset limitation, AHCI Mode only works on Windows

Vista / 7. Please use

[IDE Mode] on Windows

XP.

• [IDE] is the default SATA type. Under Windows

XP, there is no need to change the

SATA type.

• To congure the SATA type in BIOS, click

Advanced Mode > Advanced tab > SATA

Conguration > OnChip SATA Type.

S.M.A.R.T. Status Check [Enabled]

S.M.A.R.T. (Self-Monitoring, Analysis and Reporting Technology) is a monitor system. When

read/write of your hard disk errors occur, this feature allows the hard disk to report warning

messages during the POST. This item appears only when you set the previous item to [IDE]

or [AHCI]. Conguration options: [Enabled] [Disabled]

Hot Plug [Disabled]

This item only appears when you set the SATA Mode Selection item to [AHCI] and allows you

to enable or disable the hot-plug support for each SATA port. Conguration options: [Enabled]

[Disabled]

2.5.4 System Agent Conguration

Memory Remap Feature [Enabled]

[Enabled] Allow you to enable remapping the memory above 4GB.

[Disabled] Disables this function.

Graphics Conguration

Primary Display [Auto]

Allows you to decide which graphics controller to use as the primary boot device.

Conguration options: [Auto] [iGPU] [PCIE]

iGPU Memory [Auto]

Allows you to select the amount of system memory allocated to DVMT 5.0 used by the

iGPU. Conguration options: [Auto] [32M] [64M] [96M] [128M] ~ [416M] [448M] [480M]

[512M]

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