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3-10 Chapter 3: BIOS setup

Chapter 3

3.4.2 Storage Conguration

The Storage Conguration menu allows you to congure your storage devices. Select an item

then press <Enter> to display the submenu.

BIOS SETUP UTILITY

Main

Storage Conguration

SATA Conguraton [Enhanced]

Congure SATA as [IDE]

Hard Disk Write Protect [Disabled]

IDE Detect Time Out (Sec) [35]

Set [Compatible Mode]

when Legacy OS (i.e.

WIN ME, 98, NT4.0, MS

DOS) is used.

Set [Enhanced Mode]

when Native OS (i.e.

WIN2000, Win XP, Vista

is used.

SATA Conguration [Enhanced]

Conguration options: [Disabled] [Compatible] [Enhanced]

Configure SATA as [IDE]

Sets the conguration for the Serial ATA connectors supported by the Southbridge chip.

Conguration options: [IDE] [RAID] [AHCI]

• If you want to use the Serial ATA hard disk drives as Parallel ATA physical storage

devices, keep the default setting [IDE].

• If you want the Serial ATA hard disk drives to use the Advanced Host Controller

Interface (AHCI), set this item to [AHCI]. 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.

• If you want to create a RAID 0, RAID 1, RAID 5, RAID 10, or the Intel

Matrix Storage

Technology conguration from the Serial ATA hard disk drives, set this item to [RAID].

Hard Disk Write Protect [Disabled]

Disables or enables device write protection. This will be effective only if the device is

accessed through BIOS. Conguration option: [Disabled] [Enabled]

IDE Detect Time Out (Sec) [35]

Selects the time out value for detecting ATA/ATAPI devices. Conguration options: [0] [5] [10]

[15] [20] [25] [30] [35]

3.4.3 AHCI Conguration

This menu is the section for AHCI conguration. It appears only when you set the item

Congure SATA as from the sub-menu of SATA Conguration to [AHCI].

BIOS SETUP UTILITY

Main

AHCI Settings

AHCI CD/DVD Boot Time out [35]

SATA Port1 [Not Detected]

SATA Port2 [Not Detected]

SATA Port3 [Not Detected]

SATA Port4 [Not Detected]

SATA Port5 [Not Detected]

SATA Port6 [Not Detected]

Some SATA CD/DVD in

AHCI mode need to

wait ready longer.

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