Asus P8H61-M2 USB3 - Manual (Page 50)

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Render Standby [Enabled]
Allows you to enable or disable Render Standby by internal graphics devices. Configuration
options: [Disabled] [Enabled]
iGPU Multi-Monitor [Disabled]
Allows you to enable or disable the internal graphics device’s multi-monitor support for
add-on VGA devices. And the memory size for internal graphics device will keep 64MB.
Configuration options: [Disabled] [Enabled]
2.5.3 PCH Configuration
High Precision Timer [Enabled]
Allows you to enable or disable the High Precision Event Timer.
Configuration options: [Enabled] [Disabled]
2.5.4 SATA Configuration
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 [IDE Mode]
Allows you to set the SATA configuration.
[Disabled]
Disables the SATA function.
[IDE Mode] Set to [IDE Mode] when you want to use the Serial ATA hard disk drives as
Parallel ATA physical storage devices.
[AHCI Mode] 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.
Serial-ATA Controller 0 [Enhanced]
This item appears only when you set the SATA Mode item to [IDE Mode].
[Disabled]
Disables the SATA function.
[Enhanced] Set to [Enhanced] to support more than four SATA devices.
[Compatible] Set to [Compatible] when using Windows 98/NT/2000/MS-DOS. Up to four
SATA devices are supported under these operating systems.
Serial-ATA Controller 1 [Enhanced]
This item appears only when you set the SATA Mode item to [IDE Mode].
[Disabled]
Disables the SATA function.
[Enhanced] Set to [Enhanced] to support more than four SATA devices.
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. Configuration options: [Enabled] [Disabled]