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SATA Mode Selection [AHCI]

Allows you to set the SATA configuration.
[Disabled]

Disables the SATA function.

[IDE]

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

Parallel ATA physical storage devices.

[AHCI]

Set to [AHCI] 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.

Aggressive LPM Support [Auto]

This item appears only when you set the previous item to [AHCI] and allows you to enable or

disable PCH entering link power state aggressively. Configuration options: [Auto] [Disabled]

[Enabled]

IDE Legacy / Native Mode Selection [Native]

This item appears only when you set the SATA Mode Selection item to [IDE]. Configuration

options: [Native] [Legacy]

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]

Hot Plug [Disabled] (SATA 6G 1~4 [Brown], SATA 3G 5~6 [Black])

These items appear only when you set the SATA Mode Selection item to [AHCI] and allow

you to enable/disable SATA Hot Plug Support.Configuration options: [Disabled] [Enabled]

2.6.4

System Agent Configuration

CPU Audio Device [Enabled]

Allows you to enable or disable CPU SA Audio Device. Configuration options: [Enabled]

[Disabled]

DVI Port Audio [Disabled]

Allows you to enable or disable the DVI port. Configuration options: [Enabled] [Disabled]

Graphics Configuration

Allows you to select a primary display from iGPU, and PCIe graphical devices.

Primary Display [Auto]
Allows you to select which of the iGPU/PCIE Graphics device should be the Primary

Display. Configuration options: [Auto] [IGPU] [PCIE] [PCI]
iGPU Memory [Auto]
Allows you to select the amount of system memory allocated to DVMT 5.0 used by the

iGPU. Configuration options: [Auto] [32M] [64M] [96M] [128M] [160M] [192M] [224M]

[256M] [288M][320M] [352M] [384M] [416M] [448M] [480M] [512M] [1024M]