Asus M4N98TD EVO - Manual (Page 66)

3-10 Chapter 3: BIOS setup
Chapter 3
3.4.2 Storage Configuration
The Storage Configuration menu allows you to configure your storage devices. Select an item
then press to display the submenu.
BIOS SETUP UTILITY
Main
Storage Configuration
Onboard PCI IDE Controller [Enabled]
OnChip S-ATA Controller [Enabled]
SATA Mode select [IDE Mode]
3.4.3 System Information
This menu gives you an overview of the general system specifications. The BIOS automatically
detects the BIOS information, CPU specification, and system memory in this menu.
BIOS SETUP UTILITY
Main
BIOS Information
Version : 0106
Build Date: 01/25/10
Processor
Type : AMD Phenom(tm) II X4 945 Processor
Speed : 3000MHz
System Memory
Installed Size: 1024MB
Usable Size : 1024MB
Onboard PCI IDE Controller [Enabled]
[Enabled] Enables the onboard IDE controller.
[Disabled] Disables the onboard IDE controller.
OnChip S-ATA Controller [Enabled]
[Enabled] Enables the onboard SATA controller.
[Disabled] Disables the onboard SATA controller.
SATA Mode select [IDE Mode]
This item appears only when you enabled the OnChip S-ATA Controller item and allows you
to select the SATA mode.
[IDE Mode]
Set to [IDE Mode] when you want to use the Serial ATA hard disk drives as
Serial ATA physical storage devices.
[RAID Mode] Set to [RAID Mode] when you want to create a RAID configuration from the
SATA hard disk drives.
[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.
• When this item is set to [AHCI], the information of the SATA connectors can be seen
only under the OS environment or during POST.
• For Windows ® XP OS, you have to install the AHCI driver, so that you could use the
SATA connectors in AHCI mode under the OS environment.