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Chapter 3: BIOS setup

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3.4.3

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 Selection [IDE]
Allows you to set the SATA configuration.
[Disabled]

Disables the SATA controller.

[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.

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]
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. Configuration

options: [Enabled] [Disabled]

3.4.4

System Agent Configuration

Memory Remap Feature [Enabled]
Enables or disables the memory remap feature. Configuration options: [Enabled]

[Disabled]
Graphics Configuration

Primary Display [Auto]
Allows you to decide which graphics controller to use as the primary boot device.

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

Configuration options: [Auto] [32M] [64M] [96M] [128M] ~ [448M] [480M] [512M] [1024M]
Render Standby [Enabled]
Allows you to enable Intel Graphics Render Standby support to reduce the power

consumption for iGPU while the system is idle. Configuration options: [Disabled] [Enabled]