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2 system agent configuration, 3 pch configuration, 4 sata configuration – Asus MOTHERBOARD p8h61-m lx3 series User Manual

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Chapter 2: BIOS information

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CPU C3 Report [Enabled]

Allows you to disable or enable the CPU C3 report to the operating system. Configuration

options: [Disabled] [Enabled]

CPU C6 Report [Enabled]

Allows you to disable or enable the CPU C6 report to the operating system. Configuration

options: [Enabled] [Disabled]

2.5.2

System Agent Configuration

Initiate Graphic Adapter [PEG/iGPU]

Allows you to decide which graphics controller to use as the primary boot device.

Configuration options: [iGPU] [PCI/iGPU]

iGPU Memory [64M]

Allows you to set the iGPU memory size. Configuration options: [32M] [64M] [96M] [128M] ~

[416M] [448M] [480M] [512M]

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.

Due to the Intel

®

H61 chipset limitation, AHCI Mode only works on Windows

®

7/Vista.

Please use IDE Mode on Windows

®

XP.

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