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Chapter 3: BIOS setup

Chapter 3

3.6.3

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.
Scroll down to display the other BIOS items.

SATA Mode Selection [AHCI]

Allows you to set the SATA configuration.
[Disabled]

Disables the SATA function.

[IDE]

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

Parallel ATA physical storage devices.

[AHCI]

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.

[RAID]

Set to [RAID Mode] when you want to create a RAID configuration from the

SATA hard disk drives.

Aggressive LPM Support [Auto]

Allows you to enable the PCH to aggressively enter link power state.
Configuration options: [Disabled] [Enabled] [Auto]