User Guide
Table Of Contents
- Safety information
- Chapter 1: Product Introduction
- Chapter 2: Hardware Setup
- Chapter 3: Motherboard Information
- Chapter 4: BIOS Setup
- 4.1 Knowing BIOS
- 4.2 BIOS setup program
- 4.3 My Favorites
- 4.4 Main menu
- 4.5 Ai Tweaker menu
- 4.6 Advanced menu
- 4.6.1 CPU Configuration
- 4.6.2 Platform Misc Configuration
- 4.6.3 PCH-FW Configuration
- 4.6.4 System Agent (SA) Configuration
- 4.6.5 PCH Configuration
- 4.6.6 PCH Storage Configuration
- 4.6.7 USB Configuration
- 4.6.8 Network Stack Configuration
- 4.6.9 Onboard Devices Configuration
- 4.6.10 APM Configuration
- 4.6.11 HDD/SSD SMART Information
- 4.7 Monitor menu
- 4.8 Boot menu
- 4.9 Tool menu
- 4.10 Exit menu
- 4.11 Updating BIOS
- Chapter 5: RAID Configuration
- 5.1 RAID configurations
- 5.1.1 RAID definitions
- 5.1.2 Installing Serial ATA hard disks
- 5.1.3 Setting the RAID item in BIOS
- 5.1.4 Intel® Rapid Storage Technology enterprise SATA Option ROM Utility
- 5.1.5 Creating a RAID set
- 5.1.6 Deleting a RAID set
- 5.1.7 Resetting disks to Non-RAID
- 5.1.8 Exiting the Intel® Rapid Storage Technology enterprise SATA Option ROM utility
- 5.1.9 Rebuilding the RAID
- 5.1.10 Setting the Boot array in the BIOS Setup Utility
- 5.2 Intel® Rapid Storage Technology enterprise (Windows)
- 5.1 RAID configurations
- Chapter 6: Driver Installation
- Appendix
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Chapter 4: BIOS Setup
SATA Mode Selection [AHCI]
This item allows you to set the SATA conguration.
[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.
[RAID] Set to [RAID] when you want to create a RAID conguration from the SATA
hard disk drives.
SMART Self Test [On]
SMART (Self-Monitoring, Analysis and Reporting Technology) is a monitoring system that
shows a warning message during POST (Power-on Self Test) when an error occurs in the
hard disks.
Conguration options: [On] [Off]
Aggressive LPM Support [Disabled]
This item is designed for LPM (link power management) support with a better energy saving
conditions. When disabled, the hot plug function of SATA ports are disabled.
Conguration options: [Disabled] [Enabled]
SATA6G_1(Gray) - SATA6G_8(Gray)
SATA6G_1(Gray) - SATA6G_8(Gray) [Enabled]
This item allows you to enable or disable the selected SATA port.
Conguration options: [Disabled] [Enabled]
Hot Plug [Disabled]
These items appears only when the SATA Mode Selection is set to [AHCI] and allows
you to enable or disable SATA Hot Plug Support.
Conguration options: [Disabled] [Enabled]