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Chapter 3: BIOS Setup

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This item allows you to enable or disable the selected SATA port.

Conguration options: [Disabled] [Enabled]

Hot Plug

These items appear only when the SATA Mode Selection is set to [AHCI] and allows

you to enable or disable SATA Hot Plug Support.

Conguration options: [Disabled] [Enabled]

3.6.6 Onboard Devices Conguration

The items in this menu allow you to switch between PCIe Lanes and congure onboard

devices.

SMART Self Test

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.

Conguration options: [On] [Off]

3.6.5 PCH Storage Conguration

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 Controller(s)

This item allows you to enable or disable the SATA Device.

Conguration options: [Enabled] [Disabled]

SATA Mode Selection

This item allows you to set the SATA conguration.

[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.

[ Intel RST Premium With

Intel Optane System

Acceleration(RAID)]

Set to [Intel RST Premium With Intel Optane System

Acceleration(RAID)] when you want to create a RAID

conguration from the SATA hard disk drives.

Hyper M.2X16 [Enabled][Disabled]

[Disabled] Only one SSD installed onto the Hyper M.2 X16 card can be detected.

[Enabled] Two or three SSDs installed onto the Hyper M.2 X16 card can be detected.

Intel

SSDs on CPU support can be enabled only when installing the SSDs on the rst,

third, or forth slot on the Hyper M.2X16 card.