ASUS P8H61-M LK R2.0 90MB0E50-M0EAY0 User Manual

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Chapter 2: Getting started

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.

Allows you to set the SATA configuration.
[Disabled] 

Disables the SATA function. 

[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.

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Due to H61 Chipset limitation, AHCI Mode only works on Windows

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 Vista / Windows

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7. Please use IDE Mode on Windows

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 XP.

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[IDE] is the default SATA type. Under Windows

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 XP, there is no need to change the 

SATA type.

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. This item appears only when you set the previous item to [IDE] 

or [AHCI]. Configuration options: [Enabled] [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]

[Enabled] 

Allow you to enable remapping the memory above 4GB.

[Disabled] 

Disables this function.

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

Configuration options: [Auto] [iGPU] [PCIE]