ASUS H61-PLUS Manual De Usuario

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Chapter 2: Getting started

Active Memory Threshold [x]
This item appears only when you set the Active Page Threshold Support to 

[Enabled] and allows you to set the Active Memory Threshold. When the partition size 

is larger than the Active Page Threshold size, the system will try to support the Intel(R) 

Rapid Start Technology. When the item is set to zero, the system automatically checks 

whether the partition size is enough at S3 entry. Key in the desired value using the 

numeric keypad.

Allows you to enable or disable the ISCT configuration. Configuration options: [Enabled] 

[Disabled]

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.
[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.

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

®

 Vista / Windows

®

 7. 

Please use IDE Mode on Windows

®

 XP.

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.