ASUS E8025 Manuel D’Utilisation

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Chapter 2: BIOS information

Selects the PIO mode. Configuration options: [Auto] [0] [1] [2] [3] [4]

Selects the DMA mode. Configuration options: [Auto]

Sets the Smart Monitoring, Analysis, and Reporting Technology. Configuration options: [Auto] 

[Disabled] [Enabled]

Enables or disables 32-bit data transfer. Configuration options: [Disabled] [Enabled]

The SATA Configuration menu allows you to configure your storage devices. Select an item 

then press <Enter> to display the submenu.

Enables or disables the onboard channel SATA port. Configuration options: [Disabled] 

[Enabled]

SATA Port1 - Port4 [IDE]

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.

[RAID] 

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

hard disk drives.

[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.

This menu gives you an overview of the general system specifications. The BIOS 

automatically detects the items in this menu.

Displays the auto-detected BIOS information.

Displays the auto-detected CPU specification.

Displays the auto-detected system memory.

The following item only appears when you set OnChip SATA Channel to [Enabled].