ASUS v8-p8h67e Manuel D’Utilisation

ASUS V-Series P8H67E

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The South Bridge menu allows you to change the PCH settings.

Allows you to enable or disable the High Precision Event Timer. 

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.
[Disabled] 

 Disables the SATA function.

[IDE Mode] 

 Set to [IDE Mode] when you want to use the Serial ATA hard disk drives as 

Parallel ATA physical storage devices.

[AHCI Mode] 

 Set to [AHCI Mode] 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 Mode] 

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

SATA hard disk drives.

Allows you to enable or disable the SATA Controller 0. Configuration options: [Disabled] 

[Enhanced] [Compatible]

Allows you to enable or disable the SATA Controller 1. Configuration options: [Disabled] 

[Enhanced] 

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. Configuration options: [Enabled] [Disabled]