ASUS P8H61-M LX3 PLUS Manual Do Utilizador

Chapter 2: BIOS information

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Allows you to disable or enable the CPU C3 report to the operating system. Configuration 

options: [Disabled] [Enabled]

Allows you to disable or enable the CPU C6 report to the operating system. Configuration 

options: [Enabled] [Disabled]

Allows you to decide which graphics controller to use as the primary boot device. 

Configuration options: [iGPU] [PCI/iGPU]

Allows you to set the iGPU memory size. Configuration options: [32M] [64M] [96M] [128M] ~ 

[416M] [448M] [480M] [512M]

Allows you to enable or disable Render Standby by internal graphics devices. Configuration 

options: [Disabled] [Enabled]

Allows you to enable or disable the internal graphics device’s multi-monitor support for 

add-on VGA devices. And the memory size for internal graphics device will keep 64MB. 

Configuration options: [Disabled] [Enabled]

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.

Due to the Intel

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 H61 chipset limitation, AHCI Mode only works on Windows

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 7/Vista. 

Please use IDE Mode on Windows

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 XP.