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Chapter 2: BIOS information

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

automatically detects the items in this menu.
BIOS Information

Displays the auto-detected BIOS information.

Displays the auto-detected CPU specification.

Displays the auto-detected system memory.

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.

•  When this item is set to [AHCI], the information of the SATA connectors 1–6 can be seen 

only under the OS environment or during POST.

•  For Windows

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 XP OS, you have to install the AHCI driver, so that you could use the 

SATA connectors 1–6 in AHCI mode under the OS environment.

SATA Port5 - Port6 [IDE]

Setting this item to [IDE] instead of [RAID] or [AHCI] allows the system to recognize the 

optical dirves connected to the SATA connectors 5 or 6 when installing OS.

If you use a SATA optical drive to run the OS installation disk, we strongly recommend that 

you install the optical dirve to the SATA connectors 5/6 and set them to [IDE] mode.

The following two items only appear when you set OnChip SATA Channel to [Enabled].