User’s Manual
Table Of Contents
- 1.1 Knowing BIOS
- 1.2 BIOS setup program
- 1.3 My Favorites
- 1.4 Main menu
- 1.5 Ai Tweaker menu
- 1.6 Advanced menu
- 1.6.1 AMD fTPM configuration
- 1.6.2 CPU Configuration
- 1.6.3 SATA Configuration
- 1.6.4 Onboard Devices Configuration
- 1.6.5 APM Configuration
- 1.6.6 PCI Subsystem Settings
- 1.6.7 USB Configuration
- 1.6.8 Network Stack Configuration
- 1.6.9 HDD/SSD SMART Information
- 1.6.10 NVMe Configuration
- 1.6.11 AMD PBS
- 1.6.12 AMD Overclocking
- 1.6.13 AMD CBS
- 1.7 Monitor menu
- 1.8 Boot menu
- 1.9 Tool menu
- 1.10 Exit menu
- 1.11 Updating BIOS
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1.6.3 SATA Configuration
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.
SATA Port Enable
This item allows you to enable or disable the SATA Device.
Conguration options: [Disabled] [Enabled]
The following item appears only when you set the SATA Port Enable to [Enabled].
SATA Mode
This item allows you to set the SATA conguration.
[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.
[RAID] Set to [RAID] when you want to create a RAID conguration from
the SATA hard disk drives.
NVMe RAID Mode
This item allows you to enable or disable the NVMe RAID mode.
Conguration options: [Disabled] [Enabled]
The following items appear only when you set the SATA Port Enable to [Enabled].
SMART Self Test
S.M.A.R.T. (Self-Monitoring, Analysis and Reporting Technology) is a monitoring system that
shows a warning message during POST (Power-on Self Test) when an error occurs in the
hard disks. Conguration options: [On] [Off]