Instruction Manual

4-12 Chapter 4: BIOS setup

SMART Monitoring [Auto]

Sets the Smart Monitoring, Analysis, and Reporting Technology.

Conguration options: [Auto] [Disabled] [Enabled]

32Bit Data Transfer [Enabled]

Enables or disables 32-bit data transfer.

Conguration options: [Disabled] [Enabled]

BIOS SETUP UTILITY

Main

IDE Conguration

SATA Conguration [Enhanced]

Congure SATA as [IDE]

Hard Disk Write Protect [Disabled]

IDE Detect Time Out (Sec) [35]

←→ Select Screen

↑↓ Select Item

+- Change Option

F1 General Help

F10 Save and Exit

ESC Exit

4.3.5 IDE Conguration

The items in this menu allow you to set or change the congurations for the IDE

devices installed in the system. Select an item then press <Enter> if you wish to

congure the item.

Options

Disabled

Compatible

Enhanced

SATA Conguration [Enhanced]

Conguration options: [Disabled] [Compatible] [Enhanced]

Configure SATA as [IDE]

Sets the conguration for the Serial ATA connectors supported by the

Southbridge chip. Conguration options: [IDE] [RAID] [AHCI]

• If you want to use the Serial ATA hard disk drives as Parallel ATA physical

storage devices, keep the default setting [IDE].

• If you want the Serial ATA hard disk drives to use the Advanced Host

Controller Interface (AHCI), set this item to [AHCI]. 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.

• If you want to create RAID sets with LSI MegaRAID utility, or Intel

Matrix

Storage Technology from the Serial ATA hard disk drives, set this item to

[RAID].