Owners Manual

System Configuration

Serial Port Identifies and defines the serial port settings. You can set the

serial port to:

• Disabled

• COM1

• COM2

• COM3

• COM4

NOTE: The operating system may allocate resources even

though the setting is disabled.

SATA Operation Configures the operating mode of the integrated hard drive

controller.

• RAID Autodetect / AHCI = RAID if signed drives, otherwise

AHCI.

• RAID Autodetect / AATA = RAID if signed drives, otherwise

ATA.

• RAID ON / ATA = SATA is configured for RAID on every boot.

• Legacy = The hard drive controller is configured for legacy

mode

NOTE: Legacy mode provides for compatibility with some

older operating systems that do not support native resources

assigned to the drive controller. RAID Mode is incompatible

with ImageServer. Please disable RAID mode if enabling

ImageServer.

Drives These fields let you enable or disable various drives on board:

• SATA-0

• SATA-1

• SATA-2

• SATA-3

Smart Reporting This field controls whether hard drive errors for integrated drives

are reported during system startup. This technology is part of the

SMART (Self Monitoring Analysis and Reporting Technology)

specification. This option is disabled by default.