Asus A88XPLUS Computer Hardware User Manual


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Bank Interleaving [Enabled]
Enables or disables the bank memory interleaving. Conguration options: [Enabled]
[Disabled]
Channel Interleaving [Enabled]
Enables or disables the channel memory interleaving. Conguration options: [Enabled]
[Disabled]
Core Leveling Mode [Automatic mode]
Allows you to change the number of working Compute Unit on the system. Conguration
options: [Automatic mode] [One core per processor] [One Compute Unit] [One core per
Compute Unit]
2.6.2 SATA Conguration
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.
OnChip SATA Channel [Enabled]
Enables or disables onboard channel SATA port. Conguration options: [Disabled] [Enabled]
OnChip SATA Type [AHCI]
Allows you to set the SATA conguration.
[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 conguration 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.
SATA Port 5, 6, 7, 8 [AHCI]
This item only appears when OnChip SATA Type is set to [AHCI]. If SATA ports 5, 6,
7, 8 are congured as [AHCI], the ports can only be used under Windows
®
OS with the
requested drivers installed. Set to [IDE] instead of [AHCI] to access devices on SATA
ports 5, 6 before entering OS. Conguration options: [AHCI] [IDE]
SATA Port 5, 6,7, 8 [RAID]
This item only appears when OnChip SATA Type is set to [RAID]. If SATA ports 5, 6,
7, 8 are congured as [RAID], the ports can only be used under Windows
®
OS with the
requested drivers installed. Set to [IDE] instead of [RAID] to access devices on SATA
ports 5, 6 before entering OS. Conguration options: [RAID] [IDE]
OnChip SATA MAX Speed [SATA 6.0Gb/s]
Sets the maximum onboard SATA port speed. Conguration options: [SATA 6.0Gb/s] [SATA
3.0Gb/s]
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