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ASUS A88X-PRO
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Chapter 3
IOMMU [Disabled]
Set this item to [Enabled] to show IOMMU Mode. Conguration options: [Enabled] [Disabled]
Bank Interleaving [Enabled]
Enables or disables the bank memory interleaving. Conguration options: [Enabled]
[Disabled]
Channel Interleaving [Enabled]
Enables or disables the channel memory interleaving. Conguration options: [Enabled]
[Disabled]
Core Leveling Mode [Automatic mode]
Allows you to change the number of working Compute Unit on the system. Conguration
options: [Automatic mode] [One core per processor] [One Compute Unit] [One core per
Compute Unit]
3.5.2 SATA Conguration
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. Conguration options: [Disabled] [Enabled]
OnChip SATA Type [AHCI]
Allows you to set the SATA conguration.
[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 conguration 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; ESATA 7,8 [AHCI]
This item only appears when OnChip SATA Type is set to [AHCI]. If SATA ports 5 and
6 are congured as [AHCI], the ports can only be used under OS with driver installed.
Set to [IDE] instead of [AHCI] to access devices on SATA ports 5 and 6 before entering
OS. Conguration options: [AHCI] [IDE]
S.M.A.R.T. Status Check [Enabled]
S.M.A.R.T. (Self-Monitoring, Analysis and Reporting Technology) is a monitor system. When
read/write of your hard disk errors occur, this feature allows the hard disk to report warning
messages during the POST. Conguration options: [Enabled] [Disabled]