Asus M3N-HT Computer Hardware User Manual


 
4-28 Chapter 4: BIOS setup
MCP Storage Cong
This sub-menu allows you to change Serial ATA settings. Select an item then press
<Enter> to edit.
Select Menu
Item Specic Help
Phoenix-Award BIOS CMOS Setup Utility
Advanced
MCP Storage Cong
SATA Operation Mode [IDE]
SATA Operation Mode [IDE]
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The AHCI allows the onboard storage driver to enable advanced Serial
ATA features that increases storage performance on random workloads by
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from the Serial ATA hard disk drives, set this item to [RAID].
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].
SATA 5–6 connectors support AHCI mode and RAID mode only. Make sure
to install the AHCI driver or RAID driver in the bundled support DVD before
connecting devices to SATA 5–6 connectors. Otherwise, the devices will not
work.
Onboard 1394 [Enabled]
Allows you to enable or disable the onboard 1394 device support.
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HD Audio [Enabled]
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Front Panel Support Type [HD Audio]
Allows you to set the front panel audio connector (AAFP) mode to legacy AC`97
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