Asus p8h77-m Computer Hardware User Manual


 
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Smart Connect Technology [Disabled]
ISCT Configuration [Disabled]
Allows you to enable or disable the ISCT conguration. Conguration options: [Enabled] [Disabled]
2.5.3 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.
SATA Mode Selection [IDE]
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.
[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.
[RAID] Set to [RAID] when you want to create a RAID conguration from the SATA
hard disk drives.
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. Conguration options: [Enabled] [Disabled]
Hot Plug [Disabled]
This item only appears when you set the SATA Mode Selection item to [AHCI] or [RAID]
and allows you to enable or disable the hot-plug support for each SATA port. Conguration
options: [Enabled] [Disabled]
2.5.4 System Agent Conguration
Memory Remap Feature [Enabled]
[Enabled] Allow you to enable remapping the memory above 4GB.
[Disabled] Disables this function.
Graphics Conguration
Primary Display [Auto]
Allows you to decide which graphics controller to use as the primary boot device. Conguration
options: [Auto] [iGPU] [PCIE] [PCI]
iGPU Memory [64M]
Allows you to select the amount of system memory allocated to DVMT 5.0 used by the iGPU.
Conguration options: [32M] [64M] [96M] [128M] ~ [416M] [448M] [480M] [512M]
Render Standby [Enabled]
Allows you to enable the Intel Graphics Render Standby support to reduce the iGPU power use
when idle. Conguration options: [Disabled] [Enabled]