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Chapter 3: BIOS setup
Chapter 3
3.5.3 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.
Main
Ai Tweaker
Advanced Monitor Boot Tool
Exit
Determines how SATA controller(s)
operate.
Back Advanced\ SATA Conguration >
UEFI BIOS Utility - Advanced Mode
→←: Select Screen
↑↓: Select Item
Enter: Select
+/-: Change Opt.
F1: General Help
F2: Previous Values
F3: Shortcut
F5: Optimized Defaults
F10: Save ESC: Exit
F12: Print Screen
Scroll down to display the following items:
SATA Conguration
SATA Mode AHCI
S.M.A.R.T. Status Check Enabled
SATA 6G_1 (Gray) Empty
Hot Plug Disabled
SATA 6G_2 (Gray) Empty
Hot Plug Disabled
SATA 3G_1 (Blue) Empty
Hot Plug Disabled
SATA 3G_2 (Blue) Empty
Hot Plug Disabled
SATA 3G_3 (Blue) Empty
Hot Plug Disabled
SATA 3G_4 (Blue) Empty
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Hot Plug Disabled
SATA Mode Selection [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.
[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 conguration 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. Conguration options: [Enabled] [Disabled]