Asus Z87K Computer Hardware User Manual


 
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Chapter 2: Getting started
Entry After [x]
Allows you to set the wake-up time.The values range from 0 (immediately) to 120.
Active Page Threshold Support [Enabled]
The system automatically set itself to sleep when the partition size is not enough for
Rapid Start Technology to work. Conguration options: [Enabled] [Disabled]
Active Memory Threshold [0]
Key in the value for the additional partition size for Rapid Start Technology to work.
Ensure that the caching partition size is larger than the total memory size.
Hybrid Hard Disk Support [Disabled]
Allows you to enable or disable hybrid hard disk support.
Conguration options: [Enabled] [Disabled]
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Smart Connect Technology [Disabled]
ICST Configuration [Disabled]
Allows you to enable or disable the ISCT conguration. Conguration options:
[Enabled] [Disabled]
2.6.3 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 [AHCI]
Allows you to set the SATA conguration.
[Disabled] Disables the SATA function.
[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 Mode] when you want to create a RAID conguration from the
SATA hard disk drives.
Aggressive LPM Support [Disabled]
This item appears only when you set the previous item to [AHCI] and allows you to enable or
disable PCH entering link power state aggressively. Conguration options: [Auto] [Disabled]
[Enabled]
IDE Legacy / Native Mode Selection [Native]
This item appears only when you set the SATA Mode Selection item to [IDE]. Conguration
options: [Native] [Legacy]