South Bridge; Sata Configuration - Asus M5A97 Manual

Memory Clear [Disabled]
Allows you to enable or disable the Memory Clear function control. Configuration
options: [Disabled] [Enabled]
ECC Mode [Enabled]
Allows you to enable or disable the ECC mode. Configuration options: [Disabled]
[Enabled]
Power Down Enable [Disabled]
Allows you to enable or disable the DDR power down mode. Configuration options:
[Disabled] [Enabled]
Memory Hole Remapping [Enabled]
Allows you to enable or disable memory remapping around memory hole. Configuration
options: [Disabled] [Enabled]
DCT Unganged Mode [Enabled]
Allows you to select unganged mode or ganged mode. Configuration options:
[Disabled] [Enabled]
Initiate Graphic Adapter [PEG/PCI]
Allows you to select the primary boot graphic controller. Configuration options: [PEG/PCI]
[PCI/PEG]
2.5.3

South Bridge

HPET [Enabled]
Allows you to enable or disable the HPET TIMER. Configuration options: [Disabled] [Enabled]
2.5.4

SATA Configuration

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.
SB SATA Configuration
Allows you to set SATA options.
OnChip SATA Channel [Enabled]
Allows you to enable or disable serial ATA. Configuration options: [Enabled] [Disabled]
SATA Port1 - Port4 [AHCI]
[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 configuration from the SATA
hard disk drives.
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