Sata Configuration; Pch-Fw Configuration; Amt Configuration - Aaeon EMB-Q87A User Manual

3.3.6

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.
SATA Mode Selection [AHCI]
Allows you to set the SATA configuration.
[Disabled]
[IDE]
[AHCI]
[RAID]
3.3.7

PCH-FW Configuration

Displays the Management Engine Technology parameters.
3.3.8

AMT Configuration

The items in this menu allow you to change the Intel
Technology (AMT) feature.
Intel AMT [Enabled]
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Allow you to enable or disable the Intel
the BIOS extension. Configuration options: [Enabled] [Disabled]
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Un-Configure ME [Disabled]
Sets this item to [Disabled] to unconfigure AMT/ME without using a password or
set it to [Enabled] to use a password. Configuration options: [Enabled] [Disabled]
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Disables the SATA function.
Set to [IDE] when you want to use the Serial ATA hard
disk drives as Parallel ATA physical storage devices.
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.
Set to [RAID] when you want to create a RAID
configuration from the SATA hard disk drives.
iAMT H/W is always enabled. This option just controls the BIOS extension
execution. If enabled, this requires additional firmware in the SPI device.
The following two items become configurable only when you set the
Intel AMT item to [Enabled].
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Active Management
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Active Management Technology (AMT) in
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