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.

If you want to create a RAID 0, RAID1, or RAID 0+1 configuration from the Serial ATA hard disk drives, set this item to [RAID].

If you want to use the Serial ATA hard disk drives as Parallel ATA physical storage devices, keep the defaul setting [IDE].

If you want the Serial ATA hard disk drives to use the Advanced Host Controller Interface (AHCI), set this item to [AHCI].

4.3.7System Information

This menu gives you an overview of the general system specifications. The BIOS automatically detects the items in this menu.

BIOS SETUP UTILITY

Main

 

 

 

AMIBIOS

 

 

Version

:

0301

Build Date : 10/04/07

Processor

 

 

Type

: AMD Sempron(tm) Processor 3000+

Speed

: 1600MHz

Count

: 1

System Memory

 

 

Select Screen

Usable Size

: 1024 MB

 

Select Item

+-

Change Option

 

 

F1

General Help

 

 

F10

Save and Exit

 

 

ESC

Exit

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AMI BIOS

Displays the auto-detected BIOS information.

Processor

Displays the auto-detected CPU specification.

System Memory

Displays the auto-detected system memory.

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