SATA Operation Mode [IDE]

Allows you to select the onboard Serial ATA type.

Configuration options: [IDE] [RAID] [AHCI]

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

•If you want the Serial ATA hard disk drives to use the Advanced Host Controller Interface (AHCI), set this item to [AHCI]. 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, 1, 0+1, 5, or JBOD configuration from the

Serial ATA hard disk drives, set this item to [RAID].

•SATA 5-6 connectors support AHCI mode and RAID mode only. Make sure to install the AHCI driver or RAID driver in the bundled support DVD before connecting devices to SATA 5-6 connectors. Otherwise, the devices will not work.

•Due to chipset limitation, when set any of SATA ports to RAID mode, all SATA ports run at RAID mode together.

Onboard 1394 [Enabled]

Allows you to enable or disable the onboard 1394 device support. Configuration options: [Disabled] [Enabled]

HD Audio [Enabled]

Allows you to enable or disable the High-Definition audio CODEC. Configuration options: [Enabled] [Disabled]

HDMI Audio [Auto]

Allows you to disable or enable the HDMI Audio function.

Configuration options: [Auto] [Disabled]

Make sure to set the HDMI Audio item to [Auto] to enable HDMI audio output.

Onboard LAN / Onboard 2nd LAN [Enabled]

Allows you to enable or disable the onboard LAN devices.

Configuration options: [Disabled] [Enabled]

Onboard LAN / LAN2 Boot ROM [Disabled]

Allows you to enable or disable the onboard LAN boot ROM.

Configuration options: [Enabled] [Disabled]

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