Intel® Rapid Start Technology [Disabled]

Allow you to enable or disable Intel® Rapid Start Technology.

Configuration options: [Enabled] [Disabled]

The following items appear only when you set the Intel® Rapid Start Technology to [Enabled].

Entry on S3 RTC Wake [Enabled]

The system automatically wakes up and set to Rapid Start Technology S4 mode. Configuration options: [Enabled] [Disabled

Entry After [Immediately]

Allows you to set the wake-up time.

Configuration options: [Immediately] [1 minute] [2 minutes] [5 minutes] [10 minutes] [15 minutes] [30 minutes] [1 hour] [2 hours]

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. Configuration 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.

Intel® Smart Connect Technology [Disabled]

ICST Configuration [Disabled]

Allows you to enable or disable the ISCT configuration. Configuration options: [Enabled] [Disabled]

2.5.3SATA 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 [IDE]

Allows you to set the SATA configuration.

[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.

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