3.5.2PCH Configuration

High Precision Timer [Enabled]

Allows you to enable or disable the High Precision Event Timer.

Configuration options: [Disabled] [Enabled]

3.5.3SATA 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.

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SATA Mode [AHCI Mode]

Allows you to set the SATA configuration.

[Disabled]

Disables the SATA function.

[IDE Mode]

Set to [IDE Mode] when you want to use the Serial ATA hard disk drives as

 

Parallel ATA physical storage devices.

[AHCI Mode]

Set to [AHCI Mode] 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 Mode]

Set to [RAID Mode] when you want to create a RAID configuration from the

 

SATA hard disk drives.

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