The following two items appear only when you set the OnChip SATA Channel item to [Enabled].

SATA Port1 - Port4 [IDE]

Sets the configuration for the Serial ATA connectors supported by the Southbridge chip. Configuration options: [IDE] [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.

•When this item is set [AHCI], the information of the SATA connectors 1–6 can be seen only under the OS environment or during POST.

SATA Port5 - Port6 [IDE]

Setting this item to [IDE] instead of [AHCI] allows the system to recognize the optical dirves connected to the SATA connectors 5 or 6 when installing OS.

If you use a SATA optical drive to run the OS installation disk, we strongly recommend that you install the optical dirve to the SATA connectors 5/6 and set them to [IDE] mode.

5.3.5System 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

 

 

 

 

BIOS Information

 

 

Version

:0201

 

 

Build Date

:04/30/10

 

 

Processor

 

 

 

Type

:AMD Opteron(tm) Processor 6172

 

 

Speed

:2100MHZ

 

 

System Memory

 

 

Usable Size

: 2048MB

 

 

 

System Memory Information

←→

Select Screen

 

↑↓

Select Item

 

 

 

 

Enter

Go to Sub Screen

 

 

 

 

F1

General Help

 

 

 

 

F10

Save and Exit

 

 

 

 

ESC

Exit

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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