SUPER MICRO Computer Essential Guide to the X9SPU-F Motherboard Configuration and Settings

X9SPU-F Motherboard User’s Manual

AHCI Mode

The following items are displayed when AHCI Mode is selected:

Aggressive Link Power Management

This feature Enables or Disables Aggressive Link Power Management support for Cougar Point B0 stepping and later. The options are Enabled and Disabled.

Serial ATA Port 0~5 Hot Plug

Set this item to Enabled to enable hot-plugging for the particular port. The options are Enabled and Disabled.

Serial ATA Port 0~5 Staggered Spin Up

Set this item to Enabled to enable Staggered Spin-up support. The options are Enabled and Disabled.

RAID Mode

The following items are displayed when RAID Mode is selected:

Serial ATA Port 0~5 Hot Plug

Set this item to Enabled to enable hot-plugging for the particular port. The options are Enabled and Disabled.

PCIe/PCI/PnP Configuration

This feature allows the user to set the PCI/PnP configurations for the following items:

PCI Latency Timer

This feature sets the latency Timer of each PCI device installed on a PCI bus. Se- lect 64 to set the PCI latency to 64 PCI clock cycles. The options are 32 PCI Bus Clocks, 64 PCI Bus Clocks, 96 PCI Bus Clocks, 128 PCI Bus Clocks, 160 PCI Bus Clocks, 192 PCI Bus Clocks, 224 PCI Bus Clocks and 248 PCI Bus Clocks.

Above 4G Decoding

Set this item to Enabled to activate 64-bit capable devices to be decoded above the 4G address space. This works only if the system supports 64-bit PCI decoding. The options are Enabled and Disabled.

Onboard LAN Option ROM Select

This feature selects whether to load the iSCSI or PXE onboard LAN option ROM. The options are iSCSI and PXE.

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