Asus M5A97 PLUS User Guide - Page 48

Memory Clear [Disabled] Allows you to enable or disable the Memory Clear function control. Configuration options: [Disabled] [Enabled] ECC Mode [Enabled] Allows you to enable or disable the ECC mode. Configuration options: [Disabled] [Enabled] Power Down Enable [Disabled] Allows you to enable or disable the DDR power down mode. Configuration options: [Disabled] [Enabled] Memory Hole Remapping [Enabled] Allows you to enable or disable memory remapping around memory hole. Configuration options: [Disabled] [Enabled] DCT Unganged Mode [Enabled] Allows you to select unganged mode or ganged mode. Configuration options: [Disabled] [Enabled] Initiate Graphic Adapter [PEG/PCI] Allows you to select the primary boot graphic controller. Configuration options: [PEG/PCI] [PCI/PEG] 2.5.3 South Bridge HPET [Enabled] Allows you to enable or disable the HPET TIMER. Configuration options: [Disabled] [Enabled] 2.5.4 SATA 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. SB SATA Configuration Allows you to set SATA options. OnChip SATA Channel [Enabled] Allows you to enable or disable serial ATA. Configuration options: [Enabled] [Disabled] SATA Port1 - Port4 [AHCI] [IDE] S et to [IDE] when you want to use the Serial ATA hard disk drives as Parallel ATA physical storage devices. [AHCI] S et 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. [RAID] S et to [RAID] when you want to create a RAID configuration from the SATA hard disk drives. 2-20 Chapter 2: BIOS information