Owner's manual

5-12 Chapter 5: BIOS setup

The following two items appear only when you set the OnChip SATA Channel

item to [Enabled].

SATA Port1 - Port4 [IDE]

Sets the conguration for the Serial ATA connectors supported by the Southbridge

chip. Conguration options: [IDE] [RAID] [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 to create RAID sets with the PROMISE

RAID utility from the

Serial ATA hard disk drives, set this item to [RAID].

• 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.

5.3.5 System Information

This menu gives you an overview of the general system specications. 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

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