Aaeon IMBA-H61A, User Manual

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IMBA-H61A
3.4.4 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.
SATA Mode Selection [AHCI]
Allows you to set the SATA configuration.
[Disabled] Disables the SATA controller.
[IDE] Set to [IDE] when you want to use the Serial ATA hard disk drives
as Parallel ATA physical storage devices.
[AHCI] Set 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.
3.4.3 PCH Configuration
High Precision Timer [Enabled]
Allows you to enable or disable the High Precision Event Timer.
Configuration options: [Enabled] [Disabled]
Intel Virtualization Technology [Disabled]
[Enabled] Allows a hardware platform to run multiple operating systems
separately and simultaneously, enabling one system to virtually
function as several systems.
[Disabled] Disables this function.
Hardware Prefetcher [Enabled]
[Disabled] Disables this function.
[Enabled] Allows you to turn on /off the Mid Level Cache (L2) streamer
prefetcher.
Adjacent Cache Line Prefetch [Enabled]
[Disabled] Disables this function.
[Enabled] Allows a hardware platform to perform adjacent cache line
prefetching.