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on the mainboard, and disabled if no USB devices are connected. The Disable option
will keep USB devices available only for EFI applications. The options include Disabled,
Enabled and Auto.
XHCI Hand-off
This is a workaround for OSes without XHCI hand-off support. The XHCI ownership change
should be claimed by the XHCI driver. Options include Enabled and Disabled.
Port 60/64 Emulation
This setting Enables or Disables I/O port 60h/64h emulation support. This should be enabled
for the complete USB keyboard legacy support for non-USB aware OSes.
SATA and RST Configuration Sub-menu
SATA Controller
This setting allows you to Enable or Disable the SATA device.
SATA Mode Selection
Use this setting to determine how the SATA controller(s) operate. Options include AHCI or
RAID.
Aggressive Link Power Management
Use this setting to Enable or Disable SALP.
SATA Port 0~3 Settings
For each of the ports you many configure the settings listed below.
Hot Plug
Use this setting to Enable or Disable the port as Hot Pluggable.
Spin Up Device
This setting allows you to Enable or Disable the Spin up Device for the system. If enabled
for any ports staggered spin up will be performed and only the drives that have this option
enabled will spin up at boot. Otherwise all drives spin up at boot if this setting is disabled.
SATA Device Type
This setting allows you to identify that the SATA port is connected to either a Solid State
Drive or a Hard Disk Drive.
