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3.3.6
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 function.
[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.
[RAID]
Set to [RAID] when you want to create a RAID
configuration from the SATA hard disk drives.
3.3.7
PCH-FW Configuration
Displays the Management Engine Technology parameters.
3.3.8
AMT Configuration
The items in this menu allow you to change the Intel
®
Active Management
Technology (AMT) feature.
Intel
®
AMT [Enabled]
Allow you to enable or disable the Intel
®
Active Management Technology (AMT) in
the BIOS extension. Configuration options: [Enabled] [Disabled]
• iAMT H/W is always enabled. This option just controls the BIOS extension
execution. If enabled, this requires additional firmware in the SPI device.
• The following two items become configurable only when you set the
Intel
®
AMT item to [Enabled].
Un-Configure ME [Disabled]
Sets this item to [Disabled] to unconfigure AMT/ME without using a password or
set it to [Enabled] to use a password. Configuration options: [Enabled] [Disabled]
