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PCI Express Conguration

This item allows you to congure the PCI Express slots.

PCIe Speed

This item allows your system to automatically select the PCI Express port speed.

Conguration options: [Auto] [Gen1] [Gen2] [Gen3]

3.6.5 PCH Storage Conguration

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 Controller(s)

This item allows you to enable or disable the SATA Device.

Conguration options: [Enabled] [Disabled]

SATA Mode Selection

This item allows you to set the SATA conguration.

[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.

[ Intel RST Premium With

Intel Optane System

Acceleration(RAID)]

Set to [Intel RST Premium With Intel Optane System

Acceleration(RAID)] when you want to create a RAID

conguration from the SATA hard disk drives.

3.6.3 System Agent (SA) Conguration

The items in this menu allow you to adjust the Link Speed for PEG Port and Multi-Monitor.

3.6.4 PCH Conguration

The items in this menu allow you to adjust the PCH PCI Express speed.

SMART Self Test

SMART (Self-Monitoring, Analysis and Reporting Technology) is a monitoring system that

shows a warning message during POST (Power-on Self Test) when an error occurs in the

hard disks.

Conguration options: [On] [Off]