Asus P7P55D-E - Premium Motherboard - ATX User Manual

ASUS P7P55D-E 3-13
Chapter 3
3.4.2 Storage Conguration
The Storage Conguration menu allows you to congure your storage devices. Select an item
then press <Enter> to display the submenu.
BIOS SETUP UTILITY
Main
Storage Conguration
SATA Conguraton [Enhanced]
Congure SATA as [IDE]
Hard Disk Write Protect [Disabled]
IDE Detect Time Out (Sec) [35]
Set [Compatible Mode]
when Legacy OS (i.e.
WIN ME, 98, NT4.0, MS
DOS) is used.
Set [Enhanced Mode]
when Native OS (i.e.
WIN2000, Win XP, Vista
is used.
SATA Conguration [Enhanced]
Conguration options: [Disabled] [Compatible] [Enhanced]
Configure SATA as [IDE]
Sets the conguration for the Serial ATA connectors supported by the PCH 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 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.
• If you want to create a RAID 0, RAID 1, RAID 5, RAID 10, or the Intel
®
Matrix Storage
Technology conguration from the Serial ATA hard disk drives, set this item to [RAID].
Hard Disk Write Protect [Disabled]
Disables or enables device write protection. This will be effective only if the device is
accessed through BIOS. Conguration options: [Disabled] [Enabled]
IDE Detect Time Out (Sec) [35]
Selects the time out value for detecting ATA/ATAPI devices. Conguration options: [0] [5] [10]
[15] [20] [25] [30] [35]
3.4.3 AHCI Conguration
This menu is the section for AHCI conguration. It appears only when you set the item
Congure SATA as from the sub-menu of SATA Conguration to [AHCI].
BIOS SETUP UTILITY
Main
AHCI Settings
SATA Port1 [Not Detected]
SATA Port2 [Not Detected]
SATA Port3 [Not Detected]
SATA Port4 [Not Detected]
SATA Port5 [Not Detected]
SATA Port6 [Not Detected]
Some SATA CD/DVD in
AHCI mode need to
wait ready longer.

Asus P7P55D-E - Premium Motherboard - ATX Specifications

General

Form Factor	ATX
Chipset	Intel P55
CPU Socket	LGA 1156
Maximum Memory	16GB
Memory Type	DDR3
Memory Standard	DDR3 2200(O.C.)/1600/1333/1066
PCI Express x16	2
PCI Express x1	2
SATA 3Gb/s	6
SATA 6Gb/s	2
Audio Chipset	VIA VT2020
LAN Chipset	Realtek 8112L
Max. LAN Speed	10/100/1000Mbps
USB 2.0	12
USB 3.0	2
Memory Slots	4 x DIMM
Audio Channels	8 Channels
eSATA	1 x eSATA 3Gb/s
Dimensions	30.5 cm x 24.4 cm
Power Connector	24-pin ATX
RAID Support	0, 1, 5, 10