User manual ASUS P8Z77-V PRO

[. . . ] No part of this manual, including the products and software described in it, may be reproduced, transmitted, transcribed, stored in a retrieval system, or translated into any language in any form or by any means, except documentation kept by the purchaser for backup purposes, without the express written permission of ASUSTeK COMPUTER INC. Product warranty or service will not be extended if: (1) the product is repaired, modified or altered, unless such repair, modification of alteration is authorized in writing by ASUS; or (2) the serial number of the product is defaced or missing. Products and corporate names appearing in this manual may or may not be registered trademarks or copyrights of their respective companies, and are used only for identification or explanation and to the owners' benefit, without intent to infringe. Offer to Provide Source Code of Certain Software This product may contain copyrighted software that is licensed under the General Public License ("GPL") and under the Lesser General Public License Version ("LGPL"). [. . . ] The SATA Port items show Not Present if no SATA device is installed to the corresponding SATA port. SATA Mode Selection [AHCI Mode] Allows you to set the SATA configuration. [IDE] [AHCI] Set to [IDE] when you want to use the Serial ATA hard disk drives as Parallel ATA physical storage devices. 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. Set to [RAID] when you want to create a RAID configuration from the SATA hard disk drives. [RAID] ASUS P8Z77-V PRO 3-19 Chapter 3 Use the scroll to display more items. When read/write of your hard disk errors occur, this feature allows the hard disk to report warning messages during the POST. Configuration options: [Enabled] [Disabled] Hot Plug [Disabled] These items appear only when you set the SATA mode item to [AHCI Mode] or [RAID Mode], and allow you to enable/disable SATA Hot Plug Support. 4 System Agent Configuration Memory Remap Feature [Enabled] [Enabled] [Disabled] Allow you to enable remapping the memory above 4GB. Chapter 3 3-20 Graphics Configuration Primary Display [Auto] Allows you to select a primary display from IGFX, PEG, or PCI graphic devices, or select SG for switchable GFX. configuration options: [Auto] [IGFX] [PEG] iGPU Memory [32M] This item select DVMT 5. 0 pre-allocated graphic memory size, used by the internal graphic device. configuration options: [32M] [64M] [96M]~[1024M] Render Standby [Enabled] Allows you to enabled or disabled render standby support. Configuration options: [Disabled] [Enabled] iGPU Multi-Monitor [Enabled] Allows you to enable the iGPU Multi-Monitor. For Lucid Virtu MVP function supports, set this item to [Enabled] to empower both integrated and discrete graphics. IGPU shared system memory size is fixed in 64MB Configuration options: [Disabled] [Enabled] Chapter 3: BIOS setup NB PCIe Configuration Allows you to configure the NB PCI Express settings. PCIEX16_1 Link Speed [Auto] PCIEX16_2 Link Speed [Auto] Allows you to configure the PCIEX16_1 speed. Configuration options: [Auto] [Gen1] [Gen2] Allows you to configure the PCIEX16_2 speed. 5 USB Configuration EFI BIOS Utility - Advanced Mode Exit The items in this menu allow you to change the USB-related features. AUTO option disables legacy support if no USB devices are connected. DISABLE option will keep USB devices available only for EFI applications. [. . . ] Changes or modifications to this unit not expressly approved by the party responsible for compliance could void the user's authority to operate this equipment. iC: Canadian Compliance Statement Complies with the Canadian ICES-003 Class B specifications. This device complies with RSS 210 of Industry Canada. This Class B device meets all the requirements of the Canadian interference-causing equipment regulations. [. . . ]