AAEON IMBA-Q87A - Manual (Page 37)

3-5 Chapter 3: BIOS setup
3.3.5 CPU Configuration
The items in this menu show CPU-related information the BIOS automatically
detects.
The items shown in the submenu may be different depending on the type of
CPU installed.
Hyper-threading [Enabled]
The Intel Hyper-Threading Technology allows a hyper-threading processor to
appear as two logical processors to the operating system, allowing the operating
system to schedule two threads or processes simultaneously.
[Enabled] Two threads per activated core are enabled.
[Disabled] Only one thread per activated core is enabled.
Configuration options for active processor cores are dependent on the installed
CPU.
Intel Virtualization Technology [Enabled]
[Enabled]
Allows a hardware platform to run multiple operating
systems separately and simultaneously, enabling one
system to virtually function as several systems.
[Disabled] Disables this function.
3.3.6 SATA Configuration
The BIOS automatically detects the presence of SATA devices. The Serial ATA
Ports listed will display Empty if there are no Serial devices connected to the ports.
SATA Controller(s) [Enabled]
Configuration options: [Enabled] [Disabled].
SATA Mode Selection [IDE]
Allows you to set the SATA configuration.
[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.