[. . . ] 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 contains copyrighted software that is licensed under the General Public License (“GPL”), under the Lesser General Public License Version (“LGPL”) and/or other Free Open Source Software Licenses. [. . . ] Set to [RAID] when you want to create a RAID configuration from the SATA hard disk drives. 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] Allows you to enable or disable the hot plug function of each SATA port. This item appears only when you set SATA Mode to [AHCI Mode] or [RAID Mode] ASUS P8C WS 3-19 Chapter 3 3. 5 System Agent Configuration Memory Remap Feature [Enabled] Allows you to enable remapping the memory above 4GB. Graphics Configuration Primary Display [Auto] Allows you to select a primary display from iGPU, and PCIe graphical devices. Allows you to select which of the iGPU/PCIE Graphics device should be the Primary Display. Configuration options: [Auto] [PCIE] [PCI] [iGPU] iGPU Memory [64M] Allows you to select the iGPU share memory size. Configuration options: [32M] [64M] [96M] [128M] [160M] [192M] [224M] [256M] [288M] [320M] [352M] [384M] [416M] [448M] [480M] [512M] [1024M] Chapter 3 3-20 Render Standby [Enabled] Allows you to enable or disable the Render Standby by the internal graphics device. Configuration options: [Disabled] [Enabled] iGPU Multi-Monitor [Disabled] Allows you to enable or disable the internal graphics device multi-monitor support for the add-on VGA devices. 6 USB Configuration The items in this menu allow you to change the USB-related features. legacy USB Support [Enabled] [Enabled] [Disabled] [Auto] Legacy USB3. 0 Support [Enabled] [Enabled] [Disabled] [Smart Auto] [Auto] [Enabled] [Disabled] [Enabled] Enables the support for USB 3. Intel xHCI Mode [Smart Auto] EHCI Hand-off [Disabled] [Disabled] Enables the support for operating systems without an EHCI hand‑off feature. ASUS P8C WS 3-21 Chapter 3 Enables the support for USB devices on legacy operating systems (OS). Chapter 3 3-22 The following two items appear only when you set the HD Audio Controller item to [Enabled]. Front Panel Type [HD] [HD] [AC97] [Disabled] [Enabled] [Disabled] [Enabled] Allows you to set the front panel audio connector (AAFP) mode to legacy AC’97 or highdefinition audio depending on the audio standard that the front panel audio module supports. Chapter 3: BIOS setup Intel LAN1 OPROM [Disabled] This item appears only when you set the previous item to [Enabled] and allows you to enable or disable the PXE OptionRom of the Intel LAN1 controller. Intel LAN2 OPROM [Disabled] This item appears only when you set the previous item to [Enabled] and allows you to enable or disable the PXE OptionRom of the Intel LAN2 controller. Configuration options: [Enabled] [Disabled] Serial Port Configuration The sub-items in this menu allow you to set the serial port configuration. This item functions only if there is a serial port (COM1) connector on the motherboard. Serial Port [Enabled] Allows you to enable or disable the serial port (COM). [. . . ] 1 • • • Requirements In Dual CrossFireX mode, you should have two identical CrossFireX-ready graphics cards or one CrossFireX-ready dual-GPU graphics card that are AMD® certified. Ensure that your graphics card driver supports the AMD CrossFireX technology. Ensure that your power supply unit (PSU) can provide at least the minimum power required by your system. €¢ • We recommend that you install additional chassis fans for better thermal environment. [. . . ]