Asus P8Q67-M DO/TPM - Manual (Page 48)

Chapter 2: BIOS information 2-19
SATA Mode [IDE Mode]
Allows you to set the SATA configuration.
[Disabled]
Disables the SATA function.
[IDE Mode] Set to [IDE Mode] when you want to use the Serial ATA hard disk drives as
Parallel ATA physical storage devices.
[AHCI Mode] Set to [AHCI Mode] 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 Mode] Set to [RAID Mode] when you want to create a RAID configuration from the
SATA hard disk drives.
Serial-ATA Controller 0 [Enhanced]
This item appears only when you set the SATA Mode item to [IDE Mode].
[Disabled]
Disables the SATA function.
[Enhanced] Set to [Enhanced] to support more than four SATA devices.
[Compatible] Set to [Compatible] when using Windows 98/NT/2000/MS-DOS. Up to four
SATA devices are supported under these operating systems.
Serial-ATA Controller 1 [Enhanced]
This item appears only when you set the SATA Mode item to [IDE Mode].
[Disabled]
Disables the SATA function.
[Enhanced] Set to [Enhanced] to support more than four SATA devices.
S.M.A.R.T. Status Check [Enabled]
S.M.A.R.T. (Self-Monitoring, Analysis and Reporting Technology) is a monitor system. 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]
2.5.6 Intel TXT(LT) Configuration
Secure Mode Extensions (SMX) [Disabled]
Allows you to enable or disable the Intel Secure Mode Extensions (SMX) technology.
Configuration options: [Disabled] [Enabled]
Intel TXT(LT) Support [Disabled]
This item can be configured only when the Intel SMX, Intel Virtualization Technology (VT),
and Intel Virtualization Technology for Directed I/O (VT-d) technologies are all enabled.
Allows you to enable or disable the Intel Trusted Execution Technology. Configuration
options: [Disabled] [Enabled]