Intel® Smart Connect Technology [Disabled]
ISCT Support [Disabled]
Allows you to enable or disable the ISCT support. Configuration options: [Enabled] [Disabled]
2.6.3SATA Configuration
While entering Setup, the BIOS automatically detects the presence of SATA devices. The SATA Port items show Not Present if no SATA device is installed to the corresponding SATA port.
SATA Mode Selection [AHCI]
Allows you to set the SATA configuration.
[Disabled] | Disables the SATA function. |
[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. |
Aggressive LPM Support [Auto]
This item appears only when you set the previous item to [AHCI] and allows you to enable or disable PCH entering link power state aggressively. Configuration options: [Auto] [Disabled] [Enabled]
IDE Legacy / Native Mode Selection [Native]
This item appears only when you set the SATA Mode Selection item to [IDE]. Configuration options: [Native] [Legacy]
S.M.A.R.T. Status Check [Enabled]
S.M.A.R.T.
Hot Plug [Disabled]
These items appear only when you set the SATA Mode Selection item to [AHCI] and allow you to enable/disable SATA Hot Plug Support. Configuration options: [Disabled] [Enabled]
2.6.4System Agent Configuration
VT-d [Disabled]
Allows you to enable or disable
CPU Audio Device [Disabled]
Allows you to enable or disable CPU SA Audio Device. Configuration options: [Enabled] [Disabled]
Chapter 2: Getting started |