BIOS Settings Dictionary – Alphabetical
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Ratio Actual Value | Maintenance | No changeable | Displays processor’s Bus Ratio. |
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Rear Audio Optical | Advanced > | • Enabled | If enabled, sends digital audio from the external TOSLINK |
Output | Peripheral | • Disabled | to the internal header |
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Rear Fan Speed | Advanced > | No changeable | Displays rear fan speed. |
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Recover to | Manageability | <Enter> | Press <Enter> to display available checkpoints. Select the |
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| checkpoint to restore, and then press F10 to save and exit. |
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| Allows you to reverse any changes made since the creation |
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| Checkpoint is a saved status of the client hard disk. When |
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| the Intel® Platform Administrator Client is enabled, the user |
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Remote Temp | Advanced > | No changeable | Displays the temperature of the onboard remote thermal |
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Removable Device | Boot | Lists all installed | Allows you to set the boot order of removable devices |
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Removable Devices | Boot | No changeable | Opens the Removable Devices |
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Removable Drive | Boot | Lists all installed | Allows you to set the boot order of removable devices |
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| removable devices | (floppy drives, USB thumb drives, etc) - used when Boot |
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Reset Intel® AMT to | Maintenance | No changeable | Resets Intel® AMT to the default factory settings. |
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S.M.A.R.T. | Advanced > Drive | • Auto | Enable or Disable support for the hard disk's S.M.A.R.T. |
| Configuration > | • Disable | (Self Monitoring Analysis And Reporting Technology) |
| SATA/PATA | • Enable | capability. S.M.A.R.T. is supported by all current hard disks |
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| and allows the early prediction and warning of impending |
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| hard disk failures. |
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| You should enable it if you want to use |
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| utilities to monitor the hard disk's condition. |
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SATA AHCI Mode | Advanced > Drive | • Enabled | Enables the SATA controllers in an "Advanced Host |
| Configuration | • Disabled | Controller Interface" mode that improves system |
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| performance if the drives attached support AHCI. |
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| This setting will be auto enabled if the onboard RAID |
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| controller is enabled. NOTE: This changes the device |
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| class of the SATA controllers and can cause driver reload |
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V09 – March 2008