Advanced Menu
Intel SpeedStep | Allows you to enable or disable the Intel SpeedStep technology. Disabling this feature may improve performance, but will |
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Virtualization | Allows you to enable or disable the Intel Virtualization technology. |
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USB Emulation | Allows you to enable or disable the USB emulation feature. This feature defines how the BIOS, in the absence of a |
| operating system, handles USB devices. USB emulation is always enabled during POST. |
| NOTE: You cannot boot any type of USB device (floppy, hard drive, or memory key) when this option is off. |
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USB Wake Support | Allows you to enable USB devices to wake the computer from standby or to disable the USB wake support feature. |
| NOTE: If USB Powershare is enabled, a device connected to the USB Powershare connector may not wake the computer. |
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USB Power Share | Allows you to charge USB devices when the computer is turned off or in standby mode. |
| • AC Only: Charge USB devices when connected to AC adapter only. |
| • AC and Battery: Charge USB devices when connected to AC adapter and when the computer is running on battery. |
| • Disabled: Disables USB PowerShare. |
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Integrated Network | Allows you to enable or disable the |
| • Disabled: Internal LAN is disabled and is not visible to the operating system. |
| • Enabled: Internal LAN is enabled. |
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High Definition Audio | Allows you to enable or disable the internal high definition audio device. |
| • Disabled: The internal audio device is disabled and is not visible to the operating system. |
| • Enabled: The internal audio device is enabled. |
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SD Card Reader | Allows you to enable or disable the internal SD card reader. |
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Performance Options | Allows you to configure fields in the Performance Options |
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SATA Operation | Allows you to configure the operating mode of the integrated SATA hard drive controller. |
| • ATA: SATA is configured for ATA mode. |
| • AHCI: SATA is configured for AHCI mode. |
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SATA HARD DRIVE 1 | Displays the installed SATA hard drive model. |
Adapter Warnings | Allows you to choose if the computer should display warning messages when you use certain power adapters. The computer |
| displays these messages if you attempt to use a power adapter that has too little capacity for your configuration. |
| • Disabled: BIOS will not detect unsupported AC adapters and will not display any message on the screen. |
| • Enabled: BIOS will detect unsupported AC adapters and display an error on the screen. |
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Charger Behavior | Allows you to enable or disable battery charging. |
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Advanced — Performance Options Menu | |
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CPU Turbo Mode | Allows you to enable or disable the Intel CPU turbo mode performance option. |
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Overclocking Features | Allows you to enable or disable the global overclocking feature. |
| • Disabled: The overclocking feature is disabled. |
| • Enabled: Displays additional overclocking options. |
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Override Turbo settings | Allows you to override CPU turbo mode settings. |
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Long Duration Power | Allows you to set the turbo mode power limit 1 value in watts. |
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Long Duration Time | Allows you to set the turbo mode time 1 value in seconds. |
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Short Duration Power | Allows you to enable or disable short duration power limit. |
Limit |
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Short Duration Time | Allows you to set the turbo mode power limit 2 value in watts. |
Window |
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Bus Clock |
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Current Frequency | Displays the current bus clock frequency. |
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New Frequency in | Allows you to enter a new bus clock frequency in 10 Khz increments. |
10KHz increments |
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Apply New Bus Clock | Allows you to apply the new bus clock frequency |
Frequency |
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| • Immediately: The new bus clock frequency is applied immediately. |
