30 CHAPTER 4: USING YOUR DESKTOP
Standard CMOS Features
Wait for ‘F1’ If
Errors If enabled, the system will HALT during boot
to display system errors.
Advanced BIOS Features
NumLock Status Select power-on state for num-lock.
ACPI APIC support Include ACPI APIC table pointer to RSDT
pointer list.
OptionROM Display
Screen Allows you to enable or disable the RAID
Option ROM screen during POST.
Boot Conguration Features
1st Boot Device Displays the rst boot device.
2nd Boot Device Displays the second boot device.
Hard Disk Drives Sets the hard drive boot priority. e items
displayed are dynamically updated according
to the hard drives detected.
CD/DVD Drives Sets the CD/DVD drive boot priority.
CPU Conguration
XD Bit Capability Enable XD Bit Capability to allow the processor
to distinguish between the bits of code that
can be executed and the ones that cannot be
executed.
Intel® Speedstep™ tech If enabled, the processor clock speed and core
voltage are adjusted dynamically based on
the processor load.
Intel® C State Tech If enabled, C State: Processor idle is set to
C2/C3/C4.
Intel® HT Technology
(available on Aurora-R2 only) If disabled only one thread per enabled core is
active.