Table 3-6 Computer Setup—Advanced (for advanced users) (continued)
BIOS | Allows you to set the computer to turn on automatically at a time you specify. |
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Onboard Devices | Allows you to set resources for or disable Legacy devices. |
| Select the Legacy device's IRQ, DMA, and I/O Range. The settings may not take effect for all |
| operating systems. To hide a device from the operating system, see Security > Device Security. |
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Bus Options | Allows you to enable or disable: |
| ● PCI SERR# Generation. Default is enabled. |
| ● PCI VGA Palette Snooping, which sets the VGA palette snooping bit in PCI configuration |
| space; only needed when more than one graphics controller is installed. Default is disabled. |
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Device Options | Allows you to set: |
| ● Printer mode |
| EPP = Enhanced Parallel Port. Default is EPP+ECP. |
| ● Num Lock State at |
| ● Integrated Video (enable/disable). Use this option to disable the integrated video controller |
| when another video controller is present in the system. Default is enabled. |
| ● Integrated Graphics (Auto/Disable/Force) Use this option to manage integrated (UMA) |
| graphics memory allocation. The value you choose is allocated permanently to graphics and |
| is unavailable to the operating system. For example, if you set this value to 512M on a |
| system with 2 GB of RAM, the system always allocates 512 MB for graphics and the other |
| 1.5 GB for use by the BIOS and operating system. Default is Auto which sets memory |
| allocation to 512 MB. |
| If you select Force, the UMA Frame Buffer Size option displays, which lets you set the UMA |
| memory size allocation between 32 MB and 1 GB. |
| ● Internal Speaker (does not affect external speakers). Default is enabled. |
| ● NIC PXE Option ROM Download (PXE, iSCSI, disabled). The BIOS contains an embedded |
| NIC option ROM to allow the unit to boot through the network to a PXE server. This is |
| typically used to download a corporate image to a hard drive. The NIC option ROM takes up |
| memory space below 1MB commonly referred to as DOS Compatibility Hole (DCH) space. |
| This space is limited. This F10 option will allow users to disable the downloading of this |
| embedded NIC option ROM thus giving more DCH space for additional PCI cards which may |
| need option ROM space. The default will be to have the NIC |
| PXE. |
| ● SATA RAID Option ROM Download (enable/disable). The BIOS contains an embedded |
| SATA RAID option ROM for RAID support. This can be temporarily disabled to save DCH |
| space. Note that with the option ROM disabled, users will be unable to boot to hard drives in |
| the system while running in RAID mode. Default is disabled. |
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| the OS. Default is enabled. |
| ● Hyper threading (enable/disable). Use this option to disable processor |
| ● Turbo Mode (enable/disable). Allows you to enable and disable the Intel Turbo Mode feature, |
| which allows one core of the system to run at a higher than standard frequency and power if |
| other cores are idle. Default is enabled. |
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