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| Chassis Outlet Fan |
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| Clear All DMI Event |
| Advanced > Event |
| • Yes |
| Yes - the DMI Event Log will be cleared at next POST |
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| Log Configuration |
| • No |
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| Clear All Passwords |
| Maintenance |
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| Clears both the user and supervisor passwords. |
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| Clear Event Log |
| Advanced > Event |
| • Enabled |
| Enable discards all events in the event log and will reset |
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| Log Configuration |
| • Disabled |
| the option to disable upon exiting BIOS. |
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| Clear Trusted |
| Maintenance |
| • OK |
| Used to clear the TPM if you are transferring ownership of |
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| • Cancel |
| the platform to a new owner. For more information, refer to |
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| Clear User Password |
| Security |
| Selecting this |
| Clears the user password. |
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| password. |
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| Compatibility Mode |
| Intel® ME > Intel® |
| • Intel® AMT |
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| Management |
| • Intel® AMT |
| Compatibility Mode appropriate to the management |
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| Technology |
| Generation 1.0 |
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| Provisioning |
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| Compliance Test |
| Advanced > PCI |
| • Enabled |
| Used for making sure a PCI Express slot remains |
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| Express |
| • Disabled |
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| Compliance test card testing of PCI Express cards. |
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| Computer Name |
| Intel® ME > Intel® |
| User defined |
| Sets the computer name. The computer name must be |
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| Management |
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| spaces, dashes, and any other special characters (for |
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| Configure SATA as… |
| Advanced > Drive |
| • IDE |
| IDE is default |
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| Configuration |
| • RAID |
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| • AHCI |
| RAID: enables RAID which may require you to install the |
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| AHCI: allows you to take advantage of Advanced Host |
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| Queuing , Hot plug, etc., without the option to use RAID. |
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| Core Multiplexing |
| Main |
| • Enabled |
| When disabled, turns off all but one processor core. You |
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| • Disabled |
| may need to disable this for legacy operating systems that |
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| do not support multiple cores. The remaining core may |
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| have access to more cache. The amount of cache available |
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| to the remaining core will depend on the particular |
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| dual core processor is |
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| processor. The increase in available cache can result in |
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| better performance under certain applications. |
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V09 – March 2008
