Table 4. Config menu items (continued)

Menu item

Submenu item

Selection

Comments

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

when the ac power adapter is

 

 

 

 

attached.

 

 

 

 

 

 

Intel (R) Rapid Start

Disabled

To use this feature, a special

 

Technology

Enabled

partition on the solid-state drive is

 

 

required.

 

 

 

 

 

 

Enter after:

When enabled, the computer

 

 

Immediately

 

 

enters a lower power state after the

 

 

1 minute

specified time in sleep state. And

 

 

it takes only seconds to resume

 

 

2 minutes

 

 

normal operation.

 

 

 

 

 

 

5 minutes

 

 

 

10 minutes

 

 

 

15 minutes

 

 

 

30 minutes

 

 

 

1 hour

 

 

 

2 hours

 

 

 

3 hours

 

 

 

 

 

 

Beep and Alarm

Password Beep

Disabled

Enable this option to have a beep

 

 

Enabled

sound when the system is waiting

 

 

for a power-on, hard disk, or

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

supervisor password. Different

 

 

 

 

beeps will sound when the entered

 

 

 

 

password matches or does not

 

 

 

 

match the configured password.

 

 

 

 

 

 

Keyboard Beep

Enabled

Enable or disable the keyboard

 

 

Disabled

beep when unmanageable key

 

 

combinations are pressed.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Serial ATA (SATA)

SATA Controller Mode

Compatibility

Select SATA controller operation

 

Option

AHCI

mode.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

CPU

Core Multi-Processing

Disabled

Enable or disable additional

 

 

Enabled

execution core units within a CPU.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Note: If you are using a computer

 

 

 

 

with a single-core processor, this

 

 

 

 

item is not available.

 

 

 

 

 

 

Intel Hyper-Threading

Disabled

Enable or disable additional logical

 

Technology

Enabled

processors within a processor core.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Date/Time menu

If you need to set the current date and time of your computer, select Date/Time from the ThinkPad Setup menu. The following submenu is displayed:

System Date

System Time

To change the date and time, do the following:

1.Using the up and down arrow keys to select the item to change the date or time.

2.Press Tab, Shift+Tab, or Enter to select a field.

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Lenovo 24684XU, L430, L530 manual Date/Time menu, Cpu

24684XU, L430, L530 specifications

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