Nvidia MS-7374 manual Hpet

BIOS Setup

Password Check

After you set the password in BIOS Setting Password menu, this item will appear. Selecting [setup] will request the password when enter the BIOS setup menu. Se- lecting [always] will request the password when enter both the operating system and the BIOS setup menu.

Primary Graphic’s Adapter

This setting specifies which graphic card is your primary graphics adapter.

PCI Latency Timer

This item controls how long each PCI device can hold the bus before another takes over. When set to higher values, every PCI device can conduct transactions for a longer time and thus improve the effective PCI bandwidth. For better PCI performance, you should set the item to higher values.

CPU Feature

Press <Enter> to enter the sub-menu and the following screen appears:

SVM Support (for AM2+ CPU only)

This item is used to enable or disable the AMD SVM (Secure Virtual Machine) mode.

Chipset Feature

Press <Enter> to enter the sub-menu and the following screen appears:

HPET

The HPET (High Precision Event Timers) is a component that is part of the chipset. You can to enable it, and will provide you with the means to get to it via the various ACPI methods.

On-Chip VGA

This item is used to enable or disable the on-chip VGA.

VGA Share Memory Size

The system shares memory to the on-chip VGA. This setting controls the exact memory size shared to the on-chip VGA.

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