X7SLA-L/X7SLA-H User’s Manual

4-3 Advanced Setup Configurations

Use the arrow keys to select Boot Setup and hit <Enter> to access the submenu items:

Main

Advanced

BIOS SETUP UTILTY

Security Boot Exit

Advanced Settings

WARNI NG: Setting the wrong values in the sections below may cause the system to malfunction.

BIOS Features

Processor & Clock Options

Advanced Chipset Control

IDE Configuration

PCI/PnP Configuration

Super IO Device Configuration

Hardware Health Configuration

Remote Access Configuration

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Enter : Select

+/-/ : Value

F10 : Save

ESC : Exit

F1 : General Help

F8 : Fail-Safe Defaults

F9 : Optimized Defaults

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BIOS Features

Quick Boot

If Enabled, this option will skip certain tests during POST to reduce the time needed for system boot. The options are Enabled and Disabled.

Quiet Boot

This option allows the bootup screen options to be modified between POST mes- sages or the OEM logo. Select Disabled to display the POST messages. Select Enabled to display the OEM logo instead of the normal POST messages. The op- tions are Enabled and Disabled.

Wait for ‘F1’ If Error

If set to Enabled, the system will wait for the user to press F1 before displaying a message when an error occurs. The options are Enabled and Disabled.

High Performance Event Timer

Select Enabled to activate the High Performance Event Timer (HPET) that produces periodic interrupts at a much higher frequency than a Real-time Clock (RTC) does in synchronizing multimedia streams, providing smooth playback and reducing the de- pendency on other timestamp calculation devices, such as an x86 RDTSC Instruc-

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X7SLA-L, X7SLA-H specifications

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