Acer AR160 F1 Series, User Manual

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4 System BIOS 74
High Performance Event Timer : Select Enabled to activate the high-
performance event timer to produce periodic interrupts at a much
higher frequency than a real-time clock does when synchronizing
multimedia streams, providing smooth playback and reducing the
dependency on other timestamp calculation devices, such as an x86
RDTSC Instruction embedded in the CPU. The high-performance event
timer is used to replace the 8254 programmable interval timer.
ACPI APIC Support: Select Enabled to include the ACPI APIC Table
Pointer in the RSDT pointer list.
Note : Only available when ACPI is enabled on an ACPI-aware
operating system.
APIC ACPI SCI IRQ : When this item is set to Enabled , APIC ACPI SCI IRQ
is supported by the system.
Headless Mode: Enables the system to function without a keyboard,
monitor, or mouse attached.
Note : Only available when ACPI is enabled on an ACPI-aware
operating system.
ACPI Version Features : The options are ACPI v1.0, ACPI v2.0 and ACPI
v3.0. Please refer to ACPI's website for further explanation: http://
www.acpi.info/.
NUMA Support: Uses Non-Uniform Memory Access to improve CPU
performance.
Trusted Computing
TCG/TPM (Trusted Platform Module) Support: Select Yes and enable
the TPM jumper on the motherboard to enable TCG (TPM 1.1/1.2)/TPM
support to improve data integrity and network security.
• Indicate Physical - Select Yes for the system to indicate if a TPM
device is present at each bootup.
• TPM Deactivated - Select Set to deactivate TPM devices. Select
Clear to keep TPM devices active. Select Don't Change to keep the
current TPM Deactivation settings.