Chapter 4: BIOS
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Spin Up Device
When this feature is disabled, all drives will spin up at boot. When this feature is enabled,
it will perform Staggered Spin Up on any drive this option is activated. The settings are
Disabled
or Enabled.
SATA Device Type
Use this feature to identify the type of HDD that is connected to the SATA port. The options
are
Hard Disk Drive
or Solid State Drive.
PCH-FW Configuration
The following information is displayed:
•
Operational Firmware Version
•
Backup Firmware Version
•
Recovery Firmware Version
•
ME Firmware Features
•
ME Firmware Mode
•
ME Firmware SKU
•
ME Firmware Status #1
•
ME Firmware Status #2
ACPI Settings
WHEA Support
Enable this feature to support the Windows Hardware Error Architecture (WHEA) platform
and provide a common infrastructure for the system to handle hardware errors within the
Windows OS environment in order to reduce system crashes and enhance system recovery
and health monitoring. The options are Disabled or
Enabled
.
High Precision Event Timer
Select Enabled to activate the High Precision 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 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.
The options are Disabled or
Enabled
.
