Supero SUPERSERVER 1018GR-T, User Manual

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Chapter 7: AMI BIOS
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ACPI Settings
Use this feature to configure Advanced Configuration and Power Interface (ACPI)
power management settings for your system.
WHEA Support
Select Enabled to support the Windows Hardware Error Architecture (WHEA) plat-
form and provide a common infrastructure for the system to handle hardware errors
within the Windows OS environment to reduce system crashes and to enhance
system recovery and health monitoring. The options are Enabled and
Disabled .
High Precision 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 de-
pendency on other timestamp calculation devices, such as an x86 RDTSC Instruc-
tion embedded in the CPU. The High Performance Event Timer is used to replace
the 8254 Programmable Interval Timer. The options are
Enabled and Disabled.
NUMA Support (Available when the OS supports this feature)
Select Enabled to enable Non-Uniform Memory Access support to enhance system
performance. The options are
Enabled and Disabled.
PCI AER Support
Select Enabed to enable the ACPI OS to manage PCI Advanced Error Reporting.
The options are Enabled and
Disabled .