Advanced Setup
BXT7059 / BXTS7059 Technical Reference
CPU Configuration (continued)
The lower portion of the main menu screen contains processor features that you may elect to enable or
disable based on the unique requirements of your system. Here is a partial listing of some of these CPU
parameters:
Option Description
Intel® Hyper-
Threading
Disabled/
Enabled
- This option allows the user to enable or disable Intel®
Hyper-Threading support on the Intel® Xeon® E5-2400 series (i.e. Sandy
Bridge-EN / Ivy Bridge-EN) processor. By default, this setting is enabled.
(bold
= default setting)
Active Processor
Cores
All
, 1, 2, 4, 6 - With this setting you may use all of the available cores in the
Intel® Xeon® E5-2400 series (i.e. Sandy Bridge-EN / Ivy Bridge-EN)
processor or on use a subset of the available CPU execution cores. The default
setting for this option is “ALL” and the number of cores to select depends on
the specific processor installed on the SHB.
Limit CPUID
Maximum
Disabled
/Enabled – Disabled when using a Windows® XP operating system
Execute Disable Bit
Disabled/
Enabled
– This option allows the user to enable or disable Intel®
Execute Disable Bit feature of the Intel® Xeon® E5-2400 series (i.e. Sandy
Bridge-EN / Ivy Bridge-EN) processor.
Hardware Prefetcher
Disabled/
Enabled
– This setting activates the L2 streamer prefetcher in
processor’s cache
Adjacent Cache Line
Prefetch
Disabled/
Enabled
DCU Streamer
Prefetcher
Disabled/
Enabled
DCU IP Prefetcher
Disabled/
Enabled
Intel® Virtualization
Disabled/
Enabled
- This option allows the user to enable or disable Intel®
Virtualization support on the Intel® Xeon® E5-2400 series (i.e. Sandy Bridge-
EN / Ivy Bridge-EN) processor. By default, this setting is enabled.
Runtime Error Logging Configuration
Use this menu selection to enable or disable the runtime error logging support feature.
Option Description
Runtime Error
Logging
Disabled
/Enabled
(bold
= default setting) - If enabled the following sub-menu
option choices are available:
Memory Correctable Error Threshold Value:
10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15
PCI Error Logging Support:
Disabled/Enabled
Poison Support:
Disabled/Enabled
Short operational descriptions for each sub-menu setting can be found in the
upper left corner of the BIOS set-up screen.
SATA Configuration
This is where you can set the parameters for the SATA devices that have been sensed by the SHB during
the boot process. SATA devices connected to ports P27 or P28 on the SHB may operate at data transfer
rate up to 600MB/s. SATA devices connected to P31, P32, P36 or P36 have a maximum data transfer rate
of 300MB/s. What follows is a list of SATA port configuration parameters.
Option Description
SATA Mode
Disabled/
IDE Mode
/AHCI Mode/RAID
(bold
= default setting) - Short
operational descriptions for each sub-menu setting can be found in the upper left
corner of the BIOS set-up screen.
Serial-ATA
Controller 0
Disabled/Enhanced/
Compatible
Serial-ATA
Controller 1
Disabled/
Enhanced
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