Table 18. System Profile Settings details (continued)
Option
Description
CPU Interconnect Bus Link
Power Management
Enables or disables the CPU Interconnect Bus Link Power Management. This option is set to
Enabled
by default.
PCI ASPM L1 Link Power
Management
Enables or disables the PCI
ASPM L1 Link Power Management
. This option is set to
Enabled
by default.
System Security
To view the
System Security
screen, power on the system, press F2, and click
System Setup Main Menu
>
System BIOS
>
System Security
.
Table 19. System Security details
Option
Description
CPU AES-NI
Improves the speed of applications by performing encryption and decryption by using
the Advanced Encryption Standard Instruction Set (AES-NI). This option is set to
Enabled
by default.
System Password
Sets the system password. This option is set to
Enabled
by default and is read-only if
the password jumper is not installed in the system.
Setup Password
Sets the setup password. This option is read-only if the password jumper is not installed
in the system.
Password Status
Locks the system password. This option is set to
Unlocked
by default.
TPM Information
Indicates the type of Trusted Platform Module, if present.
Table 20. TPM 1.2 security information
Option
Description
TPM Information
TPM Security
NOTE:
The TPM menu is available only when the TPM module is installed.
Enables you to control the reporting mode of the TPM. The
TPM Security
option is set to
Off
by
default. You can only modify the TPM Status, and TPM Activation if the
TPM Status
field is set to
either
On with Pre-boot Measurements
or
On without Pre-boot Measurements
.
When TPM 1.2 is installed, the
TPM Security
option is set to
Off
,
On with Pre-boot Measurements
,
or
On without Pre-boot Measurements
.
TPM Information
Displays the operational state of the TPM.
TPM Firmware
Indicates the firmware version of the TPM.
TPM Status
Specifies the TPM status.
TPM Command
Controls the Trusted Platform Module (TPM). When set to
None
, no command is sent to the TPM.
When set to
Activate
, the TPM is enabled and activated. When set to
Deactivate
, the TPM is disabled
and deactivated. When set to
Clear
, all the contents of the TPM are cleared. This option is set to
None
by default.
TPM Advance
Settings
TPM PPI
Bypass
Provision
When set to
Enabled
, allows the Operating System to bypass Physical Presence
Interface (PPI) prompts when issuing PPI Advanced Configuration and Power interface
(ACPI) provisioning operations.
TPM PPI
Bypass Clear
When set to
Enabled
allows the Operating System to bypass Physical Presence
Interface (PPI) prompts when issuing PPI Advanced Configuration and Power Interface
(ACPI) clear operations.
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Pre-operating system management applications