User Manual
Table Of Contents
- Safety information
- Chapter 1: Product Introduction
- Chapter 2: Hardware Information
- Chapter 3: Powering Up
- Chapter 4: BIOS Setup
- 4.1 Managing and updating your BIOS
- 4.2 BIOS setup program
- 4.3 Main menu
- 4.4 Performance Tuning menu
- 4.5 Advanced menu
- 4.5.1 Trusted Computing
- 4.5.2 ACPI Settings
- 4.5.3 Smart Settings
- 4.5.4 Super IO Configuration
- 4.5.5 Serial Port Console Redirection
- 4.5.6 Onboard LAN Configuration
- 4.5.7 APM
- 4.5.8 PCI Subsystem Settings
- 4.5.9 USB Configuration
- 4.5.10 CSM Configuration
- 4.5.11 NVMe Configuration
- 4.5.12 Network Stack Configuration
- 4.5.13 iSCSI Configuration
- 4.6 Platform Configuration menu
- 4.7 Socket Configuration menu
- 4.8 Event Logs menu
- 4.9 Server Mgmt menu
- 4.10 Security menu
- 4.11 Boot menu
- 4.12 Tool menu
- 4.13 Save & Exit menu
- Chapter 5: RAID Configuration
- Chapter 6: Intel® Optane™ DC Persistent Memory Configuration
- 6.1 Working with Intel® Optane™ DC persistent memory
- 6.1.1 DCPMM operating systems (OS) and virtual machine monitor (VMM)
- 6.1.2 Setting up Intel® Optane™ DC persistent memory as memory modules
- 6.1.3 Setting up Intel® Optane™ DC persistent memory as storage devices (Windows)
- 6.1.4 Removing Intel® Optane™ DC persistent memory as storage devices (Windows)
- 6.1.5 Setting up Intel® Optane™ DC persistent memory on other operating systems
- 6.1 Working with Intel® Optane™ DC persistent memory
- Chapter 7: Driver Installation
- 7.1 RAID driver installation
- 7.2 Management applications and utilities installation
- 7.3 Running the Support DVD
- 7.4 Intel® chipset device software installation
- 7.5 Installing the Intel® I210 Gigabit Adapters driver
- 7.6 VGA driver installation
- 7.7 Intel® Rapid Storage Technology enterprise 5.0 installation
- Appendix

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Chapter 4: BIOS Setup
CPU Thermal Control
CPU T-State Control
Software Controlled T-States [Disabled]
Allows you to enable or disable Software Controlled T-States.
Congurationoptions:[Disabled][Enabled]
CPU - Advanced PM Tuning
Energy Perf BIAS
Power Performance Tuning [OS Controls EPB]
Congurationoptions:[OSControlsEPB][BIOSControlsEPB]
The following item appears only when you set Power Performance Tuning to
[OS Controls EPB].
PECI PCS EPB [OS Controls EPB]
This option controls whether PECI has control over EPB.
Congurationoptions:[OSControlsEPB][PECIControlsEPBusingPCS]
The following item appears only when you set Power Performance Tuning to
[BIOS Controls EPB].
ENERGY_PERF_BIAS_CFG Mode [Balanced Performance]
Congurationoptions:[Performance][BalancedPerformance][BalancedPower]
[Power]
Dynamic Loadline Switch [Enabled]
Congurationoptions:[Disabled][Enabled]
Workload Configuration [UMA]
Thisoptionallowsoptimizationfortheworkloadcharacterization.
Congurationoptions:[UMA][NUMA]
Averaging Time Window [17]
This option is used to control the effective window of the average C0 an P0 time.
Congurationoptions:[0]-[FF]
P0 TotalTimeThreshold Low [23]
TheHWswitchingmechanismDISABLEStheperformancesetting(0)whenthetotal
P0 time is less than the threshold set.
Congurationoptions:[0]-[3F]
P0 TotalTimeThreshold High [3a]
TheHWswitchingmechanismEnablestheperformancesetting(0)whenthetotalP0
time is greater than the threshold set.
Congurationoptions:[0]-[3F]