Owners Manual

Option Description
Memory Operating Mode Species the memory operating mode. The available option is Optimizer Mode.
Memory Operating Mode Species the memory operating mode. The options available are Optimizer Mode, Single
Rank Spare Mode, Multi Rank Spare Mode, Mirror Mode, and Dell Fault Resilient Mode.
This option is set to Optimizer Mode by default.
NOTE: The Memory Operating Mode option can have dierent default and
available options based on the memory conguration of your system.
NOTE: The Dell Fault Resilient Mode option establishes an area of memory that
is fault resilient. This mode can be used by an operating system that supports
the feature to load critical applications or enables the operating system kernel to
maximize system availability.
Memory Operating Mode Species the memory operating mode. The options available are Optimizer Mode,
Advanced ECC Mode, Mirror Mode, Spare Mode, Spare with Advanced ECC Mode.
This option is set to Optimizer Mode by default.
NOTE: The Memory Operating Mode option can have dierent default and
available options based on the memory conguration of your system.
Current State of Memory Operating Mode Species the current state of the memory operating mode.
Node Interleaving Species if Non-Uniform Memory Architecture (NUMA) is supported. If this eld is set to
Enabled, memory interleaving is supported if a symmetric memory conguration is
installed. If the eld is set to Disabled, the system supports NUMA (asymmetric) memory
congurations. This option is set to Disabled by default.
Snoop Mode Species the Snoop Mode options. The Snoop Mode options available are Home Snoop,
Early Snoop, and Cluster on Die. This option is set to Early Snoop by default. This eld is
available only when the Node Interleaving is set to Disabled.
Processor Settings
You can use the Processor Settings screen to view the processor settings, and perform specic functions such as enabling virtualization
technology, hardware prefetcher, logical processor idling, and opportunistic self-refresh.
Viewing Processor Settings
About this task
To view the Processor Settings screen, perform the following steps:
Steps
1 Turn on, or restart your system.
2 Press F2 immediately after you see the following message:
F2 = System Setup
NOTE
: If your operating system begins to load before you press F2, wait for the system to nish booting, and then restart
your system and try again.
3 On the System Setup Main Menu screen, click System BIOS.
4 On the System BIOS screen, click Processor Settings.
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Pre-operating system management applications