BIOS Settings Glossary version 19

BIOS Settings Glossary BACK
V19 – November 2012 BACK
Hibernation Timer
Power
• Immediate
• 1 minute
• 2 minutes
• 5 minutes
• 10 minutes
• 15 minutes
• 1 hour
• 2 hours
When the system is put to sleep, it will temporarily wake
up when the timer expires, and then hibernate to an SSD.
High Precision
Event Timers
Configuration > On-Board
Devices
• Enable
• Disable
High precision event timers are integrated into chipset
hardware and are available for use by operating systems.
They can be disabled if incompatible with an OS or
application.
Host Clock
Frequency
Main
or
Performance
Information
only
Displays the default host clock frequency (in MHz)
Host Clock
Frequency (MHz)
Performance
Numeric
Host Clock Frequency x Processor Multiplier = Processor
Speed
Host Clock Frequency x Memory Multiplier = Memory
Speed
Note: To increase stability at higher base clock
frequencies, reduce the Processor Multiplier or Memory
Multiplier.
Host Clock
Frequency Override
Performance
• Automatic
• Manual
Manual: allows you to override the Host Clock
Frequency
This BIOS setting is present only on Intel® Desktop
Boards that allow the host clock frequency to be
overridden.
Host Initiated
Intel® ME > Intel® Active (or
Standard) Management
Technology Configuration >
View Provisioning Record
Information
only
Displays the host initiated status: either Yes, No, or
Invalid.
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BIOS Setting
Appears on BIOS
Screen…
Options
Description / Purpose
Idle Timeout
Intel® ME > Intel®
Management Engine
Configuration
User defined
A value between 0 and 65535. Sets the number of minutes of idle
time before Intel® ME will sleep.
Default value is 0. With this setting, Intel® ME will not sleep, with
no power savings.
This option is present only if “Turn on Intel® ME in Sleep States” is
enabled.