BIOS Settings Glossary version 19

BIOS Settings Glossary BACK
V19 – November 2012 BACK
No SATA Devices
Detected
Configuration > SATA Drives
Information
only
This appears when Discrete-SATA is enabled, but no
devices are detected on a Discrete-SATA port.
No Video Detected
Error Beeps
Configuration > Video
• Enable
• Disable
Enable or disable motherboard speaker beeps when
video is not detected.
Numlock
Configuration > On-Board
Devices
• Off
• On
If Numlock is on, the keypad defaults to numeric
functionality.
O
BIOS Setting
Appears on BIOS Screen…
Options
Description / Purpose
Onboard LAN MAC
Address
Main > System Identification
Information
Information
only
Displays the MAC Address of the onboard LAN device in
hexadecimal.
Optical Drive Order
Boot
Lists all
installed optical
drive devices
(CD/DVD)
Select the boot order for optical drives. All detected
optical devices will be included in the list. The user can
change the order of devices. When attempting to boot to
optical drives, the BIOS will attempt to boot to each
device in the order of this list.
OS ACPI C2 Report
Power
• Enable
• Disable
Enable or disable OS ACPI C2 Report. If enabled, BIOS
will report ACPI C2 State (mapped to processor C3
state).
OS ACPI C3 Report
Power
• Enable
• Disable
Enable or disable OS ACPI C3 Report. If enabled, BIOS
will report ACPI C3 State (mapped to processor C6
state).
Over-Temperature
Threshold
Configuration > Fan Control &
Real-Time Monitoring
Numeric
Defines the temperature at or above which run-time
applications can generate an alert.
Over-Voltage
Threshold
Configuration > Fan Control &
Real-Time Monitoring
User Defined
Defines the voltage at or above which run-time
applications can generate an alert.
Overclocking
Assistant
Performance
• Manual
• Automatic
Manual: User must manually configure Performance
questions.
+D267Automatic: all Performance questions (including
those in subscreens) are grayed out except for Processor
Speed (GHz), Internal Graphics Speed (GHz), Memory
Speed (MHz); the following questions are set as follows:
• Failsafe Watchdog - Enable
• Host Clock Frequency (MHz) - 100
• Processor Voltage Override Type - None
• Intel® Turbo Boost Technology - Enable
• Sustained Mode Time (Seconds) - 1
• IGD Current Limit (Amps) - 64
• Active Core-Based Ratio Limits - Disable
Overridden Host
Clock Frequency
Main
Information
only
Displays the current host clock frequency.
This BIOS setting is present only on Intel® Desktop
Boards where the Host Clock Frequency has been
overridden to a non-default value.
Overridden Memory
Speed
Main
Information
only
Displays the current memory speed. Defined as current
host clock frequency x memory multiplier.
This BIOS setting is present only on Intel® Desktop
Boards where the Host Clock Frequency and Memory
Multiplier have been overridden.