QUANTA Rackgo X Series F03A Technical Manual page 115

BIOS
Table 39: Terminology (Continued)
Term
IRQ Interrupt Request.
Keyboard, Video, and Mouse – an attachment that mimics those devices, and connects
KVM
them to a remote I/O user.
LAN Local Area Network.
LED Light Emitting Diode.
Load Reduced DIMM memory modules have buffer registers for both address and data
LRDIMM
between the SDRAM modules and the system's memory controller.
MCA Machine Check Architecture.
MCE Machine Check Exception.
MMIO Memory Mapped I/O.
MRC Memory Reference Code.
MSR Model Specific Register.
NIC Network Interface Card.
NM Node Manager – now "Intel® Intelligent Power Node Manager".
NMI Non-Maskable Interrupt.
OEM Original Equipment Manufacturer.
OS Operating System.
PCH Platform Controller Hub.
Peripheral Component Interconnect, or PCI Local Bus Standard – also called "Conven-
PCI
tional PCI".
PCI Express* -- an updated form of PCI offering better throughput and better error man-
PCIe
agement.
PCR Platform Configuration Register.
PECI Platform Environmental Control Interface.
Pre EFI Initialization. Component of Intel® Platform Innovation Framework for EFI archi-
PEI
tecture.
PERR Parity Error.
PIC Programmable Interrupt Controller.
PMI Platform Management Interrupt.
PnP Plug and Play. Used as "PnP BIOS" and "PnP ISA".
Power On Self Test – BIOS activity from the time on Power On until Operating System
POST
boot begins.
PXE Pre-execution Environment.
QPI Intel® QuickPath Interconnect.
Redundant Array of Inexpensive Disks – provides data security by spreading data over
RAID multiple disk drives. RAID 0, RAID 1, RAID 10, and RAID 5 are different patterns of data on
varying numbers of disks to provide varying degrees of security and performance.
RAS Reliability, Availability, and Serviceability.
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