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Chapter 6: BIOS
Spin Up Device
When this feature is disabled, all drives will spin up at boot. When it is enabled, it will perform
Staggered Spin Up on any drive this feature is activated. The options are Enabled and
Disabled.
SATA Device Type
Use this feature to identify the type of HDD that is connected to the STATA port. The options
are Hard Disk Drive and Solid State Drive.
ACPI Settings
Use this feature to configure Advanced Configuration and Power Interface (ACPI) power
management settings for your system.
WHEA Support
Select Enabled to support the Windows Hardware Error Architecture (WHEA) platform and
provide a common infrastructure for the system to handle hardware errors within the Windows
OS environment to reduce system crashes and to enhance system recovery and health
monitoring. The options are Enabled and Disabled.
High Precision Timer
Select Enabled to activate the High Precision Event Timer (HPET) that produces periodic
interrupts at a much higher frequency than a Real-time Clock (RTC) does in synchronizing
multimedia streams, providing smooth playback and reducing the dependency on other
timestamp calculation devices, such as an x86 RDTSC Instruction embedded in the CPU.
The High Performance Event Timer is used to replace the 8254 Programmable Interval Timer.
The options are Enabled and Disabled.
Native PCIE Enable
This feature enables Native PCIE control.The options are Enabled and Disabled.
Native ASPM
This feature selects what controls ASPM. The options are Disabled (BIOS controlled), Enabled
(operating system controlled), and Auto.
NUMA Support (Available when the OS supports this feature)
Select Enabled to enable Non-Uniform Memory Access support to enhance system
performance. The options are Enabled and Disabled.
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