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104 Appendix C: Matrox 4Sight GPm (Ivy Bridge) BIOS reference
Item
Options
FACP - RTC S4 Wakeup
Disabled
Enabled*
APIC - IO APIC Mode
Disabled
Enabled*
TCO WatchDog Support
Disabled
Enabled*
WatchDog ACPI Table
Disabled
Enabled*
Item
Options
PCIe Port assigned to LAN
ACPI Table/Features Control submenu
The ACPI Table/Features Control submenu allows you to control hibernation
mode and set options of the Advanced Configuration and Power Interface (ACPI).
Meaning
This item allows you to enable or disable the timer-controlled wake up from sleep mode S4. S4 mode is also
known as hibernation, sleep state S4, or suspend to disk.
By selecting Disabled, it will not be possible to wake the operating system from S4 sleep mode using an
operating system alarm.
By selecting Enabled, the operating system will wake up from S4 sleep mode at the time set in the operating
system alarm.
This item allows you to enable or disable the use of the input/output ACPI advanced programmable interrupt
controller (APIC). APIC provides more IRQs and faster interrupt handling.
APIC is supported by Microsoft Windows Embedded Standard 7, and it is recommended that users of this
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operating system set this item to Enabled (default).
This item allows you to enable or disable the Intel chipset watchdog. The watchdog automatically reboots
your computer when, for some reason, your computer hangs for longer than a predetermined amount of
time. You cannot set the chipset watchdog timer.
This item should be set to Enabled (default).
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This item allows you to enable or disable the watchdog ACPI table (WDAT). This table contains information
that the operating system uses to locate and correctly utilize the watchdog timer hardware.
PCI Express Configuration submenu
The PCI Express Configuration submenu allows you to access the PCI Express
Root Port sub-submenus for the Ethernet ports (PoE or LAN), and the mini-PCIe
connector. There is a sub-submenu for each PCI port.
Meaning
This item lists the Ethernet ports (PoE or LAN). Once selected, the PCI express Root port sub-submenu
allows further configuration options.
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