Advanced Bios Features - Advantech PCA-6010 User Manual

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Advanced BIOS Features

The "Advanced BIOS Features" screen appears when choosing the "Advanced BIOS
Features" item from the "Initial Setup Screen" menu. It allows the user to configure
the PCA-6010 according to his particular requirements. Below are some major items
that are provided in the Advanced BIOS Features screen. A quick booting function is
provided for your convenience. Simply enable the Quick Booting item to save your-
self valuable time.
! CPU Features
– Delay Prior to thermal
This feature controls the activation of the Thermal Monitor's automatic mode.
It allows you to determine when the Pentium 4's Thermal Monitor should be
activated in automatic mode after the system boots. For example, with the
default value of 16 Minutes, the BIOS activates the Thermal Monitor in auto-
matic mode 16 minutes after the system starts booting up. The choices are 4
Min, 8 Min, 16 Min, and 32 Min.
– Limit CPUID MaxVal
Set Limit CPUID MaxVa1 to 3. This should be disabled for WinXP.
– C1E Function
"Enabled" or "Disabled" C1E function.
– Execute Disable Bit
When disabled, forces the XD feature flag to always return 0.
– Virtualization Technology
"Enabled" and "Disabled" the Virtualization Technology
! Hard Disk Boot Priority
Set hard disk boot device priority.
! Virus Warning
Enables or disables the virus warning.
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Figure 3.3 Advanced BIOS features screen
Figure 3.4 Advanced BIOS features screen (Conn.)
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