Advanced Setup - ECS A790GXM-AD3 Manual

Advanced Setup

This page sets up more advanced information about your system. Handle this page
with caution. Any changes can affect the operation of your computer.
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AMD C&Q
Enhanced Halt (C1E)
Quick Power on Self Test
Boot Up Numlock Status
APIC Mode
1st Boot Device
2nd Boot Device
3rd Boot Device
Hard Disk Drives
Boot Other Device
: Move
F1:General Help
AMD C&Q (Enabled)
This item helps the system to lower the frequency when CPU idles. When the
frequency decreases, the temperature will drop automatically as well.
Enhanced Halt (C1E) (Disabled)
This item enables or disables enhanced halt.
Quick Power on Self Test (Enabled)
Enable this item to shorten the power on testing (POST) and have your system start
up faster. You might like to enable this item after you are confident that your system
hardware is operating smoothly.
Boot Up Numlock Status (ON)
This item defines if the keyboard Num Lock key is active when your system is
started.
APIC Mode (Enabled)
This item allows you to enable or disable the APIC (Advanced Programmable Inter-
rupt Controller) mode. APIC provides symmetric multi-processing (SMP) for sys-
tems, allowing support for up to 60 processors.
1st/2nd/3rd Boot Device (Hard Drive/CD/DVD/Removable Dev.)
Use this item to determine the device order the computer used to look for an
operating system to load at start-up time. The devices showed here will be different
depending on the exact devices installed on your motherboard.
Advanced Setup
Enabled
Disabled
Enabled
On
Enabled
Hard Drive
CD/DVD
Removable Dev.
Press Enter
Yes
Enter : Select +/-/: Value F10: Save
F9: Optimized Defaults
Using BIOS
Help Item
Enable/disable the
generation of ACPI
_PPC, _PSS, and _PCI
objects.
ESC: Exit
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