Dell Alienware M11x R3 Service Manual page 7

Advanced Menu
Allows you to enable or disable the Intel SpeedStep technology. Disabling this feature may improve performance, but will greatly
Intel SpeedStep
reduce battery life.
Allows you to enable or disable the Intel Virtualization technology.
Virtualization
Allows you to enable or disable the USB emulation feature. This feature defines how the BIOS, in the absence of a USB-aware
USB Emulation
operating system, handles USB devices. USB emulation is always enabled during POST (Power On Self Test).
NOTE: You cannot boot any type of USB device (floppy, hard drive, or memory key) when this option is off.
Allows you to enable USB devices to wake the computer from standby or to disable the USB wake support feature.
USB Wake Support
NOTE: If USB Powershare is enabled, a device connected to the USB Powershare connector may not wake the computer.
Allows you to enable or disable charging of devices plugged into the USB Powershare connector while in battery mode.
USB PowerShare
Allows you to enable or disable the on-board LAN controller.
Integrated Network
Disabled: Internal LAN is disabled and is not visible to the operating system.
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Enabled: Internal LAN is enabled.
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Allows you to enable or disable the internal high definition audio device.
High Definition
Audio
Disabled: The internal audio device is disabled and is not visible to the operating system.
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Enabled: The internal audio device is enabled.
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Allows you to enable or disable the internal SD card reader.
SD Card Reader
Allows you to enable or disable the Intel CPU turbo mode performance option.
CPU Turbo Mode
Performance Options Allows you to enable or disable all over-clocking functions.
Allows you to configure the operating mode of the integrated SATA hard drive controller.
SATA Operation
ATA: SATA is configured for ATA mode.
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AHCI: SATA is configured for AHCI mode.
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Displays the installed SATA hard drive model.
SATA Hard Drive
Allows you to choose if the computer should display warning messages when you use certain power adapters. The computer displays
Adapter Warnings
these messages if you attempt to use a power adapter that has too little capacity for your configuration.
Disabled: BIOS will not detect unsupported AC adapters and will not display any message on the screen.
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Enabled: BIOS will detect unsupported AC adapters and display an error on the screen.
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Allows you to enable or disable battery charging.
Charger Behavior
Wireless Menu
Allows you to enable or disable the internal Bluetooth device.
Bluetooth
Disabled: The internal Bluetooth device is disabled and is not visible to the operating system.
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Enabled: The internal Bluetooth device is enabled.
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Allows you to enable or disable the internal wireless device.
Wireless Network
Disabled: The internal wireless device is disabled and is not visible to the operating system.
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Enabled: The internal wireless device is enabled.
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Allows you to enable or disable the internal WWAN device.
WWAN
Allows you to enable or disable all the internal wireless devices.
Wireless
Switch/Hotkey
Security Menu
Supervisor Password Displays if the supervisor password is clear or set.
Displays if the user password is clear or set.
User Password