Acer AW2000h-AW170h User Manual download pdf (Page 91)

NUMA Support: Uses Non-Uniform Memory Access to improve CPU

performance.

High Performance Event Timer: Select Enabled to activate the High

Performance 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.

General WHEA (Windows Hardware Error

Architecture) Configuration

WHEA Support: Select Enabled to enable Windows Hardware Error

Architecture (WHEA) support, which will provide a common

infrastructure for handling hardware errors on Windows platforms in

order to reduce system crashes due to hardware errors and to improve

system recovery and health monitoring.

Security Settings

The BIOS provides a Supervisor and a User password. If you use both

passwords, the Supervisor password must be set first.

Supervisor Password: This item indicates if a supervisor password has

been entered for the system. Clear means such a password has not

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