MSI 865PEM2 User Guide - Page 47

Advanced BIOS Features

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MS-6763 M-ATX Mainboard Advanced BIOS Features Hard Disk Boot Priority This setting determines the boot priority of the installed hard disk drives. Virus Warning The item is to set the Virus Warning feature for IDE Hard Disk boot sector protection. If the function is enabled and any attempt to write data into this area is made, BIOS will display a warning message on screen and beep. Setting options: Disabled, Enabled. CPU L1 & L2 Cache Cache memory is additional memory that is much faster than conventional DRAM (system memory). When the CPU requests data, the system transfers the requested data from the main DRAM into cache memory, for even faster access by the CPU. The settings enable/disable the internal cache (also known as L1 or level 1 cache) and external cache (also known as L2 or level 2 cache). Setting options: Disabled, Enabled. HT CPU Function With Intel® Hyper-Threading Technology, a single Hyper-Threading-enabled processor can simultaneously process two threads of code, improving the performance of multi-threaded code running on a single processor platform. Setting this function to Enabled will improve overall system performance, in3-8

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MS-6763 M-ATX Mainboard
Advanced BIOS Features
Hard Disk Boot Priority
This setting determines the boot priority of the installed hard disk drives.
Virus Warning
The item is to set the Virus Warning feature for IDE Hard Disk boot sector
protection. If the function is enabled and any attempt to write data into this
area is made, BIOS will display a warning message on screen and beep. Set-
ting options:
Disabled,
Enabled
.
CPU L1 & L2 Cache
Cache memory is additional memory that is much faster than conventional
DRAM (system memory). When the CPU requests data, the system transfers
the requested data from the main DRAM into cache memory, for even faster
access by the CPU. The settings enable/disable the internal cache (also known
as L1 or level 1 cache) and external cache (also known as L2 or level 2 cache).
Setting options:
Disabled, Enabled
.
HT CPU Function
With Intel
®
Hyper-Threading Technology, a single Hyper-Threading-enabled
processor can simultaneously process two threads of code, improving the per-
formance of multi-threaded code running on a single processor platform. Set-
ting this function to
Enabled
will improve overall system performance, in-