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Chapter 3: BIOS setup

Chapter 3

3.6.1 CPU Conguration

The items in this menu show the CPU-related information that the BIOS automatically

detects.

The items in this menu may vary based on the CPU installed.

Intel Adaptive Thermal Monitor [Enabled]

[Enabled] Enables the overheated CPU to throttle its clock speed to cool down.

[Disabled] Disables the CPU thermal monitor function.

Active Processor Cores [All]

Allows you to choose the number of CPU cores to be enabled in each processor package.

Conguration options: [All] [1] [2] [3]

Limit CPUID Maximum [Disabled]

When set to [Enabled], this item allows the legacy OS to boot even without support for CPUs

with extended CPUID functions.

Conguration options: [Disabled] [Enabled]

Execute Disable Bit [Enabled]

XD can prevent certain classes of malicious buffer overow attacks when combined with a

supporting OS (SuSE Linux 9.2, RedHat Enterprise 3 Update 3).

Conguration options: [Disabled] [Enabled]

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