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some pre-boot operations. If disabled, tapping the screen during startup
has no effect to the system’s booting process.
MAC Address Pass Through allows the system specific MAC address to
pass through a connected dock, meaning the dock specific MAC address
will be overridden by the system specific MAC address.
Active Management Technology Support (This item appears only on
models supporting vPro.)
Intel AMT Support enables or disables Intel® Active Management
Technology BIOS extension execution. AMT allows the system
administrator to access an AMT featured computer remotely.
Intel AMT Setup Prompt determines whether the prompt for entering
Intel AMT Setup appears or not during POST.
USB Provisioning of AMT enables or disables the use of a USB key for
provisioning Intel AMT.
Virtualization Technology Setup
Intel(R) Virtualization Technology enables or disables Intel® VT (Intel
Virtualization Technology) feature which provides hardware support for
processor virtualization. When enabled, a VMM (Virtual Machine Monitor)
can utilize the additional hardware virtualization capabilities provided
by this technology.
Intel(R) VT for Directed I/O (VT-d) enables or disables VT-d (Intel®
Virtualization Technology for Directed I/O). When enabled, VT-d helps
enhance Intel platforms for efficient virtualization of I/O devices.
Device Configuration enables or disables several hardware components.
The items available for setting depend on your model.
Diagnostics and System Tester
H2ODST Tool performs system baseline check.
Recovery Partition allows you to restore your Windows system to the
factory default state by using the “recovery partition” feature. Recovery
partition is a portion of your hard disk drive that is set aside by the
manufacturer to hold the original image of your system.
WARNING:
Using this feature will reinstall Windows to your system and configure it
to the system’s factory default settings. All data on the hard disk drive
will be lost.
Make sure that power is not interrupted during the recovery process. An
unsuccessful recovery may result in Windows startup problems.