Workstation 5A Setup Guide - Fourth Edition 2-7
Workstation 5A BIOS
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The first page that appears when you enter the System Configuration Utility is
the System Summary screen. It provides information about the MICROS and
Phoenix BIOS Versions, Processor type and amount of main memory, and lets
you set the system RTC date and time.
Phoenix
®
System BIOS
In 2008, Phoenix Technologies purchased General Software, the BIOS
provider for the Workstation 5 and Workstation 4 LX. General Software
Embedded BIOS 2000 (EB2K) is now called the Phoenix EB(SF) Embedded
BIOS with StrongFrame
®
Technology, and Firmbase
®
Technology.
The MICROS BIOS Version and build date are listed on the first two lines.
Processor (CPU)
The processor information is obtained directly from Model Specific Registers
(MSRs).
Note the Processor Count of 2 for a single core processor such as the Intel
®
Atom
®
N450. Intel’s HyperThreading Technology is used to improve the
parallelization of computations performed on a PC processor. For each
physical core, the operating system addresses two virtual or logical processors,
and shares the workload between them when possible.
This allows a single core hyper threading processor such as the Intel
®
Atom
®
N450 to appear as two “logical” processors to the host operating system,
allowing it to schedule two threads or processes simultaneously.
System Memory (RAM)
The system Memory information does not report the total amount of RAM
installed, but describes RAM as configured, subtracting the amount used for
System Management Mode (SMM), Shadowing, Video Buffers and other uses.
This provides realistic values about how much memory is actually available to
the operating system and applications.
Real Time Clock (RTC)
To set or change the time and date, scroll to the RTC Date field. Use Tab or
BackTab keys to navigate through the MM/DD/YYYY and HH:MM:SS fields
as required. Hours are specified in military time; thus 13 is 1PM, one hour past
noon. 01 is 1AM, or one hour past midnight.
When the cursor leaves the RTC fields, the change takes affect right away,
unless the new values are not valid.
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