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C7Q67 User's Manual
ACPIConguration
Use this feature to congure Advanced Conguration and Power Interface (ACPI)
power management settings for your system.
High Precision Event Timers
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 de-
pendency on other timestamp calculation devices, such as an x86 RDTSC Instruc-
tion embedded in the CPU. The High Performance Event Timer is used to replace
the 8254 Programmable Interval Timer. The options are Enabled and Disabled.
Suspend Mode
This setting allows you to congure the ACPI (Advanced Conguration and Power
Interface) sleep state for your system when it is in the Suspend mode. The options
are Suspend Disabled, S1 (POS), and S3 (STR). S3 (STR) is the deepest sleep
state in these options.
NUMA Support
This feature Enables the Non-Uniform Memory Access ACPI support. The options
are Enabled and Disabled.
TrustedComputingConguration
TPM Support
Select Enable to activate support for trusted platforms (TPM 1.1/1.2) and allow
the BIOS to automatically download the drivers needed to provide support for the
platforms specied. The options are Disable and Enable.
TPM State
This feature changes the TPM State. The options are Disable and Enable. Note:
The system will restart to change the TPM State.
The following are informational status messages that indicate the current
TPM State:
TPM Enabled Status
TPM Active Status
TPM Owner Status