Acer AW2000h-AW170h - Manual (Page 91)

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NUMA Support: Uses Non-Uniform Memory Access to improve CPU
performance.
High Performance Event Timer: 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 dependency on other timestamp calculation devices, such
as an x86 RDTSC Instruction embedded in the CPU. The High
Performance Event Timer is used to replace the 8254 Programmable
Interval Timer.
General WHEA (Windows Hardware Error
Architecture) Configuration
WHEA Support: Select Enabled to enable Windows Hardware Error
Architecture (WHEA) support, which will provide a common
infrastructure for handling hardware errors on Windows platforms in
order to reduce system crashes due to hardware errors and to improve
system recovery and health monitoring.
Security Settings
The BIOS provides a Supervisor and a User password. If you use both
passwords, the Supervisor password must be set first.
Supervisor Password: This item indicates if a supervisor password has
been entered for the system. Clear means such a password has not