HP Unified Extensible Firmware Interface - Manual (Page 3)

Contents
1 Introduction...............................................................................................7
Overview................................................................................................................................7
What is UEFI?.....................................................................................................................7
Why UEFI over Legacy BIOS?................................................................................................8
Key Characteristics of UEFI...............................................................................................8
Accessing the HP UEFI System Utilities.........................................................................................9
Rebooting the Server...............................................................................................................10
2 Getting Started: Overview of the System Utilities...........................................11
3 Accessing the System Configuration Menu...................................................13
Accessing the BIOS/Platform Configuration (RBSU) menu.............................................................13
Accessing the System Options menu.....................................................................................14
Accessing Serial Port Options.........................................................................................15
Setting the Embedded Serial Port................................................................................16
Setting the Virtual Serial Port......................................................................................16
Accessing Network Boot Options....................................................................................17
Selecting a UEFI PXE Boot Policy.................................................................................18
Setting Network Boot Retry Support............................................................................19
Accessing USB Options.................................................................................................20
Setting USB Control..................................................................................................20
Setting USB Boot Support..........................................................................................21
Setting Removable Flash Media Boot Sequence............................................................22
Configuring Processor Options........................................................................................23
Protecting a System from Viruses.................................................................................23
Enabling Virtualization Technology.............................................................................24
Disabling Intel Hyper-Threading..................................................................................25
Disabling Processor Cores.........................................................................................26
Setting Intel Turbo Boost Technology............................................................................27
Enabling Intel VT-d....................................................................................................28
Accessing UEFI Shell Options.........................................................................................29
Enabling the Embedded UEFI Shell.............................................................................30
Adding Embedded UEFI Shell to the boot order list.......................................................31
Enabling the UEFI Shell Script Auto Start......................................................................32
Configuring Advanced Memory Protection........................................................................33
Accessing Boot Options......................................................................................................34
Changing the UEFI boot order list....................................................................................35
Accessing Advanced UEFI Boot Maintenance options........................................................36
Adding a Boot Option..............................................................................................37
Deleting a Boot Option.............................................................................................39
Setting the Legacy Boot Mode order................................................................................40
Selecting a Boot Mode..................................................................................................41
Setting UEFI Optimized Boot...........................................................................................42
Setting the Boot Order Policy..........................................................................................43
Accessing Power Management............................................................................................44
Setting HP Power Profile.................................................................................................44
Setting HP Power Regulator............................................................................................45
Configuring Advanced Power Management Options..........................................................46
Setting Intel QPI Link Power Management....................................................................46
Setting Intel QPI Link Frequency..................................................................................47
Setting QPI Bandwidth Optimization (RTID)..................................................................48
Setting Minimum Processor Idle Power Core State.........................................................49
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