Hardware manual

TC-6110 Hardware BIOS Setup
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Set All Master HDD Password
This item allows you to set the password for the master storage drive on your computer. You need to enter the
password when booting up to use the master hard disk.
Power Settings
The section allows users to configure power settings.
Advanced CPU Control
Thermal Mode
This item enables Intel’s thermal throttling 1 technology in the CPU; it functions as a temperature trip that will
throttle the CPU (and thereby decrease performance) when a certain temperature is reached. Enabling this
function allows you to configure the thermal control circuit in the operating system userspace.
Options: TM1 (default), Disabled
HT Support: Hyper-Threading Technology
This item enables Hyper-Threading (HT) technology, so that the CPU may utilize simultaneous multithreading.
This improves performance for multi-threaded code and gives improved reaction and response time. However,
in some instances users may want to disable it to conserve power or reduce CPU cache paging.
Options: Enable (default), Disabled
Use XD Capability
This item allows you to enable/disable the Intel XD function, which provides executable space protection by
toggling the NX bit in memory spaces designated as data. This gives a strong protection against buffer