Dell Alienware M11x R3 (Early 2011) - Manual (Page 7)

Advanced Menu
Intel SpeedStep Allows you to enable or disable the Intel SpeedStep technology. Disabling this feature may improve performance, but will greatly
reduce battery life.
Virtualization Allows you to enable or disable the Intel Virtualization technology.
USB Emulation Allows you to enable or disable the USB emulation feature. This feature defines how the BIOS, in the absence of a USB-aware
operating system, handles USB devices. USB emulation is always enabled during POST (Power On Self Test).
NOTE: You cannot boot any type of USB device (floppy, hard drive, or memory key) when this option is off.
USB Wake Support Allows you to enable USB devices to wake the computer from standby or to disable the USB wake support feature.
NOTE: If USB Powershare is enabled, a device connected to the USB Powershare connector may not wake the computer.
USB PowerShare Allows you to enable or disable charging of devices plugged into the USB Powershare connector while in battery mode.
Integrated Network Allows you to enable or disable the on-board LAN controller.
l Disabled: Internal LAN is disabled and is not visible to the operating system.
l Enabled: Internal LAN is enabled.
High Definition
Audio
Allows you to enable or disable the internal high definition audio device.
l Disabled: The internal audio device is disabled and is not visible to the operating system.
l Enabled: The internal audio device is enabled.
SD Card Reader Allows you to enable or disable the internal SD card reader.
CPU Turbo Mode Allows you to enable or disable the Intel CPU turbo mode performance option.
Performance Options Allows you to enable or disable all over-clocking functions.
SATA Operation Allows you to configure the operating mode of the integrated SATA hard drive controller.
l ATA: SATA is configured for ATA mode.
l AHCI: SATA is configured for AHCI mode.
SATA Hard Drive Displays the installed SATA hard drive model.
Adapter Warnings Allows you to choose if the computer should display warning messages when you use certain power adapters. The computer displays
these messages if you attempt to use a power adapter that has too little capacity for your configuration.
l Disabled: BIOS will not detect unsupported AC adapters and will not display any message on the screen.
l Enabled: BIOS will detect unsupported AC adapters and display an error on the screen.
Charger Behavior Allows you to enable or disable battery charging.
Wireless Menu
Bluetooth Allows you to enable or disable the internal Bluetooth device.
l Disabled: The internal Bluetooth device is disabled and is not visible to the operating system.
l Enabled: The internal Bluetooth device is enabled.
Wireless Network Allows you to enable or disable the internal wireless device.
l Disabled: The internal wireless device is disabled and is not visible to the operating system.
l Enabled: The internal wireless device is enabled.
WWAN Allows you to enable or disable the internal WWAN device.
Wireless
Switch/Hotkey
Allows you to enable or disable all the internal wireless devices.
Security Menu
Supervisor Password Displays if the supervisor password is clear or set.
User Password Displays if the user password is clear or set.