OC by: @robber@lemmy.ml

Text: Allows you to determine whether to limit CPUID maximum value. Set this to enabled for legacy operating systems such as Linux or Unix.

Found this in the BIOS of a Gigabyte Z97X-UD3H mobo.

  • bleistift2@sopuli.xyz
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    5 days ago

    At least there’s a help text. All my BIOS ever says is:

    Enable Intel foobargnarfthingy. Enables the Intel foobargnarfthingy.

    • nyan@lemmy.cafe
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      2 days ago

      That’s still help text, even if it isn’t very helpful. I was installing to an older laptop recently that had no help for most BIOS options at all, plus I found a forum post on the manufacturer’s website indicating that even they had no documentation for those settings. (Naturally, it was made by HP.)

    • milk@discuss.tchncs.de
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      5 days ago

      Your bios has options? I still cant access my nvme drive because hp doesnt let you change the bios to use ahci

      • henfredemars@infosec.pub
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        5 days ago

        I have such a shitty BIOS. It is pain, because the option ought to be there, but the software is so incredibly basic that it exposes virtually no useful settings outside of time and date + boot order.