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Chapter 3: Powering Up
3.1 Starting up for the first time ......................................................................3-2
3.2 Powering off the computer ........................................................................3-3
3.2.1 Using the OS shut down function ................................................ 3-3
3.2.2 Using the dual function power switch .......................................... 3-3
Chapter 4: BIOS Setup
4.1 Managing and updating your BIOS ..........................................................4-2
4.1.1 ASUS CrashFree BIOS 3 utility................................................... 4-2
4.1.2 ASUS EZ Flash Utility ................................................................. 4-3
4.2 BIOS setup program ..................................................................................4-4
4.2.1 BIOS menu screen ...................................................................... 4-5
4.2.2 Menu bar ..................................................................................... 4-5
4.3 Main menu ..................................................................................................4-7
4.4 Performance Tuning menu ........................................................................4-8
4.5 Advanced menu .......................................................................................4-10
4.5.1 Trusted Computing.................................................................... 4-11
4.5.2 ACPI Settings ............................................................................ 4-11
4.5.3 Redfish Host Interface Settings................................................. 4-11
4.5.4 Onboard LAN Configuration ...................................................... 4-12
4.5.5 UEFI Variables Protection ......................................................... 4-12
4.5.6 Serial Port Console Redirection ................................................ 4-13
4.5.7 SIO Configuration......................................................................4-15
4.5.8 PCI Subsystem Settings ........................................................... 4-16
4.5.9 USB Configuration .................................................................... 4-17
4.5.10 Network Stack Configuration..................................................... 4-17
4.5.11 NVMe Configuration .................................................................. 4-18
4.5.12 APM Configuration .................................................................... 4-19
4.5.13 Tls Auth Configuration............................................................... 4-19
4.5.14 Intel(R) Virtual RAID on CPU .................................................... 4-20
4.5.15 Third-party UEFI driver configurations ...................................... 4-20
4.6 Platform Configuration menu .................................................................4-21
4.6.1 PCH-IO Configuration ............................................................... 4-22
4.6.2 Miscellaneous Configuration ..................................................... 4-22
4.6.3 Server ME Configuration ........................................................... 4-23
4.6.4 Runtime Error Logging .............................................................. 4-24