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  2. ACPI - Wikipedia

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    Advanced Configuration and Power Interface (ACPI) is an open standard that operating systems can use to discover and configure computer hardware components, to perform power management (e.g. putting unused hardware components to sleep), auto configuration (e.g. Plug and Play and hot swapping), and status monitoring. It was first released in ...

  3. Advanced Power Management - Wikipedia

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    Advanced power management (APM) is a technical standard for power management developed by Intel and Microsoft and released in 1992 [1] which enables an operating system running an IBM-compatible personal computer to work with the BIOS (part of the computer's firmware) to achieve power management.

  4. List of computer standards - Wikipedia

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    Toggle the table of contents. List of computer standards. ... Download as PDF; Printable version; ... specification 2.3.1 [10] 2011/04/08 UEFI Shell Specification 2.0

  5. Simple Firmware Interface - Wikipedia

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    SFI has CPU, APIC, Memory Map, Idle, Frequency, M-Timer, M-RTC, OEMx, Wake Vector, I²C Device, and a SPI Device table. SFI provides access to a standard ACPI XSDT (Extended System Description Table). XSDT is used by SFI to prevent namespace collision between SPI and ACPI. It can access standard ACPI tables such as PCI Memory Configuration ...

  6. Windows Hardware Error Architecture - Wikipedia

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    Toggle the table of contents. ... Download as PDF; Printable version; In other projects ... (APEI) which is introduced in ACPI 5.0. [6] See also. Machine-check ...

  7. Advanced Programmable Interrupt Controller - Wikipedia

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    Defective BIOSes may not set up interrupt routing properly, or provide incorrect ACPI tables and Intel MultiProcessor Specification (MPS) tables. The APIC can also be a cause of system failure when the operating system does not support it properly. On older operating systems, the I/O and local APICs often had to be disabled.

  8. e820 - Wikipedia

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    This computer hardware article is a stub. You can help Wikipedia by expanding it.

  9. MultiProcessor Specification - Wikipedia

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    Version 1.1 of the specification was released on April 11, 1994. Version 1.4 of the specification was released on July 1, 1995, which added extended configuration tables to improve support for multiple PCI bus configurations and improve expandability. The Linux kernel and FreeBSD are known to support the Intel MPS.