So I tried to get to F10 to do a system restore and F10 from the boot screen was not an option. Picked up a Toshiba Satellite 655 from a flea market for $15 yesterday, and when the computer turned on and booted to Windows, I was thinking it was too good to be true. I'm just glad to find out that Insyde is a legitimate company and the BIOS is not from a hacker trying to steal my ID and credit cards. I went online and searched for something relevant to enabling advanced settings on Insyde BIOS and there are quite some discussion around this topic, including flashing a modded firmware to BIOS and this wonderfully simple solution of The BIOS settings very much disappointed me with its about ten options with the only meaningful one being the boot order configuration. Anyhow, that only shows how remote I have been from the field. I have never seen this vendor: back when I got my last laptop, I only saw Award, AMI, and Phoenix BIOS around in the market. So I got a HP Pavilion dv6tqe recently and its BIOS is from Insyde.
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So when I got my new laptop, I quickly went its BIOS settings and tried to examine all its available settings and whether they are fine tuned for the best performance (CPU states/voltages, memory latency/clock, etc are crucial to achieving this goal). I like to focus on details, often to a painstaking degree: I feel the constant need to adjust the balance between the details and the whole.