Unified Extensible Firmware Interface

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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 December 1996. ACPI aims to replace Advanced Power Management (APM), the MultiProcessor Specification, and the Plug and Play BIOS (PnP) Specification. ACPI brings power management under the control of the operating system, as opposed to the previous BIOS-ce

process performed by firmware or software routines immediately after a computer or other digital electronic device is powered on

standard for the layout of the partition table on a physical storage device used in a desktop or server PC

alt=|thumb|A physical Wake-on-LAN connector (white object in foreground) featured on the IBM PCI Token-Ring Adapter 2

Preboot Execution Environment

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partition on a data storage device that is used by computers adhering to the Unified Extensible Firmware Interface

trusted execution environment subsystem

Wake-on-Ring (WOR) or Wake-on-Modem (WOM) is a specification that allows supported computers and devices to wake up or turn on from a sleeping, hibernating or soft off state (e.g. ACPI state G1 or G2), and begin operation.