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BIOS Setup
Plug & Play O/S
When set to YES, BIOS will only initialize the PnP cards used for booting
(VGA, IDE, SCSI). The rest of the cards will be initialized by the PnP operat-
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ing system like Windows
98, 2000 or ME. When set to NO, BIOS will
initialize all the PnP cards. So, select Yes if the operating system is Plug &
Play aware.
Reset Config Data
The ESCD (Extended System Configuration Data) NVRAM (Non-volatile
Random Access Memory) is where the BIOS stores resource information for
both PNP and non-PNP devices in a bit string format. When the item is set
to Yes, the system will reset ESCD NVRAM right after the system is booted
up and then change the setting of the item back to No automatically.
PCI Latency Timer
This specifies latency timings for PCI devices. Settings are 32, 64, 96, 128,
160, 192, 224 and 248.
Allocate IRQ to PCI VGA
The item is used to determine whether BIOS will assign an IRQ to the
installed PCI VGA device. Settings are Yes and No. Select No to release the
IRQ.
Palette Snooping
PCI VGA palette is the set of colors currently used by the video device.
Some special VGA cards may not show colors correctly and need to look
into the video device's VGA palette to determine what colors are in use.
Then you have to turn on the palette "snoop", permitting the palette
registers of both VGA devices to be identical. The setting must be set to
Enabled if any non-standard VGA adapter card, such as MPEG card,
installed in the system requires VGA palette snooping.
PCI IDE BusMaster
This item is used to enable the bus mastering capability for the IDE control-
ler on the PCI bus. Settings are Enabled and Disabled.
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