Buses Behind Bridges; Show Bios Messages, Delay After Messages; Behaviour After Initializing Expansion Rom; Select Primary Vga - EKF CompactPCI CC5-RAVE Bios Quick Reference

RAVE on the backplane, that are attached directly w/o an additional PCI bridge on the I/O
module. If the I/O module is equipped with a PCI bridge, detecting of devices behind this bridge
(bus 3) would require setting of this option to 'ALL'.
Buses Behind Bridges w Class Code = FF (i960 Boards)
This feature of Embedded BIOS allows to avoid scanning of PCI buses behind a PCI-PCI bridge
which has its PCI class code (CC) set to 0xFF. The selectable options are:
• Scanned: PCI buses behind bridges with Class Code 0xFF will be scanned for PCI devices
• Ignored (factory default): PCI buses behind bridges with Class Code 0xFF will be ignored,
i.e. these buses will NOT be scanned for PCI devices
For systems containing EKF I/O boards which are equipped with the i960 CPU/bridge (e.g. CU1,
CU2, CG1, CM1, CX1) this option must be set to 'ignored'.
This option might be obsolete in future versions of the BIOS.

Show BIOS Messages, Delay After Messages

This parameter can be adjusted to the value that most fits your needs. From 'Few' to 'Normal'
or 'More', select the verbosity of BIOS messages you prefer. The 'DbgMode' is suitable when
using the internal debugger. The amount of delay inserted after outputting each message to the
screen can be controlled by the parameters 'Normal', 'FastBoot' and 'DbgMode'.

Behaviour after Initializing Expansion ROM

This parameter controls the action method which takes place when detecting external BIOS code
on POST, typically provided on bootable I/O boards as SCSI adapters and networking interface
controllers. You can select here to continue POST ('Normal'), or to append a '5s delay', or to
wait for pressing a key ('Press key'), or to enter the 'Debugger'.

Select Primary VGA

The CC5-RAVE is equipped with an i810 internal video display controller. Select 'CC5/i810' in
order to use the boards DVI-I connector as primary display. In order to select an external video
graphics adapter card, set the parameter value to 1.PCI ... 10.PCI accordingly. A setting of
'Legacy' establishes the VGA adapter as primary, which has been scanned as last video device
during the enumeration of PCI components. The selectable options follow here in detail:
• CC5/i810 (factory default): Selects the VGA on CC5 (i810 internal graphics device) as the
primary VGA device
• Legacy (old GS algorithm): In previous BIOS versions that VGA device became the primary
VGA device which was found on the highest PCI bus. If more than one VGA device was
found on that bus, the VGA device with the highest device number became primary
VGA.
• 1. PCI: Primary VGA device becomes that VGA device which is found on the lowest PCI
bus above CC5 (on CC5 systems this is always the first CompactPCI bus). If more than
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