Removing A Card That Conflicts With The Card You Just Installed; System Board Options Screen; Mp Table Processing; Isa Cycle Wait Control - Dell 4100 User Manual

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Removing a Card That Conflicts With
the Card You Just Installed
If there is a resource conflict between two ISA expansion
cards and you want to remove the card that conflicts with
the one you just installed, use the following procedure:
1.
From the Steps in Configuring Your Computer
menu, select
STEP 2: ADD OR REMOVE BOARDS
press <
>.
ENTER
From the list of expansion slots and cards, select the
card in conflict with the one installed, and press
<
>. When the utility asks you to confirm your
DEL
command, press <
ENTER
return to the Steps in Configuring Your Computer
menu.
2.
Select
STEP 5: SAVE AND EXIT
3.
Select
SAVE THE CONFIGURATION AND RESTART
, and press <
THE COMPUTER
The system reboots with the new system configura-
tion information.
4.
If you deleted an expansion-card configuration file
from the previously saved system configuration
information, have a trained service technician
remove the card from your computer.
S
ystem Board Options Screen
The following categories appear on the EISA System
Board Options screen (see Figure 5-1) only if you press
<
><
> at the Welcome screen when you start the
CTRL
A
EISA Configuration Utility:

MP TABLE PROCESSING

8 BIT I/O ISA CYCLE WAIT CONTROL
16 BIT I/O ISA CYCLE WAIT CONTROL

FAIL-SAFE TIMER NMI

BUS-MASTER TIMEOUT NMI

SOFTWARE GENERATED NMI

These advanced options are intended for users who are
technically knowledgeable. Do not change these options
from their defaults if you do not understand how such a
change will affect system performance. Some of these
categories may not apply to your system.
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and
>. Then press <
> to
ESC
, and press <
ENTER
>.
ENTER
NOTE: To access the advanced options in modeling
mode, type
press <
>. (To use modeling mode, you must run the
ENTER
EISA Configuration Utility from your hard-disk drive.)
MP Table Processing
The
MP TABLE PROCESSING
version 1.1 or 1.4 of the microprocessor specification is
used to create the microprocessor tables used by the
system basic input/output system (BIOS). Version 1.4 is
the default; however, some operating systems require
version 1.1 for compatibility.

ISA Cycle Wait Control

The
8 BIT I/O ISA CYCLE WAIT CONTROL
>.
CYCLE WAIT CONTROL
between back-to-back I/O cycles for 8-bit and 16-bit
ISA expansion cards, respectively. The default setting is
500 NANOSECONDS
Fail-Safe Timer NMI
When enabled, the
the generation of a fail-safe timer nonmaskable interrupt
(NMI). The default setting is
Bus-Master Timeout NMI
When enabled, the
allows the generation of a bus-master time-out NMI. The
default setting is
Software Generated NMI
When enabled, the
allows the generation of a software NMI. The default set-
ting is
DISABLED
M
odeling Mode
Modeling mode lets you create alternate system configura-
tion (.sci) files to accommodate different hardware
configurations. For example, if you regularly change the
expansion cards or their arrangement in your computer,
you can create and save a separate system configuration
file for each configuration and load that file after changing
at the operating system prompt and
option determines whether
and
options set the minimum time
.
option allows
FAIL-SAFE TIMER NMI
.
DISABLED
BUS-MASTER TIMEOUT NMI
.
DISABLED
SOFTWARE GENERATED NMI
.
16 BIT I/O ISA
option
option

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