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This section allows you to configure the system based on the specific
features of the installed chipset. This chipset manages bus speeds and
access to system memory resources, such as DRAM and the external cache.
It also coordinates communications between the conventional ISA bus
and the PCI bus. It must be stated that these items should never need to be
altered. The default settings have been chosen because they provide the
best operating conditions for your system. The only time you might consider
making any changes would be if you discovered that data was being lost
while using your system.
The first chipset settings deal with CPU access to dynamic random
access memory (DRAM). The default timings have been carefully chosen
and should only be altered if data is being lost. Such a scenario might well
occur if your system had mixed speed DRAM chips installed so that greater
delays may be required to preserve the integrity of the data held in the
slower memory chips.
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