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Chapter 7: BIOS
Floppy Confi guration
This option allows the user to confi gure the settings for the Floppy Drives installed
in the system.
Floppy A/Floppy B
Move the cursor to these fi elds via the up and down arrow keys to select the
fl oppy type. The options are Disabled, 360 KB 5 1/4", 1.2 MB 5 1/4", 720 KB
3½", 1.44 MB 3½", and 2.88 MB 3½".
PCI/PnP Confi guration
This feature allows the user to set the PCI/PnP confi gurations for the following
items:
Clear NVRAM
Select Yes to clear NVRAM during system boot. The options are Yes and No.
Plug & Play OS
Select Yes to allow the OS to confi gure Plug & Play devices. (This is not required
for system boot if your system has an OS that supports Plug & Play.) Select No
to allow the AMI BIOS to confi gure all devices in the system.
PCI Latency Timer
This feature sets the latency Timer of each PCI device installed on a PCI bus.
The default setting is 64. Select 32 to set the PCI latency to 32 PCI clock cycles.
Select 64 to set the PCI latency to 64 PCI clock cycles. Select 96 to set the PCI
latency to 96 PCI clock cycles. Select 128 to set the PCI latency to 128 PCI clock
cycles. Select 160 to set the PCI latency to 160 PCI clock cycles. Select 192 to set
the PCI latency to 192 PCI clock cycles. Select 224 to set the PCI latency to 224
PCI clock cycles. Select 248 to set the PCI latency to 248 PCI clock cycles.
Allocate IRQ to PCI VGA
Select Yes to allow the system to give the VGA adapter card an interrupt address.
The options are Yes and No.
Palette Snooping
Select Enabled to inform the onboard PCI devices that an ISA graphics device
is installed in the system in order for the graphics card to function properly. The
options are Enabled and Disabled.
PCI IDE BusMaster
Select Enabled to allow the BIOS to use the PCI busmaster to read from and write
to the onboard IDE drives. The options are Disabled and Enabled.
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