TYAN TIGER K8SSA Manual page 66

Feature
Advanced PCI/PnP Settings
Clear NVRAM
Plug & Play OS
PCI Latency Timer
Allocate IRQ to PCI VGA
Palette Snooping
PCI IDE BusMaster
Option
No Clears NVRAM during system
Yes Boot.
No: lets the BIOS configure all the
devices in the system.
Yes
Yes: lets the operating system
configure Plug and Play (PnP)
devices not required for boot if
No
your system has a Plug and Play
operating system.
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This setting controls how many
PCI clocks each PCI device can
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hold the bus before another PCI
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device takes over. When set to
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higher values, every PCI device
can conduct transactions for a
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longer time and thus improve the
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effective PCI bandwidth.
Values in units of PCI clocks for
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PCI device latency timer register.
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Yes: assigns IRQ to PCI VGA card
Yes
if card requests IRQ.
No
This is the default setting and
should not be changed unless the
Disabled
VGA card manufacturer requires
Palette Snooping to be Enabled.
Enabled: informs the PCI devices
that an ISA graphics device is
Enabled
installed in the system so the card
will function correctly.
Disabled
Enabled: BIOS uses PCI bus
mastering for reading / writing to
Enabled
IDE drives.
Reserved
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