Abit PX5 User Manual page 42

3-16
Computer
knowledge
SHADOW
What is the SHADOW? The BIOS of standard video or interface
cards is stored in ROM, and it is often very slow. With the
Shadow feature, the CPU reads the BIOS on the VGA card and
copies it into RAM. When the CPU runs this BIOS, the operation
is speeded up.
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