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PnP/PCI Configurations

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This section describes the configuration of PCI bus system. PCI or Personal Com- puter Interconnection is a system which allows I/O devices to operate at the speed CPU itself keeps when CPU communicating with its own special components. This section covers some very technical items, and it is strongly recom-mended that only experienced users should make any changes to the default settings.

Init Display First

This item is used to determine initial device when system power on.

The choice: PCI Slot, Onboard or PCI Ex. Resource Controlled By

The Award Plug-and-Play BIOS has the capacity to automatically configure all of the boot and Plug-and-Play compatible devices. However, this capability means absolutely nothing unless you are using a Plug-and-Play operating system such as Windows 95.

The choice: Auto(ESCD) or Manual. IRQ3/4/5/7/10/11/12/14/15 assigned

This item allows you to determine the IRQ assigned to the ISA bus and is not available to any PCI slot. Legacy ISA for devices is compliant with the original PC AT bus specification; PCI/ISA PnP for devices is compli- ant with the Plug-and-Play standard whether designed for PCI or ISA bus architecture.

The choice: PCI Device or Reserved. PCI/VGA Palette Snoop

It determines whether the MPEG ISA/VESA VGA Cards can work with PCI/VGA or not. If you have MPEG ISA/VESA VGA Cards and PCI/VGA Card worked, Enable this field. Otherwise, please Disable it.

The choice: Enabled or Disabled.