Chapter 3

Feature

Plug & Play O/S

PCI Latency Timer

Allocate IRQ to PCI VGA

Palette Snooping

PCI IDE BusMaster

Offboard PCI/ISA IDE card

Option

Yes

No

32, 64, 96, 128, 160, 192, 224, 248

Yes

No

Disabled

Enabled

Disabled

Enabled

Auto

PCI Slot1

PCI Slot2

PCI Slot3

PCI Slot4

PCI Slot5

PCI Slot6

BIOS Setup

Description Yes: lets the O/S configure PnP devices not required for boot if your system has a Plug and Play O/S

Value in units of PCI clocks for PCI device latency timer register

Yes: Assign IRQ to PCI VGA card if card requests

IRQ

No: Doesn’t assign IRQ To PCI VGA cars even if card requests IRQ

Enabled: informs the PCI devices that an ISA graphics device is installed in the system so the card will function correctly Enabled: BIOS uses PCI

busmasteringfor reading/writing to IDE drives Some PCI IDE cards may require this to be set to the PCI slot number that is holding the card.

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BIOS Setup

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