Advanced Chipset Control Submenu

The advanced chipset control submenu provides several fields that allow you to control various advanced features of the chipset. Table 17 lists the fields and the options for each.

Table 17: Advanced Chipset Control Submenu

Field

Options

Description

Address Bit

Disabled

To be enabled, there must be a power of 2 number

Permuting

Enabled

of rows (2, 4, 8, or 16), all rows must be the same

 

 

size, and all populated rows must be adjacent and

 

 

start at row 0. Two-way or four-way permuting is

 

 

set automatically based on memory configuration.

 

 

 

Base RAM Step

1 MB

Tests base memory once per MB, once per KB, or

 

1 KB

at every location.

 

Every location

 

 

 

 

Extended RAM

1 MB

Tests extended memory once per MB, once per

Step

1 KB

KB, or at every location.

 

Every location

 

 

 

 

L2 Cache

Enabled

When enabled, the secondary cache is sized and

 

Disabled

enabled. For Core Clock Frequency-to-System

 

 

Bus ratios equal to two, BIOS automatically

 

 

disables the L2 cache.

 

 

 

ISA Expansion

Enabled

When enabled, every I/O access with an address in

Aliasing

Disabled

the range x100-x3FFh, x500-x7FFh, x900-xBFF,

 

 

and xD00-xFFFh is internally aliased to the range

 

 

0100-03FFh before any other address range

 

 

checking is performed.

 

 

 

Memory Scrubbing

Disabled

When enabled, BIOS automatically detects and

 

Enabled

corrects single bit errors (SBEs).

 

 

 

Restreaming Buffer

Enabled

When enabled, the data returned and buffered for

 

Disabled

a Delayed Inbound Read can be reaccessed

 

 

following a disconnect.

 

 

 

Read Prefetch for

N/A

Informational field only. Configures the number of

PXB0A

 

Dwords that are prefetched on Memory Read

 

 

Multiple commands.

 

 

 

Read Prefetch for

N/A

Informational field only. Configures the number of

PXB0B

 

Dwords that are prefetched on Memory Read

 

 

Multiple commands.

 

 

 

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