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2.1.1.7

Advanced Setup

 

 

Selecting this menu choice shows you this window:

 

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Advanced Setup

 

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Warning:

 

 

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If they are configured incorrectly, the system might

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malfunction.

 

 

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Cache Control

 

 

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ROM Shadowing

 

 

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PCI Bus Control

 

 

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Figure 2.

BIOS Advanced Setup

 

 

Selecting Cache Control gives you the following window:

 

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Cache Control

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Cache State

[Enabled ]

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Cache Type

[Write-Back ]

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Cache Size

256KB

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Video BIOS caching

[Enabled ]

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Video Buffer caching

[Disabled]

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Option ROM caching

[Disabled]

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Here, you can enable or disable the L2 cache, specify whether the cache is write-back or write-through, and view the amount of cache that is installed in your server.

You can also specify if Video BIOS (C0000h - C7000h), Video Buffer (B0000h - BFFFFh) is cached into main memory. You can also enable whether you can to cache (shadow) ROM areas. If you enable this, you can specify which components of ROM you wish to shadow in ROM Shadowing on the Advanced Setup menu (Figure 2). Doing so enhances system performance.

The ROM Shadowing option gives you the following choices:

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￿ROM Shadowing￿

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F0000h - FFFFFh (System BIOS)

Enabled

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E0000h - EFFFFh (System BIOS)

Enabled

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D8000h - DFFFFh

[Disabled]

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D0000h - D7FFFh

[Disabled]

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C8000h - CFFFFh

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C0000h - C7FFFh

Enabled

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Here, you can specify which components of ROM you wish to cache in main memory.

Note: If the address range is used for an adapter card buffer, do not enable shadowing

Selecting PCI Bus Control shows you the following panel.

8PC Server and Windows NT Integration Guide

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IBM SG24-4763-00 manual Advanced Setup, Selecting this menu choice shows you this window