Intel I945P specifications PCI Express related items, BIOS 4-6 PNP/PCI/PCI-E Configuration

BIOS

4-6 PNP/PCI/PCI-E Configuration

This page lets the user to modify the PCI/PCI-E IRQ signals when various PCI/ PCI-E cards are inserted.

WARNING: Conflicting IRQ’s may cause system unable to locate certain devices.

Figure 7: PNP/PCI Configuration Setup

Resources Controlled By

Determines what controls system PNP/PCI resources. The default is Auto (ESCD). Manual: PNP Card’s resources are controlled manually. The “IRQ Resources” field becomes available and you can set which IRQ-X and DMA-X are

assigned to PCI and onboard devices.

Auto: BIOS assigns the interrupt resource automatically.

PCI/VGA Palette Snoop

This item is designed to overcome problems that may be caused by some nonstandard VGA cards.

Options: Enabled, Disabled.

*** PCI Express related items ***

Maximum Payload Size

Set maximum TLP payload size for the PCI Express devices. The unit is byte. Options: 128, 256, 512, 1024, 2048, 4096.

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