3.8 PCI Plug and Play Setup
Both the ISA and PCI buses on the CPU card use system IRQs & DMAs. You must set up the IRQ and DMA assignments correctly through the PnP/PCI Configuration Setup utility, otherwise the motherboard will not work properly.
PnP/PCI Configuration Setup Screen
| BIOS Setting and Terms Description | |
PnP OS Installed | Select “Yes” if you are using a Plug and Play capable operating system. Select | |
“NO” if you need the BIOS to configure | ||
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Reset Configuration | Normally, you leave this field “Disabled”, Select “Enabled” to reset Extended | |
System Configuration Data (ESCD) when you exit Setup if you have installed a | ||
Data | new | |
| the operating system cannot boot. | |
| The Award Plug and Play BIOS has the capacity to automatically configure all of | |
Resource Controlled | 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 | ||
By | Windows→98. If you set this field to “Manual” choose specific resources by | |
| going into each of the sub menu that follows this field ( a sub menu is proceded | |
| by a “►”). The settings are “Auto(ESCD)”, “Manual”. | |
| When resources are controlled manually, assign each system interrupt as one of | |
| the following types, depending on the type of device using the interrupt. | |
| IRQ3/4/5/7/9/10/11/12/14/15: | |
| These items specify the bus where the specified IRQ line is used. The settings | |
IRQ Resources | determine if Award BIOS should remove an IRQ from the pool of available IRQs | |
| passed to devices that are configurable by the system BIOS. The available IRQ | |
| pool is determined by reading the ESCD NVRAM. If more IRQs must be | |
| removed from the IRQ pool, the end user can use these settings to reserve the IRQ | |
| by assigning an ISA/EISA setting to it. Onboard I/O is configures by Award | |
| BIOS. All IRQs used by onboard I/O are configured as PCI/PnP. If all IRQs are |
