AWARD® BIOS Setup
Resource Controlled By
The Award Plug and Play BIOS has the capacity to automatically configure all of 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 Windows® 95/98. 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 preceded by a “Ø”). The settings are: Auto (ESCD), Manual.
IRQ Resources
The items are adjustable only when Resources Controlled By is set to Manual. Press <Enter> and you will enter the
PCI Device | For Plug & Play compatible devices designed for PCI |
| bus architecture. |
Reserved | The IRQ will be reserved for further request. |
PCI/VGA Palette Snoop
When set to Enabled, multiple VGA devices operating on different buses can handle data from the CPU on each set of palette registers on every video device. Bit 5 of the command register in the PCI device configuration space is the VGA Palette Snoop bit (0 is disabled). For example, if there are two VGA devices in the computer (one PCI and one ISA) and the:
VGA Palette Snoop |
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Bit Setting | Action |
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Disabled | Data read or written by the CPU is only directed to the PCI |
| VGA device’s palette registers. |
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Enabled | Data read or written by the CPU is directed to both the PCI |
| VGA device’s palette registers and the ISA VGA device’s |
| palette registers, permitting the palette registers of both VGA |
| devices to be identical. |
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The setting must be set to Enabled if any ISA bus adapter in the system requires VGA palette snooping.
