Chapter 3

Integrated Peripherals

Onboard IDE Channel 1/2

The integrated peripheral controller contains an IDE interface with support for two IDE channels. Choose Enabled to activate each channel separately.

Settings: Enabled and Disabled

IDE Prefetch Mode

This allows your hard disk controller to use the fast block mode to transfer data to and from the hard disk drive. Block mode is also called block transfer, multiple commands or multiple sector read/write. Enabled enables IDE controller to use block mode; Disabled allows the controller to use standard mode. Settings: Enabled and Disabled

Display Card Priority

This setting specifies which VGA card is your primary graphics adapter. Settings: PCI Slot and AGP

Frame Buffer Size

This setting instructs the BIOS to reserved the specified amount of memory for the internal video controller. Settings: 16M, 32M, 64M

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Philips EPIA-MII user manual Integrated Peripherals, Onboard IDE Channel 1/2, IDE Prefetch Mode, Display Card Priority