Premio Computer Aries/Centella manual PNP/PCI Configuration, Clear ESCD, PCI VGA Palette Snoop

Chapter 4

PNP/PCI Configuration

This section describes configuring the PCI bus system and PnP (Plug & Play) feature. PCI, or Personal Computer Interconnect, is a system which allows I/O devices to operate at speeds nearing the speed the CPU itself uses when communicating with its special components. This section covers some very technical items and it is strongly recommended that only experi- enced users should make any changes to the default settings.

AMIBIOS SETUP - PNP/PCI CONFIGURATION

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Clear ESCD	:No
PCI VGA Palette Snoop	:Disabled
DMA Channel 0	:PnP
DMA Channel 1	:ISA/EISA
DMA Channel 3	:PnP
DMA Channel 5	:PnP
DMA Channel 6	:PnP
DMA Channel 7	:PnP
IRQ3	:PCI/PnP
IRQ4	:PCI/PnP
IRQ5	:ISA/EISA
IRQ7	:PCI/PnP
IRQ9	:PCI/PnP
IRQ10	:PCI/PnP
IRQ11	:PCI/PnP

ESC : Quit		↑↓←→	: Select Item
F1 : Help		PU/PD/+/- : Modify
F5	: Old Values	(Shift)F2 : Color
F6 : Load BIOS Defaults
F7	: Load Setup Defaults

Clear ESCD

The ESCD (Extended System Configuration Data) NVRAM (Non-volatile Random Access Memory) is where the BIOS stores resource information for both PNP and non-PNP devices in a bit string format. When the item is set to Yes, the system will reset ESCD NVRAM right after the system is booted up and then set the setting of the item back to No automatically.

PCI VGA Palette Snoop

PCI VGA palette is the set of colors currently used by the video device. Some special VGA cards may not show colors correctly and need to look into the video device’s VGA palette to determine what colors are in use. Then you have to turn on the palette “snoop”, permitting the palette

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