Advanced PCI/PnP Menu

Feature

Option

Description

 

 

 

 

 

Advanced PCI/PnP Menu

 

 

 

 

Plug & Play OS

Yes

The Yes setting allows the operating

 

No

system to change the interrupt, I/O,

 

 

and DMA settings. Set this option if

 

 

the system is running Plug and Play

 

 

aware operating systems. Set No for

 

 

operating systems that do not meet

 

 

the Plug and Play specifications.

 

 

 

PCI Latency Timer

32, 64, 96

This setting controls how many PCI

 

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clocks each PCI device can hold the

 

 

bus before another PCI device takes

 

 

over. When set to higher values,

 

 

every PCI device can conduct trans-

 

 

actions for a longer time and thus

 

 

improve the effective PCI bandwidth.

 

 

 

Allocate IRQ to PCI

Yes

Allows or restricts the system from

VGA

No

giving the VGA adaptor an IRQ.

 

 

 

Palette Snooping

Disabled

This is the default setting and should

 

Enabled

not be changed unless the VGA card

 

 

manufacturer requires Palette Snoop-

 

 

ing to be Enabled.

 

 

 

PCI IDE Bus Master

Disabled

ENABLED: BIOS uses PCI bus mas-

 

Enabled

tering for reading / writing to IDE

 

 

drives.

 

 

 

IRQ3 - IRQ15

Available

Allows user to reserve a specific IRQ

 

Reserved

for a legacy device (Note: most hard-

 

 

ware devices & OS do not support

 

 

manually assigned IRQs).

 

 

 

DMA0 ~ 7

Available

Allows user to reserve a specific IRQ

 

Reserved

for a legacy device

 

 

 

Reserved Memory

Disabled

Size of memory block to reserve for

Size

16K

legacy ISA devices

 

32K

 

 

64K

 

 

 

 

Enabled BIOS Data

Enabled

Enable / Disable Extended BIOS

Area

Disabled

Data Area

 

 

 

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