3.3 PCI PnP Menu

You can use this screen to view PnP (Plug & Play) BIOS Configuration Menu. This menu allows the user to configure how the BIOS assigns resources & resolves conflicts. Use the up and down arrow (Ç/È) keys to select an item. Use the Plus and Minus (+/-) keys to change the value of the selected option. The settings are described on the following pages.

BIOS Setup Utility

Main Advanced PCI/PnP Boot Security Chipset Exit

Advanced PCI/PnP Settings

WARING: Setting wrong values in below sections may cause system to malfunction.

Clear NVRAM

[No]

Plug & Play O/S

[No]

PCI Latency Timer

[64]

Allocate IRQ to PCI VGA

[Yes]

Palette Snooping

[Disabled]

PCI IDE BusMaster

[Enabled]

Clear NVRAM during System Boot.

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Feature

 

Option

 

 

Description

 

Advanced PCI/PnP Settings

 

 

 

 

 

 

Clear NVRAM

 

No

 

Clears NVRAM during system

 

 

Yes

 

Boot.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

No: lets the BIOS configure all the

 

 

 

Yes

 

devices in the system.

 

Plug & Play OS

 

 

 

 

Yes: lets the operating system

 

 

 

 

 

configure Plug and Play (PnP)

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

No

 

devices not required for boot if

 

 

 

 

your system has a Plug and Play

 

 

 

 

 

 

operating system.

 

 

32

 

 

This setting controls how many

 

 

64

 

 

PCI clocks each PCI device can

 

 

 

 

 

 

hold the bus before another PCI

 

 

96

 

 

 

 

 

 

device takes over. When set to

 

 

128

 

 

 

PCI Latency Timer

 

 

higher values, every PCI device

 

160

 

 

can conduct transactions for a

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

longer time and thus improve the

 

 

192

 

 

 

 

 

 

effective PCI bandwidth.

 

 

224

 

 

Values in units of PCI clocks for

 

 

 

 

 

 

PCI device latency timer register.

 

 

248

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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