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K8VGA-M BIOS Setup

User’s Manual

7. PNP/PCI CONFIGURATIONS

This section describes configuring the PCI bus system. PCI, or Personal

Computer Interconnect, is a system that allows I/O devices to operate at speeds

nearing the speed of the CPU itself uses when communicating with its own

special components. This section covers some very technical items and it is

strongly recommended that only experienced users should make any changes

to the default settings.

7.1 PNP OS I

NSTALLED

When set to YES, BIOS will only initialize the PnP cards used for the boot

sequence (VGA, IDE, SCSI). The rest of the cards will be initialized by the

PnP operating system like Window™ 95. When set to NO, BIOS will

initialize all the PnP cards. For non-PnP operating systems (DOS,

Netware™), this option must set to NO.

The Choices: No (default), Yes.

7.2 R

ESET

ONFIGURATION

ATA

The system BIOS supports the PnP feature that requires the system to

record which resources are assigned and protects resources from conflict.

Every peripheral device has a node, which is called ESCD. This node

records which resources are assigned to it. The system needs to record

and update ESCD to the memory locations. These locations (4K) are

reserved in the system BIOS. If the Disabled (default) option is chosen,

the system‘s ESCD will update only when the new configuration varies

from the last one. If the Enabled option is chosen, the system is forced to

update ESCDs and then is automatically set to the “Disabled” mode.

The above settings will be shown on the screen only if “Manual” is chosen

for the resources controlled by function.

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