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4.7 PnP/PCI Configurations
This section describes configuring the PCI bus system. PCI
or Personal Computer Interconnect, is a system which
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 user should make any changes to the default
settings.
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Figure 7. PnP/PCI Configurations
CMOS Setup Utility-Copyright(C) 1984-2000 Award
Software PnP/PCI Configurations
PNP OS Installed
No
Item Help
Reset Configuration Data
Disabled
Resources Controlled By
Auto(ESCD)
Menu Level
IRQ Resources
Press Enter
When resources
PCI/VGA Palette Snoop
Disabled
are controlled
manually, assign
each system
interrupt a type,
depending on the
type of device
using the
interrupt
←→↑↓
: Move Enter:Select +/-/PU/PD:Value F10:Save ESC:Exit
F1:General Help F5:Previous Values F6:Fail-Safe Defaults
F7:Optimized Defaults
PNP OS Installed
When set to YES,BIOS will only initialize the PnP cards
used for booting(VGA,IDE,SCSI).The rest of the cards
will be initalized by the PnP operation system like
Windows 95.When set to No,BIOS will initialize all the
PnP cards .Therefore for non-PnP operating system
(DOS,Netware),this option must set to No.
