4-20 Setting System Parameters
Video Palette Snoop
The Video Palette Snoop field enables card “snoop” (also
called RAMDAC shadowing) write cycles to the ISA video
card’s palette registers. This field can be either “Enabled”
or “Disabled,” the default is “Disabled.”
This should only be set to “Enabled” if all of the following
conditions occur.
An ISA card connects to a PCI Graphics card via the
VESA connector.
The ISA card connects to a color monitor.
The card uses the RAMDAC on the PCI card.
The palette snooping feature is broken on the PCI card.
Latency Timer (PCI Clock)
The Latency Timer (PCI CLOCK) field controls the length
of time an agent on the PCI bus can hold the bus when
another agent has requested the bus. Value choices range
between 0 and 256, the default value is Auto Configured.
Banks 0, 1 and 2 SIMM Detected
These fields cannot be entered, it is an information field
only. These fields display either “Fast Page Mode,” “EDO
Mode,” or “None installed” depending upon what the BIOS
detects.
Power Management Configuration
Place the cursor in the Power Management Configuration
field and select it by pressing
Enter
. The Power
Management Submenu appears for setting parameters that
affect the power saving features.