Chapter 4: AMI BIOS
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PCI/PnP Confi guration
This feature allows the user to set PCI/PnP confi gurations for the following items:
Plug & Play OS
Select Yes to allow the OS to confi gure Plug & Play devices. (*This is not required
for system boot if you system has an OS that supports Plug & Play.) Select No to
allow the AMIBIOS to confi gure all devices in the system.
PCI Latency Timer
This option sets the latency of all PCI devices on the PCI bus. Select 32 to set
the PCI latency to 32 PCI clock cycles. Select 64 to set the PCI latency to 64 PCI
clock cycles. Select 96 to set the PCI latency to 96 PCI clock cycles. Select 128
to set the PCI latency to 128 PCI clock cycles. Select 160 to set the PCI latency
to 160 PCI clock cycles. Select 192 to set the PCI latency to 192 PCI clock cycles.
Select 224 to set the PCI latency to 224 PCI clock cycles. Select 248 to set the
PCI latency to 248 PCI clock cycles.
Allocate IRQ to PCI VGA
Set this value to allow or prevent the system from assigning an interrupt address
to the VGA adapter card. The options are
Yes
and No.
Palette Snooping
Select Enabled to inform the PCI devices that an ISA graphics device is installed
in the system so that the graphics card can function properly. The options are
Enabled or
Disabled
.
PCI IDE BusMaster
Set this value to allow or prevent the use of PCI IDE busmastering. Select Enabled
to allow the AMI BIOS to use PCI busmaster for reading and writing to IDE drives.
The options are
Disabled
and Enabled.
Offboard PCI/ISA IDE Card
This option allows the user to assign a PCI slot number to an Off-board PCI/ISA
IDE card in order for it to function properly. The options are:
Auto
, PCI Slot1, PCI
Slot2, PCI Slot3, PCI Slot4, PCI Slot5, and PCI Slot6.
