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Chapter 3
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PNP/PCI C
ONFIGURATIONS
This section describes the BIOS configuration of the PCI bus system. This
section covers some very technical items and it is strongly recommended that
only experienced users should make any changes to the default settings.
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 initialized by the PnP operating
system like Windows 95 or 98/98SE. When set to
No
, BIOS will initialize all
the PnP cards. Set to
Yes
the operating system is Plug & Play capable.
Settings:
No
and
Yes
Reset Configuration Data
Normally, you leave this field
Disabled
. Select
Enabled
to reset Extended
System Configuration Data (ESCD) when you exit Setup if you have installed
a new add-on and the system reconfiguration has caused such a serious
conflict that the operating system can not boot. Settings:
Enabled
and
Disabled