P43B-A7 BIOS M anual
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3 PCIPnP Menu
T his section describes con figuring the PCI bus system. PCI, or Personal Computer
Interconn ect, is a system which allows I/O devices to operate at speeds nearing the
speed o f the CPU itself uses when communicating with its own special components.
Notice
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Beware of that setting inappropriate values in items of this menu may cause
system to malfunction.
BIOS S ETUP UTILITY
Main
Advanced
PCIPnP
Boot
Chips et
Perfo rmance
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S elect Screen
S elect Item
C hange Option
G eneral Help
S ave and Exit
E xit
+-
F1
F1 0
ES C
Clea r NVRAM duri ng
Syst em Boot.
Advan ced PCI/PnP S ettings
WARNI NG: Setting w rong values in below sec tions
may cause system to m alfunction.
Plug & Play O/S [ No]
PCI L atency Timer [ 64]
Alloc ate IRQ to PC I VGA [ Yes]
Palet te Snooping [ Disabled]
PCI I DE BusMaster [ Enabled]
OffBo ard PCI/ISA I DE Card [ Auto]
> PCI Resource
> PCI Express Conf iguration
Clear NVRAM [ No]
Exit
Clear NV RAM
T his item allows you to clear the data in the NVRAM (CMOS) by selecting “Yes”.
Options: No (Default) / Yes
Plug & P lay OS
When set to YES, BIOS will only initialize the PnP cards used for the boot sequen ce
(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.
Options: No (Default) / Yes
