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Chapter 4
BIOS Setup
Resources Controlled By
The Award P lug and P lay BIOS has the capacity to autom atically
configure all the boot and P lug and P lay com patible devices.
H owever, this capability m eans a bsolutely nothing unless you are
using a P lug and P lay operating system such as Windows98/95/
N T. If you set this field to “m anual” choose specific resources by
going into each of the sub m enu that follows this field (a sub
m enu is preceded by a “Ø”).
[Manual:R esources con trolled by the user.]
[Auto(E SC D )
(Default Value)
:R esources controlled by BIOS
autom atically.]
IRQ Resources
P ress<E nter> and you will enter the sub-m enu of this item .
This item is adjustable only when
Resources Controlled By
is set
to Manual.
PCI / VGA Palette Snoop
This field controls the ability of a prim ary P C I graphics controller
to share a com m on palette with an ISA/VE SA video or MP E G card.
[E nabled:P C I VGA co-works with ISA MP E G card.]
[D isabled
(Default Value):
All cases except above.]
PCI IRQ Actived By
This sets the m ethod by which the P C I bus recognizes that an
IR Q service is being requested by a device. Under all
circum stances, you should retain the default configuration unless
advised otherwise by you r system ’
s m anufacturer.
[Level
(Default Value)
,E dge]
