Chapter 5 BIOS Setup
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WA133 Series
The Award Plug and Play BIOS has the capacity to automatically configure all of the boot and Plug and
Play compatible devices. However, this capability means absolutely nothing unless you are using a
Plug and Play operating system such as Windows(98/95. If you set this field to “manual” choose
specific resources by going into each of the sub menu that follows this field (a sub menu is preceded by
a “>”).
Options
Description
Auto (ESCD)(*) Resources controlled by BIOS automatically
Manual
Resources controlled by the user
5.8.4 PCI / VGA Palette Snoop
This field controls the ability of a primary PCI graphics controller to share a common palette
with an ISA/VESA video or MPEG card
Options
Description
Enabled
PCI VGA co-works with ISA MPEG card
Disabled (*)
All cases except above
5.8.5 PCI 1/PCI 5 IRQ Use
PCI 2/PCI 6 IRQ Use
PCI 3/Onboard LAN IRQ Use(WA133-SN only)
PCI 4/Onboard SCSI IRQ Use
These fields set how IRQ use is determined for each PCI slot. The default setting for each field
is “Auto” , which uses auto-routing to determine IRQ use.
Option
Auto(*)/3/4/5/7/9/10/11/12/14/15
5.9 PC Health Status
This page is monitoring your status of computer. On the screen displays CPU/System temperature,
FAN speed, and voltages.
5.10 IWILL Smart Setting