AWARD
®
BIOS Setup
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PNP/PCI Configurations
This section describes configuring the PCI bus system. PCI, or
P
ersonal
C
om-
puter
I
nterconnect, is a system which allows I/O devices to operate at speeds
nearing the speed the CPU itself uses when communicating with its own spe-
cial components. 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. When set to
No
, BIOS will initialize all the PnP cards.
So, select
Yes
if the operating system is Plug & Play aware.
Reset Configuration Data
Normally, you leave this field Disabled. Select
Enabled
to reset Extended Sys-
tem 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. The settings are:
Enabled
and
Disa-
bled
Resource Controlled By
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
