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CHAPTER 3

AMI

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BIOS USER’S GUIDE

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Clear ESCD

During Yes, this will clear ESCD data on every boot.

PCI VGA Palette Snoop

When this option is set to Enabled, multiple VGA devices operating

on different buses can handle data from the CPU on each set of palette
registers on every video device. Bit 5 of the command register in the PCI
device configuration space is the VGA Palette Snoop bit (0 is disabled). For
example, if there are two VGA devices in the computer (one PCI and ISA)
and the Bit settings are:

Disabled-Data read and written by the CPU is only directed to

the PCI VGA device’s palette registers.

Enabled - Data read and written by the CPU is directed to

both the PCI VGA device’s palette registers and the
ISA VGA device palette registers, permitting the
palette registers of both devices to be identical.

This option must be set to Enabled if an ISA adapter card requires

VGA palette snooping. The settings are Enabled or Disabled.

DMA Channel 0/1/3/5/6/7

These options specify the bus that the specified DMA channel is

used. These options allow you to reserve DMAs for legacy ISA adapter
cards.

These options determine if AMI

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BIOS should remove a DMA from

the available DMAs passed to devices that are configurable by the system
BIOS. The available DMA pool is determined by reading the ESCD
NVRAM. If more DMAs must be removed from the pool, the end user can
use these options to reserve the DMA by assigning an ISA/EISA setting to
it.

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