Intel 2047285001R User Manual

ESM-2850 User’s Manual 

 

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This section describes configuring the PCI bus system. PCI, or Personal Computer 

Interconnect, is a system which allows I/O devices to operate at speeds nearing the speed 

the CPU itself uses when communicating with its own special 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. 

 

This item allows you to decide to active whether PCI Slot or Onboard/AGP first. 

The choices: PCI Slot, Onboard, PCI Ex. 

Normally, you leave this field Disabled. Select Enabled to reset Extended System 

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 cannot 

boot. 

The choices: Enabled, Disabled. 

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

®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 “

¾”). 

The choices: Auto(ESCD), Manual.