PT-5IT SYSTEM BOARD AWARD BIOS SETUP
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PnP device :
Device that has Plug & Play compatibility. That means it can request for DMA,
IRQ, I/O and Memory from the PnP BIOS and all these requests can be relocatable.
In other words, these devices does not utilized any fixed resources.
All PCI devices and all ISA PnP devices are PnP devices.
Legacy device :
A legacy device is a device that all its resources are fixed by hardware (or selected
by jumpers).
All ISA Non-PnP devices are legacy device.
Extended System Configuration Data (ESCD) :
A media between the user and the system BIOS for passing the legacy devices
informations. These informations are stored in the onboard NVRAM (flash ROM).
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