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X8DAL-3/X8DAL-i User's Manual
PCI/PnP Confi guration
Clear NVRAM
This feature clears the NVRAM during system boot. The options are No and Yes.
Plug & Play OS
Selecting Yes allows the OS to confi gure Plug & Play devices. (This is not required
for system boot if your system has an OS that supports Plug & Play.) Select No to
allow the AMI BIOS to confi gure all devices in the system.
PCI Latency Timer
This feature sets the latency Timer of each PCI device installed on a PCI bus. Select
64 to set the PCI latency to 64 PCI clock cycles. The options are 32, 64, 96, 128,
160, 192, 224 and 248.
PCI IDE BusMaster
When enabled, the BIOS uses PCI bus mastering for reading/writing to IDE drives.
The options are Disabled and Enabled.
PCIe IO Performance
Some add-on cards perform faster with the coalesce feature, which limits the pay-
load size to 128 MB; while others, with a payload size of 256 MB which inhibits
the coalesce feature. Please refer to your add-on card user guide for the desired
setting. The options are 256 MB and 128MB.
Slot 2 PCIE X4 in X8 Slot, Slot 3 PCIE X4 in X16 Slot, Slot 4 PCI 33MHz,
Slot 5 PCI 33MHz, Slot 6 PCIE X16
This feature allows you to Enable or Disable the Option ROM of a PCI slot specifi ed.
The options are Enable and Disable.
Load Onboard LAN1 Option ROM/Load Onboard LAN2 Option ROM
Select Enabled to enable the onboard LAN1 or LAN2 Option ROM. This is to boot
computer using a network interface. The options are Enabled and Disabled.
Load Onboard SAS Option ROM
Select Enabled to enable the onboard SAS Option ROM. This is to boot computer
using a network interface. The options are Enabled and Disabled.
Boot Graphics Adapter Priority
This feature allows the user to select the priority graphics adapter for system boot.
The options are Onboard VGA and Other.