User`s manual

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X8DA3/X8DAi 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 Bus Master

When enabled, the BIOS uses PCI bus mastering for reading/writing to IDE drives.

The options are Disabled and Enabled.

Slot 1 Option ROM~Slot 6 Option ROM

Select Enabled to enable Slot 1 Option ROM~Slot 6 Option ROM, which will allow

you to boot the computer from a PCI device installed on a PCI slot. The options

are Disabled and Enabled.

LAN1 PXE (i82573V)/LAN2 PXE (i82573L) PXE Option ROM

Select Enabled to enable the onboard LAN1/LAN2 PXE Option ROMs. This is

to boot computers using a network interface. The options are Enabled and Dis-

abled.

LSI SAS 1068 Option ROM

Select Enabled to enable the LSI SAS 1068 Option ROM. This is to boot computers

using a network interface. The options are Enabled and Disabled.

Super IO Device Conﬁ guration

Onboard Floppy Controller

Select Enable to enable the onboard Floppy Controller. The options are Enabled

and Disabled.

Floppy A/Floppy B

This feature allows the user to select the type of ﬂ oppy drive connected to the sys-

tem as speciﬁ ed. The options are Disabled, 360KB 5 1/4", 1.2MB 5 1/4", 720KB 3