The Bios Survival Guide at
http://www.lemig.umontreal.ca/bios/bios_sg.htm has a pretty good
explanation of these settings and recommendations for optimizing
your setup. You may also try your motherboard's website or
Award's.
Hope this helps,
Steve Dias
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>several aspects of it that I need clarification on. I would like
to know
>what they are and what they do, and if I should enable them or
not:
>
>1)  PCI-VGA palette Snoop
>2)  C-800-CBFFF Shadow, etc.
>3)  Floppy 3 Mode Support
>4)  Aperture Size - Currently 64m, can go up to 256m????
>5) System Bios Cacheable
>6)  Onchip USB
>7)  SDRAM Cycle Length
>8)  SDRAM Bank Interleave
>9)  Memory Hole at 15mb address
>10)  Reset Configuration Data
>11)  ACPI I/O Device Node
>12)  PCI #2 Access #1 Retry
>13)  AGP Master 1 WS Read
>14)  UART 2 Mode - Standard, HPSIR, ASKIR
>
>Most of the above items were disabled, and I am wondering if I
can improve
>performance by enabling them. Also, the graphics card needs a
dedicated IRQ,
>and I don't know how to make sure that it has one. Thank you for
all your
>help and expertise.
>
>Chuck Hassenplug
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