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Integrated peripherals, Onboard ide channel 1/2, Ide prefetch mode – Philips Mini-ITX Mainboard EPIA-MII User Manual

Page 49: Display card priority, Frame buffer size

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Chapter 3

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Integrated Peripherals

Onboard IDE Channel 1/2

The integrated peripheral controller contains an IDE interface with support
for two IDE channels. Choose

Enabled

to activate each channel separately.

Settings:

Enabled

and

Disabled

IDE Prefetch Mode

This allows your hard disk controller to use the fast block mode to transfer
data to and from the hard disk drive. Block mode is also called block
transfer, multiple commands or multiple sector read/write.

Enabled

enables

IDE controller to use block mode;

Disabled

allows the controller to use

standard mode. Settings:

Enabled

and

Disabled

Display Card Priority

This setting specifies which VGA card is your primary graphics adapter.
Settings:

PCI Slot

and

AGP

Frame Buffer Size

This setting instructs the BIOS to reserved the specified amount of memory
for the internal video controller. Settings:

16M, 32M, 64M