[24hoursupport] Re: PCI - ISA Q in rebuild

  • From: "Ron Allen" <chizotz@xxxxxxxxxxx>
  • To: 24hoursupport@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
  • Date: Fri, 07 Jun 2002 19:34:58 -0500

Hello Kit,

>I am rebuilding and need to know if I can use a PCI bus motherboard and
>the ISA bus Ethernet card.  

Many PCI motherboards have at least one ISA slot on them, in which case you
can. There may be other considerations, especially if the ISA slot shares
an IRQ with one of the PCI slots -- on some motherboards such an
arrangement disallows usage of the PCI slot that is shared when a card is
in the shared ISA slot.

If your motherboard does not have an ISA slot, then no, unfortunately, you
can't use any ISA cards.

>Also whether the PCI VGA Palette Snoop has to do with anything besides
>VGA.  I don't know what MPEG ISA cards are so I don't know whether to turn
>it on for the ISA NIC or not.

Here is some information on VGA Palette Snoop from
http://www.pcguide.com/ref/mbsys/bios/set/pciSnoop-c.html

}}The VGA "palette" is the set of colors that are in use by the video card
when it is in 256-color mode. Since there are thousands of colors and only
}}256 can be used in that mode, a palette containing the current colors
}}is used. Some special VGA cards, high-end hardware MPEG decoders etc.
}}need to be able to look at the video card's VGA palette to determine what
colors are currently in use. Enabling this feature turns on this palette
"snoop".
}}
}}This option is only very rarely needed. It should be left at "Disabled"
unless a video device specifically requires the setting enabled upon
installation.

I hope that helps.

Ron

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