[ale] Disable PnP BIOS for Linux?

[Clay Lawrence]

That's the same bios I have, except mine says Award Modular Bios
v4.51PG. In the PNP/PCI Configuration screen the first option on the
left is "PNP OS installed", yes or no. Following this are the same
options that you have. I also noted when mine booted that it said,
"Award Plug and Play ext v1.0A" installed even though I have PNP set to
no. I assume this is a module for 4.51PG. You might try to see if there
is a flash disk available from Award to upgrade your bios.

Clay

Mike Nolan wrote:
> 
> I know this is a little "off" for this list, but I figure this is the most
> likely place where someone has run across this.
> 
> I need to disable the Plug and Play in an Award BIOS ver. 4.51PG so I can
> install a NIC card.
> 
> After reading manuals, searching lots of mailing list archives, newsgroups,
> websites, you name it, I find several occurrences of  "set PnP OS Installed
> to 'No'"
> 
> Well guess what?  There is no option in this BIOS for this. (not that I can
> find, and I've spend all day at this.)
> 
> There's a screen that says;
> 
> PNP/PCI CONFIGURATION
> 
> and when you select this you get a screen that says;
> 
> Resources Controlled By  : Auto (or Manual)
> Reset Configuration Data  : Disabled (or Enabled)
> 
> When set to manual above you get to choose "PCI/ISA Pnp" or "Legacy ISA"
> for IRQ 3,4,5,7,9,10,11,12,14,15 and the same for DMA 0-7
> 
> and a few more options.
> 
> Am I getting warm here?  Does anyone know how to turn PnP off for this?
> 
> Thanks for your time.
> 
> Mike Nolan
> Dallas, GA