PCI Bus Mastering

[HotWire]

Just got though reading an article on the tweak page of some local guru and he said that when updating with an Evergreen processor/system make sure you enable Bus mastering in the PCI slot you are putting it into? How do you do this? I know that most motherboards built today have all their PCI slots as Bus mastering but I thought the older systems were either Bus mastering slots or not and you could not change them, it was not an option.

 

[Tominator]

Same here. I've heard of enableing it in BIOS, but on every mb I've seen the slots were or were not. Some mbs had 2 or 3 slots that supported Bus Mastering others had none. Starting with the PII and Super7 mbs I think all slots support bus mastering.

 

[jeans2nd]

Older MoBo's with ISA slots had Bus Mastering enabled/disabled. You also had to be careful with the placement of the PCI cards - closest to the MoBo, but farthest away from the ISA. You need to read the documentation for the MoBo.