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After you have run the ICU for your non-Plug and Play ISA expansion cards and it has
configured all your Plug and Play and PCI expansion cards, you can use the utility to

lock

the configuration of your Plug and Play and PCI expansion cards so that they are
always assigned the same resources. See “Loc king and Unlocking Cards” found later
in this chapter for details.

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Be fore using the ICU for the first time, you must complete the following steps:
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For instructions on how to create a program diskette from the diskette image,
see the online help provided in the Program Diskette Maker, which is available in
the D ell Accessories program fold er.

NO TE : If you receiv ed an

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with y our s yst em, skip

to step 2.

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Before using the ICU, make a backup copy of the ICU diskette by performing the fol-
lowing steps.

NOTE: If you received an

ISA Configuration Utility Diskette

with your system, you

should use this procedure to create a backup of that diskette.

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