Installing Optional Devices
Before you set up and connect your system components, you may want to install any optional equipment you plan to use. Your User’s Guide gives complete instructions for installing options such as disk drives, memory modules, a math coprocessor, and option cards.
Note that the order in which you install your option cards depends on the type of cards you have. If you will be installing only ISA option cards that did not come with their own configuration (CFG) files, you should install them before you connect your peripheral devices. Follow the instructions in your ISA card manual to set the card’s switches or jumpers for your system.
If you will be installing EISA cards, you should also install them before you connect peripheral devices so your computer’s configuration program will automatically detect the card and configure it correctly.
If you will be installing ISA cards that came with their own CFG files, you should install them after you have connected the necessary peripheral devices and run the computer’s configuration program. This allows you to add the CFG file information to your configuration so the program can give you the card’s correct jumper and switch settings. Then you can set the switches and jumpers and install the card.
Be sure to check your computer’s option slot power limits in Chapter 3 of your User’s Guide before you install any option cards. Then follow the instructions there to install the cards.
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