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Windows 3.11

3 How to Install Accessories In Your PC

Installing Accessory Boards

Installing Accessory Boards

The PC has four accessory board slots:

•Slot 1 (the top slot) can be used for a 32-bit PCI board

•Slot 2 can be used for either a 32-bit PCI or a full-length 16-bit ISA board

•Slot 3 can be used for full-length 16-bit ISA boards

•Slot 4 (the bottom slot) can be used for half-length 16-bit ISA boards.

Configuring Accessory Boards with Plug and Play (Windows 3.11)

Plug and Play is an industry standard for automatically configuring your PC's hardware resources and the accessory boards installed in it. Your PC has configurable support for Plug and Play in the BIOS.

All PCI accessory boards are Plug and Play, although not all ISA boards are. Check the accessory board’s documentation if you are unsure.

When you start your PC, the Plug and Play BIOS automatically detects which hardware resources (IRQs, DMAs, memory ranges, and I/O addresses) are used by the system-based components.

Configuring non-Plug and Play ISA Accessory Boards

If you wish to install an ISA accessory board which is not Plug and Play, for example a Legacy board, before you do so, you must start the ICU program to declare the resources used by the board.

To run the ICU:

Choose the Plug and Play facility in the Windows Program Manager.

Click on the ICU icon to launch the ISA Configuration Utility and configure system resources for the accessory board.

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