2 System Board

Devices on the ISA Bus

For the Ultra I/O space: the Serial EEPROM, serial port, parallel port and mass storage drives (disable write on Flexible Disk Drive, disable boot on any drive, disable use of any embedded drive)

Advanced Power Management (APM) version 1.2

Glue logic (such as programmable chip selects)

When the user requests a ShutDown from the operating system, the environment is first cleared. Any request to turn off the PC Workstation, from the control panel, or from the operating system, can only be granted if the PC Workstation is not locked by Little Ben’s lock bit (otherwise the power remains on, a red light is illuminated, and the buzzer is sounded).

 

Other ISA Accessory Devices

 

ISA accessory boards are for slow peripheral accessories. A diagram

 

showing the ISA slots that are available for the desktop and minitower

 

models is on page 27.

Plug and Play

All PCI accessory boards are Plug and Play, although not all ISA boards are.

 

Check the accessory board’s documentation if you are unsure.

 

In general, in a Plug and Play configuration, resources for an ISA board have

 

to be reserved first (using the Setup utility) and then you can plug in your

 

board.

 

The procedure for installing an ISA accessory board that is not Plug and

 

Play is described in the User’s Guide that is supplied with the PC

 

Workstation.

 

 

NOTE

The Windows NT 4.0 operating system is not Plug and Play. Information

 

explained above is only applicable for Plug and Play operating systems (for

 

example, Windows 95).

 

 

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