NEC HX4500 manual Configuring Your System, Resource Configuration Utility RCU

Configuring Your System

Configuration and setup utilities are used to change your system configuration. You can configure your system, as well as any option boards you may add to your system, using the Resource Configuration Utility (RCU) diskette. Also, several unique system parameters are configured using BIOS Setup (stored in the system FLASH memory). A diskette is not needed to run BIOS Setup.

The SCSISelect Utility, also stored in the system FLASH memory, is used if you need to configure the SCSI controller in your system or to perform a SCSI disk format or verify disk operation of these drives. A diskette is not needed to run SCSISelect.

A Utilities diskette contains the Event Log Utility. The Event Log Utility is used to read stored system event information.

If your system has been factory configured, the RCU, BIOS Setup, or SCSISelect utilities do not need to be run unless you want to change the password or security features, add option boards or devices, or upgrade the boards in your system.

There are some system configuration parameters that are set by jumpers. However, these parameters do not usually require change. Finally, the EZ-SCSI utility is included with your system. This program performs MS-DOS driver installation for SCSI devices in your system and also installs basic utilities that format and manage SCSI hard disk drives. Refer to the documentation supplied with the EZ-SCSI utility for more information.

The following provide procedures for running the RCU, BIOS Setup, and the Utilities diskette. Also, a section describing the system jumper configurations is presented. Several configuration tables are also provided to record changes you make to the default system configuration.

You use the EXPRESSBUILDER CD-ROM to create the RCU and Utilities diskettes.

Resource Configuration Utility (RCU)

The Resource Configuration Utility is used to configure your system. The RCU can be used to configure the memory subsystem, peripheral device subsystems, and interface adapters. RCU recognizes ISA Plug-and-Play boards and PCI boards and displays their configuration. ISA (non-Plug and Play) adapter boards must be added to the RCU configuration to reserve the resources required by the ISA boards.

After you add options using the RCU, the system automatically configures and initializes them during system initialization at boot up.

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