Packard Bell MH4000 manual Installation Considerations

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Installation Considerations

Newer adapters, designed for Plug-and-Play systems, are automatically configured by the system without any user intervention. Older ISA and EISA adapters must be manually configured as detailed below. Once the manual configuration is complete, the Plug-and-Play adapters are configured around the manually configured adapters without causing any resource conflicts.

■ISA Adapters - These adapters can be Plug-and- Play. ISA adapters that are not Plug-and-Play must be manually configured following the instructions supplied with the board. The configuration is defined to the system by creating the ISA configuration file when running the SCU. For details on running the SCU, refer to Chapter 4.

Note: The configuration files for boards supplied with your server have already been included on the SCU diskette.

■EISA Adapters - Copy the configuration files (.CFG) and, if supplied, the overlay file (.OVL), to the SCU diskette. For details on running the SCU, refer to Chapter 4.

Consider the following points when installing option boards:

■Any EISA slot can be a master or a slave.

■EISA bus priority is slot P01 - P04, slot P01 having the highest priority. EISA slot P01 is the bottom option board slot on the system board. See Figure 5-11 for EISA slot numbers.

■PCI bus priority is slot P05 - P10, slot P05 having the highest priority. PCI slot P05 is the bottom PCI option board slot on the system board. See Figure 5-11 for PCI slot numbers.

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