Packard Bell MH4000 manual System Configuration Utility SCU

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System Configuration Utility (SCU)

The System Configuration Utility is used to configure your system. The SCU can be used to configure the memory subsystem, peripheral device subsystems, and interface adapters. SCU recognizes ISA Plug-and-Play boards and PCI boards and displays their configuration. SCU also recognizes EISA boards so they can be configured using the configuration diskettes supplied with these boards. ISA (non-Plug and Play) adapter boards must be added to the SCU configuration to reserve the resources required by the ISA boards.

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

The SCU must be executed every time ISA or EISA adapter boards are added, removed or relocated in the system.

The SCU stores the configuration information in the non-volatile memory on your system. When you exit the SCU the configuration information is written to non- volatile memory. The SCU also maintains the Setup configuration, which is stored in the battery-backed memory. This means that when you exit the SCU, the Setup and SCU configuration will agree with each other.

Configuring Your System