Adding Expansion Boards; Introduction - DEC Digital PC 3500 System Reference Manual

Introduction

Your computer contains expansion slots located on a backplane and an AGP slot on
the main logic board. This chapter describes the location of these slots and provides
detailed instructions on installing ISA, PCI, and AGP expansion boards.
Plug and Play technology eliminates the process of manually configuring optional
expansion boards for operation in your computer. With Plug and Play, your
computer's BIOS, operating system, and hardware logic built into expansion boards
work to assign automatically interrupt requests (IRQs), I/O and memory addresses,
and DMA channels for optimum performance.
NOTE
Play set to ON, your computer automatically assigns the
necessary resources to any installed Plug and Play-compatible
expansion board so it operates at maximum performance.
If you are using Windows NT Workstation, use the ISA
Configuration Utility (ICU) supplied with your computer to correctly
assign resources used by the ISA expansion boards.

Adding Expansion Boards

: If you are using Windows 95 and the BIOS has Plug and
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