Little Ben; Other Isa Accessory Devices Under Plug And Play - HP Vectra VA6 Technical Reference Manual

2 System Board
Devices on the ISA Bus
By setting switch 6 in the position, not only is the configuration data
Closed
cleared (in the CMOS memory and the Serial EEPROM), but also all the
Plug-and-Play data that had been saved in the CMOS memory. However, the
serial number, the tattooing string, the date and the time are each retained.
By setting switch 8 in the position, the Power-On Space-Bar
Closed
function is enabled, provided that it is also enabled in the
Power-On
field of the Power Menu in the Setup program.
Space-Bar
Setting switch 9 in the position clears the product identification
Closed
field in the BIOS, and causes the PC to prompt for the new information. By
identifying the product correctly, the BIOS is able to tailor itself for the
particular product, and to enable the appropriate features.

Little Ben

Little Ben is an HP application specific integrated circuit (ASIC) that is
connected between the chip-set and the processor. It has been designed to
act as a companion to the Super I/O chip. It is described on page 57.

Other ISA Accessory Devices under 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 a utility under Windows 95 or ICU for DOS/
Windows) and then you can plug in your board. When you run a non Plug-
and-Play operating system, such as OS/2 or Windows NT, if you want to
install an ISA board, you have to reserve the resources for the board using
the ICU (for Windows). Failure to do so may lead to resource conflicts.
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.
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