ECS P5SJ-A User Manual page 28

P5SJ-A User's Manual
3: Reconfiguring Your Mainboard – 3.4
CMOS Setup Utility –
PnP/PCI Configuration
When 'Resources Controlled
By' is set to 'Manual' you can
individually configure the IRQ
& DMA channel settings. The
individual defaults are for PnP
cards and will still use all the
items listed to automatically
assign resources as needed.
If you are installing a 'legacy'
ISA card that requires manual
configuration, you can manu-
ally assign the required re-
sources as needed.
This screen shows an ex-
ample of a manually config-
ured IRQ setting for a "Legacy'
ISA expansion card. Legacy
cards, by definition, are not
PnP compliant and must be
manually configured if they
require an IRQ or DMA chan-
nel. See the card manual for
specifics.
When an item in the list is con-
figured this way, it is no longer
part of the pool of automati-
cally configurable resources.
For this reason, don't config-
ure ISA cards this way unless
they are Legacy cards.