Installing Accessory Boards; Configuring Accessory Boards With Plug And Play; Configuring Non-Plug And Play Isa Accessory Boards - HP Vectra VE5 2 User Manual

After Installing a Video Memory Upgrade
1 Switch on the PC.
2 Select HP User Tools.
3 Click on the Video Mode button and follow the screen messages. You may be asked to
insert a diskette containing an appropriate video driver in drive A. For the latest available
version of a required driver, refer to the "HP BBS Library" in chapter 7.

INSTALLING ACCESSORY BOARDS

The PC has four accessory board slots:
• Slot 1 (the top slot) can be used for a 32-bit PCI board
• Slot 2 can be used for either a 32-bit PCI or a full-length 16-bit ISA board
• Slot 3 can be used for full-length 16-bit ISA boards
• Slot 4 (the bottom slot) can be used for short-length 16-bit ISA boards (16 cm/6.3-inch
maximum length).

CONFIGURING ACCESSORY BOARDS WITH PLUG AND PLAY

Plug and Play is an industry standard for automatically configuring your PC's hardware
resources and the accessory boards installed in it. Your PC has configurable support for Plug
and Play in the BIOS.
NOTE
When you start your PC after installing an accessory board, the Plug and Play BIOS
automatically detects which hardware resources (IRQs, DMAs, memory ranges, and I/O
addresses) are used by the system-based components.

CONFIGURING NON-PLUG AND PLAY ISA ACCESSORY BOARDS

If you install an ISA accessory board that is not Plug and Play you will need to configure the
board before your PC can use it.
Windows 3.11
For Windows 3.11 you must run the ISA Configuration Utility (ICU) program to declare the
resources used by the board:
1 Double-click on the Plug and Play group icon in the Windows Program Manager.
2 Double-click on the ICU Notes icon for up-to-date information about the Plug and Play
support for your PC.
3 Double-click on the ICU User Guide icon for detailed information about using the ICU.
4 Double-click on the ICU icon to launch the ISA Configuration Utility and configure system
resources for the accessory board.
All PCI accessory boards are Plug and Play,
although not all ISA boards are. Check the accessory
board's documentation if you are unsure.