Configuring Accessory Boards With Plug And Play - HP Vectra VL600 Supplementary Manual

Windows 95, Windows
98 and Windows 2000
Windows NT 4.0
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2 How to Install and Replace Components In Your Desktop PC
Installing Accessory Boards

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.
All PCI accessory boards are Plug and Play, although not all ISA boards
are. Check the accessory board's documentation if you are unsure.
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 PC components
(such as the keyboard, the communications ports, network adapters,
and accessory boards).
Operating systems that support Plug and Play, such as Windows95,
Windows 98 and Windows 2000 will automatically detect a newly
installed Plug and Play accessory board and install the driver for this
device, if the driver is available.
For operating systems that do not support Plug and Play, such as
WindowsNT4.0, refer to the operating system documentation for
information about installing accessory boards.
In WindowsNT4.0, click the
use the contents or index to find information about installing devices.
Windows NT 4.0 helps you through the installation of devices such as
modems and sound boards.
After installing a new device in Windows NT 4.0, you must re-install the
Microsoft Service Pack to update the operating system for your PC.
To do this, click the
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