Adding Expansion Boards; Introduction - DEC DIGITAL PC 3010 System Reference Manual

Introduction

Your computer's expansion slots are located on a backplane. This chapter
describes the location of these slots and provides detailed instructions on
installing ISA and PCI 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: If you are using Windows 95, 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

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