Removing A Card; Viewing Resources; Figure 3-10. System Resource Usage Dialog Box; Figure 3-11. Card Resource Usage Dialog Box - Dell OptiPlex Gs Reference And Installation Manual

R
emoving a Card
Before you remove an ISA expansion card from your
computer, you must use the ICU to remove the card from
the system configuration.
NOTE: When you remove a Plug and Play or PCI expan-
sion card from your computer, you do not need to run the
ICU. To remove a Plug and Play or PCI expansion card,
complete steps 2 through 9 in "Removing an Expansion
Card" in Chapter 6.
Use the following procedure to remove an ISA expansion
card from your computer:
1. Start the ICU as described in "Starting the ICU"
found earlier in this chapter.
2. Select the card from the current system configu-
ration list in the ICU window.
3. Select
REMOVE CARD
click the Remove button.
The ICU requests verification that you want to
remove the card.
4. Click the Yes button to free the resources allo-
cated to the card and remove its name from the
list of active cards, or click the No button to
cancel the operation.
The ICU returns to the ICU window.
CAUTION: After removing a card from the
system configuration using the ICU, you must
turn off the system and physically remove the
card. Failure to do so can damage your system.
5. Remove the ISA expansion card from the
computer.
See "Removing an Expansion Card" in Chapter 6 for
instructions.
V
iewing Resources
The ICU displays all resources currently used by your
system.
from the Configuration menu, or
To view all system resources, select
from the View menu or click the View
RESOURCES
button. The System Resource Usage dialog box (see
Figure 3-10) displays all resources currently used by
the system.
Figure 3-10. System Resource Usage Dialog
Box
To determine which card uses a particular resource
shown in the System Resource Usage dialog box, select
the resource in question and then click the Used By Card
button. The Card Resource Usage dialog box appears
with the information.
To view the resources that a particular card is using,
select the card from the list displayed in the ICU window,
and then select
CARD RESOURCES
or click the View button. The Card Resource Usage dia-
log box displays the resources assigned to that card.
Figure 3-11 shows resources that might be assigned to a
network adapter card.

Figure 3-11. Card Resource Usage Dialog Box

You can save the information displayed in the resource
usage dialog box by clicking the Print To File button. The
ICU then prompts you for a name of the file to create.
Using the ISA Configuration Utility
SYSTEM
from the View menu
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