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To determine which card uses a particular resource shown in the System Resource
Usage dialog box, select the resource in question and then click Used By Card . 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 from the View menu
or click View . The Card Resource Usage dialog box displays the resources assigned
to that card. Figure 4-11 shows resources that might be assigned to a network
adapter card.
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You can save the information displayed in the resource usage dialog box by clicking
Print To File . The ICU then prompts you for a filename.
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You can save the system configuration to nonvolatile random-access memory
(NVRAM) as you configure each card’s resources. To do so, select Save from the
File menu and continue with your operation.
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At the ICU window, select Exit from the File menu to exit the utility. If you have made
any changes to the system configuration, you are asked whether you want to save the
changes.
If you click Yes , the ICU saves the updated system configuration information into
NVRAM. If you click No , you exit the ICU without saving any of your configuration
changes. If you click Cancel , nothing is saved and the utility continues to operate.
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The ICU includes a locking mechanism that enables you to allocate the system
resources for all or for some functions of Plug and Play and PCI expansion cards.
These expansion cards are
dynamic
, which means that they are allocated resources at
system start-up. Device drivers that do not support this dynamic card configuration
are referred to as
static device drivers
.