P6LX2-A User’s Manual
3:
Reconfiguring Your Mainboard – 3.2
PCI Cards & Slots
With very few exceptions, any PCI expansion card you are
likely to get will be Plug an Play compliant. If you are using an
Operating System that supports PnP, such as Windows 95, you
should be able to follow the installation instructions that come
with the card and have the Operating System automatically rec-
ognize and configure the card.
The PCI slots on the mainboard all have ‘Bus Master’ capabil-
ity with the exception that if the SCSI option is on the mainboard
PCI5 will only operate in Slave mode. For installed PCI cards to
use this feature an Operating System-specific Bus Master soft-
ware driver that comes with this mainboard must be installed
under your Operating System. These drivers are located on the
Support Disk.
RAIDport™ and AGP Slots
This mainboard has two other expansion slots The Adaptec
RAID
port
™ slot extension and the AGP, Accelerated Graphics
Port, slot.
The Adaptec RAID
port
™ slot extension to the PCI4 slot in
combination with the PCI slot forms a slot for an Adaptec ARO-
1130 or compatible RAID controller card for implementing any
of several supported RAID disk array schemes.
The AGP, Accelerated Graphics Port, slot is for an AGP video
display card.
Configuring Expansion Card Resources In CMOS Setup
The CMOS Setup Utility, which is covered in detail in Section
4: Reference Information, has a section called PNP/PCI Configu-
ration. The default settings in this section allow the Operating
System to automatically configure IRQ resources for PnP com-
pliant ISA and PCI Cards.
If you need to install a non-PnP card, you will need to config-
ure any IRQ and DMA settings manually, both on the card and
in the CMOS Setup Utility. The following three pages show how
to do this.