Installing Optional Devices
Before you set up and connect your system components, you
may want to install any optional equipment you plan to use.
Your
User’s Guide
gives complete instructions for installing
options such as disk drives, memory modules, a math
coprocessor, and option cards.
Note that the order in which you install your option cards
depends on the type of cards you have. If you will be installing
only ISA option cards that did not come with their own
configuration (CFG) files, you should install them before you
connect your peripheral devices. Follow the instructions in
your ISA card manual to set the card’s switches or jumpers for
your system.
If you will be installing EISA cards, you should also install
them before you connect peripheral devices so your computer’s
configuration program will automatically detect the card and
configure it correctly.
If you will be installing ISA cards that came with their own
CFG files, you should install them
after you
have connected the
necessary peripheral devices and run the computer’s
configuration program. This allows you to add the CFG file
information to your configuration so the program can give you
the card’s correct jumper and switch settings. Then you can set
the switches and jumpers and install the card.
Be sure to check your computer’s option slot power limits in
Chapter 3 of your
User’s Guide
before you install any option
cards. Then follow the instructions there to install the cards.
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