OTHER ISA ACCESSORY DEVICES
ISA accessory boards are for slow peripheral accessories. There are three slots on the ISA bus
for accessory boards. One of these is a combination slot with the PCI bus.
Plug and Play
All PCI accessory boards are Plug and Play, although not all ISA boards are. Check the
accessory board’s documentation if you are unsure.
In general, in a Plug and Play configuration, resources for an ISA board have to be reserved
first (using a utility under Windows 95 or ICU for DOS/Windows) and then you can plug in your
board. When you run a non Plug-and-Play operating system, such as Windows for
Workgroups, if you want to install an ISA board, you have to reserve the resources for the
board using the ICU (for Windows). Failure to do so may lead to resource conflicts.
The procedure for installing an ISA accessory board that is not Plug and Play in Windows 3.11
or Windows 95 is described in the
User’s Guide that is supplied with the PC.