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Top Document: Win95 FAQ Part 4 of 14: Hardware Previous Document: 4.10. Basic ISA Plug & Play theory (Don't bother if you don't like details) Next Document: 4.12. Other PnP theory (SCSI, monitors, printers, PCMCIA, etc) See reader questions & answers on this topic! - Help others by sharing your knowledge PCI was Plug & play by design. A PCI BIOS will assign resources, but the PCI cards don't care what resources they get. Often, the PCI cards end up in unusual I/O spaces (like above the 3FF range of the original XT). Some PCI cards have hard-wired resource requirements (like video cards), but the newest video cards are beginning to wean off that requirement, as games stop depending on VGA and use DirectDraw under Win95. Cases include the on-board video that some SIS motherboard chipsets provide. As per ISA PnP, The BIOS keeps its PCI config info in its NVRAM, and Win95 keeps a copy in the Registry. User Contributions:Top Document: Win95 FAQ Part 4 of 14: Hardware Previous Document: 4.10. Basic ISA Plug & Play theory (Don't bother if you don't like details) Next Document: 4.12. Other PnP theory (SCSI, monitors, printers, PCMCIA, etc) Part1 - Part2 - Part3 - Part4 - Part5 - Part6 - Part7 - Part8 - Part9 - Part10 - Part11 - Part12 - Part13 - Part14 - Single Page [ Usenet FAQs | Web FAQs | Documents | RFC Index ] Send corrections/additions to the FAQ Maintainer: gordonf@intouch.bc.ca
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