What is the practical difference between setting the "Plug-and-Play
OS" in my BIOS to "yes" or "no" when running Win2K?

I've always run with it set to "yes" but I want to get network access
from a dos boot and this requires it to be set to "no" (to access the
netcard). I don't really want to have to reset it in the BIOS each
time.

WoofWoof wrote:
>
> What is the practical difference between setting the "Plug-and-Play
> OS" in my BIOS to "yes" or "no" when running Win2K?
>
> I've always run with it set to "yes" but I want to get network access
> from a dos boot and this requires it to be set to "no" (to access the
> netcard). I don't really want to have to reset it in the BIOS each
> time.

No is fine, it just allows the bios to configure IRQ's, instead of
windows.
I have mine set to no in XP.

Gordon

WoofWoof wrote:
> What is the practical difference between setting the "Plug-and-Play
> OS" in my BIOS to "yes" or "no" when running Win2K?
>
> I've always run with it set to "yes" but I want to get network access
> from a dos boot and this requires it to be set to "no" (to access the
> netcard). I don't really want to have to reset it in the BIOS each
> time.

It doesn't make much difference, it only affects whether devices get
assigned resources before Windows boots up. Most of the time I think
that just defaults to No which means the BIOS will do resource allocation.

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> What is the practical difference between setting the "Plug-and-Play
> OS" in my BIOS to "yes" or "no" when running Win2K?
>
> I've always run with it set to "yes" but I want to get network access
> from a dos boot and this requires it to be set to "no" (to access the
> netcard). I don't really want to have to reset it in the BIOS each
> time.

Normally you set it to "NO" on the first boot of your new computer and then
never touch it again for the life of the motherboard. You are setting it to
"YES" because you really don`t know what you are doing.
Set it to "NO". It`s a Windows thing.