PNP / PCI Configurations in BIOS Setup

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Using an MSI 845E Max motherboard in a system that was built to spec. I sure the BIOS Setup was just set to the defaults for a one size fits all kind of thing when it was built

My question has to do with the PNP / PCI Configurations in BIOS Setup. The first feature is

" Plug and Play Aware O/S - When set to YES, BIOS will only initialize the PnP cards used for booting (VGA, IDE, SCSI). The rest of the cards will be initialized by the PnP operating system like Win 98, etc. When set to NO, BIOS will initialize all the PnP cards. Select Yes if the operating system is Plug & Play aware. Settings: Yes, No.

All along it has been set to NO. The question is if I set it to YES (ie. WinXP is PnP aware) will there be any benifits or negative side affects or conflicts with modems, capture cards, etc

Sorry for the seemingly simpleton question

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Fox

If you set PnP Aware to yes, then XP can assign virtual irq's to all
additional cards, or can share irq's where necessary

If you set to no, then the MB sets the irq's and reports them to windows. If
your MB is very feature packed, you may not be able to use all the features

HTH Fox


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| Using an MSI 845E Max motherboard in a system that was built to spec. I
sure the BIOS Setup was just set to the defaults for a one size fits all
kind of thing when it was built.
|
| My question has to do with the PNP / PCI Configurations in BIOS Setup.
The first feature is:
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| " Plug and Play Aware O/S - When set to YES, BIOS will only initialize
the PnP cards used for booting (VGA, IDE, SCSI). The rest of the cards will
be initialized by the PnP operating system like Win 98, etc. When set to
NO, BIOS will initialize all the PnP cards. Select Yes if the operating
system is Plug & Play aware. Settings: Yes, No."
|
| All along it has been set to NO. The question is if I set it to YES (ie.
WinXP is PnP aware) will there be any benifits or negative side affects or
conflicts with modems, capture cards, etc.
|
| Sorry for the seemingly simpleton question.
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| r
 

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