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● To prevent injury and/or malfunction, do not touch PC board components not
specified.
● To prevent injury and/or device failure, do not touch the metal bracket on the
motherboard at the rear of the PC main unit.
To install expansion cards, "resources" must be set.
The floppy disk drive or hard disk drive inside the PC uses predetermined paths specific to those
devices when transferring data with the CPU and memory.
These paths include I/O port addresses, DMA channels, and interrupt levels (IRQ), which are
generally called "resources."
Before installing expansion cards, read the following descriptions.
■ Expansion cards for PCI bus (Plug & Play compatible cards)
When PCI bus expansion cards are installed, resources are set automatically.
Card installation procedures differ depending on the operating system.
Card installation procedure:
For PCs using Windows 98,
( see "Expansion card installation procedure for a PC using Windows 98 on page 28)
For PCs using Windows NT,
( see "Expansion card installation procedure for a PC using Windows NT on page 29)
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