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PnP System BIOS, PnP Operating System
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PnP System BIOS The PnP system BIOS is the lowest level of your PnP system. Its main functions are to provide information on the resource settings of your system devices and to configure PnP cards. Some PnP system BIOS configure PnP cards automatically. Other BIOS give you an option in their setup utilities to disable their PnP configuration capability. Please refer to your system manual for more details. PnP Operating System A PnP operating system provides a fully PnP user environment. It can support PnP cards on its own, with or without a PnP system BIOS. Its main functions are to determine which resources have been reserved by the legacy and PnP cards in your system, and then dynamically allocate free resources to newly added PnP cards. Windows 95 is an example of a PnP operating system. When you install or upgrade to Windows 95 for the first time, it will automatically determine the resource settings of the existing cards in your system and allocate other resources to new PnP cards. When you add a legacy card later, however, you will need to run the "Add New Hardware" wizard in Control Panel so that Windows 95 can detect this card. To avoid any conflicts that may be introduced by the hardware settings of this new legacy card, Windows 95 may also re-assign different resources to existing PnP cards. 13