P4C800-E dlx- in BIOS, is it better to enable Plug&Play O/S or not?

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• Jul 22, 2005

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Hi.

In the BIOS, there is the setting (Plug & play O/S- YES/NO).Is it better to set this to yes or no when installing Win XP?

IE does Win XP or the BIOS do the best job?

Thanks.............

 

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• Jul 23, 2005

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Set it to ( Plug & play) , and yes the OS will do the rest .

Hey Europe this is Greece calling , were are you from ?

 

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Kiriakos said:

Set it to ( Plug & play) , and yes the OS will do the rest .

Hey Europe this is Greece calling , were are you from ?

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Hi Greece calling,
Thanks for reply.
I'll set it over to plug and play next time I reformat, as it's set to "no" at the moment.

I'm an English guy, living in the south of Germany.

 

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Duster said:

Hi Greece calling,
Thanks for reply.
I'll set it over to plug and play next time I reformat, as it's set to "no" at the moment.

I'm an English guy, living in the south of Germany.

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Oh NOW .. you do not need to reformat , just set it to (plug and play) ..

 

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i found better stability with it left at no, by setting yes you allow windows to asign the IRQ settings to each peice of hardware as it wants to, i went from no to yes and i started to have hardware confilts and windows got confused. I don't think there is any advantage to setting it to use yes.

 

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Hi Guys,

Thanks for the good replys.

At the moment, it's set to "NO", and my AGP video card is sharing an IRQ with USB, do you think this is a problem?

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In any sellection as NO or Yes , you need to reinstall all your drivers from the begining ..

Like Video card , sound , or what ever extra you got .

The Systems hardware resorces , are controled by the OS , and there is nothing for you to do in there . ( USB - COM Ports - etc etc )