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daywane:

how did you mess up window on hard drive with knopix cd?
also did your modem work with knopix? or did you try it?
I only ask becouse I want a modem knopix sees.

Hoopz:


--- Quote ---"So should PNP OS be enabled or disabled???" I set it to disabled - like the websites said.  2600 said I did the right thing, but Bloinkxp said most websites have it incorrectly.  Didn't seem to make much difference.


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It probably wont affect it much either way as you found out.

I found this to explain the differences.

"setting the PNP OS Installed feature to No allows the BIOS to configure all devices under the assumption that the operating system cannot do so. Therefore, all hardware settings are fixed by the BIOS at boot up and will not be changed by the operating system.

On the other hand, if you set the feature to Yes, the BIOS will only configure critical devices that are required to boot up the system. The other devices are then configured by the operating system. This allows the operating system some flexibility in shuffling system resources like IRQs and IO ports to avoid conflicts. It also gives you some degree of freedom when you want to manually assign system resources."



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