Michel Posted March 17, 2003 Report Share Posted March 17, 2003 Saw this for the first time during startup: Setting up isa pnp devices What are isa pnp devices? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Counterspy Posted March 17, 2003 Report Share Posted March 17, 2003 ISA is a bus standard for onboard slots that support devices like modems that plug into the motherboard. It is now superceded by the PCI bus standard and has for the most part disappeared except on older motherboards. PNP is Plug and Play, a Microsoft/Intel invention that allows devices to be identified as soon as they are plugged in to the motherboard. Put ISA and PCI together and you get ISAPNP or PCIPNP. ISA was supported to allow legacy devices to be used, principally sound cards and modems. My motherboard is four years old and has two ISA slots and four PCI slots. I still use a 56K modem along side my PCI ethernet card for high speed internet. I For reasons I have never bothered to pay attention to, it is recommended that PNP be disabled in the BIOS for Linux installations. IIRC a new standard is intended to replace PCI to increase the speed of bus access as processors get faster and faster, making all PCI cards obsolete. Counterspy Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mtweidmann Posted March 17, 2003 Report Share Posted March 17, 2003 In case your interested ISA stands for: Industry Standard Architecture bus. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Michel Posted March 17, 2003 Author Report Share Posted March 17, 2003 thanks. I don't see a 2-year-old motherboard as old, but it actually is.... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Counterspy Posted March 17, 2003 Report Share Posted March 17, 2003 The question is does it have ISA slots? Your motherboard manual or computer docs should tell you without taking the case apart. Isa slots are longer than PCI slots and usually a different colour. Counterspy Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
willisoften Posted March 17, 2003 Report Share Posted March 17, 2003 ISA Slots are pretty damn good. Back before broadband :) I had a 56K ISA modem which I honestly believe is better than any PCI modem I've ever seen. It worked (still works) with any Linux Distro I threw at it. I used to wonder what all the fuss about winmodems was. Ah those were the days. About 4 years ago! On my last ABIT mobo there was an ISA slot but if you had no devices you could disable it in the BIOS. Maybe you can do the same. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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