13.4. Using Tools and Diagnostic Procedures for Personal Computer Components
The various tools that you can use to discover the available resources on a PC can make installing new hardware a lot easier. Unfortunately, the tools are of little use unless you understand the information they present. In this section, we discuss the various resources that might be used by PC components and how those resources are used. Although these topics are rarely tested today because of their automation in modern operating systems, their continued existence makes knowing about them worthwhile. As a result, this section should be treated as informational, as opposed to objectives based.
Memory address range, interrupt request lines, direct memory access channels, ...
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