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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Mar. 09, 1999
Filed:
Aug. 29, 1997
Narendar B Sahgal, Beaverton, OR (US);
Ajay V Bhatt, El Dorado Hills, CA (US);
Philip W Martin, Banks, OR (US);
Sudarshan Bala Cadambi, Portland, OR (US);
Mark R Enstrom, Redmond, WA (US);
Ralph A Lipe, Woodinville, WA (US);
David W Voth, Redmond, WA (US);
Robert T Short, Kirkland, WA (US);
Intel Corporation, Santa Clara, CA (US);
Microsoft Corporation, Redmond, WA (US);
Abstract
A method and apparatus for automatically configuring circuit cards used in a computer system. The present invention includes a method and apparatus that enables the circuit cards to be automatically configured during system boot up without any user intervention. The present invention also includes a method for the computer system software to detect resources requested by the circuit cards in order to resolve any system resource conflicts.