Installing NT4 Server on a newly-built computer - choose PnP OS in BIOS or not?

[Fun Guy]

I wonder what the advantages and disadvantages and associated issues are with doing each. Anyone who has tried both - can you give me the rap sheet?

Looking for people who have had experience with doing it both ways and can give me the pros/cons.

 

[Shadow07]

I would set the BIOS to non-PnP OS. Windows NT 4 is not a true PnP OS.

 

[Zach]

ditto.

 

[Locutus of Board]

You can add PNP support, albeit crappy, by installing PNP from the NT tools.

 

[Shadow07]

What? What NT tools?

 

[Zach]

don't bother with it unless some hardware aint working, I used it for a NIC once though and it worked out.

 

[Shadow07]

No, I was asking what NT tools he was referring to. I have never seen an "add-on" packet that included true PnP support for NT 4. I am just checking to see if he is just spewing garbage.

 

[dolphins]

test

pnp on nt4 is located on the cd itself goto drvlib folder, then pnpisa folder within , goto x86 folder in there right click on the pnpisa.inf left click install reboot magic pnp on nt4. but i'm with the rest skip it and stay non pnp on nt4

 

[dirtboy]

Disable PnP in the BIOS, if enabled, it will potentially cause all kinds of problems.

 

[Motorheader]

Disable PNP OS in bios.

Also the PnP enabler was mostly meant for ISA cards for Legacy support because the roots of PNP and WinNT4 run back 5+ years. Only install it if it absolutely necessary.