Installing and Configuring Devices

If your personal work area is anything like mine, you have stacks of PC catalogs sitting on shelves next to your desk. I have thick volumes from Ingram Micro, Tech Data, and Gates Arrow, as well as books from a dozen or so other wholesalers, not to mention mounds of mailers from retailers and hundreds of spam messages every day from resellers and jobbers and manufacturers.

No book could hope to detail the installation steps for all those different components. The installation steps outlined in this topic are intended to give you an idea of how the system reacts when new devices are added and where to find the tools to configure the devices after they are installed. The troubleshooting section at the end of the ...

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