Sometime on Aug 21, Mayuresh A Kathe assembled some asciibets to say:
I think there is something amiss, how can you plug in a PCI card into the machine while it is on?
I think that technology is not called PNP, its called hot-plugin or something like that... don't remember the name.
That technology "is" called PNP, also called Hot-Connect or
`Hot-Swapping' is what we call the plugging in/out of hardware while the machine is running. Plug and Play is when you plug in new hardware, and it runs without having to do any configuration. Note that plug and play says nothing about the power on/off state of the machine. Hot swappable devices would generally be plug and play, but that is not an absolute requirement. You'd just have to have the drivers already installed.
Oh, and by the way. I have plugged PCI cards in and out while the machine was running. In fact, someone was typing out a document while I was doing this. It was a sound card I think.
Philip