Patent ID: 6973525

Claim:
A system for managing PCI bus numbering of an information handling system, the system comprising: a chipset for communicating with a video device through one of an integrated video controller or a video device card inserted in a video device card slot, the chipset operable to interface with the video device card through a first PCI bus; a PCI bridge interfaced with the chipset through a second PCI bus, the second PCI bus having a first portion with a numbering identification associated with the PCI bridge; one or more PCI slots interfaced with the PCI bridge through the second PCI bus, the second PCI bus having a second portion with a numbering identification associated with the PCI slots; and a PCI bridge controller interfaced with the PCI bridge and operable to disable the PCI bridge if the chipset is interfaced with the video device card through the first PCI bus, the disabling of the PCI bridge maintaining the numbering identification of the second PCI bus associated with the PCI slots.