reboot in operation 610 the reboot command is received and the reboot is initiated by way of example the user might be provided with a system query to initiate reboot if the user selects u201c yes u201d the reboot command is received and executed as is known the system then initiates a shut down of all system devices including a final processing of any active data the system shuts down all peripheral devices the windows u00ae operating system and begins system initialization with the bios next in operation 612 the system bios executes the boot sequence during the boot sequence the system bios goes to the storage location and reads the temporary configuration file provided in operation 604 the configuration settings for the host adapter that were written to the temporary configuration file are then written to the eeprom of the host adapter finally in operation 614 the system reboot is completed with the new settings activated it should therefore be understood that new configuration settings are not activated until the system is rebooted in operation 614 therefore the configuration settings are not activated at the time the user makes the changes and the changes are saved to the temporary configuration file in operation 606 upon reboot the system is initialized in accordance with the new settings and the method is done fig7 is a flowchart diagram 700 of the method operations performed for accessing and making changes to a host adapter in accordance with another embodiment of the invention the method begins with operation 702 in which a user is provided a gui for accessing and managing a scsi host adapter as described.