Chapter 4: BIOS
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resources. When this option is set to "Disabled", the serial port physically becomes
unavailable. Select "2F8/IRQ3" to allow the serial port to use 2F8 as its I/O port
address and IRQ 3 for the interrupt address. The options are Disabled,
2F8/IRQ3
,
3E8/IRQ4 and 2E8/IRQ3.
Serial Port 2 Mode
Tells BIOS which mode to select for serial port 2. The options are
Normal
, IrDA
and
ASKIR.
Parallel Port Address
This option specifi es the I/O address used by the parallel port. Select Disabled to
prevent the parallel port from accessing any system resources. When the value of
this option is set to Disabled, the printer port becomes unavailable. Select
378
to
allow the parallel port to use 378 as its I/O port address. The majority of parallel
ports on computer systems use IRQ7 and I/O Port 378H as the standard setting.
Select 278 to allow the parallel port to use 278 as its I/O port address. Select 3BC
to allow the parallel port to use 3BC as its I/O port address.
Parallel Port Mode
Specify the parallel port mode. The options are
Normal
, Bi-directional, EPP
and ECP.
Parallel Port IRQ
Select the IRQ (interrupt request) for the parallel port. The options are IRQ5
and
IRQ7
.
