Advanced

The Advanced menu screen contains parameters involving your hardware devices. It also provides advanced settings of the system.

PhoenixBIOS Setup Utility

 

Info.

Main

Advanced

 

Security

Boot

Exit

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Infrared Port (FIR)

[Enabled]

 

 

Item Specific Help

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Base I/O address:

[2F8]

 

 

 

 

 

 

Interrupt:

 

[IRQ 3]

 

 

Configure Infrared Port

 

 

DMA channel:

[DMA 1]

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

using options:

 

 

Parallel port:

 

[Auto]

 

 

[Disable]

 

 

 

Mode:

 

[ECP]

 

 

No configuration

 

 

Base I/O address:

[378]

 

 

 

 

 

 

Interrupt:

 

[IRQ 7]

 

 

[Enabled]

 

 

 

DMA channel:

[DMA 3]

 

 

User configuration

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

[Auto]

 

 

 

Infrared Port (FIR):

[Enabled]

 

 

BIOS or OS chooses

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

configuration

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

(OS Controlled)

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Displayed when controlled

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

by OS

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

F1 Help

↑ ↓ Select Item

F5/F6 Change Values

 

F9 Setup Defaults

 

Esc Exit

← → Select Menu

Enter Select 4Sub-Menu

F10 Save and Exit

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

The table below describes the parameters in the screen. Settings in boldface are the default and suggested parameter settings.

.

Parameter

Description

Options

 

 

 

Infrared Port

Enables, disables or auto detects the infrared port.

Enabled/Disabled/Auto

Base I/O address

Sets the I/O address of the infrared port.

2F8/3F8/3E8/2E8

 

 

 

Interrupt

Sets the interrupt request of the parallel port.

IRQ3/IRQ4

 

 

 

DMA channel

Sets a DMA channel for the infrared port.

DMA/DMA3

 

 

 

Parallel Port

Enables, disables or auto detects the parallel port.

Enabled/Disabled/Auto

 

 

 

Mode

Sets the operation mode of the parallel port.

ECP, EPP, Output only or Bi-

 

 

directional

Base I/O address

Sets the I/O address of the parallel port.

378/278

 

 

 

Interrupt

Sets the interrupt request of the parallel port.

IRQ7/IRQ5

 

 

 

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Acer 1520 manual Advanced, Parameter Description Options, IRQ3/IRQ4, DMA/DMA3, IRQ7/IRQ5

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