Acer 280, 230 manual Device Configuration, Ecp

I/O Device Configuration

The parameters in this screen are for advanced users only. You do not need to change the values in this screen because these values are already optimized.

The I/O Device Configuration screen assigns resources to basic computer communication hardware.

P h o e n ix B IO S S e tu p U tility

A d v a n c e d

		I/O	D ev ice C onfiguration				Item S pecific H elp
						C onfigure parallel port
						U sing options:
P arallel P ort:			[E nabled]			[D isabled]
M ode:			[B i- direction]			N o configuration
B ase I/O address:			[378]
Interrupt:			[IR Q 7]			[E nabled]
						U ser C onfiguration
						[A uto]
						B IO S or O S chooses
						c onfiguration
						(O S C ontrolled)
						D isplayed w hen
						C ontrolled by O S
F 1	H elp	S elec t Item		F 5 /F 6	C hange V alues	F 9	S etup D efaults
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The following table describes the parameters in this screen. Settings in boldface are the default and suggested parameter settings.

Parameter	Description	Options
Parallel Port	Enables or disable the parallel port.	Enabled or Disabled
	The parallel port is a PnP device. Enabled/Disabled
	setting won’t affect the Windows Device Manager
	setting of the parallel port.
	Help: [Enable]: User configuration
	[Disable]: No configuration
	Mode: Sets operation mode of the parallel port.	Bi-directional, Output only, EPP,
	Only set the parallel post operation mode in BIOS
		ECP
	setup. If set to be ECP mode, the Windows will
	assume the parallel port as the ECP port.
	Base I/O address: If operation mode is set to Base I/O	378, 3BC, 278
	address, sets the base I/O address of the parallel port.
	Interrupt: If operation mode is set to interrupt, sets the	IRQ7, IQ5
	interrupt request of the parallel port.

NOTE: When the device is disabled, all the sub-items will be hidden.

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