Advanced
The Advanced menu screen contains parameters involving your hardware devices. It also provides advanced settings of the system.
The table below describes the parameters in the screen. Settings in boldface are the default and suggested parameter settings.
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Serial Port | Enables, disables or auto detects the serial port. | Enabled/Disabled/Auto |
Parallel Port | Enables, disables or auto detects the parallel port. | Enabled/Disabled/Auto |
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Mode | Sets the operation mode of the parallel port. | ECP, EPP, Normal or |
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Base I/O address | Sets the I/O address of the parallel port. This | 378h/278h/3BCH |
| parameter is enabled only if Mode is set to ECP or |
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| Mode is set to ECP. |
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Interrupt | Sets the interrupt request of the parallel port. | IRQ7/IRQ5 |
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DMA channel | Sets a DMA channel for the printer to operate in | DMA3/DMA1 |
| ECP mode. This parameter is enabled only if Mode |
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Internal Touchpad | Determines whether or not to disable the internal | Both or Auto |
| pointing device as the PS/2 mouse is connected. |
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Infrared Port (FIR) | Enables, disables or auto detects the infrared port. | Disabled/EnabledDisabled/Auto |
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