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.

Parameter

Description

Options

 

 

 

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

 

 

 

Mode

Sets the operation mode of the parallel port.

ECP, EPP, Normal or Bi-directional

 

 

 

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

 

 

Bi-directional. This parameter is enabled only if

 

 

Mode is set to ECP.

 

 

 

 

Interrupt

Sets the interrupt request of the parallel port.

IRQ7/IRQ5

 

 

 

DMA channel

Sets a DMA channel for the printer to operate in

DMA3/DMA1

 

ECP mode. This parameter is enabled only if Mode

 

 

is set to ECP.

 

 

 

 

Internal Touchpad

Determines whether or not to disable the internal

Both or Auto

 

pointing device as the PS/2 mouse is connected.

 

Infrared Port (FIR)

Enables, disables or auto detects the infrared port.

Disabled/EnabledDisabled/Auto

 

 

 

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