Acer 800 manual System Devices, Parameter Description Options, IRQ 5/IRQ, DMA 1/DMA, Ntsc/Pal

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System Devices

The System Devices 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	Disabled/Enabled/Auto
Parallel Port	Enables, disables or auto detects the parallel port	Disabled/Enabled/Auto
Mode	Sets the operation mode if the parallel port	Normal/Bi-directional/ECP/EPP
Base I/O address	Set the base I/O address for the parallel port.	378h/278h/3BCh
Interrupt	Set the interrupt for the parallel port	IRQ 5/IRQ 7
DMA channel	Set the DMA channel for the parallel port	DMA 1/DMA 3
Television type	Select TV standard	NTSC/PAL
PS/2 Mouse	Enables, disables or auto detects the PS/2	Disabled/Enabled/Auto Detect
	mouse
Infrared Port (FIR)	Enables, disables or auto detects the infrared	Disabled/Enabled/Auto
	port

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