Step 10 Connect I/O

Onboard Adapters The MegaRUM PCI motherboard has:

twoserialports(J8andJ9),

aparallelport(J2),

twoUltraWideSCSIconnectors,

twoUltranarrowSCSIconnectors,

anIDEcontrolleronthePCIbus(theprimaryIDEconnectorisJ12andthesecondaryIDEconnectoris J10),and

afloppycontroller(J1).

The serial and parallel port connectors are described below.

Conflicts

AMIBIOS minimizes conflicts between onboard and offboard I/O devices.

 

AMIBIOS automatically checks the adapter cards installed in the expansion

 

slots on the MegaRUM PCI motherboard for a hard disk or floppy controller

 

and serial or parallel ports.

J8 SER1 J9 SER2 J8 and J9 are 9-pin connectors that provide an AT-compatible serial port interface. Connect the cables supplied with the motherboard to J8 and J9. The serial port base I/O port address and other serial port settings can be selected in Peripheral Setup in WINBIOS® Setup.

The J8 and J9 pinout is shown below.

Pin

Signal Description

Pin

Signal Description

1

Carrier Detect

6

Data Set Ready

2

Receive Data

7

Request to Send

3

Transmit Data

8

Clear to Send

4

Data Terminal

9

Ring Indicator

 

Ready

 

 

5

Ground

10

CUT PIN

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American Megatrends MAN-758 manual Connect I/O, Conflicts, Pin Signal Description

MAN-758 specifications

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