Chapter 4: AMI BIOS
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Serial Port1 Address
This option specifies the base I/O port address and Interrupt Request ad-
dress of serial port 1. Select "Disabled" to prevent the serial port from
accessing any system resources. When this option is set to Disabled, the
serial port physically becomes unavailable. Select "3F8/IRQ4" to allow the
serial port to use 3F8 as its I/O port address and IRQ 4 for the interrupt
address. The options are Disabled, 3F8/IRQ4, 3E8/IRQ4, 2E8/IRQ3.
Serial Port2 Address
This option specifies the base I/O port address and Interrupt Request ad-
dress of serial port 2. Select "Disabled" to prevent the serial port from
accessing any system resources. When this option is set to "Disabled", the
serial port physically becomes unavailable. Select "2F8/IRQ3" to allow the
serial port to use 2F8 as its I/O port address and IRQ 3 for the interrupt
address. The options are Disabled, 2F8/IRQ3, 3E8/IRQ4, 2E8/IRQ3.
Parallel Port Address
This option specifies the I/O address used by the parallel port. Select
Disabled to prevent the parallel port from accessing any system resources.
When the value of this option is set to Disabled, the printer port becomes
unavailable. Select 378 to allow the parallel port to use 378 as its I/O port
address. The majority of parallel ports on computer systems use IRQ7 and
I/O Port 378H as the standard setting. Select 278 to allow the parallel port to
use 278 as its I/O port address. Select 3BC to allow the parallel port to use
3BC as its I/O port address.
Parallel Port Mode
Specify the parallel port mode. The options are Normal, Bi-directional,
EPP and ECP.
Parellel Port IRQ
Select the IRQ (interrupt request) for the parallel port. The options
are IRQ5 and IRQ7.
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