System Setu p Program A-5
Power Management With the Power Management cat egory
enabled, DPMS monitors an d most EIDE
drives automatically switch into low-power
mode during periods of system inactivity.
NOTE: Not all EIDE hard-disk drives support
this feature. Enabling this feature for dri ves
that do not support it may cause the EIDE
driv e to become ino perable until the sys tem is
restarted and the Power Management cate-
gor y is disabled.
Wakeup On LAN Determines whether the Wakeup On LAN fea-
ture is set.
Sound Determines whether the integrated audio con-
troller is set to On (default) or Off. When
Sound is set to Off, no sounds are emitted
from any attached ex ternal speakers or from
the on-board speake r, except for beep codes.
Set Sound to Off if you want to use a sound
e xpansion car d instead of the integrat ed audio
control ler or if y ou need the resourc es used b y
the control ler.
NIC Determines the on-board NIC setting. The set-
ting choices are On, On (PXE Off), or Off. T he
default setting is On (PXE Off), which means
that the NIC is enabled but not set to boot the
system remotely from a network server.
Mouse Enables or disables the built-in PS/2-
compatible mouse port. Disabling the mouse
allows an expansion card to use IRQ 12.
Serial Port 1
Serial Port 2 Configures the system’s built-in serial ports.
These categories may be set to Auto (default)
to autom atically configure a port, to a specific
designation (COM1 or COM3 for Serial Port 1;
COM2 or COM4 for Ser ial Port 2), or to Off.
Parallel Port Configures the system’s built-in parallel port.
The port’s I/O address may be set to 278H,
3BCH, or 378H. Otherwise, the port m ay be
disabled.