L i f e B o o k A S e r i e s N o t e b o o k B I O S
COMPONENTS MENU
The Components menu allows you to select several of the settings for your system, including the following:
■Serial port (COM and IR) settings
■Parallel (LPT) port settings
■PS/2 device settings
■Lid closure and Numlock settings
Serial Ports
LPT Port
PS/2 Device
_ Resume On LAN
✓Lan Controller
Wireless Controller
✓Modem Controller
LID
Keyboard Numlock
✓System Beep
| Figure 11. | Components Menu | ||
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Serial Ports |
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| Serial Ports submenu. This |
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| allows you to select the |
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| port addresses and inter- |
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| ports. (For more details, |
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| see Serial Ports submenu |
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| later in this section). |
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LPT Port |
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| LPT Port submenu. This |
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| allows you to select the |
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| port addresses and defini- |
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| tions for the parallel port. |
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| (For more details, see LPT |
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| Ports submenu later in |
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| this section). |
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Menu Field | Default | Description |
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PS/2 Device | [Checked] | When selected, opens the |
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| PS/2 Device submenu. |
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| This allows you to enable |
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| or disable the internal |
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| pointing device. (For |
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| more details, see PS/2 |
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| Device submenu later in |
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| this section). |
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Resume On | [Unchecked] | Enabling this feature |
LAN |
| allows the system to |
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| wake up when the inter- |
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| nal LAN receives a special |
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| message (“Magic |
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| Packet”) while in Suspend |
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| mode. |
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Lan | [Checked] | Allows you to enable or |
Controller |
| disable the internal LAN |
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| controller. |
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Wireless | [Checked] | Allows you to enable or |
Controller |
| disable the internal Wire- |
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| less controller. |
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Modem | [Checked] | Allows you to enable or |
Controller |
| disable the internal |
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| modem controller. |
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LID | When selected, opens the | |
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| LID submenu. This deter- |
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| mines what action the |
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| system should take when |
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| the lid is opened and |
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| closed. (For more details, |
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| see LID submenu later in |
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| this section). |
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Keyboard | When selected, opens the | |
Numlock |
| Keyboard Numlock sub- |
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| menu. This determines |
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| whether the numerical |
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| keypads are enabled or |
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| disabled. (For more |
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| details, see Keyboard |
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| Numlock submenu later |
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| in this section). |
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System Beep | [Checked] | Enables or disables the |
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| System beep. |
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