4.9Peripheral Setup

The IDE hard drive controllers can support up to two separate hard drives. These drives have a master/slave relationship that is determined by the cabling configuration used to attach them to the controller. Your system supports two IDE controllers--a primary and a secondary--so you can install up to four separate hard disks.

PIO means Programmed Input/Output. Rather than having the BIOS issue a series of commands to affect the transfer to or from the disk drive, PIO allows the BIOS to tell the controller what it wants and then let the controller and the CPU perform the complete task by them. This is much simpler and more efficient (also faster).

AMIBIOS SETUP – PERIPHERAL SETUP

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OnBoard Serial Port 1

3F8/COM1

Available Options:

OnBoard Serial Port 2

2F8/COM2

` Auto

 

Serial Port2 Mode

Normal

Disabled

 

IR Pin Select

IRRX/IRTX

Enabled

 

OnBoard Serial Port3

3E8/COM3

 

 

Serial Port3 IRQ

10

 

 

OnBoard Serial Port4

2E8/COM4

 

 

Serial Port4 IRQ

11

 

 

OnBoard IDE

Both

 

 

OnBoard AC’97 Audio

Enabled

 

 

 

 

ESC: Exit

: Sel

 

 

PgUp/PgDn: Modify

 

 

F2/F3: Color

 

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