NEC VXi manual Peripheral Setup, 3-16Using the BIOS Setup Utility

Peripheral Setup

The Peripheral Setup menu displays the connection locations between the system and the Input/Output (I/O) ports and lets you specify different port assignments as needed.

Peripheral Setup

Parameter	Default Setting	Alternate Setting(s)
USB Controller	Disabled	Enabled
Internal Hard Drive	Enabled	Disabled
Serial Port	Auto	Disabled/(PnP OS Setup1)
		COM1,IRQ4/COM2,IRQ3
		COM3,IRQ4/COM4,IRQ3
Parallel Port	Auto	Disabled/LPT1/LPT2
		(PnP OS Setup1)
Parallel Mode	Bi-Dir	Uni-Dir/ECP/EPP
IR Serial Port	Disabled	Auto/(PnP OS Setup1)
		COM2,IRQ3/COM3,IRQ4/
		COM4,IRQ3

1Appears only when configured by the Windows 98 device manager.

Peripheral Setup allows you to define the following functions.

!USB Controller — Enables or disables the USB controller.

!Internal Hard Drive — Enables or disables the internal hard drive.

!Serial Port — Disables the port or changes its address assignment.

!Parallel Port/Parallel Mode — Disables or reassigns the parallel port and select a parallel port mode.

!IR Serial Port — Enables, disables, or reassigns the IR serial port.

3-16 Using the BIOS Setup Utility