H8DCE User's Manual Super IO Confi guration Serial Port1 Address This option specifi es the base I/O port address and Interrupt Request address 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 and 2E8/IRQ3. Serial Port2 Address This option specifi es the base I/O port address and Interrupt Request address 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 and 2E8/IRQ3. Serial Port 2 Mode Tells BIOS which mode to select for serial port 2. The options are Normal , IrDA and ASKIR. Parallel Port Address This option specifi es 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. Parallel Port IRQ Select the IRQ (interrupt request) for the parallel port. The options are IRQ5 and IRQ7 . 4-6