Changing Com Ports; Enabling The Infrared Sensor - Dell Inspiron 4100 Manual

System Setup Program: Dell Inspiron 4100
came with the device.
Setting Parallel Mode to Disabled disables the parallel port and its assigned LPT
address, freeing its interrupt for another device to use.

Changing COM Ports

Serial Port allows you to map the address of the serial port, or to disable the serial
port and its assigned COM address, freeing that interrupt for another device to use.

Enabling the Infrared Sensor

1. Press
Basic Device Configuration heading of the system setup program.
2. Press the down-arrow key to highlight Disabled next to Infrared Data Port.
3. Press the right-arrow key to highlight a COM port.
Ensure that the COM port that you highlight is different from the Serial Port
COM port.
4. Press the down-arrow key to highlight Fast IR or Slow IR.
Dell recommends that you use Fast IR. If the infrared device cannot
communicate with your computer, turn off the computer and repeat this
procedure to change the setting to Slow IR.
5. Press
The Microsoft® Windows® operating system starts automatically.
6. Follow the instructions on the screen while the infrared sensor driver is
installing.
7. At the end of the install process, click Yes to restart the computer.
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and repeat to locate the Infrared Data Port option under the
to save the changes and exit the system setup program.