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3.7.1 OnChip IDE Channel 0/1
Select "Enabled" to activate each on-board IDE channel separately, Select "Disabled", if you install
an add-on IDE Control card
3.7.2 IDE Prefetch Mode
Enable prefetching for IDE drive interfaces that support its faster drive accesses. If you are getting
disk drive errors, change the setting to omit the drive interface where the errors occur. Depending
on the configuration of your IDE subsystem, this field may not appear, and it does appear when the
Internal PCI/IDE filed, above, is Disabled.
3.7.3 IDE HDD Block Mode
This feature enhances disk performance by allowing multi-sector data transfers and eliminates the
interrupt handling time for each sector.
3.7.4 Primary & Secondary Master/Slave PIO
These four PIO fields let you set a PIO mode (0-4) for each of four IDE devices. When under "Auto"
mode, the system automatically set the best mode for each device
3.7.5 Primary & Secondary Master/Slave UDMA
When set to "Auto" mode, the system will detect if the hard drive supports Ultra DMA mode.
3.7.6 Init Display First
Select "AGP" or "PCI Slot" for system to detect first when boot-up.
3.7.7 Onboard FDC Controller
Select "Enabled" to activate the on-board FDC
Select "Disabled" to activate an add-on FDC
3.7.8 Onboard Serial Port 1 & 2
Select an address and corresponding interrupt for the first/second serial port. The default value for
the first serial port is "3F8/IRQ4" and the second serial port is "2F8/IRQ3".
3.7.9 UR1 & 2 Mode Select
Select to activate the Infrared transfer function.
3.7.10 Onboard Parallel Port
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