Pine Technology TL-BX31 User Manual page 39

INTEL PII
User's Guide
IDE Hard Disk Drive Mode Setting
The BIOS support two kind of methods to set up your IDE Hard Disk Drive Mode. One is auto, the other
is manual mode.
In auto mode BIOS can auto detect HDD's mode, but in some old type HDD that can't meet ATA
specification, the BIOS will detect wrong Mode and cause system boot fail. You must change auto mode
to manual mode and try a proper mode that can meet your HDD specification. There are five modes
defined in manual mode. They are mode 0,1,2,3,4. The default setting for on board timing is auto mode
that it will provide optimum performance for your HDD.
IDE HDD Block Mode
Choose Enabled or Disabled. If your IDE HDD supports BLOCK MODE, then you can enable this
function to speed up the HDD Access time. If not, please disable this function to avoid an HDD Access
Error.
Onboard PCI IDE Controller
The on Chip PCI IDE controller is default "Enable" setting, if you disable On-Chip primary and secondary
PCI IDE, it will disable the on board IDE controller. Make sure you do this if you want to use an IDE
controller other than on the mainboard IDE controller.
Onboard FDD Controller
The default setting for the "Onboard FDC Controller" is "Enabled". This setting allows you to connect
your floppy disk drives to the onboard "Floppy" connector. Choose the "Disabled" setting if you want to
use a separate controller card.
Serial Port
The "Onboard Serial Port 1" and "Onboard serial Port 2" lines control the assignments for the mainboard's
two onboard serial connectors. They can be assigned as COM1, COM2, COM3, COM4 for serial Port 1
and serial Port 2, or disable.
Parallel Port
The options for "Onboard Parallel Port" is 378H. This item controls the on-board parallel port connector,
if you are using an I/O card with a parallel port, make sure the address don't conflict.
Parallel Port Mode
The options for "Onboard LPT Port Mode" is default SPP mode, you can select EPP, ECP, and SPP Mode
just change setting, if you have a parallel interface peripheral device, use one of the parallel port
enhancements and set this line for the enhanced mode that your peripheral supports.
ECP Mode Use DMA
The option for "ECP Mode use DMA" is default DMA3 if your system has ECP preheat device, when you
are using some I/O card, make sure the DMA channel don't conflict. When you have done with this
section, press the <ESC> key to go back to the main screen.
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