Advanced Chipset Settings - Supermicro X6DVL-EG User Manual

Serial Port1 Address
This option specifi es the base I/O port address and Interrupt Request address
of serial port 1. Select
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, 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, 2E8/IRQ3.
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.
ECP Mode DMA Channel
This feature allows the AMI BIOS to select the ECP DMA Mode for the parallel
port. The Options are: DMA0, DMA1 and DMA3.
Parallel Port IRQ
This option allows the user to select the IRQ (interrupt request) for the parallel
port. The options are IRQ5 and IRQ7.

Advanced Chipset Settings

This item allows the user to confi gure the Advanced Chipset settings for the
system.
Disabled to prevent the serial port from accessing any
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