System Devices - Acer TravelMate 800 Series Service Manual

System Devices

The System Devices screen contains parameters involving your hardware devices. It also provides advanced
settings of the system.
The table below describes the parameters in the screen. Settings in boldface are the default and suggested
parameter settings.
Parameter
Serial Port
Parallel Port
Mode
Base I/O address
Interrupt
DMA channel
Television type
PS/2 Mouse
Infrared Port (FIR)
38
Description
Enables, disables or auto detects the serial port
Enables, disables or auto detects the parallel port
Sets the operation mode if the parallel port
Set the base I/O address for the parallel port.
Set the interrupt for the parallel port
Set the DMA channel for the parallel port
Select TV standard
Enables, disables or auto detects the PS/2
mouse
Enables, disables or auto detects the infrared
port
Options
Disabled/Enabled/Auto
Disabled/Enabled/Auto
Normal/Bi-directional/ECP/EPP
378h/278h/3BCh
IRQ 5/IRQ 7
DMA 1/DMA 3
NTSC/PAL
Disabled/Enabled/Auto Detect
Disabled/Enabled/Auto
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