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System devices – Acer 530 User Manual

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Chapter 2

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

Description

Options

Internal Touchpad

Determines whether or not to disable the internal
pointing device as the PS/2 mouse is connected.

Both

or Auto

Infrared Port (FIR)

Enables, disables or auto detects the infrared port.

Enabled

/Disabled/Auto

Parallel Port

Enables, disables or auto detects the parallel port.

Enabled

/Disabled/Auto

Mode

Sets the operation mode of the parallel port.

ECP

, EPP, Normal or Bi-directional

Base I/O address

Sets the I/O address of the parallel port. This
parameter is enabled only if Mode is set to ECP or
Bi-directional.

378h/

278h

Interrupt

Sets the interrupt request of the parallel port.

IRQ7

or IRQ5

DMA Channel

Sets a DMA channel for the printer to operate in
ECP mode. This parameter is enabled only if Mode
is set to ECP.

DMA3

or DMA1