Intel PT-6IBD, PT-6IZP, PT-6IBP User Manual

PT-6IBD

PT-6IZP
PT-6IBP

ATX MAINBOARD

( VER. 3.x )

USER’S MANUAL

DOC. NO. UM-IBD-E5 ...................................................................PRINTED IN TAIWAN

440BX MAINBOARD TABLE OF CONTENTS

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TABLE OF CONTENTS

Chapter & Section Page

1. INTRODUCTION ...............................................................................1-1

1.1 OVERVIEW ............................................................................................. 1-1

1.2 MAINBOARD LAYOUT ....................................................................... 1-2

1.3 SPECIFICATIONS.................................................................................. 1-3

2. INSTALLATION ................................................................................2-1

2.1 UNPACKING ........................................................................................... 2-1

2.2 AMAZING WAYS TO POWER ON THE PC SYSTEM.................... 2-2

2.3 POWER OFF THE PC SYSTEM .......................................................... 2-4

3. HARDWARE SETUP........................................................................3-1

3.1 INSTALLATION OF CPU ..................................................................... 3-1

3.2 INSTALLING THE DRAM MODULES ........................................... 3-1

3.3 CONNECTORS........................................................................................ 3-4

3.4 JUMPERS................................................................................................. 3-16

3.5 HOW TO SELECT THE CPU SPEED ................................................. 3-20

3.6 INSTALLATION OF DEVICE DRIVERS........................................... 3-23

4. AWARD BIOS SETUP .....................................................................4-1

4.1 GETTING STARTED ............................................................................ 4-1

4.2 MAIN MENU .......................................................................................... 4-2

4.3 CONTROL KEYS................................................................................... 4-2

4.4 STANDARD CMOS SETUP................................................................. 4-3

4.5 BIOS FEATURES SETUP.................................................................... 4-4

4.6 CHIPSET FEATURES SETUP............................................................ 4-6

4.7 POWER MANAGEMENT SETUP ..................................................... 4-11

4.8 INTEGRATED PERIPHERALS .......................................................... 4-16

4.9 PNP/PCI CONFIGURATION ............................................................... 4-19

4.10 LOAD SETUP DEFAULTS ................................................................ 4-23

4.11 SUPERVISOR PASSWORD / USER PASSWORD....................... 4-24

4.12 USER PASSWORD............................................................................... 4-25

4.13 IDE HDD AUTO DETECTION ........................................................ 4-27

4.14 SAVE & EXIT SETUP / EXIT WITHOUT SAVING ....................... 4-28

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SOMETHING IMPORTANT !

¶ TRADEMARKS

All trademarks used in this manual are the property of their respective owners.

¶ LOAD SETUP DEFAULTS

“LOAD SETUP DEFAULTS” is the function which will have the BIOS default

settings loaded into the CMOS memory, these default settings are the best-case
values which will optimize system performance and increase system stability This
function will be necessitated when you receive this mainboard, or when the system
CMOS data is corrupted. Please refer to the Section 4.8 for the procedures.

¶ DISCHARAGE CMOS DATA

Whenever you want to discharge the CMOS data or open the system chassis, Make

sure to disconnect the AC power first because there is always the 5V standby voltage
connected to the ATX form-factor mainboard. Without disconnecting the AC power
connector from the PC system, the mainboard can be damaged by any improper
action .

¶ WAKE ON LAN

In order to support the Wake On LAN feature, the system requires a special SPS

(Switching Power Supply), Such power supply must be able to provide at least 700
mA of driving capability on the “5V standby” voltage. Please refer to the Section 3.3
for pin assignment.

¶ WARNING !

The "Static Electricity" may cause damage to the components on the mainboard, In

order to avoid the damage to the mainboard accidentally, please discharge all static
electricity from your body before touching this mainboard.

¶ NOTICE

Information presented in this manual has been carefully checked for reliability;
however, no responsibility is assumed for inaccuracies. The information contained in
this manual is subject to change without notice.

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1. INTRODUCTION

1.1 OVERVIEW

This Mainboard is a high performance personal computer mainboard. It is a Slot1,
ATX form-factor mainboard with the Intel® 82440BX/ZX AGPset™ and
Winbond® I/O chipset. There are the A.G.P. (Accelerated Graphics Port) and PCI
Local Bus on the mainboard.. It is designed for 233MHz, 266MHz, 300 MHz,
333MHz, 350MHz, 366 MHz ,400MHz, 433MHz, 450MHz, 466MHz and
500MHz high performance Pentium™ II and Celeron™ (S.E.C. Cartridge)
processors

This mainboard is designed by using the Intel

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82440BX or 82440ZX AGPset™
system chipset. When different chipset is installed on the board, the feature of the
following mainboards will have different feature as following:

Model Name Chipset PCI Slot DIMM Socket ECC

PT-6IBD BX 5 4 YES

PT-6IBP BX 5 3 YES
PT-6IZP ZX 4 2 NO

This mainboard has built-in two channel “PIO” and “Ultra DMA/33 Bus Master”
mode PCI IDE ports, one Floppy Disk control port, two high speed Serial ports
(UARTs) and one multi-mode Parallel port and supports PS/2™ mouse, IR and
USB ports. It is designed to support the high performance Pentium™ II and
Celeron™ processors for the high-end and true GREEN-PC computer systems.

Pentium™ II and Celeron™ are the 64-bit processors with RISC technology,
which offers several key features such as built-in 512K/128K L2 cache, 12-stage
super-pipeline architecture, out of order execution …. etc. In order to optimize of
its capabilities and performances, the 32-bit Operating System (such as
Windows® NT and OS/2™) and 32-bit applications are recommended.

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1.2 MAINBOARD LAYOUT

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1.3 SPECIFICATIONS

¥ CPU

Intel® Pentium™ II or Celeron™ processor 233, 266, 300, 333. 350, 366, 400,

433, 450, 466 and up to 500MHz.

¥ CPU VCC

Switching Voltage Regulator circuits on board, supports +1.80V DC through

+3.5V DC CPU Core Voltage.

Note : The CPU Core Voltage will be Detected and adjusted automatically by the

VID-pin on the CPU, so there is no manual-adjustment required to select the CPU
voltage. Simply plug in the CPU and start immediately.

¥ WORD SIZE

Data Path : 8-bit, 16-bit, 32-bit, 64-bit
Address Path : 32-bit

¥ PC SYSTEM CHIPSET

PT-6IBD, PT-6IBP: Intel® 82440BX AGPset™ (82443BX, 82371EB)
PT-6IZP: Intel® 82440ZX AGPset™ (82443ZX, 82371EB)

¥ SUPER I/O CHIPSET

Winbond® W83977TF-AW

¥ FRONT SIDE BUS FREQUENCY

66 MHz and 100MHz selectable.

¥ MEMORY

PT-6IBD: Four 168-pin DIMM sockets, Maximum 512 MB with ECC.
PT-6IBP: Three 168-pin DIMM sockets, Maximum 384 MB with ECC.
PT-6IZP: Two 168-pin DIMM sockets, Maximum 256 MB without ECC.

CACHE :512KB pipelined burst SRAM built-in Pentium™ II processor.

0KB or 128KB SRAM in Celeron™ processor.

¥ BIOS

AWARD System BIOS. 128KB x 8 Flash ROM
(Supports Plug & Play, ACPI, DMI and Green functions).

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¥ EXPANSION SLOTS

AGP Slots : One 32-bit AGP Slot (Supports 1x or 2x AGP graphics cards)
PCI Slots : Five 32bit PCI slots on BX mainboard (PT-6IBD and PT-6IBP).

Four 32bit PCI slots on ZX mainboard (PT-6IZP)

ISA Slots : 16-bit x 2 (One of the slot is PCI/ISA shared)

¥ WOL PORTS

One WOL connector supports Wake-On-LAN (WOL up-designed)

¥ SB-LINK PORTS

One SB-LINK feature connector to support PCI sound cards. (such as Creative™

Labs EMU8008 sound chip)

¥ USB PORTS

Two Universal Serial Bus (USB) ports.

¥ IDE PORTS

Two channels of Ultra DMA/33 Bus Master IDE ports, which will support up to 4

IDE devices like IDE hard disk, ATAPI CD-ROM and LS-120/ZIP-100 devices.
The IDE ports can be programmed to support PIO Mode 4, DMA mode 2 and Ultra
DMA/33.

¥ SUPER I/O PORTS

1. Two high speed NS16C550 compatible serial ports (UARTs).

2. One parallel port, supports SPP/EPP/ECP mode.

3. One Floppy Disk Control port.

¥ IR PORT

One HPSIR and ASKIR compatible IR transmission connector (5-pin).
One Consumer IR transmission connector (4-pin, optional).

¥ MOUSE AND KEYBOARD

One PS/2™ mouse connector, One PS/2™ keyboard connector.

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¥ HARDWARE MONITORING (optional)

Winbond W83783S (U17) is designed on the board to monitor hardware healthy

status like system voltage, system temperature, and cooling fans. For example,
when CPU temperature is too high, you will hear a series of beeping alarm and the
CPU speed will be slowing down to throttling speed. When you hear the beeping
alarm, you will have to turn the power off immediately and check on the mainboard
components to see whether it is working properly or not. If you don’t know how to
handle it, send the PC system to your dealer for technical support. In order to make
the hardware monitoring active, you will have to install the hardware monitoring
program as following procedure:

Step 1. Insert the mainboard CD into the CD ROM drive.
Step 2. Select "\Driver\mainboard\Hardware Monitoring\W83783S"
Step 3. Run "SETUP.EXE" to install the hardware monitoring program.

¥ ACPI

Advanced Configuration and Power Interface (ACPI) function is strongly
recommended by PC’98 because it will let you have many additional features and
that will make your PC system becomes very friendly and convenient. Followings
are the ACPI features designed on the board:

1. On Now: power on the system by panel-switch, Keyboard, PS/2™ Mouse,
Modem ring-in, RTC alarm or LAN signal.

2. Power off (soft-off) by OS or Panel-switch.

3. CPU cooling fan auto-off during Suspend state.

4. Resuming of PC system. (such as Modem ring-in, RTC alarm, .... etc.)

5. Supports Full-On/Doze/Standby/Suspend operating modes.

¥ DIMENSION

1. Width & Length : 305 mm x 190 mm.

2. Height : 2 1/2 inches with CPU Retention Mechanism.

3. PCB Thickness : 4 layers, 0.05 inches normal.

4. Weight : 18 ounces.

ENVIRONMENT LIMIT

1. Operating Temperature : 10 to 40. (50 to 104)

2. Required Airflow : 50 linear feet per minute across CPU.

3. Storage Temperature : - 40 to 70. (- 40 to 158)

4. Humidity : 0 to 90% non-condensing.

5. Altitude : 0 to 10,000 feet.

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2. INSTALLATION

2.1 UNPACKING

The mainboard contains the following components. Please inspect the following
contents and confirm that everything is there in the package. If anything is missing or
damaged, call your supplier for instructions before proceeding.

l This mainboard.
l One USER‘S MANUAL.
l One Cable set for IDE and Floppy devices.
l One Pentium™ II Processor Retention Mechanism (RM).
l One CD diskette for device driver and utility programs.

This mainboard contains electrostatic sensitive components and it can be easily
damaged by static electricity. So please leave it sealed in the original packing until
when installing.

A grounded anti-static mat is recommended when unpacking and installation. Please
also attached an anti static wristband to your wrist and have it grounded to the same
point as the anti-static mat.

After the opening of the mainboard carton, please observe the mainboard carefully to
make sure there is no shipping and handling damage before you can start to install the
PC system.

Having finished all the procedures above, you are now ready to install the mainboard to
the chassis. Please make sure that the chassis is the ATX type so that the mounting hole
will match with this mainboard.

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2.2 AMAZING WAYS TO POWER ON THE PC SYSTEM

When the mainboard has been installed successfully, there are several ways to
power on the system. Please read the following description for all the details.

POWER BUTTON

The power button can be programmed by COMS setup program and it has different

features. Please refer to page 3-14 for detail function description.

Note: This power button can not be used to power-on the PC system if the

”Password“ is selected to power on your system. (please refer to Section 4.8 for
the “INTEGRATED PERIPHERALS“ in the CMOS setup.) However, you can
always use the power button to turn off the power.

¨ KEYBOARD (PASSWORD OR HOT KEY)

This mainboard allows you to use your personal password or a combination of hot

key to power on your PC system. When the jumper setting on JP1 is “Enabled”, the
keyboard OnNow function will be activated. Under this circumstance, this
mainboard will keeps scanning the keyboard status waiting for the correct password
or hot key input even when the system power is off (the stand-by 5V is still working
and the power LED on the keyboard is still active). If you have selected the
Password to power on the PC system in the BIOS setup program, the only way to
power on the PC system will be the correct password. ( you can not use the power
button on the front panel to power on the PC system.) When you have selected the
keyboard hot key to power on the PC system, you will be able to use keyboard hot
key to power on the PC system. ( you can use the power button to power on the PC
system as well.) ( Please refer to Section 4.8.-PowerOn function)

When the “Password” and “Hot KEY” is selected, you will have to reboot the PC
system to activate the setting, when you see the POST (Power On Self Test) is
completed, the setting is changed and stored in the CMOS memory. Having finished
the procedure, you may turn the power off and then you can use the keyboard to
power-on the PC system afterward.

In case that you forget the “Password” or “Hot Key”, disconnect the AC power for
30-60 seconds then re-connect the AC power to the PC system, the power button
will be activated again and you can use the power button to turn on the system.
Input your personal password again in the BIOS setup program, and then you may
use the new password to power-on the PC system afterward.

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¨ PS/2™ MOUSE (LEFT OR RIGHT MOUSE BUTTON)

If you have a PS/2™ mouse connected to the system, you may change the setup in

the BIOS and use the mouse click to turn on the PC system power. Please refer to
section 4.8 for the BIOS setting

To use the mouse key to turn on the PC system power, the mouse click must be
done quickly and continually. Basically, 2-5 quick clicks on the mouse key ( left key
or right key ) will turn the power immediately.

In order to activate the mouse key feature, you will have to reboot the PC system
after the BIOS setting and wait until the POST (Power On Self Test) is completed.
Having finished the procedure, you may use the mouse key to power-on the PC
system afterward..

Note: 1. Please select "Enabled" on JP1 to enable this feature.

2. This feature is not available on the COM port mouse(serial mouse).

¨ RTC ALARM

PC system can be waked up by the RTC setting in the CMOS. You can set the

alarming date and time in the RTC memory, When RTC alarms, the PC system will
be triggered and wakes up automatically on the date and time which you selected in
the BIOS setup program.

Enable the “Resume by Alarm” selection in the BIOS setup utility, and then you
will see the input request for the date and time. (the “Resume by Alarm” is located
in the “POWER MANAGEMENT SETUP”, please refer to Section 4.7), When you
have stored the RTC alarm setting, the PC system will be turned on automatically
according to the date and time which is recorded in the CMOS memory.

¨ MODEM RING-IN

Everyone knows that a PC system can be used as a fax machine to send or receive

fax messages. But most people still use fax machine to receive their messages
because it is not practical to have the system powered on all day long waiting for
the incoming messages. Now the problem can be solved because this mainboard can
be triggered by a modem ring-in signal.

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When you have a external modem installed, you can leave the PC system power

off. Whenever there is the incoming message, the PC system will be triggered by
the ring-in signal and wake up automatically to receive the message for you. From
now on, you can tell your PC system to receive the fax message for you.

In order to use the ring-in signal to wake up your PC system, you will have to use
the EXTERNAL MODEM and have it connected to one of the SERIAL PORTS

( COMA or COM B ) on the mainboard. When the mainboard detects the ring-in

signal from the serial port, the system power will be turned on and start to receive
the incoming messages automatically. ( you need to have the software like Award
Zero-Volt Data-Suspend Utility so that you can use the fax utility to receive the
incoming fax message ).

To enable the Modem Ring-In feature, you have to run the BIOS setup utility and
enable the “Resume by Ring or LAN” option (it is located in the “POWER
MANAGEMENT SETUP”, please refer to Section 4.7 for the settings).

Note: This function is not available when using the internal MODEM card.

¨ WAKE ON LAN ( WOL )

There is a WOL connector CN12 on the mainboard which is designed to connect to
the signal from a LAN card which supports the Wake On LAN feature. When such
LAN card is installed, you may turn on the PC system from the remote server and
monitor the PC status. To enable this feature, you will have to use the BIOS setup
utility to enable the “Resume by Ring or LAN” in the BIOS setup program.

Note: This function will be disabled if you turn off the power before the system

can verify the DMI pool data.

2.3 POWER OFF THE PC SYSTEM

There are two ways to power off the system. They are “Shut Down by Power Button”
and “ Shut Down by OS”. (such as Windows® 95 and Windows® 98, you can choose
the Shut Down from the file menu and the system will be powered off immediately ).

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3. HARDWARE SETUP

Before you can start to install this mainboard, some hardware settings is required
to make sure it will work perfectly with the devices which you are going to
install in your PC system. To configure the mainboard is a simple task, only a
few jumpers, connectors, cables and sockets needs to be selected and configured.
(please refer to page 1-2 to see the mainboard layout)

3.1 INSTALLATION OF CPU

When you have installed the Pentium™ II or Celeron™ processor onto the
mainboard, it will detect the CPU type and decide the CPU voltage
automatically. So you don’t have to make any jumper setting to select the CPU
voltage. All you have to do is use JP5, JP6 and JP7 to select the CPU clock ratio.
(See Section 3.4)

The socket where we are going to plug in the CPU is the slot type connector ( J1
). This slot is designed for Pentium ™ II and Celeron™ processors and we call
such new CPU socket – the SLOT 1.

Basically, Slot 1 is a new architecture and it is totally different to the traditional
Pentium CPU socket (Socket 7). Because the Slot 1 is a revolutionary new
architecture and the installation of Pentium™ II processor will need some
additional skill.

This mainboard comes with the universal purpose retention mechanism (some
people call it CPU Holder) which can be used to hold the CPU firmly on the
mainboard. Before you can install the CPU onto the mainboard, please refer to
the installation guide and then install the CPU Holder on the mainboard.

3.2 INSTALLING THE DRAM MODULES

This mainboard has the DIMM sockets designed on the mainboard, each DIMM
can be single-bank or double-bank, In order to have a better performance, only
the Synchronous (SDRAM) memory is recommended. (Both Symmetrical and
Asymmetrical DRAM addressing are supported.),.

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This mainboard supports a DIMM plug-and-play support via Serial Presence
Detect (SPD) mechanism via the SMBus interface. In order to give the best
performance to the PC system, the DIMM module with SPD is strongly
recommended especially when installing the 100MHz processor to the board.
The SDRAM module with SPD is designed to increase the system performance
and make system more stable and compatible at the same time. When the system
BIOS detects the SPD DIMM module populated on the mainboard, the system
BIOS will retrieve the information (such as DRAM type, size, access timing ...
etc.) which is stored in the DIMM module. The system BIOS will then use such
information to determine what operating parameters will be used for individual
DIMM module automatically and gives the best performance and reliability to
your PC system.

If the system BIOS can not detect the SPD on the DIMM module. the system
BIOS will use the default parameters which is saved in the BIOS. Such parameter
will work with most DRAM modules, but it will reduce the system performance
because it is not optimized.

According to what Intel suggested, the system board shall stop and not to
continue when there is no SPD module can not be detected. However, this
mainboard is downgrade compatible with the 66HMz processors. In order to
make sure that the system board will work normally with 66MHz processors, the
system BIOS will continue to load the operation system when it can not detect
the SPD RAM module. Nevertheless, SRAM module with SPD feature is still
strongly recommended when you are using the 100MHz processor.

Picture of SPD DIMM module

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The number of DIMM module will be different in different mainboard, please
refer to the following pictures for the memory subsystem for different
mainboard:

SPKR

BIOS

KBLOCK

CN14

DIMM 1

DIMM 2

DIMM 3

DIMM 4

Picture of PT-6IBD DRAM subsystem

SPKR

BIOS

KBLOCK

CN14

DIMM 1

DIMM 2

DIMM 3

Picture of PT-6IBP DRAM subsystem

SPKR

BIOS

KBLOCK

CN14

DIMM 1

DIMM 2

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Picture of PT-6IZP DRAM subsystem
In order to increase of the system performance, two suggestions are recommended
when you are installing the DIMM modules :

1. Use the SDRAM module with SPD.

2. Always install DIMM module starting from DIMM 1 socket first, and then
DIMM 2 and DIMM 3.

When your mainboard has the 440BX chipset onboard, the ECC feature can be
enabled and it can be used to check the memory sub-system and make sure there is
no mistake on the data transmission (this feature can be selected in the BIOS
CMOS setup, please refer to Section 4.6 for the BIOS setting, the default status is
Non-ECC selected.) Before you enable the ECC checking feature, please make sure
that all DIMM modules have the true parity bit.

3.3 CONNECTORS

The connectors on the mainboard are either the pin header type or D-type
connectors, they are used to connect the accessories or peripheral devices (such as
power, mouse, printer,...etc.). Followings are the connectors with its description
and the pin assignment which is designed on the mainboard.

(A) BAT1: Battery Socket (Use the 3 Volts Lithium battery : CR2032)

SPKR

BIOS

KBLOCK

CN14

BAT1: Battery Socket

Pin# Pin name Pin# Pin name
+ Battery Positive - Ground

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(B) CN1: PS/2 Mouse and Keyboard Connector

SPKR

BIOS

KBLOCK

CN14

PS/2 Mouse Connector

PS/2 Keyboard Connector

Pin assignment of PS/2 mouse connector:

Pin # Signal name

Pin # Signal name Pin # Signal name
1 Mouse Data 3 Ground 5 Mouse Clock
2 No Connection 4 + 5V DC 6 No Connection

Pin assignment of keyboard connector

Pin # Signal name

Pin # Signal name Pin # Signal name
1 Keyboard Data 3 Ground 5 Keyboard Clock
2 No Connection 4 + 5V DC 6 No Connection

(C) CN2: USB Port (Universal Serial Bus) Connector

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SPKR

BIOS

KBLOCK

CN14

USB 1

USB 2

Pin assignment of USB connector:

1 2 3 4

5 6

1 2 3 4

5 6

USB 1 USB 2

(D) CN3 : COM A connector
(E) CN7 : COM B connector

SPKR

BIOS

KBLOCK

CN14

COM A COM B

CN3CN7

Ping assignment of serial port connector:

Pin1: +5VDC
Pin2: DATA­Pin3: DATA+
Pin4: Ground
Pin5: Ground
Pin6: Ground

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1 6 Pin # Signal name Pin # Signal name

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1 DCD (Data Carrier Detect) 6 DSR (Data Set Ready)

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2 RD (Received Data) 7 RTS (Request To Send)

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3 TD (Transmit Data) 8 CTS (Clear To Send)

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4 DTR (Data Terminal Ready) 9 RI (Ring Indicator)

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I/O address 3F8H/2F8H/3E8H/2E8H, IRQ3/IRQ4, selected by CMOS setup.