Asus P8B-X User Guide - Page 82

4.5.12 Serial Port Console Redirection Aptio Setup Utility - Copyright (C) 2010 American Megatrends, Inc. Advanced Redirection After BIOS POST COM1 Console Redirection Console Redirection Settings COM2 Console Redirection Console Redirection Settings [Disabled] [Enabled] [Disabled] Redirection After BIOS POST [Disabled] Enables or disables the redirection after BIOS POST feature. Configuration options: [Disabled] [Enabled] COM1 Console Redirection [Enabled] Enables or disables the console redirection feature. Configuration options: [Disabled] [Enabled] Console Redirection Settings This item becomes configurable only when you enable the Console Redirection item. The settings specify how the host computer and the remote computer (which the user is using) will exchange data. Both computers should have the same or compatible settings. Terminal Type [VT-UTF8] Allows you to set the terminal type. [VT100] ASCII char set. [VT100+] Extends VT100 to support color, function keys, et. [VT-UTF8] Uses UTF8 encoding to map Unicode chars onto 1 or more bytes [ANSI] Extended ASCII char set Bits per second [57600] Selects serial port transmission speed. The speed must be matched on the other side. Long or noisy lines may require lower speeds. Configuration options: [9600] [19200] [38400] [57600] [115200] Data Bits [8] Configuration options: [7] [8] Parity [None] A parity bit can be sent with the data bits to detect some transmission errors. [Mark] and [Space] parity do not allow for error detection. [Even] parity bit is 0 if the num of 1's in the data bits is even [Odd] parity bit is 0 if num of 1's in the data bits is odd [Mark] parity bit is always 1 [Space] parity bit is always 0 4-24 Chapter 4: BIOS setup