Specifications

Software Configuration
3–15
Console Output Device—Select the console output device, either Video, Serial 1, Serial 2, or None.
Console Input Device—Select the console input device, either the PC Keyboard, Serial 1, Serial 2, or
None.
Serial Console Output Setup—Enter the communication parameters for your console output serial port.
Set the data length, stop bits, parity, and baud rate to match your serial output device.
Console Output Handshake—Enable or disable hardware handshaking. If enabled, the DSR and CTS
signals control the data flow. Be sure to connect the DSR and CTS signals on the serial port’s connector
to the appropriate handshake signals on the external serial device’s interface connector.
Serial Console Input Setup—Enter the communication parameters for your console input serial port. Set
the data length, stop bits, parity, and baud rate to match your serial input device.
Delete from COM Port Table—When DOS boots, it initializes the system serial ports. (Different
versions of DOS may set the ports to different default settings.) By enabling this option, the BIOS does
not include your console serial device(s) in the COM port table. This prevents DOS from changing the
values you assign to the port in this SETUP screen.
Caution
Be careful when changing the console configuration. If you specify
“None” for console input and output, there will be no console access
to the system. (You can recover from this state by removing the
serial console plug from the primary serial port connector and
shorting pins J11-7/8.)
3.7 THE SETUP.COM PROGRAM
You can use the SETUP.COM utility from the command line to access the same SETUP function as the
“hot key” code, CTRL-ALT-ESC. In addition, SETUP.COM also adds additional functionality, such as
the ability to load and store configuration settings to a disk file. This same feature is used to store up to
512 bits of OEM information in the configuration memory EEPROM. SETUP.COM is on the Ampro
Common Utilities diskette, included with the Little Board/486i Development Kit.
3.7.1 Creating Configuration Files with SETUP.COM
The Ampro SETUP utility, SETUP.COM, offers the following options for command line entry:
SETUP [-switches] [ @file.ext | Wfile.ext ]