Appendix E. Interrupt request and direct memory access
channel assignments
The following tables list the IRQ and DMA channel assignments.
Note: The default settings for COM 1 (IRQ 4), COM 2 (IRQ 3), and LPT 1 (IRQ 7)
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Table 4. IRQ channel assignments
IRQ
System resource
NMI
Critical system error
SMI
System-management interrupt for power management
0
Timer
1
Keyboard
2
Cascade interrupt from slave PIC
3
COM2 (some models only)
4
COM1
5
LPT2/audio (if present)
6
Diskette controller
7
LPT1
8
Real-time clock
9
Video, ACPI
10
MIDI/joystick (some models only)
11
Available to user
12
Mouse port
13
Math coprocessor
14
Primary IDE (if present)
15
Secondary IDE (if present)
can be changed to another IRQ.
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