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IRQ0

Used by the system timer

IRQ1

Used by the keyboard to signal that the output buffer is full

IRQ2

Used by interrupt controller 2

IRQ3

Used by serial port 2 (COM2 and COM4) or PCI device

IRQ4

Used by serial port 1 (COM1 and COM3) or PCI device

IRQ5

Available unless used by a secondary parallel port

IRQ6

Used by the diskette drive controller

IRQ7

Used by the primary parallel port or PCI device

IRQ8

Used by the RTC

IRQ9

Used by ACPI

IRQ10

Available

IRQ11

Available

IRQ12

Used by the PS/2 mouse port, unless mouse is disabled in Sys-
tem Setup program

IRQ13

Reserved for floating-point errors

IRQ14

Available

IRQ15

Used by ESM

NOTE: For the full name of an abbreviation or acronym used in this table, see "Abbreviations and
Acronyms
."