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BIOS
3. Press <ESC> and follow the screen instructions to save or disregard
your setting.
The following is a list of IRQs(Interrupt ReQuests), which can be exempted much as the
COM ports and LPT ports above can. When an I/O device wants to gain the attention of the
operating system, it signals this by causing an IRQ to occur. When the operating system is
ready to respond to the request, it interrupts itself and performs the service.
When set On, activity will neither prevent the system from going into a power management
mode nor awaken it.
IRQ3 (COM2)
IRQ4 (COM1)
IRQ5 (LPT2)
IRQ6 (Floppy Disk)
IRQ7 (LPT1)
IRQ8 (RTC Alarm)