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Understanding the Software-Configurable Settings
Your audio card supports the Plug and Play (PnP) 1.0a standard. This allows a PnP system to assign
the necessary resources such as I/O addresses, interrupt lines and DMA channels to your card when
you install it.
If you are using Windows 95, its PnP configuration manager will automatically set up your card’s
resources. If you are using a non-PnP system such as Windows 3.1x, you must run your PnP
configuration manager to configure the card. For details, refer to the documentation of your PnP
configuration manager.
This section explains the following software-configurable resources of your audio card:
Input/Output (I/O) Addresses
Interrupt Request (IRQ) Lines
Direct Memory Access (DMA) Channels
Input/Output (I/O) Addresses
I/O addresses are communication areas used by your computer’s central processor to distinguish
among various peripheral devices connected to your system when sending or receiving data.
Table 1 lists the default I/O address ranges assigned by the PnP system to various devices on your
audio card.
I/O Address Range
Device
200H to 207H
Game/Joystick port
220H to 22FH
Audio interface
330H to 331H
MPU-401 UART MIDI
388H to 38BH
Stereo music synthesizer
620H to 623H,
A20H to A23H,
E20H to E23H
Advanced WavEffects synthesizer
100H
3D Stereo Enhancement device
Table 1. Possible default I/O addresses occupied by the audio card