Technical Reference Guide
Compaq Deskpro Personal Computers
Third Edition - April 2001
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The PCI interrupts can be configured by PCI Configuration Registers 60h..63h to share the
standard ISA interrupts (IRQn).
NOTE: The APIC mode is supported by the Windows NT and Windows 2000 operating
systems. Systems running the Windows 95 or 98 operating system will need to run in
8259 mode.
Maskable Interrupt processing is controlled and monitored through standard AT-type I/O-mapped
registers. These registers are listed in Table 4-9.
Table 4-9. Maskable Interrupt Control Registers
Table 4-9.
Maskable Interrupt Control Registers
I/O Port Register
020h Base Address, Int. Cntlr. 1
021h Initialization Command Word 2-4, Int. Cntlr. 1
0A0h Base Address, Int. Cntlr. 2
0A1h Initialization Command Word 2-4, Int. Cntlr. 2
The initialization and operation of the interrupt control registers follows standard AT-type
protocol.
4.4.1.2 Non-Maskable Interrupts
Non-maskable interrupts cannot be masked (inhibited) within the microprocessor itself but may be
maskable by software using logic external to the microprocessor. There are two non-maskable
interrupt signals: the NMI- and the SMI-. These signals have service priority over all maskable
interrupts, with the SMI- having top priority over all interrupts including the NMI-.
NMI- Generation
The Non-Maskable Interrupt (NMI-) signal can be generated by one of the following actions:
♦ Parity errors detected on a PCI bus (activating SERR- or PERR-).
♦ Microprocessor internal error (activating IERRA or IERRB)
The SERR- and PERR- signals are routed through the ICH2 component, which in turn activates
the NMI to the microprocessor.
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