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Whenever you have a hardware resource conflict, it will more likely be an IRQ conflict rather than an i/o conflict because:
A. there are a lot more I/O addresses than IRQs.
B. the BIOS sometimes has more of a problem controlling IRQs
C. I/O addresses cannot conflict
D. software tends to correct I/O conflicts
E. software tends to mess up IRQs

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Option A
there are a lot more I/O addresses than IRQs.

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