change IRQ in WinXP!! please help

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You don't.
Pop along to both www.microsoft.com & www.intel.com
Search the white papers and have a read about ACPI.
 
ACPI, amongst other things, has been deisgned to make the installation of computers and future add-in cards easy and very staright forward.
No more worrying about lack of IRQ's, no more having to put cards in certain slots - with ACPI, all devices 'appear' to sit on a single IRQ, in fact they are usuing virtual IRQ's, this is how we get around the 16 IRQ limit, with ACPI we effectively expand those original 16 to 256.

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If ya think ACPI is a problem, you're mistaken. Very rarely is it an actual problem, but gets blamed frequently. Speaking from experience, ACPI is best left alone or bad things happen---along the lines of completely reinstalling the OS.

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I had really really big problems with ACPI in XP and W2K. If i installed nvidias detonators it would crash and hang every time. Cpu usage went from 0->100% all the time. After uninstalling ACPI the problems were gone.

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sometimes you get problems with a badly configured system. If your system is configured properly including BIOS then you shouldnt have any problems.