A signal created and sent to the CPU that is caused by some action taken by a hardware device. For example, keystroke depressions and mouse movements cause hardware interrupts. See IRQ and interrupt.

Hi all, I've got a dual-boot setup of XP Pro 32 bit and Windows 7 Ultimate on my machine. Occasionally when I'm running XP, CPU usage will go way up, the machine will get minimally responsive, and yet ...

Device Manager Error Code 36 occurs when the IRQ (Interrupt Request) translation fails for a peripheral device. An IRQ is a signal sent by a hardware device to a ...

After an upgrade to a newer version of Windows or after you update Windows to the latest build or after you have installed new software or hardware, you may get the ...