APIC settings

Hello I'm experiencing some trouble with interupts being lost from my cdrom while trying to rip audio cd. I notced my motherboard is using APIC mode in bios and my kernel (on suse 8.2) was initialy installed with CONFIG_X86_UP_APIC=y CONFIG_X86_UP_IOAPIC=y I would like to disable APIC (also change to PIC in BIOS) in linux and see if it has anything to do with lost interupts.. Is it possible without kernel recompilation? Linux 2.4.20-4GB-athlon #1 Mon Mar 17 17:56:47 UTC 2003 i686 regards, himba -- This €-mail was Kmailed.