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$&@# Hyperthreading, no options?

post #1 of 7
8/25/04 at 11:38pm
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So I appear to be the luckiest man in the world. I bought the only PC without the ability to disable hyperthreading (Area51m) and I need the only (modern) app that requires I disable it (Gigastudio.) Grrr.

Alienware support site states simply, no can do, sorry, forget it. So do I just sell this thing now? Argh what a week. This giga/alienware saga has been going on FOREVER.
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post #2 of 7
8/25/04 at 11:42pm
what are you talking about budd ?
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post #3 of 7
8/26/04 at 12:44am
You should be able to disable HyperThreading in the BIOS. It depends on what type of board you have though. My other computer has a P4 3.06 ghz chip using an ASUS P4G8X-Deluxe mobo and you can disable HT in the BIOS. I had to anyways because it made my system unstable as F**k! Couldn't run anything on it. After I disabled HT, everything ran smoothly.
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post #4 of 7
8/26/04 at 2:26am
no bios option on the laptops for disabling hyperthreading
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post #5 of 7
8/26/04 at 3:22am
There was one unreleased BIOS version that was unlocked that allowed all setting to be changed including HT, 1.13.11 or something. I don't have it, but someone here might...but it might cause instability...so use at your own risk.
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post #6 of 7
8/26/04 at 9:53am
Actually disabling it in the BIOS doesnt work and it may break windowsXP. To disable Hyperthreading via the bios way u must rinstalling XP.

Althought U can tell your gigastudio inside XP to run on 1 proccessor and which will fix your problem. Start up the program. Open task manager. Rightclick the program in processes set affinity and Uncheck cpu1
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post #7 of 7
8/26/04 at 11:58am
http://notebookforums.com/showthread.php?t=34361

View that post... It tells hou how to disable HT
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