Way back when I was running FC3, I used the BIOS to disable hyperthreading in my Pentium 4. It stopped system crashes that, IIRC, I was told had something to do with my LCD monitor. I never understood the problem or the solution.
I recently installed FC8. At the time, hyperthreading was turned off. Assuming that the previous problems are fixed, is it safe to re-enable hyperthreading on a system that was installed with it turned off?
Michael Hennebry wrote:
Way back when I was running FC3, I used the BIOS to disable hyperthreading in my Pentium 4. It stopped system crashes that, IIRC, I was told had something to do with my LCD monitor. I never understood the problem or the solution.
I recently installed FC8. At the time, hyperthreading was turned off. Assuming that the previous problems are fixed, is it safe to re-enable hyperthreading on a system that was installed with it turned off?
HT is run-time detected and uses the same kernel. You shouldn't have any issues.
Rahul
Rahul Sundaram wrote:
Michael Hennebry wrote:
Way back when I was running FC3, I used the BIOS to disable hyperthreading in my Pentium 4. It stopped system crashes that, IIRC, I was told had something to do with my LCD monitor. I never understood the problem or the solution.
I recently installed FC8. At the time, hyperthreading was turned off. Assuming that the previous problems are fixed, is it safe to re-enable hyperthreading on a system that was installed with it turned off?
HT is run-time detected and uses the same kernel. You shouldn't have any issues.
Rahul
As for the safety issue, you were probably hitting a graphics driver bug (Nvidia, perhaps) that has long since been fixed. Lots of people are using HT with LCD monitors, even with proprietary video drivers, without problems.
-- Chris