re-enabling hyperthreading

[Chris Snook]

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