Remember, as some of you may be aware that I had random system reboots occasionally. Sometimes it would happen on a cold boot up, and other times just out of no where. The random restarts started to become a little more frequent than they used to be, so I decided to swap out my video card for another one, and still, same thing except the random reboots seemed to be worse with the GeForce 4 Ti 4600 video card in place of my Radeon 9800 Pro. With the GeForce 4 Ti 4600 video card temporarilly in my system, I experienced a blue screen just before the Windows was about to load for less than a second, and the screen went blank. So, I knew right away that the problem is not my video card. I decided that I would try lowering the CPU external clock frequency to see if it does it then. Then at the last minute, I just thought I'd try disabling hyper threading first and see how my system runs with HT disabled. I disabled hyper threading 5 days ago, and since my system has ran without any BSODs or random reboots. I put my Radeon 9800 Pro video card back in a couple of hours after I disabled HT, and everything is running perfectly with HT disabled. So, now it looks like the problem has something to do with hyper threading. So, what could be the cause of hyper threading causing my system to randomly restart? I have done some research and heard that certain device drivers don't work very stable with SMP systems which is what HT is supposed to logically pretend to be. So do you think that is likely the cause to my random system reboots when HT is enabled?
My system specs are as follows:
-Pentium 4 3GHz Canterwood CPU (socket 478) w/800MHz FSB and 512KB L2 cache
-Gigabyte GA-8IK1100 motherboard w Intel 875P Northbridge chipset and ICH5R Southbridge chipset
-2*512MB DIMMs of PC3200 Corsair XMS DDR SDRAM DIMMs (in dual channel config for 1GB of total system RAM)
-Built by ATI Radeon 9800 Pro 8X AGP video card (128MB DDR)
-On board Intel Pro 100 LAN controller
-Onboard AC 97 Audio
-2 Seagate SATA HDDs. one is 80GB with the OS installed on it and the other is 120GB. Both connected to onboard Intel 82801ER SATA RAID controller connected to Port_0 and Port_1 respectively
-550WATT Trie Power ANtec PSU
-WIndows XP Pro w/SP1 and latest security updates installed.
My system specs are as follows:
-Pentium 4 3GHz Canterwood CPU (socket 478) w/800MHz FSB and 512KB L2 cache
-Gigabyte GA-8IK1100 motherboard w Intel 875P Northbridge chipset and ICH5R Southbridge chipset
-2*512MB DIMMs of PC3200 Corsair XMS DDR SDRAM DIMMs (in dual channel config for 1GB of total system RAM)
-Built by ATI Radeon 9800 Pro 8X AGP video card (128MB DDR)
-On board Intel Pro 100 LAN controller
-Onboard AC 97 Audio
-2 Seagate SATA HDDs. one is 80GB with the OS installed on it and the other is 120GB. Both connected to onboard Intel 82801ER SATA RAID controller connected to Port_0 and Port_1 respectively
-550WATT Trie Power ANtec PSU
-WIndows XP Pro w/SP1 and latest security updates installed.
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