P4 2.4C Stability w/ Hyperthreading

[urname7698]

Hope this is not off topic and I already searched.

I recently sold a P4 2.4C and the person is saying that Windows (I'm assuming XP) crashes after 5 seconds whenever he has h-t enabled. He was running a 3.4EE which ran fine in his msi 865 neo2 pls motherboard.

Any thoughts/ideas?

 

[MDE]

Make sure it's XP. Windows 2000 has problems with HT, and 9x doesn't support multiple CPUs (physical or virtual) at all.

 

[geejo]

Yes, i too face similar problem with my p4 2.8c . I am running windows Xp (sp1) build 2600
It gets restarted every now then with HT enabled. But when i disable HT in the bios it runs smoothly with out any trouble.

Could any one please help

Thanks

 

[LTC8K6]

Make sure WinXP has properly recognized that you have an HT enabled CPU. It should show 2 processors in Device Manager and you should be able to pull up 2 cpu use graphs in task manager.