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