Re: P4P800-E Deluxe CPU upgrade question.

Thanks for the info guys....thats funny Nick: I kinda figured it was the HAL
and that that was a major problem probably best suited to a clean
install...i'll try the repair and then if that bsod's I'll do a clean
install....I can always go back to my Ghost image with the non-HT
version.....thanks!
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Hey all., I have the p4p800-e deluxe board and have been running, for
about 1.5yrs or so, a Celeron 2.0 OC'd to 2.6. Never a hiccup.

Long story short: wife left, took her machine, that my kid plays on when
he comes over, (and she took the dog!!!!) and I am moving my machine (the
Celeron) over to replace it. (Bought an AMD Dual core 5000+ to play
with!) I have the p4p800-e in it, as I said, and it was running a Celeron
2.0 with a gig of kingston RAM and GeForce 6600 card. I want him to be
able to play COD2, WOW, etc head to head with me, as we usually do. I
bought a P4 3.0 Ghz chip to upgrade (I have BIOS 1009.003) the machine
and squeeze out some more performance. Turns out CPU-Z identifies it as a
Prescott (which I wouldnt have bought, if the ad had said so) but
whatever...its in and running with Hyperthreading turned OFF in BIOS. I
did this because when I first installed it, it ran fine for a while, and
I even overclocked it on a practice boot to 3.9Ghz! I got a little
nervous about heat and shut it off and set it back to 3.0. I played some
COD and it rocked and even watched a movie for a while. Went to bed
(machine ran overnight), woke up, the machine was frozen. I rebooted it
and got B.S.O.D with some "bad_pool_error" problem. Couldnt reboot to
desktop no matter what I did. SO.......I took chip out, put celery chip
back in, ghosted most recent image and it booted up fine. No fried board
or socket or whatever. I went and bought a new CPU fan/sink (rated to
3.6Ghz) and reinstalled the chip, then booted and went to BIOS and turned
Hyperthreading OFF. Device Manager now reads "ACPI Uniprocessor PC" Been
running a couple days now with no probs....BUT....its an HT chip with an
HT capable mobo....what about hyperthreading? is there a driver I should
install? I know XP will "detect" it on boot up, should I install driver
FIRST and THEN reboot? whats up?

Soooo...what I need to know is: to enable Hyperthreading in BIOS, what do
I do? What is safest course of action? Leave it alone? No hyperthreading?

Thanks for any info on this board/cpu
combo.........................................................................................'boss


I have this board and a P4 Prescott 3.2GHz chip in one of my machines.
It's been trouble free running with HT turned on, but I'm not a gamer,
however I do use the machine for audio production and occasional video
editing which is demanding of the CPU and makes use of HT quite
extensively.

The problem you appear to have is that the version of the Hardware
Abstraction Layer (HAL) that is currently installed in your installation
of Windows XP is for ACPI Uniprocessor, and this will be because either
you had HT turned off in BIOS in the first place and/or your Celeron
doesn't support HT. In short you need to repair or reinstall Windows with
the correct HAL in place and with HT enabled in the BIOS. The easiest
option would be to simply repair the current installation and this should
leave all your program installations etc... intact, however the most
satisfactory result in terms of performance and minimising problems
potentially left behind from the current installation is likely to be
achieved by doing a completely clean installation of Windows, which of
course is more long winded.

The correct HAL will show you ACPI Multiprocessor PC.

If the system was reasonably trouble free with the Celeron, then a repair
is well worth attempting.

In any event, make a backup of any important data first.

HTH

Nick


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