topic Re: Hyperthreading Enabled Causes Crashes in Intel® Moderncode for Parallel Architectures

Hyperthreading Enabled Causes Crashes

lprassin — Tue, 26 Apr 2005 02:35:11 GMT

I recently recieved 15 Dell Gx280's which are HT capable. I want to just copy my old Gx270 image (winXP) onto the new machines, yet if I enable hyperthreading the computer crashes within a minute of use. the error message that I get is a windows stop error essentially telling me that the video driver is caught in a loop. I am using the onboard Intel 910/915 video chipset and have tried both the most recent Intel and Dell drivers with no luck. I am running Novell client 4.9 could this be a problem? All my drivers are up to date, anyone know what could be wrong?

Thanks,
Lukas

Re: Hyperthreading Enabled Causes Crashes

ClayB — Tue, 26 Apr 2005 05:05:37 GMT

Lukas -

Have you tried to upgrade the BIOS? Others have had good luck with that fix recently (http://softwareforums.intel.com/ids/board/message?board.id=42&message.id=628)

--clay

Re: Hyperthreading Enabled Causes Crashes

lprassin — Wed, 27 Apr 2005 21:48:20 GMT

I think that worked! I had my doubts because I thought the BIOS was updated. Note to anyone with this problem: Try a second restart after BIOS updates!

Thanks Clay, everyone else who came up with the BIOS update.