Hyperthreading Enabled Causes Crashes

[lprassin]

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

[ClayB]

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

[lprassin]

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.