benners Posted December 10, 2004 Share Posted December 10, 2004 I have an Acer Aspire 1710 series notebook and would like to disable Hyperthreading, I can find nothing in the limited bios options as you would a "decent" computer, so, does anyone know how I may accomplish this? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Drewdatrip Posted December 10, 2004 Share Posted December 10, 2004 Many laptop bios's are very limited.However i have noticed on new laptops alot of the advanced options are hidden.Check the manual see what it states about the bios.|Drew| Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
benners Posted December 10, 2004 Author Share Posted December 10, 2004 I have checked the manual but found nothing about advanced features or menus.I tried key combinations but nothing.... I was hopng Intel might have a prog that could force HT off but I could only find a test util Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
prathapml Posted December 11, 2004 Share Posted December 11, 2004 Can't it be possible from within XP itself, to tell it use only one processor (as effectively HT is enabled with multi-proc). Msconfig has no switch for this. But might be that bootcfg has an option to pass to kernel?(dunno 'bout this, just an enquiry) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Zxian Posted December 11, 2004 Share Posted December 11, 2004 Just out of curiosity, can I ask why you would want to do this? You ended up shelling out more money for the HT feature... so why disable it? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
benners Posted December 11, 2004 Author Share Posted December 11, 2004 @prathapmlThere is a switch for the boot.ini its /NUMPROC, I have tried but no joy, I think it only works for actual multi processor systems, and once they MP kernel files are loaded they stay on the system, so I would prefer to disable before loading XP, at least thats how I understand it.@ZxianMy main reason is Xplode, certain plugins fail to load with HT turned on, I have run my unattended disc on the desktop PC with HT on and the directory plugin failed to load, turn it off and the process runs smoothly, if I had the option of buying the same laptop without HT I would have, bit of a white elephant in my opinion, forced upon us by the CPU nazis /rant Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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