System Freeze when hyper threading enabled

[David Chan]

Hello,

I recently upgraded my motherboard to Intel D875PBZ with
Pentium 4 3.0G CPU.

After the installation of the motherboard, I did a in-
place upgrade of Windows XP Professional; installed all
the new drivers associated with the motherboard. and
applied Windows XP SP2 and all patches.

Everything looking good. However, the new system would
freeze, sometimes 5 minutes; or 2 hours. Sometimes even
before the login page appeared.

I have changed the CPU and memory and it still freezes.
However, the system will not freeze if I disabled
the "HyperThreading" feature in the BIOS.

I called Intel support; they suggested me to try to
install a new copy of the Windows XP and to verify if it
still freezes. With a clean installation, the system
did not freeze
Intel support said when upgrading from a non-
hyperthreading motherboard to a hyperthreading one;
Microsoft Windows Setup did not replace all the drivers
properly.

I would really like to use my original Windows instances
with the HyperThreading enabled.

Any suggestions is appreciated.

Thank you
David

 

[Nathan McNulty]

You can try doing another repair operation. You can use the File and
Settings Transfer Wizard if you want just your settings and documents.
This would require a clean install and then load these settings/files
back on (it will not keep your installed applications, just their
settings). If you need help with either of those, let me know.

Here is what I would do though. First, back up all of the data on the
computer, then I would make a clean install of XP (it may require
activation over the phone since things have changed, but that shouldn't
be a problem unless by chance the original was an OEM install which
could be causing the problem by itself). I would then load all of my
applications and data back on and image the drive/fully back it up once
I got it to a point I thought was perfect.

 

[Guest]

Nathan,
This is what I have done in the separate disk; but there are so many
applications, that I need to re-install which I hate.
I hope there can be a better way. I have been using the same system
upgrading from Win2k prof which was installed over 4 years ago.

Thanks for your help
David