On Jan 11, 2005, at 9:18 PM, Chuck Swiger wrote:
David Kelly wrote:(disabling HT will apparently mean I have to reinstall XP on the otherWhat does XP have to do with it? IIRC on Dell its F2 during the power-on diagnostics to reach the built-in BIOS config. That is where HT is to be disabled.
drive.
If you install and configure many flavors of Windows on a SMP system, that installation will not work if you move that image to a uni-proc system by swapping disks or otherwise removing CPU's (ie, by turning off HT'ing). I last saw this with a Win2K system, which immediately blue-screened with an "invalid SMP HAL" error very early in the boot.
OK, that makes Microsoft-logic sense. Had it in my head that he was saying the need to reinstall XP on a HD was to have a utility to toggle the HT bit in BIOS.
OTOH I've heard of others toggling the HT bit but don't remember anything about having to reinstall XP. Last I had a similar dealing was with NT4SP4, possibly with the "upgrade" to NT4SP6 when I somehow lost one of my 450 MHz CPU's. Found instructions on how to revive the 2nd CPU but left it alone as it was far better for the company server to be running on one CPU than the risk of damaging the install worse than it already was.
Last time I had to reinstall NT4SP6 it took 3 days of patch, reboot, repeat, before the OS install was complete.
Decided it was time for a clean wipe installation on my laptop when Panther was released. Believe it took 15 minutes. About the same for a text-only installation of FreeBSD on my Dell Optiplex.
-- David Kelly N4HHE, [EMAIL PROTECTED] ======================================================================== Whom computers would destroy, they must first drive mad.
