I will be getting a ProStar Notebook soon which comes with a P4 3.06Ghz Hyper-Threading CPU. (with WinXP)
The first thing I plan to do is format the drive and reinstall windows. They tell me that getting Hyper-Threading to work is very difficult and if I ever need to re-install windows, I should just send in the laptop again.
From what I have read, windows will automatically detect hyperthreading and at the most I just need a BIOS update. But if I am getting the laptop with HT enabled, and just re-installing windows, I do not even need to update the BIOS.
So I would like to know how difficult it is to get HT to work when installing WinXP. Is there something I'm missing?
The first thing I plan to do is format the drive and reinstall windows. They tell me that getting Hyper-Threading to work is very difficult and if I ever need to re-install windows, I should just send in the laptop again.
From what I have read, windows will automatically detect hyperthreading and at the most I just need a BIOS update. But if I am getting the laptop with HT enabled, and just re-installing windows, I do not even need to update the BIOS.
So I would like to know how difficult it is to get HT to work when installing WinXP. Is there something I'm missing?