Disabling hyperthreading???

[dethangel]

thats's very strange, .... i wonder why you would need to disable it at all though?

because of the way that the program was written, basically its a big old hunk o crap that was written for older computers

 

[mrdinkel]

Surely you think the company would write a patch for that.

 

[wildonion]

Compaq informed me of a BIOS update...but the update did not resolve the non-ability to disable HyperThreading. So we returned the Compaq and purchased a Sony VAIO RS420.

Both the machines have very similar specs. But the Sony machine runs so much better, because it does not have the extra Compaq-added crap that always runs in the background....Compaq pop-up windows, advertising, etc. And the 120 GB harddrive on the Sony machine was partitioned with a 90 GB D: drive right out of the box, so the drive did not have to be reformatted.

Big thumbs down to Compaq.