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RE: IR Tower and Hyperthreading
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lugnet.robotics
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Tue, 6 Jan 2004 23:14:09 GMT
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At 10:41 AM 1/6/2004, you wrote:
> Here is what LEGO should be doing right now:
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> 1) Putting something up on their website that acknowledges there is a
> problem, that they are working on it, and a planned target date for
> resolution.
The problem is that they never promised to support XP. The only thing
listed is 98/ME. In fact, they explicitly say 2K and NT are _not_ supported.
> In the meantime, those of you having problems could try disabling
> Hyperthreading in the BIOS, which should effectively disable it in
> Windows XP.
Everywhere this is mentioned, someone says you have to reinstall windows
after doing this...is that true?
Thanks for the help, it's really appreciated! :)
~Mike
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Mike Thorn [mailto:buachaille@neo.rr.com]
> > Sent: Tuesday, January 06, 2004 9:36 AM
> > To: lego-robotics@crynwr.com
> > Subject: Re: IR Tower and Hyperthreading
> >
> > At 08:58 AM 1/5/2004, you wrote:
> > > > So, the reason I'm writing all of this is to ask...have • any of you
> > > > experienced this problem or run into it before? Have you • ever been
> > > > able to fix this? Are there options you can recommend • (besides using
> > > > NQC or another language - remember that these newbies • probably need
> > > > the graphical starting point)? Is there something these • guys can do
> > > > besides reinstall XP with hyperthreading disabled?
> > >
> > > Hi Mike,
> > >
> > > All I can do is to confirm that hyperthreading can cause very subtle
> > > bugs. We experienced that lately in our company in an ADSL board
> > > driver, a problem appeared when used with high speed HT machines (>=
> > > 3GHz). It worked flawlessly on a multiprocessor platform or
> > with a HT machine at speed < 3GHz...
> >
> > Unfortunately there's no consistency here. All of our problem
> > machines are < 3Ghz, but usually > 2Ghz.
> >
> > Rob Limbaugh was right when he said LEGO Tech Support isn't
> > the greatest.
> > As a Host in the Forum I'm supposed to direct problems like
> > this to the Techs. So somebody called the numbers and all
> > they ended up with was a recorded message on how to install
> > the IR Tower. Not even an option to speak with an actual live
> > human being.
> >
> > If any of you are interested in working on this but don't
> > have access to a hyperthreading machine, just let me know and
> > I should be able to connect you up with someone who is having
> > the problem.
> >
> > ~Mike
> >
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| ----- Original Message ----- From: "Mike Thorn" <buachaille@neo.rr.com> To: <lego-robotics@crynwr.com> Sent: Tuesday, January 06, 2004 6:14 PM Subject: RE: IR Tower and Hyperthreading (...) supported. XP Home was shipping on brand new PC's when RIS (...) (21 years ago, 7-Jan-04, to lugnet.robotics)
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