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i have win 2000 w/SP4 running on the intel 3.2 HT processor and the abit ai7
motherboard
HT seems to work fine . the process you describe below is the same
charlie
----- Original Message -----
From: "Ron Augustine" <RonAug@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: <omega-list@xxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Tuesday, September 14, 2004 15:18
Subject: Re: P3 vs P4
>
> Bob Scott would know much more about this than me, if he's around, but my
> understanding is that you need XP to utilize Hyper-Threading --
>
> HT must first be activated in the Bios, then go to NTVDM in the Task List,
> right-click it and you will get a sub-menu where "Affinity" can be
assigned
> -- "0" is the first half of the virtual HT CPU and "1" is the 2nd half --
>
> I set Affinity to "1" for the NTVDM to force 16 Bit Apps to use that half
> of the CPU --
>
> Bob has an App he wrote that sets the affinity automatically -- I'm sure
> he'd be willing to part with a copy --
> ________________________________
>
> At 01:48 PM 9/14/2004, you wrote:
> >As you know, Win2k is 32-bit while TS4 is 16-bit. Since TS4 can't run
> >natively on Win2k, Windows 2000 attempts to "isolate" the program by
> >starting an NT Virtual DOS Machine session (NTVDM). Look for these in
> >your Process list. (click on the Process list tab and under "options"
> >select "show 16-bit tasks".
> >
> > From looking at your dual CPU graphs, they appear out of phase,
> > suggesting that TS4 involves more than one 16bit process, and since
Win2k
> > cannot run these simultaneously, they must take turns, and when they do,
> > windows toggles to one processor and then to the other. This slows
> > things down quite a bit. And perhaps there is an issue here when using
> > the highly inefficient processor-hungry serial interface to get your
ticks.
> >There is a way to isolate each 16-bit process on a separate NTVDM, but I
> >can't remember how to do it.
> >
> >-F
> >
> >Barry Burgess wrote:
> >
> >>Having upgraded from the P4 2.4Gh to 3.0GH and a 800FSB I am still
losing
> >>ticks using Win2K
> >>DH commented that Win2K will not allow multithreading but attached is a
> >>screen shot of task manager showing 2 streams and TS4 not cuasing the
CPU to
> >>run at 100% only 52% .
> >>Any ideas from the list
> >>Thanks in advance
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >>
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