To hyper-thread or not to hyper-thread

[Aaron Konstam]

On Mon, 2009-12-07 at 10:11 -0500, Tom Horsley wrote: 
> On Mon, 07 Dec 2009 09:02:09 -0600
> Aaron Konstam wrote:
> 
> > A little more
> > looking and I noticed that hyper-threading was disabled in the BIOS and
> > could not be turned on.
> 
> Does that mean there is no BIOS option to turn it on, or that attempting
> to turn it on in the BIOS doesn't work? I've run across at least
> one machine where merely setting options for certain things in
> the BIOS wasn't good enough - you also had to power cycle the machine
> for the new setting to take effect.
> 
The BIOS indicates that the setting cannot be changed.
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