enabling hyperthreading

[ironfist241]

Hi all, ive been a vaio-owner for 2days now, im very impressed with it but ive noticed one thing thats prompted me to make my first post:
hyperthreading... or lack of
now i know there was a thread on this before:
http://www.club-vaio.sony-europe.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=4236&highlight=hyperthreading
however in that discussion it was believed that the grt896hp's cpu didnt support it. After some nosing around with diagnostic tools it seems the heart of the 896hp is a "northwood" core p4 running at ~2.8ghz and according to intel this supports hyperthreading:
http://www.intel.com/products/notebook/processors/mobilepentium4/index.htm?iid=ipp_note+proc_p4p&
Obviously that alone wouldnt be enough however the sis648 does support hyperthreading, albeit with later bios updates. So overrall the 896hp should be capable of hyperthreading if there is a bios update to allow it.
Hopefully someone reading this could point me towards such a bios update and if it doesnt exist i wonder if sony would be kind enough to make it...
Anyway, thanks in advance for any help and sorry in advance for any typos (still not used to this vaio keyboard )

GR

[kee-lo_]

Be very careful with that editor, you could ruin your notebooks.
Only very skilled engineers should really use this tool.

[GarethB]

Yep, I agree. That's the reason I havn't tried it myself, Hyperthreading isn't important enough to me to risk knackin' it up by doing something wrong in the editor.
So like Kee-Lo say's, if you fancy trying it, be careful.

[kee-lo_]

Yes, really I'd be tempted to leave well alone, as it's not going to boost your PC so much you can rip mp3's 30secs faster or anything like that, as the CPU is fast and will do it the same speed as with HT enabled.