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Hyper threading and crashing games

hi

recently i have pin pointed a problem down to hyper threading technology and was wondering if anyone could help.
at the moment when i play a couple of game(max payne 2 and colin mcrae 3 rally[newish-oldish game]) my PC will lock up and restart itself.
 without HT enabled my PC games work fine. i really want to have HT on all the time aswell as play my games, is there any way to fix this?

thanks

Windows XP HE SP2
BIOS  version 2.3

MSI 865PE Neo2 series motherboard
Intel P4 3Ghz (800 FSB)  HT (prescott)
DDR SDRAM PC3200 (  dual channel ) 512mb
120gb western digital IDE HDD
20gb Western digital IDE HDD
LG DVD RAM DL burner
liteon DVD ROM
sparkle geforce 4 Ti4200 8x graphics card
10/100 network card
winfast tv2000 xp expert tv capture card
PSU = 450w or 480w i cant remember
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Another note, I beleive what hyperthreading does is simulate dual processors and i don't think many games are designed for multiprocessor machines, so my theory is that the game might run better without hyperthreading anyway.

But try the newest video drivers first.
Try a Bios chipset upgrade. Unless you have a faulty CPU ir chipset I cannot see why I run everything with it on never a crash in over a year. http://www.xpnt.com/page3.html This is my P4 machine running over a year now.
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upgrade HE to what?

the other day i ordered a zalman 7000b cooler the other day so i might tackle the heat issue, get rid of that bastard intel Heatsink and fan and see if that fixes my problems.

but at the moment ive got another problem of my PC restarting itself at the "welcome" screen when windows starts. i might start a new thread or just put up the points on this thread, ill let ya know soon.
There is your answer right there. I didnt realise you are running windows XP home. Home Does Not Support SMP Dual Processors which is exactly what Hyperthreading does Upgrade to windows XP Professional it will be fine.
are you sure?

cause when i have it enabled it recognises my hyper threading on and even on the intel site it says HE is compatible
Well HyperThreading is considered SMP Symmetrical Multi Processing. Means Supports 2 Processors. Hyper threading shows up even in windows as Dual Processors. I am positive that Windows XP home Edition does not support this SMP. Mabye there is a workaround but I never use home on a HT system for this reason. One of the few different things between the 2 O/Ses.