Ron Hardin wrote:

Ron Hardin wrote:

Is there a way to disable one core of a dual core
cpu?

The Intel proset wireless stuff has a bug that
apparently fails to lock correctly and wedges
itself in some impossible state requiring manual
disabling and reenabling of the software to
recover. (The lock failure may be a XP problem,
or not)

If it's only one core, it won't fall into this
bug.

Thanks for the responses.

Disabling one processor has indeed stopped the wedged Intel Proset issue (so far).
So a lock bug looks like a likely source of the problem, if your Intel Proset
Wireless driver shows this symptom.

Update: the singlized processor machines occasionally still lock up, but with much reduced
frequency. A lot less, not just a little.

So I'd say it's a logical bug in the Intel code, that's vastly more often encountered with
an idle CPU (in my case, the second core).

Probably some oversight between driver and utility about when an interrupt might happen and
screw up imagined status.
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