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Clock Interrupt not received and hyperthreading
First my computer details:
HP Pavilion e9150t
Core i7-920, 2.66 ghz
8 Gb DDR-3
nVidia GeForce 220 w/1 Gig
Hauppauge WinTV HVR-1800
Soundblaster x-fi extreme
Windows 7 Ultimate 64-bit
I've had an ongoing blue screen problem whenever I was playing back video. This was both internet based playback, but also TV video in the media center as well.
I updated all the video and TV card drivers as well as the BIOS, no change.
I ran a complete hardware diagnostic and no problems were found
The particular blue screen error was "clock interrupt not received from peripheral within the required time interval". The computer would reset before the crash dump could complete.
After trying every suggested fix I could find, I came across a somewhat related forum post on the internet that called into question the hyperthreading feature of the i7. So as and experiment I went into the BIOS and disabled hyperthreading. So far, the problem has disappeared. I'm convinced the problem was in one of the drivers, but I could never track down which one. But it appears that the bug was related to how it was handling the hyperthreading feature. Turn off hyperthreading and bug cannot exhibit itself. I'm sure the bug is still there, but at least the BSODs are gone for now.
I'm curious if anyone else has seen this problem and if they've done the same thing to resolve it?