New Intel P4 HT Processor Driver

MissilemanMissileman Orlando, Florida Icrontian
edited May 2004 in Hardware
Saw this over at ABXZone.

http://www.abxzone.com/forums/showthread.php?t=72869

Intel P4 Driver 5.1.2600.1331

A new driver for INTEL P 4 fact its appearance and relates to the CPU Prescott.
- Driver version 5.1.2600.1331.
- whql (certification dating from the 30/01/2004).
- patch Q832885 SP2 of Microsoft.
- For Windows Xp.
This new nonofficial driver functions as well with the prescott as Northwood (tested with P4 3.ghz).
Alas not of information on the corrections or ameliorations.



http://www.warp2search.net/modules....ticle&sid=18040

I chased it through to the French site and downloaded it. It installed fine on my Prescott 3.0. It didn't complain about WHQL. Didn't look to see original driver version first though :werr: It seems to be running okay. Supposed to work on Prescott and Northwood CPU's.

I attached it to save some trouble and it is small :)

Comments

  • Straight_ManStraight_Man Geeky, in my own way Naples, FL Icrontian
    edited May 2004
    NEAT, its a driver PATCH. It does help my P4 EE, but one thing to note:

    With Stock XP SP1, you can have a original MS P4 CPU driver. The orgiinal driver runs TWO Processors into system. Apply once for each listed CPU. Otherwise, you get one pipe's driver patched and not the other.

    My guess is, from looking at what happened and the data, is this driver is in the SP2 Beta or RC the fellow over in France has. This might be and probably is a beta patch.

    Oh, for those of you with Prescotts, and not just those of you with Pentium M HTs, This thing:

    Affects CPU temp not one whit.

    Improves FOLDING about 3% increase to 8% Increase.

    It appears to be not just an FPU patch, it looks like an ALU patch also.

    For those of you with Hyperthreading P4s, here is the process to install on XP SP1 or up:

    Unarchive to a folder on HD.

    Go into device manager, right click the first CPU listed of two if you have an HT aware Intel P4 processor. IF you only have one CPU listed, you probbaly need to get the latest Intel chipset inf file first, and apply that, restart XP, then apply this thing.

    I'm gonna assume you are back in Device manager if you applied the Intel chipset .inf file, with the processors sublist open.

    Now, right click the first of two processors. Choose Update Driver. A dialog will open. choose from a specific location. In the removable drives line checkbox, you can save time by unchecking the check next to that. Go down one line, check that line, browse to the folder you extracted the stuff to in the specific location folder tree dialog, tell Windows ok.

    tell the dialog you went from and are now back looking at, OK or apply.

    Windows will install the patch to one of your pipes. At thjis point I let it restart windows, wanted to see what was up, adn if XP rolled back teh driver by itself. By date change, it had kept the patch.

    So, I right-clicked the other pipe\processor, chose Properites, then Driver tab-- it still had the OLD date. I closed the properties dialog, and repeated as for first pipe the right-click, choose Update Driver, then went through the dialog same as for first pipe.

    HTH. This was originally intended for HT subversion of Pentium Mobile, actually first relesed for a LAPTOP application. But it does work here on my workstation, which is NOT a laptop at all. CPU is a Prescott EE. I do not know if it works on an HT aware Northwood, do not have one here.

    THANKS, Missleman!!!
  • MedlockMedlock Miramar, Florida Member
    edited May 2004
    Umm... Before I go and do something st00pid, does this apply to those of us with Northwood class processors? I took a look at the page the link above pointed to, but I just wanna make sure.

    ...

    Oh... Just read the REST of your post john. You dunno :) Umm... If I go and update and somethin' goes screwy, will I be able to get into windows at all (to use system restore)?? I'm just confused. I've never seen a processor driver update before. :confused2
  • MissilemanMissileman Orlando, Florida Icrontian
    edited May 2004
    The guy who originally posted this on ABXZone said he installed it on a Northwood and it worked for him without any issues.

    John_D : I'm glad you put out the instructions on installing. Most times I don't even think about things like that :) By the way, I have a vanilla Prescott and I installed it to both pipes at once. When it asked to reboot I just daid no and went and installed it to the other one, then rebooted. So that method works too.

    I thought my folding seemed a bit quicker, but haven't been at it long enough yet to be sure ;D
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