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Originally Posted by Paul
HAL = Hardware Abstraction Layer. It's how windows recognises your hardware, when you do a major hardware change (especially one that changes your power management hardwre) it can cause problems with the HAL that a new install is needed to fix.
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According to the link though a clean install wouldnt effect that only a change of hardware install with an existing os
Scott was it running correctly before the install? I see a chance its faulty afterall you was given it so maybe?
Do you have ACPI enabled in bios? I remember when I used a P4 many moons ago now you cant switch hyperthreading on in bios without reinstalling windows so is there a chance it was disabled before and you did the reinstall and enabled it?