Hype-threading stopped working for me (probably due to me not enabling ACPI). dmesg output and .config attached. -rc5 worked fine. The board is an Asus P4P800-Deluxe. dmesg: WARNING: 1 siblings found for CPU0, should be 2 $ cat /proc/cpuinfo processor : 0 vendor_id : GenuineIntel cpu family : 15 model : 2 model name : Intel(R) Pentium(R) 4 CPU 2.60GHz stepping : 9 cpu MHz : 2606.438 cache size : 512 KB fdiv_bug : no hlt_bug : no f00f_bug : no coma_bug : no fpu : yes fpu_exception : yes cpuid level : 2 wp : yes flags : fpu vme de pse tsc msr pae mce cx8 apic sep mtrr pge mca cmov pat pse36 clflush dts acpi mmx fxsr sse sse2 ss ht tm pbe cid xtpr bogomips : 5144.57 Johannes