Hey guys

thanks for the replies. Hmm I will try disabling Hyperthreading , I am wondering tho how much of a performance loss will I get? That was one of the specific things marketed for this laptop, its performance increases with HT when multitasking. Anyway I got this laptop last week and I installed SP2 a few days later considering that SP2 has been around a while now and friends have been telling me that they had no problems with it. Now I could be wrong about this since I did not use the Pc that much prior to installing SP2 I decided to install it since I wanted to get as many fixes and patches in one shot instead of having to use all the cumulative patches. This system came with SP 1 already installed. I know it is odd that it freezes up when P2Ping and watching a movie as my old P3 1Ghz never used to crash when doing more than one p2p and watching movies. Yeah I didn't bother to check with HP support as I knew it would be no help , and I don't want to return this machine as it is very nice and it doesn't seem like its worth the hassle considerin a fix should be out in the future. Anyway I have the latest version of WMP, Java,drivers etc. One thing I use ABC client for bittorrent which doesn't seem to cause the machine to crash while watching a movie. Now I am wondering cuz I know its written in Python, Limewire is written in Javan and my machine freezes , is Shareaza also in java my machine freezes there too. So anyway I have updated Java from the sun site to no avail but interestingly in my Add/remove box I see 2, Java 2 Runtime Env. 1.4.2_03 and 1.4.2_05 Now is this correct seeing that I updated? Is there a way to safely remove and reinstall Java?

btw it occurs in all movies regardless of format even Quicktime.

Sorry for the long read.

Later