diff --git a/modules/intel/ipex/hijacks.py b/modules/intel/ipex/hijacks.py
index b1c9a1182..5440b7b68 100644
--- a/modules/intel/ipex/hijacks.py
+++ b/modules/intel/ipex/hijacks.py
@@ -75,7 +75,7 @@ def as_tensor(data, dtype=None, device=None):
         return original_as_tensor(data, dtype=dtype, device=device)
 
 
-if device_supports_fp64 and os.environ.get('IPEX_FORCE_ATTENTION_SLICE', None) is None:
+if os.environ.get('IPEX_FORCE_ATTENTION_SLICE', '0') == '-1' or (device_supports_fp64 and os.environ.get('IPEX_FORCE_ATTENTION_SLICE', '0') == '0'):
     original_torch_bmm = torch.bmm
     original_scaled_dot_product_attention = torch.nn.functional.scaled_dot_product_attention
 else: