From owner-freebsd-hardware@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Jul 16 20:23:40 2009 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C11E6106566B for ; Thu, 16 Jul 2009 20:23:40 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from desnudopenguino@gmail.com) Received: from mail-bw0-f208.google.com (mail-bw0-f208.google.com [209.85.218.208]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3E45E8FC16 for ; Thu, 16 Jul 2009 20:23:39 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from desnudopenguino@gmail.com) Received: by bwz4 with SMTP id 4so324450bwz.43 for ; Thu, 16 Jul 2009 13:23:39 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:mime-version:received:in-reply-to:references :date:message-id:subject:from:to:cc:content-type; bh=C00zIWhfMcsKiadzDNmjDOee1BOUrVZtTSAIwOdB01E=; b=HmKZljXLMX89TSDlaCiaGM/yIoGC9n2eME+jsznGzCaDFb2jjme3nOlbSG4xznXmMe oRgC9zw3dx7FY+TcHwi6z+B5mNIzFiStjTXHyG+N+Wub4G5bC5wTtSSR7MuYea5P4XIx FS6eCRyKZyCWX74rXgDp4InJbg0NZb7zQK2IM= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=mime-version:in-reply-to:references:date:message-id:subject:from:to :cc:content-type; b=K3bQBfV7Cm6SAtkbX33FlcNK8T8OVLW05hYtombmX3VYi7XORJkrulyy0YwRItyMtH y6C5pPCm2RfWk9pDZiDvEAN1ZJUrjhKqbKq1/z3WNfUDz1hs9ZSpARc97ixEUg+Qj0vV 7nMNgRC9INqge/q8kxhtA49O7s18RydCqVoys= MIME-Version: 1.0 Received: by 10.204.102.76 with SMTP id f12mr140643bko.137.1247775819098; Thu, 16 Jul 2009 13:23:39 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: <448wio8kjs.fsf@be-well.ilk.org> References: <26d677980907160653u15f26dbes2ddbbbffc5763d63@mail.gmail.com> <448wio8kjs.fsf@be-well.ilk.org> Date: Thu, 16 Jul 2009 16:23:39 -0400 Message-ID: <26d677980907161323y64fba5a4p6c64cd0cc0f9723@mail.gmail.com> From: Adam Townsend To: Lowell Gilbert Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Content-Filtered-By: Mailman/MimeDel 2.1.5 Cc: freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org Subject: Re: computer keeps rebooting X-BeenThere: freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: General discussion of FreeBSD hardware List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 16 Jul 2009 20:23:41 -0000 On Thu, Jul 16, 2009 at 4:00 PM, Lowell Gilbert wrote: > Adam Townsend writes: > > > If I bump the processor back down to 3.8 > GHz > > it runs perfectly fine (ran it over 24 hours straight w/o any problems). > My > > Motherboard won't let me overclock past 4.2, it throws an error in the > BIOS > > about it, so the hardware can handle 4.0. > > Not that I'm positive it's your problem, but that last statement is > categorically wrong. If the parts were all in spec to run at 4GHz, it > wouldn't be called *over*clocking. It may work on some of these > systems, but you don't get any guarantees when you go beyond the > specifications (in fact, that's what the word "specifications" means). True... I like to push things a little sometimes & see what they can do. It's no big deal that it doesn't work @ 4GHz, it runs great @ stock speed. I just noticed this while I was messing around & thought I'd ask.