Date: Thu, 16 Jul 2009 16:23:39 -0400 From: Adam Townsend <desnudopenguino@gmail.com> To: Lowell Gilbert <lgusenet@be-well.ilk.org> Cc: freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org Subject: Re: computer keeps rebooting Message-ID: <26d677980907161323y64fba5a4p6c64cd0cc0f9723@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <448wio8kjs.fsf@be-well.ilk.org> References: <26d677980907160653u15f26dbes2ddbbbffc5763d63@mail.gmail.com> <448wio8kjs.fsf@be-well.ilk.org>
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On Thu, Jul 16, 2009 at 4:00 PM, Lowell Gilbert <lgusenet@be-well.ilk.org>wrote: > Adam Townsend <desnudopenguino@gmail.com> 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.
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