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Date:      Thu, 27 May 1999 19:23:43 -0500
From:      Carroll Kong <damascus@eden.rutgers.edu>
To:        stable@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: R: Spontaneous reboot while CPU usage is high 
Message-ID:  <3.0.5.32.19990527192343.00c6ba60@email.eden.rutgers.edu>
In-Reply-To: <199905272314.JAA19135@lightning.itga.com.au>
References:  <Your message of Thu, 27 May 1999 15:26:49 -0700.>

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At 09:14 AM 5/28/99 +1000, Gregory Bond wrote:
>> Thanks for your input. I believe this K6-2 is already overclocked to
>> 333. :) Probably a 266 or 300.
>
>Try it without overclocking and get back to us if it still reboots.
>Overclocking is _not supported_  for FreeBSD (for whatever "supported"
means in
>the free software environment!), presumably because it causes odd errors just
>like this one.

I do not think he overclocked it intentionally.  We are coming to a
conclusion that he got 'ripped' off by an old K6-266 or K6-300 that has
been overclocked when he bought it.  :(  Unfortunate... very unfortunate if
this is true.

-Carroll Kong


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