On Sun, 16 Sep 2001, Rajesh Fowkar wrote: > Hi Listers, > > What are the issues involved in compiling a kernel on a machine with CPU > overclocked ? > > Yesterday I tried to compile 2.4.9 kernel on a celerone machine 466MHZ > which was overclocked to 550MHZ. The motherboard is ASUS P3C2000. > > During kernel compilation the machine is either rebooting in between or it > is giving segmentation fault. > > Has anybody compiled the kernel on overclocked CPU ? We also could not find > a way to turn the clock speed to it's original speed. Has anybody done the > above stuff in the above make of ASUS motherboard. >
You have to raise the CPU voltage to avoid data corruption, but more voltage means more heat so you may need extra cooling. Xavier
