Sander Smeenk (CistroN Medewerker) wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Is it possible that oc'ing my celerons could harm my IDE harddisks?
> (Connected to standard IDE, not HPP366)
>
> I found my second harddisk to be totaly distroyed, and my
> first one partially damaged, scandisk couldn't do anything
> till I set my CPU's to normal speed again..
Overclocking may lead the CPUs to make mistakes. Normally they would
perform the instructions that you give them, but while overclocked they
could do something different. That may lead to them scribbling over
memory they weren't told to scribble on.
Now if that memory happens to be a copy of part of your disk that was
also "legitimately modified", it will eventually be written back to
the disk. This leads to you finding disk corruption later on.
Roger.
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