On Thu, Jan 13, 2000 at 10:56:08AM +0100, you [Rogier Wolff] claimed:
>
> 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.
>
I think this was not the case with my disk. I had two other (older) disks
that I used much more than the faulty one. Further, I had no other
problems, which would be quite unlikely if the memory would in fact get
corrupted.
One thing to consider, though, is whether the harddrive's electronics can
operate on higher pci bus clockrate. This could lead to various problems.
I'm not sure, however, could the harddisk get physically damaged ie. not
work anymore in different, not overclocked system. Other thing that makes
me wonder in my case is that I have two, older drives, that had no
problems. It would seem natural to assume that newer drives could operate
on higher clockrate.
Could anybody who knows this stuff better comment on this?
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