I had taken hardware optimizations for granted; this is a reminder that
things can change over time.
Having read here a while back that Linux is very demanding of hardware
set me thinking. For the last six months I've had problems with Windows
Scandisk completing. I suspected my hard drive was heading toward failure
[before I was disabled I was a computer technician, and this IS one of the
first signs of hard drive failure a user will see], and before I installed
Linux Mandrake 7 I installed a new HDD. The Windows Scandisk problem
remained.
In trying to solve Linux WordPerfect vs. StarOffice installs corrupting X
windows, and sound configuration failures it occured to me to remove my 15%
overclocking and accelerated DIMM timing from my hardware. These things were
OK and had worked well for a year and a half. Removing the overclocking
solved the Scandisk problem. The DIMM timing changed nothing and was reset.
Too bad this didn't fix my Linux problems.
-Gary-
