On Wednesday 23 January 2013 12:05:45 AM IST, Volker Armin Hemmann wrote: > Am 22.01.2013 08:41, schrieb Nilesh Govindrajan: >> So I have this old E2180 processor and no money as of now to buy a new >> rig :P >> I'm trying to overclock my CPU using BIOS host clock control and >> everything is fine at 2.6 Ghz up to bootloader. >> >> Kernel segfaults. Any idea why? I'm running pf-kernel 3.7.2 and it >> doesn't work with vanilla kernel either. >> >> Intel MCE is disabled in kernel configuration. >> >> > and now you know why overclocking is stupid. (disabling mce is stupid > too btw). > > Before there are segfaults there are silent data corruption errors. The > file you downloaded and saved to the disk? Damaged - and you won't > know... or you will, when those errors add up, turning precious data > into binary garbage. > > Only overclock if there is nothing of worth on your computer - and > nothing of worth done with it. But in that case - why use it in the > first place? > > Don't be stupid. Don't overvlock. >
Enabled MCE back after realising it's RAM issue. Anyway, it's too much work running torture tests. Back to safe levels. -- Nilesh Govindarajan http://nileshgr.com
