[CS-FSLUG] Some news

Josiah Ritchie jritchie at bible.edu
Fri Jul 9 08:04:24 CDT 2004


On Fri, 2004-07-09 at 08:49, David M. wrote:
> On Thursday 08 July 2004 09:49 am, @ndrew wrote:
> > I second Jukka. I've been very, very pleased with the stability provided
> > by Windows XP - when you're using stable hardware - so I'd be reluctant to
> > blame your instability problems on the OS itself. For instance, my
> > brother's been having some problems with his computer running XP (it'll
> > randomly reboot), but it seems to have been a bad memory clock setting.
> > I'd check drivers and settings, etc., and try to diagnose the problem
> > rather than reinstalling XP over and over and over.
> 
> 2 things that could be causing the reboots
> 
> 1. computer is overheating
> 2. bad memory module.
> 
> There is no memory clock setting, you're probably  refering to overclocking 
> the processor.

Which is a classic way to overheat the device if proper additional
ventilation is not provided, and also shorten its useful life.

JSR/





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