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Date: Thu, 27 May 1999 19:23:43 -0500
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From: Carroll Kong <damascus@eden.rutgers.edu>
Subject: Re: R: Spontaneous reboot while CPU usage is high 
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At 09:14 AM 5/28/99 +1000, Gregory Bond wrote:
>> Thanks for your input. I believe this K6-2 is already overclocked to
>> 333. :) Probably a 266 or 300.
>
>Try it without overclocking and get back to us if it still reboots.
>Overclocking is _not supported_  for FreeBSD (for whatever "supported"
means in
>the free software environment!), presumably because it causes odd errors just
>like this one.

I do not think he overclocked it intentionally.  We are coming to a
conclusion that he got 'ripped' off by an old K6-266 or K6-300 that has
been overclocked when he bought it.  :(  Unfortunate... very unfortunate if
this is true.

-Carroll Kong


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