Re: Problems with the new "smp-calibration" routines

Michael L. Galbraith (mikeg@weiden.de)
Fri, 20 Feb 1998 21:55:23 +0100 (MET)


On Fri, 20 Feb 1998, Mike Frisch wrote:

> On Fri, 20 Feb 1998, Christian Rost wrote:
>
> > Running the CPU's at "normal" speed (166Mhz), everything works fine, but I
> > don't want to do without the additional 34Mhz ;)
>
> If everything works properly when you're running the CPUs at their rated
> speed, then it's a hardware problem. The solution is simple: don't
> overclock.
>

The correct reply IMO sounds more like 'you exceeded design spec and
didn't get away with it this time .. dang the bad luck'.

You can't violate design spec on a whim and then attribute failures
to hardware defficiencies.

-Mike

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