"Alfred Kaufmann" <al_kaufmann@xxxxxx> wrote in message
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>I overclocked my cpu this morning and it worked great but then I
> noticed in the taskbar something about volume activation failed or
> something like that - I did not see it until the system was shutting
> down. I re-booted, turned off the overclocking and after Windows
> booted I checked the computer properties - everything seems okay and
> my operating system is still activated.
>
> It is truly a sad day if overclocking your cpu causes your activation
> to fail.
If you over clock then results are unpredictable.
Even if the system appears to be stable there is a small chance it will
still do something odd (there is even if you don't over clock but its much
less) and there is little checking done by desktop PCs that will catch it,
servers have things like parity/ecc that may catch odd things before
anything serious like corrupted data happens.
Having said that you probably misread something and it was fine being over
clocked.
You can over clock it again if you want but make sure you have a backup, M$
aren't going to care if you over clock it..