On Fri, 31 Aug 2007 15:02:19 +0100, "dennis@xxxxxx"
<dennis@xxxxxx-ass.net> wrote:
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>"Alfred Kaufmann" <al_kaufmann@xxxxxx> wrote in message
>news:8v6gd3laffjiu65alqofefc7josr53mpi8@xxxxxx Quote:
>>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.
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>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. I started overclocking with the Celeron 300 -> 450 so I am aware of
the pitfalls.
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>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..
Yes I did not have much time to read whatever it was before it
disappeared. I don't know how M$ activation checks your system but I
had 2 days to call M$ when I just changed a video card. If something
like that happens everytime I change the cpu/memory speed then it is
going to be a real pain.
Al