But was it working ok for a while before? Seems odd that it might have worked at 20 for a while.
On Thu, Jul 7, 2011 at 11:06 AM, Greg Keogh <[email protected]> wrote: > Folks, a few week ago I asked why my wife’s machine would be randomly > freezing. I followed the advice of a few people and unplugged DVD drives and > pull all the plugs out and swapped the memory sticks and blew it all out > with the vacuum cleaner, etc, but nothing helped. I also reset BIOS to > normal and safe defaults with no effect. It certainly was a hardware > problem, but what?**** > > ** ** > > Last weekend I rang a mate of mine who used to build computers for a living > (back before it was cheaper to buy them whole). He told me to look in the > BIOS for suspicious speed settings that I could incrementally lower. I found > a clock option of some kind that went from 9 to 21, it was set to 20. I set > it back to 15 but it still froze. I set it down to 10 and simultaneously > turned off turbo-boost. It’s cured!!!**** > > ** ** > > So I changed two things at once, but it’s a miracle cure. So this is just a > heads-up for anyone else who might suffer frustrating problems like this, I > guess the lesson is ... don’t forget the BIOS.**** > > ** ** > > Greg**** > -- Meski http://courteous.ly/aAOZcv "Going to Starbucks for coffee is like going to prison for sex. Sure, you'll get it, but it's going to be rough" - Adam Hills
