Re: iNav causing hard reset - SOLVED

Buck wrote:

Yes, I described that very thing in my original note. I have overclocked dozens of systems, some OEM, some custom built. As the OP found out, in any OC machine, if there is any sort of unexplained error, it's best to dial the frequency back to nominal as a diagnostic aid.

Forgive me if I misunderstood your earlier post. I thought you said the system ran reliably until you used Firewire. That's why I responded that Firewire is highly timing dependent and yes, overclocking can affect it. Just as it can affect memory or graphics cards. But typically it affects it right away, or at least reproducibly. This is in contrast to, say, one day Word just crashes.

Are you saying the Firewire sometimes worked, sometimes didn't? Or did it pretty consistently crash? I got the impression Firewire just plain didn't work when you overclocked. Because I absolutely agree that you need to make sure the rest of your hardware can handle the overclocking, but I also have found that once you've successfully used your hardware, the CPU doesn't usually act up later.

Anyway, if you don't want to overclock, then by all means don't. I've got a 3GHz machine running 3GB of DDR2 at 900MHz with a 10K Raptor drive that cost me $700 - a machine that would likely have cost closer to $1200 on spec. It was worth the effort for me.

Joe