On Mon, 2007-07-23 at 18:27 -0700, Vicki and Dave Stevenson wrote: > Unfortunately I didn't have much chance to work on this over the > weekend, but it was so encouraging to hear from all of you. Thanks > Chris, Andy, Stan, Jim and Willem for your suggestions. > > I managed to update the BIOS (which was several revs old - ver 0502 to > ver 1001), and that seemed to be enough to get me past the sticking point: > running /sbin/loader > > and the installation is proceeding. How lovely it feels to be asked what > language I speak! > > I have some questions about some bios settings: > > 1) CPU Frequency > The default value is 200MHz, and the max is 400MHz. The BIOS utility > allows any integral value between those points [200, 201, ... 400]. If I > set to 400MHz, is that what is referred to as overclocking? > > Are there risks associated with this? > I have never seen a BIOS with this feature, but overclocking has dangers such as burning up your cpu. Have you no idea what the cpu clocking speed is supposed to be? -- ======================================================================= ... in three to eight years we will have a machine with the general intelligence of an average human being ... The machine will begin to educate itself with fantastic speed. In a few months it will be at genius level and a few months after that its powers will be incalculable ... -- Marvin Minsky, LIFE Magazine, November 20, 1970 ======================================================================= Aaron Konstam telephone: (210) 656-0355 e-mail: akonstam@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
