Reply 20 of 23, by wierd_w
I worked at a mom&pop in the tail-end 9x / 2k&xp era, and saw enough of this that I very rarely OCed any of my machines (and if I did, it was by some very modest amount, like 33mhz).
I've also seen memory sticks develop 'Patina' on the gold fingers of the SIMMs/DIMMs, that needed cleaning with a white smooth eraser (NEVER, EVER USE PINK. Only non-abrasive white vinyl!).
9x systems throw "Windows Protection Error", (or during setup, "SUWIN" errors) when CPU is extremely overclocked. Error with IRQL_NOT_EQUAL and Error_In_NonPaged_Pool happens a lot with XP/2K, though the former is more often with "A driver is very timing specific, and does not like the CPU being off-spec" and the latter is "The RAM is not working in proper cadence with the CPU's access time interval/RAM has a defect."
But I see I am late to this party. 😀