Brushes With Death Here are some close calls that happened while in the process of overclocking. If you have one, please send it to me!
Name: Chris Lambert Computer Type/Speed: Blue & White G3 400MHz Overclocked to: 450MHz Story: Well, it wasn't really all that big a deal, but it was pretty scary at the time. I was trying to overclock my computer. I opened it up, and removed the jumper cap...but I didn't shut down. My computer froze. Oh lord, was I nervous. "Did I touch something on the motherboard? Maybe it was just a random freeze," I thought to myself. So I cut the power and tried to restart with the jumper cap still off. (I didn't know that the jumper cap had to be on.) I heard the bing, but nothing showed up on the monitor. I was ready to die. I thought for sure I just flushed 2 grand down the crapper. I tried to restart again, same thing happened. I was sweating now and couldn't stop shaking. Finally, I thought to put to cap back on. So I did, and it started up fine. But when that baby wouldn't start up, I thought my life was over, heh. I guess you had to be there for it to be scary. : )