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Posted on Wednesday, January 27, 2010 at 3:08 AM

Processor Overclocking May Corrupt File System Structures and Cause Data Loss


Processor Overclocking is the procedure of running the CPU (Central Processing Unit) at higher clock rate. It increases the speed of your processor, which is the most significant device in your computer for performance purpose. However, there are some definite risks of overclocking the processor. The issues may range from system resource destruction to data loss. Data loss is something that can not be accepted at any cost, and you need Data Recovery Software to get your valuable data back.

Followings are the possible hazards of overclocking of processor:

Complete Destruction of Processor – Overclocking the processor may lead to complete destruction of the processor, i.e., the processor will not boot after overclocking. Infact, in rare cases, even on returning the speed to normal, it may not work. Although, such type of failure is quite uncommon, but it happens.

Non-Functionality - Processor may not function at new speed, but work properly when it is returned to original speed. It is very common after overclocking.

System Instability - Processor may start at new speed, but may behave strangely. Parity errors, random hard lockups, odd hard drive issues, beeping, program crashes, resource conflicts, and operating system refusing to boot up are some common symptoms of it. Electromigration - If you run the processor at a speed, which is higher than its speculated speed, internal components of the processor might break down at some point. To put it simply, overclocking makes the processor run at a high frequency, which generates additional heat. This generated heat leads to formation of shorts or opening of the metal lines in the processor, which damages the processor in due course of time. The computer in such a case work fine for some time, until it finally breaks down.

Data Loss - It is quite likely that you lose the data and information after processor overclocking. If your processor is not working correctly, you risk corrupting the file system of your hard drive. Operating system registry may also get damaged, requiring re-installation of the operating system.

In case of data loss, Hard Drive Data Recovery software are required to extract lost, missing, and inaccessible data from your hard drive. Recovery in case of file system corruption or registry corruption, is possible using Data Recovery Solutions.

The applications are capable of methodically scanning whole hard drive and extracting lost data from it. The Data Recovery Software are quite safe and easy to use with read-only conduct and rich graphical user interface.

Stellar Phoenix Windows Data Recovery is the foremost provider of advanced recovery applications. The software are available for Windows, Mac OS X, Linux, UNIX, and Novell operating systems. These tools work well in most of the logical data loss situations.
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