Will an undervolting fail scramble the hard drive?

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nincomp

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I have one of the screwy Acer laptops (5515) that has an AM2 processor socket. Others have swapped out the puny 2650e processors for manly 5050e's. I have a 5050e and intend to underclock and undervolt the thing. I know that this is a silly project, but it is MY silly project, dagnabit!

If I undervolt too much, making the system unstable, will the hard drive get scrambled?
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ps. many moons ago (10+ years), I found that overclocking too far often scrambled the hard drive. I hope that undervolting is not likely to do the same thing. I am now an old fart and reloading the OS will make me grumpier than usual.
 
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incorrect memory timings/voltages *could* cause OS corruption but it's unlikely. I wouldn't be concerned about it as windows 7/8 does a very good job of fixing itself in the event of a boot issue. Just go one step at a time and you'll be ok.
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Overclocking, over-volting,underclocking, under-volting, these things should have nothing to do with the hard drive. Enlighten me on what "scrambling" is in your terms, cause as far as I know, doing these things damage the CPU and the CPU only (well maybe the motherboard itself as well, since serious overclocking / underclocking can fry it).
 
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I t has been a very long time since I played around with overclocking processors (the mid-nineties Pentium MMX era, when dinosaurs ruled the earth). At that time, if the system crashed from the overclocking, the data on the hard drive became corrupted. Sometimes the drive would require reformatting before the OS was reloaded. I wondered if a system that crashes from too much underclocking would do the same thing.

It is entirely likely that these types of events do not anymore. I just wanted to check.
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pcgaming98

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Well technology "back when dinosaurs ruled the earth" wasn't as advanced as technology is now, so I'm certain all of the data on your hard drive will be safe. But I have heard that if you put a hard drive with a pre-installed OS in another computer, it will require a format and fresh new install of OS since Windows will have to configure itself for the new hardware, so it could be possible. I've rarely heard of these things though.
 
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incorrect memory timings/voltages *could* cause OS corruption but it's unlikely. I wouldn't be concerned about it as windows 7/8 does a very good job of fixing itself in the event of a boot issue. Just go one step at a time and you'll be ok.
 
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