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Old 11th December, 2002, 08:32 PM
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What is watch dog?
It appears to be a feature in the BIOS in some Epox boards.

What's it purpose, a kind of background monitoring tool?
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The watchdog feature detects failure early in the boot sequence and resets the bios cpu and memory timings to safe defaults. This is extremely helpful if you are going to overclock the system, because it avoids needing to clear the cmos manually.
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Helps auto-recover from self-induced/botched BIOS settings (too extreme to work... no POST). I keep it enabled whilst "experimenting".... once I know I'm at settings that are stable and trouble-free, then I may disable this setting... no particular reason. Don't think it has any negative effect on performance.
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Right well thanks guys.

At default Vcore for now and all looks good. A helpful feature indeed,
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Only saved my butt about 200 times ":O}
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Only saved my butt about 200 times ":O}
Shame EPoX can't do the same for windows really...

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