AMD Athlon II X4, OC and SATA fail

[bluejelly]

After adjusting bclock to 120MHz, OC 3.1GHz - Debian Whezzy Testing with Linux kernel 3.2 refuses to boot from SATA HDD - can't wait for root device, no /dev/disk/by-uuid/... etc. When i boot other GNU/Linux system from USB, it boots, works ok, however SATA is not visible. I have also Windows Vista, boots fine, works stable. Anything higher than 5% (105MHz bclk) makes GNU/Linux blind for SATA. SATA mode in BIOS (IDE, AHCI, RAID) doesn't matter. So, do you have some ideas how to make it work?

HW Specs:
GA-A75M-S2V, Athlon II X4 631, Kingston HyperX 1600MHz 2x2GB, Corsair CX430 V2 430W, Radeon HD 5670, Two Seagate SATA HDDs.

 

[VirtualLarry]

That's a Llano Athlon II, not a "real" Athlon II.

LLano chips generally suck for overclocking, don't bother, or choose a different platform.

Regular Athlon II (AM3/AM3+) CPUs overclock easily and well. You just need to lower your DRAM and HTT multis as you increase the BCLK.

Not so easy with the LLano's though.

 

[borisvodofsky]

Another wanderer dicked over by AMD. sigh....

I keep trying to warn people.

 

[richierich1212]

Another wanderer dicked over by AMD. sigh....

I keep trying to warn people.

You make it seem as if AMD killed your dog or something.

 

[borisvodofsky]

You make it seem as if AMD killed your dog or something.

:'( Bambi, Nooo! :'(

 

[Soulkeeper]

You have a hudson chipset.
That is your problems regardless of OS

it overclocks the sata amoung other things, the platform is poor for overclocking bclk.

You have two options:
1) use the esata or the last sata port and hope it works. On mine, and other A75 boards i've tested, the first 4 sata become inoperable above 105MHz bclk or so. The 5th and 6th(usually esata on back plate) still work however.
2) throw a pcie sata card in the system and happily oc all you want.

I see your GA-A75M-S2V has 6 sata ports on the board.
since you have exactely 2 hard drives ? then plug them into 5 and 6, disable the other 4 in the bios and this will most likely allow you to run the higher bclk.

As a side note the last 2 ports use a different sata driver in linux and other os's

 

[bluejelly]

Thanks Soulkeeper. Disks are connected to the 5th and 6th SATA port now and system is working as expected .

Now i remember that Windows Vista "detected new hardware" at first boot after overclock.

 

[nyker96]

Thanks Soulkeeper. Disks are connected to the 5th and 6th SATA port now and system is working as expected .

Now i remember that Windows Vista "detected new hardware" at first boot after overclock.

I see a happy customer here!