Did I Ruin My HD by Overclocking?

[kcdrummer]

I did some newbie overclocking on my e6300 with an asus p5b-e and ran it at 2.8ghz by just upping the front side bus. It didn't need any voltage adjustements to go prime95 stable for 10 hrs and everything was running very good.

Then, the last 2 days everything started running really slow, I noticed games booting up taking 4x the normal amount of time. This morning windows took about 2 min to boot and I hear a lot of hard drive churning. My first thought is that my hd is failing?

First question: should I have adjusted something else as well to keep the system peripherals stable?

Second question: does this just sound like a hard drive failing and maybe the o/c didn't do it?

Thank you for any help.

 

[Bateluer]

I don't think its possible for an OC to affect an HD, even if you OCed the PCIE/PCI busses. The HD plugs into either a PATA or a SATA port, both of which aren't overclocked.

Look up the drive test software from your HD maker and see what you get from that.

 

[LouPoir]

In my years of O/C, Ive never had a hard drive failure due to O/C. I have often corrupted files that required a OS re-install.

Lou

 

[kcdrummer]

Originally posted by: LouPoir
In my years of O/C, Ive never had a hard drive failure due to O/C. I have often corrupted files that required a OS re-install.

Lou

I think your right, I think the hd was churning more than normal trying to compensate for corrupted data. I put everything down to stock and it seems ok for now.

I was letting the pci bus drift with the cpu bus.

Thank you.

 

[The-Noid]

just lock the pci-e and pci bus and you shuoldn't have much of a problem.

 

[kcdrummer]

Ok so this is weird. I run 2 weeks great at 2.5 and 2.8 on an e6300 by doing nothing but upping the fsb in the bios. No voltage tweaks, pci locking, nothing.

So then the hard drive starts churning more and the pc is slowing down so I put everything at stock and post this thread. PC still acting a little slow but much better.

I lock the pci bus and pci-e per this threads recommendation, http://www.xtremesystems.org/forums/showthread.php?t=115217

and then push the fsb just to get from 1.8 to 2.4 and the pc randomly just shuts down and reboots?

What in the world? It ran fine and never did that before with just upping the fsb. I do the right thing and lock the pci at 33 and the pci-e at 110 and then I get random reboots at even a lower clock rate than before?

Any ideas?

Thanks.

 

[myocardia]

Try locking your PCI-E bus at 100, where it's supposed to be.

 

[kcdrummer]

Originally posted by: myocardia
Try locking your PCI-E bus at 100, where it's supposed to be.

Gotcha. Wonder why the dude in that thread had it at 120?

http://www.xtremesystems.org/forums/...d.php?t=115217

 

[w00t]

Originally posted by: kcdrummer

Originally posted by: myocardia
Try locking your PCI-E bus at 100, where it's supposed to be.

Gotcha. Wonder why the dude in that thread had it at 120?

http://www.xtremesystems.org/forums/...d.php?t=115217

I was told between 101-120. I have mine at 100 though

 

[kcdrummer]

OC won't kill your HD but running the bus out of spec can cause data corruption which in turn will cause corrupt files on the disk. Just lock the buses to 33 and 100 and you wont have any problems.

Ding... we have a winner. Asgard from xtremesystems forums was on to it.

I turned everything down to stock, ran a few tests and samsung disk test you boot from dos found errors on the surface scan. These only came after I overbussed so it recommended an erase disk and run it again. After that no errors and system was running fine again.

With my MSI board my pci bus was always locked so I got out of the habbit of locking it. I think that was the problem. Reloaded winblows and everything is fine.

Thanks all for your help and advice.