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Hard Drive Corruption while overclocking

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illuminati

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I was wondering what the Anandtech forum readers know about hard drive corruption while overclocking. I have an old 8 gig hdd that seems to corrupt fairly easily. I was wondering what drives are the best to use while trying to find the max oc of your computer. Any help would be great.

I currently use a AMD Athlon XP 2100+ on a KD7 motherboard. It runs beautifully at 166x13... and I have gotten it to run at 216x9.5 before when I was maxing out my ram... but I lately tried 200x10.5 and it corrupted my hdd the first time I tried it.

Any ideas, thoughts, comments, tips would be great!

Thanks!
 
Whenever you run the PCI/AGP bus too far out of spec (33 and 66) you risk problems. Many of the newer boards have provisions for locking the PCI bus even if you overclock the FSB. R
 
I have only seen it over 210mhz FSB... so when I got it when my fsb was just 200mhz, I was surprised. I think the corruption is caused because the motherboard is processing and sending data to the HD faster than the HD can handle.

And what I mean by HD corruption is that some of my windows boot files get corrupted. my partition still seems perfectly fine. Although when I had my computer boot at 216mhz fsb, i corrupted the partition on my secondary HD... that was weird... and this is a whole other issue.

Anyone have any other thoughts?
 
Originally posted by: RickH
Whenever you run the PCI/AGP bus too far out of spec (33 and 66) you risk problems. Many of the newer boards have provisions for locking the PCI bus even if you overclock the FSB. R
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So it's the PCI/AGP bus that causes hard drive corruption? If so, that is interesting... I'll look in to my ABIT KD7 motherboard's BIOS settings, but I don't recall any setting that will lock the PCI/AGP bus settings. And after I double-check and if there is no setting for that... I may check with ABIT and see if they are planning a BIOS update to include that function. Thanks!
 
I've had windows installs get corrupted from unstable overclocking and non standard cpu voltage settings. It something you have to be prepared to accept when your getting creative.
 
Originally posted by: redbeard1
I've had windows installs get corrupted from unstable overclocking and non standard cpu voltage settings. It something you have to be prepared to accept when your getting creative.
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I don't have a problem accepting it anymore... I have Norton Ghost 2003 and can restore my HD in about 5 minutes 🙂. So the corruption is not really a problem... but the problem I have is that it is preventing me from finding the true max of my processor (I think).

From what I have gathered, it sounds like I am getting corruption easier because my ABIT KD7 mobo does not have a PCI divider lock or a 6:1 divider to control how much juice the rest of my mobo is getting. I have accepted that some days I'll get better than others. I'm cool with that until I can get a new mobo. Thanks for all the help!! And if anyone has any other thoughts, please post it! 🙂
 
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