Hard Drive problem while overclocking

Meso

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My D: drive locks up my computer whenever I access it with a program or using Windows Explorer. This only happens when I overclock my 700E. The hardrive is a Maxtor 27 gig that is slaved to a Western Digital 40 gig on the Abit BE6-2 UDMA66 controller. I have defragged it, scanned it and checked for viruses. I have also changed the transfer mode in bios from UDMA modes and PIO modes. No luck, any suggestions?
The CPU works beautifully at 933 ecept when it looks at the D: drive.
 

BlueScreenVW

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1. Sorry, but I just felt I had to mention the obviuos FSB/PCI divider... In case it isn't 4, it should be. :)
2. I had some trouble with a D: drive falling asleep from time to time when "turn off hard drive power" was enabled in power management setup (both in BIOS and Win98). But apart from that it worked OK, so I guess it's not much like your problem.

:)
 

Meso

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Nov 27, 2000
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Yes, it is at the 1/4 divider so all the PCI devices are at 33.

I have tried the drive as a master on the secondary UDMA66 contoller and it does the same thing. I guess I should try it on one of the IDE controllers and see if it acts up.
The computer is rock solid besides this D: drive problem, I have tried higher voltages on the CPU but I don't think it needs it and it doesn't help the problem. System is running quite cool.
 

nexus9

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Yep, I had a similar problem with a PIII 600 and an old IBM deskstar 10 gig drive... would only go up to 675Mhz before I started getting weird hard drive related errors.

-Nexus9
 

Supradude

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worst case scenraio,... would be that the drive just doesn't like overclocking, or to your level, i've had this happen on a few older drives i used to have on a PII system,... they would install and slave perfectly fine until i clocked, then they would start losign data and just going wild... if i clocked down and reinstalled, they were fine again...
 

Meso

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Well I moved the D: drive off the UDMA66 controller and slaved it to one of the CDRom drives on the IDE controller. Everything is working great now at 933mhz and 1.65 volts. I guess it's either a flaky drive or the UDMA66 controller doesn't like the 2nd device on it.
Just for kicks I removed the Hauppage TV card that was sharing IRQ 11 with the UDMA66 controller. That actually made things worse as the computer wouldn't even boot all the way into Windows...