How to lock SATA and AGP

[stevok]

I know I need to lock these things before OC'ing, but I can't find any reference to them in the BIOS for my mobo (ASUS A8V-Deluxe).
I am using all 4 SATA ports on my system - I know that you can workaround by only using ports 3&4, but I do have 4 SATA drives in the system.
There doesn't seem to be any reference to locking the speed of the AGP bus in BIOS, is this set somewhere else?
I'd appreciate any help for this noob.

 

[jdangber]

I'm not familiar with that board, but usually, if it is not listed, it isn't supported. The may have a pci lock though. The only way to find out is to clock it up about 40 MHz. If your hard drive and graphics card still work, you probably have locks. Sisoft Sandra will usually tell you your pci bus frequency, as well as clockgen, incase you want to double check.

 

[d3lt4]

where is it on a DFI NF4 board?

 

[bunnyfubbles]

Originally posted by: d3lt4
where is it on a DFI NF4 board?

They're locked automatically, for the DFI board you "unlock" it by changing the PCI bus itself, giving you the chance to "overclock" it like in the days of old where you'd have no choice but to overclock everything. However a faster PCI bus usually doesn't give you more performance and only ever causes instability with parts not meant to be overclocked in that way, so its usually best not to even mess with it.