I just lost my partitions. Could it be because of the high FSB 158 ??

[SnoopyDog]

As topic says.

My partitions are gone. During a cold boot "no operation system availble". Under win xp the partitions were gone (I had devided the 60GB into four HD). I then installed a win 95 on a different HD and I could the see all my data on the Baracuda (which is 3 months old) with the lost partitions. My FSB was lowered back to default, at the fresh install of win 95.

I was wondering, could it be because of the high FSB 158 ????? WHAT are your thoughts??
See system specs below.

Cheers in advance.


SnoopyDog

P.S. My Danish are better

 

[Pabster]

Very likely. The 75GXP series handles high PCI speeds very well (I've ran up to 45MHz with no troubles) but the Barracuda IV cannot tolerate much above 33MHz. This goes for many drives out there, unfortunately. You might look in to throwing that drive on an add-in PCI controller, which usually allows you to crank the PCI bus without comprising your data.

 

[SnoopyDog]

Thanks for your reply.

 

[Retro2001]

I'll second what Pabster said. I've had both a Barracuda IV and a Western Digital Hard drive get squirly on my when I've bumped up my FSB, and had both be solid when running within spec. Good Luck.

Peace,
will

 

[jonmullen]

What about with new Maxtor ATA133 7200RPM drives. I am getting ready to O/C my new system and was wondering if that would be a problem. Does it matter that they are on a RAID 0 array.

 

[SnoopyDog]

I was OC to 158 FSB on a 1600+. But after my little incident I lowered my FSB to 148, and everything seems to be running smothly again. So I recon, it must have been my Baracuda that was limiting my OC, cause my two Deskstars 75GXP never cared a bit.

Thanks alot guys you helped me alot here.

SnoopyDog