A friend of mine seems to have a problem. Here is what he told me:
"A couple of days ago, I went and OC'd my computer (bumped the FSB up to 215 as usual) and my computer wouldn't boot into windows (on RAID-0 SATA 80GB drives). It would get to random parts (but ususually 1/2 way though the windows XP scroling bar) and then just freeze. The hard drive light would stay on, but nothing was happening.
After letting it sit for a few hours (and returing to stock speeds) I attempted to boot again after removing a recently installed IDE drive. Bam... windows boots problem solved right? No...
When I later restarted, the computer, again, would not boot. So I plug in the IDE drive, and install windows XP on it. It installs fine, and boots to windows. I install drivers and directx and reboot, minus the booting part.
It got stuck in the same way. I un-plug the IDE drive, and boot up my Ultimate Boot CD (windows xp on CD with tons of tweaks) and windows runs fine off of the CD. No issues, even in heavy stress testing.
Ok... so its not the PSU as previously suspected, nor is it the RAM.
Somehow, I get it to boot again off of the SATA hard drives. I try to watch some movies that I have on my hard drive and they play for a little while (3-5 min), then stop with the hard drive light full-on. After 5-20 seconds, the movie would continue to play. The computer is responsive for everything that is cached to memory. Task manager reveals ~1% CPU usage, and no strange tasks running.
I reboot, and the dang thing wont boot again! At this point I am PISSED OFF. I go to bed.
This morning I stip the thing out, swap out SATA cables disconnect everything that is non-essential, still no boot. I have the bright idea to un-hook my SATA drives and test with just the IDE drive. Boots first try, and fast.
Ok, if you have read all that...
Do you think I could have killed my drives (or corrupted them) by overclocking in such a mild manner and at a speed that I have used many times before?"
What do you guys think?
"A couple of days ago, I went and OC'd my computer (bumped the FSB up to 215 as usual) and my computer wouldn't boot into windows (on RAID-0 SATA 80GB drives). It would get to random parts (but ususually 1/2 way though the windows XP scroling bar) and then just freeze. The hard drive light would stay on, but nothing was happening.
After letting it sit for a few hours (and returing to stock speeds) I attempted to boot again after removing a recently installed IDE drive. Bam... windows boots problem solved right? No...
When I later restarted, the computer, again, would not boot. So I plug in the IDE drive, and install windows XP on it. It installs fine, and boots to windows. I install drivers and directx and reboot, minus the booting part.
It got stuck in the same way. I un-plug the IDE drive, and boot up my Ultimate Boot CD (windows xp on CD with tons of tweaks) and windows runs fine off of the CD. No issues, even in heavy stress testing.
Ok... so its not the PSU as previously suspected, nor is it the RAM.
Somehow, I get it to boot again off of the SATA hard drives. I try to watch some movies that I have on my hard drive and they play for a little while (3-5 min), then stop with the hard drive light full-on. After 5-20 seconds, the movie would continue to play. The computer is responsive for everything that is cached to memory. Task manager reveals ~1% CPU usage, and no strange tasks running.
I reboot, and the dang thing wont boot again! At this point I am PISSED OFF. I go to bed.
This morning I stip the thing out, swap out SATA cables disconnect everything that is non-essential, still no boot. I have the bright idea to un-hook my SATA drives and test with just the IDE drive. Boots first try, and fast.
Ok, if you have read all that...
Do you think I could have killed my drives (or corrupted them) by overclocking in such a mild manner and at a speed that I have used many times before?"
What do you guys think?
