Lan Party NF2 - AGP/PCI Lock ? is there 1 ? where is it ?

[phpdog]

Hi ,

I have a Lan Party NF2 Ultra with a Barton 2500+ @ 10 x 210 @ 2104Mhz.

I proberly could get it higher ... but i need to lock the AGP/PCI slots as there giving me problems at this speed sometimes the screen just freezes ... and i also have a SATA Drive but it's plugged into the onboard SATA port.

If i could lock the AGP/PCI i would get a SATA Card and use it so it would lock the SATA drive as we'll because thats been giving me major problems ... but i was told it would as when you overclock your system the SATA drive gets overclocked and they dont take to we'll to being overclocked .

Any info would be great , as ive never had to lock the AGP/PCI slots before so i dont know anything about it ... or what it looks like in the BIOS ... i had an idea what it was there was a setting AGP Frequency it goes from 50MHz to100 MHZ in 1MHz Increments. is this the AGP Lock ?

Also theres 4 Voltage settings AGP Voltage , Chipset Voltage , CPU Voltage , DRAM Voltage .

 

[Boonesmi]

your board has apg/pci lock

and the pci bus is much more then just the actual pci slots... your sata controller thats built onto the motherboard is on the pci bus (along with lots of other things, ie usb, etc) , so dont go buying a new sata controller thinking it will fix the problem

 

[phpdog]

Hi ,

So the onboard Marvel 88i8030 SATA chip is alreay controlled by the PCI bus ... so how do i lock it ?

Because its been ever since i installed the SATA drive the system hangs as soon as it starts up when i overclock it .

 

[Boonesmi]

yeah the marvel sata chip is on the pci bus.. and the pci bus isnt something you need to lock... its a feature of the chipset, the pci bus is always locked at 33mhz

 

[high]

the nforce2 / nforce2 ultra automatically locks pci/agp/ide but for your knowledge it's in the overclocking tab of the BIOS. Just set the AGP clock to 66 MHZ and it locks everything 33/66/133 respectively