OC'd processor works fine, but a HDD problem?

[Ipno]

I have a 466 mhz celery that easily overclocks to 525. It runs perfectly fine at 525 for all things processor/video card/ram/ etc (that is setting the system to a 75mhz bus for 7x75 == 525)

The problem happens when I overclock for some reason the secondary hard drive starts acting like a turd. Oh it still reads and writes, it just reads and writes SLOW. Very slow. to the point of sometimes when reading or writing to that drive the system actually locks up. Since its secondary, I can pull the thing out and run on my primary drive perfectly fine.

The secondary is the slave on the primary IDE channel, it's a Maxtor 17gig Can't remember exact model number (POS drive, this is the third one, two others before it died, at least maxtor RMA'd the others)

Anyone else have this problem with this drive?

 

[HaVoC]

Some of the older Maxtors I remember had problems with the 75Mhz FSB speed since they are running at 37.5Mhz PCI bus.

Dropping to PIO Mode 4 from DMA-33 will usually fix the problem but you lose a LOT of performance and the CPU utilization goes way high. You should either drop back to stock speed or get a new HD. I would recommend the later since you will also realize major gains in speed in today's 20GB/platter drives. You can have one for less than $100 (5400 RPM)