Overclocked Intel leading to hdd errors?

[tranceport]

Anyone ever seen anything of the sort? Overclocked my p4 2.4b to 3.06 and started having disk trouble. My drive kept showing volume bitmap errors in chkdsk. Formated 3 times, few low level formats, full formats reinstalls of XP. Backed it down from 170fsb to 133 2.4ghz and now everything seems ok. Any tips? Would like to be back at 3.06ghz.

 

[Lord Evermore]

Unless your motherboard locks the PCI and AGP bus speeds, you'll be overclocking your IDE controller as much as you're overclocking your frontside bus (even though in most chipsets the IDE controller doesn't run over the PCI bus, it is clocked based on it). This very commonly results in errors. Have you tried overclocking to slightly lower speeds? You may just not be able to reach 3.06GHz.

 

[tranceport]

Well my asus p4g8x is suppose to do agp and pci locking.

 

[Lord Evermore]

Not only the IDE controller might cause those problems, of course. What sort of memory are you using? Overclocking to the same degree as the CPU? You didn't mention whether slightly lower clock speeds fixes the problems.

 

[tranceport]

Some cosair xms pc3200 c2. I am gonna do some testing and see where the breaking point is. Once I get a good ghost image of my box.

 

[Lord Evermore]

I assume you're letting the memory run at default timings? Even though it's PC3200, just because you run it at only 170MHz doesn't mean the timings necessarily can be dropped to their lowest.

 

[tranceport]

default spd timings

 

[Thor86]

Originally posted by: tranceport
Well my asus p4g8x is suppose to do agp and pci locking.

What are you locking it to? Do NOT use Auto, as the higher FSB increase doesn't keep your PCI at spec (33mhz) as Mikki's pci geiger test (in the mobo forums) have shown. Set it up to 66/33 (apg/pci) manually, and you shouldn't have any disk errors.

 

[tranceport]

Originally posted by: Thor86

Originally posted by: tranceport
Well my asus p4g8x is suppose to do agp and pci locking.

What are you locking it to? Do NOT use Auto, as the higher FSB increase doesn't keep your PCI at spec (33mhz) as Mikki's pci geiger test (in the mobo forums) have shown. Set it up to 66/33 (apg/pci) manually, and you shouldn't have any disk errors.

Yea I had read through that post. I forced it to 66/33 and rebooted and went back and checked and it is still at 66/33 but I still get "Volume bitmap errors".

 

[Lord Evermore]

There's pretty much nothing anybody is going to be able to do until you've checked what the "breaking point" is. You may just not have a system that will tolerate quite that high an overclock. Sucks yes, but you got what you paid for already and nobody guarantees you'll get more.