Overclocking Hard Drive Help

[Mattd46612]

Whenever I try to achieve high overclocks and end up having to reboot my computer. Alot of the time Ill have a windows registry error and I end up having to reinstall windows and lower the clock. What is the reason for this? Is it due to a cheap motherboard? My hard drives are just standard WD or Seagate that you would get at Best Buy.

 

[BillyBobJoel71]

i have no clue but why would you overclock a hard drive?

 

[Mattd46612]

Its not overclocking the hard drive. Its a result of overclocking the processor.

 

[GML3G0]

Does your motherboard have an AGP/PCI lock? By increasing the HTT, you are increasing the AGP and PCI bus speeds, unless there's a lock. HD is linked through the PCI bus. There is a HTT:AGPCI ratio. That's your problem. Either that, or your CPU can't handle it.

 

[Mattd46612]

Id have to check on the lock. But seeing as this board is about as useless as toilet paper I doubt it.

 

[stevty2889]

Originally posted by: Mattd46612
Id have to check on the lock. But seeing as this board is about as useless as toilet paper I doubt it.

LOL, I don't know, I don't find toliet paper to be useless. But are you drives SATA or PATA?

 

[Mattd46612]

Sata

 

[n7]

Your SATA ports are obviously not locked...IOW, i wouldn't OC.

Unfortunately, alot of the earlier mobos with SATA don't have locks, which means OCing = no go.

 

[Mattd46612]

I have my 2600+ running near 2.1 If im right. But I always figured osmething was wrong because I would go near 2.3-2.5 and it would go to windows, I would get a error, reboot and my registry would be destroyed. When I get this new mobo/cpu Im going to make sure I OC it safe and right. Just concerned the Geil ram will hold me up.

 

[n7]

Ah i didn't even notice you were the same poster, duh.

What RAM is that? PC2700?

 

[Mattd46612]

pc3200, yea noticed it was you the last post.