Perils of overclocking?

[gmccall]

I have heard a few people mention that their hard drives were wiped out due to overclocking.. This makes me a bit nervous, and wonder if I should put in my trusty wd 1 gig while I am experimenting... Any advice?

 

[Tonec]

Not an issue with multiplier overclocking, fsb oc with 1/3 1/4 pci dividers can wreak havoc on certain hard drives

 

[Supradude]

if your drive isn't relatively new and of good name, then don't try it, i had a fujitsu 4 gig (2 yrs old) that worked totally fine and still does as long as its not clocked, once it's OCed at all, it scrambles everything and starts randomly renaming stuff etc...

 

[chemwiz]

I've had some problems with overclocked CPU's even when the PCI bus (hard drive) wasn't, it's one of the prime signs you're running too fast if you get registry errors on boot up. I've never lost any data, but I've had to reinstall programs before.

 

[gmccall]

Thanks everyone. The reason I began considering this is because the other day after experimenting with overclocking my cpu for about 30 minutes or so, I booted up and Windows (ME) re-installed all of my drivers! The drive still works fine, but it really made me kind of nervous... I can't say positively that this was due to overclocking though.

 

[zzzz]

gmccall,
It might be just me!

 

[gmccall]

It could be you, zzzz. In fact, I have a host of annoyances that I would be more than willing to blame on you, if that's ok? But yeah, ME is always suspect when things like this happen, although it had been very stable until then.

 

[stonythug]

yo gmccall, just wanted to let you know that I was doing multiplier only overclocking and my hard drive definitely got jacked up. When I upped my duron 650 to 800 it wouldn't boot at all anymore and the LEDs told me there was a memory problem. After I jumpered the bios back to it's original settings and tried to boot, it would say failure loading windows and turn off my machine, when reinstalling windows I noticed that my windows folder along with a couple of other ones had somehow been messed up and weren't valid files but couldn't be erased either. When reinstalling windows, it had to reinstall it in the Windows.000 folder because it couldn't overwrite the corrupted file. Needless to say, I spent the next 4 hours formatting and partitioning my hard drive. Luckily this was only 1 day after I built my machine so I didn't lose too much(besides time and my sanity). I don't know what happened and I'm kindof worried to try again. I didn't think overclocking the multiplier could do that much harm, but I guess it can under the right circumstances.

 

[ericb]

I thought that increasing the voltage would normally correct those Windows registry and memory errors. Mine went away when I increased the CPU voltage .25 V.

 

[gmccall]

Stonythug. That sounds very similar! What type of system are you running? I guess I just got lucky when I only had to re-install my drivers. This is a new system for me, and I had to spend 5 or 6 hours installing windows and a million utilities on it. Needless to say I dont want to go through that again for at least a few months. Maybe I'll just leave my system overclocked to 850 and be happy with that for a while, or use the 1 gigger as a guinea pig. It would boot at 900, but that's when my problems occured.