I bought the Western Digital WD2500KS (250GB SATA II capable). I also have a WD 80GB PATA and Maxtor 200GB PATA connected to the motherboard's onboard controllers.
Biostar PT880 PRO A7 Combo. (1x) 1GB DDR2 666MHz capable. eVGA 7600GT PCI-Ex x16 (operates at x4). VIA SATA VT8237 RAD Controller.
I've overclocked the P-805 D before from 2.66GHz to 3.0GHz with FSB @ 150MHz and voltage + 5% (at about 1.36 volts) stable with the two PATA hard drives (no SATA). After installing the new SATA hard drive, I installed Windows XP PRO SP2 on it at stock clock. Windows booted and worked fine. I then decided to raise the FSB to 145MHz while at DEFAULT voltage (~1.26-1.32v fluctuates a lot). Before booting into Windows, I decided to load Knoppix 3.7 live CD for fun. Note that Knoppix mounted all the NTFS partitions. I double-clicked on one of them (don't remember which) but immediately closed it. Knoppix ran without any problem while using the CD player, Gimp, etc.... However, after restarting, I get the NTLDR is missing. I realized that I forgot to raise the voltage to +5%. I restarted at default clock and voltage but still same error.
Windows XP PRO bootable CD wouldn't load at all (a blank screen after pressing the any key message). Partition Magic couldn't load. Norton Ghost gave an error while analyzing NTFS MFT on the SATA hard drive. I took out the SATA and two PATA and plugged them into a second computer. The SATA returned at least one hundred invalid attributes & indexes. CHKDSK fixed all of those, but the SATA wouldn't boot Windows. It could not find NTOSKRNL.EXE. The file didn't exist after CHKDSK (although it does on the Ghost Image I made earlier). A Windows Repair didn't work. Only restoring the image worked. The two PATA didn't have a single problem with CHKDSK. They came back clean.
Is SATA more sensitive to overclocking? Is there a lock like there's for AGP/PCI? Or is it my PCI-Ex card (Knoppix worked fine)? What caused the corruptions on the SATA but not PATA (almost lost 25GB of music on the SATA)?
Biostar PT880 PRO A7 Combo. (1x) 1GB DDR2 666MHz capable. eVGA 7600GT PCI-Ex x16 (operates at x4). VIA SATA VT8237 RAD Controller.
I've overclocked the P-805 D before from 2.66GHz to 3.0GHz with FSB @ 150MHz and voltage + 5% (at about 1.36 volts) stable with the two PATA hard drives (no SATA). After installing the new SATA hard drive, I installed Windows XP PRO SP2 on it at stock clock. Windows booted and worked fine. I then decided to raise the FSB to 145MHz while at DEFAULT voltage (~1.26-1.32v fluctuates a lot). Before booting into Windows, I decided to load Knoppix 3.7 live CD for fun. Note that Knoppix mounted all the NTFS partitions. I double-clicked on one of them (don't remember which) but immediately closed it. Knoppix ran without any problem while using the CD player, Gimp, etc.... However, after restarting, I get the NTLDR is missing. I realized that I forgot to raise the voltage to +5%. I restarted at default clock and voltage but still same error.
Windows XP PRO bootable CD wouldn't load at all (a blank screen after pressing the any key message). Partition Magic couldn't load. Norton Ghost gave an error while analyzing NTFS MFT on the SATA hard drive. I took out the SATA and two PATA and plugged them into a second computer. The SATA returned at least one hundred invalid attributes & indexes. CHKDSK fixed all of those, but the SATA wouldn't boot Windows. It could not find NTOSKRNL.EXE. The file didn't exist after CHKDSK (although it does on the Ghost Image I made earlier). A Windows Repair didn't work. Only restoring the image worked. The two PATA didn't have a single problem with CHKDSK. They came back clean.
Is SATA more sensitive to overclocking? Is there a lock like there's for AGP/PCI? Or is it my PCI-Ex card (Knoppix worked fine)? What caused the corruptions on the SATA but not PATA (almost lost 25GB of music on the SATA)?
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