SATA locks

[kwarkers]

Im tryin to OC my A64 3500 Venice with an Asus A8V-E-Deluxe mobo which has two SATA ports, port 1 is locked, i think 2 is as well. Is there ne way of gettin around this? Would i have this problem with IDE?

 

[crazylegs]

bump

coz i wanna know the answer

 

[Zap]

If you are unable to get good overclocks with SATA (typical problem is "losing" the HDD) then either use a PCI SATA card or use an EIDE HDD. I had that problem with my MSI PT880 motherboard. If FSB is set to "official" increments of 400/533/800MHz, SATA worked. If FSB deviated by 1MHz, SATA sometimes not detected but sometimes detected. If FSB deviated by >1MHz, SATA never detected.

 

[Doctorweir]

Same with my A8N's SATA ports 3&4. Overclocked the HDD attached to port 3 went nuts sometimes and couldn't be properly detected by windows...
Now attached to the Sil controller (PCI, which is locked) problem solved...

 

[Leper Messiah]

Generally, with NF series mobos, the ones that they actually provide (I think) don't work well at all OC'd. Its the Silicon Image ones that you want to use, because they are on the PCI bus and there fore locked.

 

[tomt4535]

If those ports are unlocked, as they probably are, the only way to fix it is use another controller. Some motherboards have 2 diffrent controllers for their sata ports, but yours does not. You would need a PCI card that has a SATA controller on it. They are pretty cheap and will fix your problem.

 

[kwarkers]

thanks for all your help every1

 

[kwarkers]

I was lookin through a price list at a local comp shop, i saw an IDE to SATA connecter, is this what i want? If not what do u recommend?

 

[Mogadon]

You'll be wanting one of these.