SATAII not working when OCing

[opuntia]

My spec's are below. The WD 320GB SATAII doesn't seem to want to work when I OC, no matter how slight I'm OCing. The drive will just freeze up at the first instance when I try to use it. I use this drive for my data. My OS is on the raptor and that's ok. I don't have the nvidia IDE drive installed

I just found out today that when I change the jumper settings on the drive to limit it to 150MB/sec, it works.

Has anybody else seen this behavior?

 

[atybimf]

Seems odd. Altough, with the ASUS Prem, I had little quirks like that as well. You have all the drivers you need installed right?

 

[opuntia]

I do...I think. In my attempts in trying to figure out what's going on who knows. For example, in Device Manager under "IDE ATA/ATAPI Controller", I have three each of the Primary and Secondary Channels, and the "Standar Dual Channel PCI IDE Controller". I don't know if this is correct or not.

It's a new system and I may just reinstall from scratch

 

[atybimf]

Originally posted by: opuntia
I do...I think. In my attempts in trying to figure out what's going on who knows. For example, in Device Manager under "IDE ATA/ATAPI Controller", I have three each of the Primary and Secondary Channels, and the "Standar Dual Channel PCI IDE Controller". I don't know if this is correct or not.

It's a new system and I may just reinstall from scratch

I wouldn't do that just yet. Wait and see if you can get anymore responses.

 

[SpeedZealot369]

try connecting the sata to a differnet motherboard slot, like the 3rd or 4th.

 

[opuntia]

I already have the SATAII in slot 3. The raptor is in slot 1.

I was looking through the ASUS MB Manual (what a concept!!) and I was wondering that in order to SATAII to work, you have to install the nvidia IDE chipset driver. Maybe if you don't have the driver installed, there's a conflict with SATAII drives and OC...maybe

 

[CnnmnSchnpps]

On my A8N-E, the system will just not work if you plug anything into SATA 1 or 2 (I read somewhere that it has to do with those two not being "locked" and their frequency increasing along with the FSB... bad bad)

Although I am not too clear on your case.. you say you have a raptor in SATA1 and another drive in 3 and it's the one in 3 that doesnt work? Seems strange to me. Try putting the raptor in 4?

edit: Does the drive in 3 get detected by the BIOS / at that screen right after the POST? This way we can tell if it's a purely hardware issue, or if it's a driver thing.

 

[opuntia]

CnnmnSchnpps,

Thanks for the reply. I have the raptor in Slot 1 and the 320Gb in slot 3. The raptor is not giving me any problems, so why might moving it to slot 4 help?

The drive is detected by the BIOS and on that screen right after the post.

I did notice yesterday when using the WD Diagnostic Utilites that the Raptor is shown as a "Mass Storage Device" while the 320GB is shown as an IDE. I think the "Mass Storage Device" is an artifact of the nvidia IDE driver. I did install that driver in an attempt to fix the problem, but it didn't work and I uninstalled it.