A8N-E HTT freeze over 228Mhz

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civic00typer

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I can't seem to the the HTT passed 228. I have do all the usual, ram divider down to 200mhz, the htt multi down to 2x, the cpu multi down to 5x. Whats the deal?
 
I have not seem an option for chipset voltage yet. I can't seem to get past 335 now, it is buggy sometimes it will go past 229, and then i will oc a little more and it will freeze solid. The one time i did get it to go past 229 it was still going in prime without hitch. So I am not sure what is going on. I am using all four sata ports, and i have my pci express set to 100Mhz, and the pci bus is set to 33Mhz.
 
I think I know exactly what the problem is.

Disconnect the drives in SATA ports 1 and 2, leaving only ports 3 and 4 connected. (If 1 or 2 has the system drive connected, move it to 3 or 4 and disonnect th other drive in 3 or 4.) Try it again, I'm sure it will get way past 229 this time.

It's not good news for you because you want to use all four SATA ports, but one some board ports 1 and 2 are not locked. A sign of this is a limit of around 229Mhz, just like you said.

Oh, and you said it once ran Prime just fine past 229. If that happens again, try to write/read a file on a drive connected to SATA 1 or 2. Prime will probably fail at that moment.
 
thats good news in some respect. I can see what this chip/board is really capable of. I thought they fixed that in the nforce 4 series? I will have to get a sata pci card if it works with just 3/4 enabled.
 
civic00typer said:
thats good news in some respect. I can see what this chip/board is really capable of. I thought they fixed that in the nforce 4 series? I will have to get a sata pci card if it works with just 3/4 enabled.
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I thought they had fixed it too, but that has to be the problem because what you described is exactly what happens when the SATA ports aren't locked. It usually won't get past 229, but sometimes it will if you don't use the drive connected to 3 or 4 at all.

BTW, if that is the problem, I suggest you reinstall Windows because your HDD's are probably corrupted because of the unlocked ports.
 
Already on top of the Windows Installation. I guess this overclocking board isn't such an overclocker at all. I will just have to run this baby stock. I can't even get it prime stable at stock speeds, it will reset during the night. I think is pushing aroudn 50C at 2 prime instances.
 
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