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guys, hoping someone here might have a suggestion for me... per the title i'm running an abit is7, latest bios, with a p4c2.6, a pair of corsair xms pro pc3200 512MB dimms, and a pair of seagate sata 160gb drives, non-raid. for some time now i've been running at clock speeds of 254/202, no over-volting, and letting the bios set the mem timings (2-3-3-7), gat on auto (turned off). i've not had any issues with this setup. when i recently tried to image my winxp partition using bootit (an awesome and cheap partition/boot manager) it hung, so i tried setting all my clock speeds back to default. now's when things get wierd - ~10% of the time when i boot the machine looses hd0 - can't even find it in the bios! rebooting always solves the problem but then i have to go into the bios to fix the drive boot order, which is a pain. when i switch back to my oc speeds everything is fine - hd0 no longer gets dropped.
so, what's up here? how can my system be LESS stable at stock speeds than when it's oc'ed?! note that when oc'ing i use fixed pci/agp speeds of 33/66, so the bus the drives are on is running at the same speed in both cases.
thanks in advance,
joe
so, what's up here? how can my system be LESS stable at stock speeds than when it's oc'ed?! note that when oc'ing i use fixed pci/agp speeds of 33/66, so the bus the drives are on is running at the same speed in both cases.
thanks in advance,
joe