Device to read PCI bus Mhz?

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Guerillah

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I have a asus av8 rev 2.0 board and want to make sure the locks are working when switching to a newer bios, etc. because I just fried a raptor overclocking even though clockgen reader reported my pci and agp as being locked at 66/33. Is there some kind of card you can stick into a PCI slot and will give you a readout to what mhz it is running? Any help would be appreciated.
 
Looks like I found a device, its called the PC Geiger but I am unable to find anywhere to buy it from :(
 
I think that device would be *how can i put this* restrictive price wise , I know some motherboards lose their lock at high fsb's , also some boards only lock some of the sata ports ie. 1+2 vs 3+4 I think it's the native ports (not on an extra controller) that u should be using
 
Uh... How did you fry a Raptor? Your PCI / AGP busses have absolutely nothing to do with your SATA ports... You're barking up the wrong tree in your diagnosis and possible solutions.
 
If you're not already try the Via sata controller instead of the Promise (worth a go) Also cuddles if his pci/agp lock is not functioning I doubt the sata clocks would be locked either
"1007 seems to give some people problems with the agp/pci locks, use 1008.002 or later" Have you tried a newer bios??
 
He's obviously overclocking. I'm curious as to what makes him think he 'burnt-out' the hard drive, as this is probably not the case. SATA has nothing to do with PCI/AGP busses. If Clockgen shows 66/33, then it is 66/33. They have absolutely no relevance to each other at all. Chances are your hard drive is fine.
 
I have to disagree early boards displayed 66/33 but the lock wasn't functional it was only with
a device that was mention above the the true agp/pci frequency was shown . Rev 2.0 shouldn't have this issue . Oh yes obviously edited that my bad . I imagine it stopped working
(as to why he thought it was burnt out)
 
So please tell me how the drive just stops working when im in the middle of experimenting with overclocking? I was at a 280 fsb when it stopped working. The promise controller from what I have read is tied to the PCI bus. If its not fried then thats awesome, i'll just have a RAID setup which I was gonna do down the line anyways but I can't get it to work.

Some things I did to try and make it work were clear the CMOS, flash to a older bios (1008), format it in DOS, nothing stops it from hanging at that one point. I was running bios 1009.5 when this problem happened. What else could be causing it to do this all of a sudden? I doubt my memory (crucial ballistix) went bad on me but im getting another 512mb this week to run in dual channel mode anyways so I can test that theory.

I will try the VIA controller, anybody else got stuff I can try?
 
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