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hard drive dissapears when overclocked

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Benzie500E

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Hey guys, this is my first time on this board, i've heard you guys are awesome when it comes to overclocking so I thought i'd ask for some help here.

First my specs:

Pentium 4 3.0Cghz overclocked to 3.45ghz at 1.50v
Abit IC7-MAX3 Motherboard
1GB of Corsair XMS DDR400 RAM
ATI All-In-Wonder 128mb Radeon 9800 Pro Video Card
160gb Western Digital SATA Hard Drive
Lite-On 52x32x52 CD-RW
Aspire X-Superalien Case with 500Watt PSU
OTES Cooling System With:
Swiftech MCX4000 Heatsink
Panasonic Panaflo 92mm w/ 56.8 CFM at 35 db-A

After slowly incrementing my clock speed, I had my CPU at the mentioned above clock speed, 3.45ghz at 1.5v and my ram was at 2.8v.

So I decided I wanted to drop her back down to 3.00ghz and run a benchmark. So thats what I did, I set everything to default in the bios and it booted up fine, i ran my benchmark, then went to set everything back and it will NOT boot in to windows.

I found it confusing at first, then i realised the problem. If I overclocked the CPU to anything over 3.025 my HD will not register. I get to the post screen, my optical drive shows up, but my HD is no where to be found. I go in to BIOS and it can't detect my HD. I then drop it back to 3.00ghz and it finds the HD again. Back and forth, its there, its not there...

I have no clue what's going on. I tried clearing cmos and still can't find the HD when its over 3.025ghz. I'm getting nervous, anyone have any suggestions or ideas? I'd really appreciate it.

George
 
now that is insteresting.

i assume you have just a generic psu.

try moving the HD to a different spot, the heat could be playing with the HD. also, if that doesnt work, take the copm apart and put it back together. that might do something.
 
i think that the issue is not that the hard drives are physically "dissapearing" but more that your computer isnt recognizing them. if they really are dissapearing i bet you could make some good money taking that show on the road.

its probebly in the fact that your running a sata drive. they still havnt worked all the bugs out of the new setup yet. try using a sata to ide adapter and test out the hard drive like that. try and make sure next time u overclock that the bus speed is an even multiplier and see if that helps. the bus speeds may be screwin with the sata.
 
the hard drive was working fine overclocked at 3.45 for 3 weeks

the agp/pci is locked

i'm using a softsetup...

i can't get my serial ata drivers installed either

i have an abit board with a floppy disk serial ata install disk, isn't it supposed to be bootable?

i put it in and it tells me to remove all media and press any key
 
problem solved

when i reset everything to default, it was changing the agp/pci settings and increasing them as i increased the clock speed

i thought it was fixed by default

*sigh*

3 hours to figure that out

thanks for helping guys, thanks for bringing it to my attention specificly monty...appreciate it
 
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