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hard drive problem? or oc problem?

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rtierney

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When I first got my 2.4c and ran it at 3ghz (ic7 mobo), it was rock solid for about a year.
Two months ago when I took an extra ata100 160gb drive from work (it had been used a few months, but was twice the size of my old one and had 8mb cache as opposed to 2mb on my old one), I installed it, everything was fine.
Since then, I've noticed that when I stress test my computer for long periods of time (two prime95's going for 15+ hours), I usually come home to or wake up to the following screen:
Error

The reason I think it says that is because the hard drive, to the best of my knowledge, is just shutting off and crashing the computer along with it. I know this because I've actually seen it do this once and I heard it turn off and start spinning down before the computer rebooted itself. Also, when I touched it, I felt no spinning vibrations. I have to totally turn the computer off in order to get it to boot again. I can't just reset it. I'm guessing this is because restarting doesn't start all of the devices again.

Now, my question is, is this evidence of just my hard drive dying because it's not brand new (and may be fairly old, 1.5+ years or so. i'm not exactly sure). Or is my OC the cause of this?
All of the signs I see point to just the hard drive being the source of the problem, which would make me a happy camper. I need to upgrade to a SATA raid, anyway. I'm hoping my OC isn't causing this or that means I'm not stable, especially when I'm going to start oc'ing upwards of 3.6ghz once I get my watercooler in tomorrow. My AGP/PCI clocks are locked as they should be: 66/33MHz respectively.

Anyone have any advice or know for sure where the problem lies?

Thanks in advance.
 
it should work just fine since you run PCI bus at 33 mhz.. why don't you try running your CPU at stock speeds and see how it will work..
 
I doubt that it is your OC.

I used to have the same type of error until my hard drive locked up and had to purchase a new one. My best guess is that your HD is dying. If it is your OC, it should boot up to a BSOD shouldn't it?
 
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