SATA corruption during OC s939 Opty?

[djBon2112]

This is a bit of a weird issue, overclocking an old chip.

This system specs are in my sig. The core is at 312 * 9 to get 2.8 GHz. Now, as soon as I bump my FSB up anymore (say, to 320 or more), my system becomes unstable (understandable), however I'm also getting SATA corruption issues, so much so that Windows XP BSODs with an error about an "unbootable system device" and various other issues relating to the SATA controller. This makes me question how unstable the CPU really is, and whether it's other components on the board (southbridge?).

Anyone have a simillar experience with this board? Is it something fixable, or am I now FSB limited? For the record, past 320 FSB, all the voltage increases in the world do nothing, and even putting a fan on my northbridge didn't change anything.

 

[Flexion]

Does it have an Nforce chipset? This does happen on Nforce4, I dropped the HT link down a bit and had to relax my timings, to get it right. The Sata controller might be working out of spec.

 

[shadow_419]

Does your mobo have a pci-e lock? Set the pci-e frequency to 101. The sata runs on the pci-e bus iirc

 

[sirmonkey1985]

yeah the nforce chips blow when it comes to overclocking and using sata.. though shadow's suggestion might work for you.. I have a DFI NF3 board that i had to dispable my sata ports to exceed 350 FSB..

 

[Sojuuk]

overclocking does some strange things. If I overclock my video card too much it corrupts my Trillian contact list....

 

[sirmonkey1985]

overclocking does some strange things. If I overclock my video card too much it corrupts my Trillian contact list....

which gfx card nvidia or ATI? if i remember right trillian is java based.. which java now supports hardware accel and could be causing the problem.. i havent used trillian since the 3.0 version so i cant remember exactly..

 

[djBon2112]

It's an ATI chipset (Xpress 3200I believe) and I did lock PCIe at 101.
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