agp/pci lock tutorial

[mito]

I've read warnings about hd data corruption caused by OC. Is this really true or only heavy overclockers should be aware? Links are welcomed. Thanks again.


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[Crashman]

Yes, it is true. Overclockers know this. In fact, I have experienced this myself on several occasions. I've even seen some older drives DIE from having the PCI clock set too high!

The best person to link you to would be a hardcore overclocker, and so, <A HREF="http://forumz.tomshardware.com/hardware/modules.php?name=Forums&file=viewtopic&p=542631#542631" target="_new">Here's your link</A>

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[skligmund]

Uh, yeah.. Nice link to this thread.......

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[mito]

Did you provide a decent burial for those dead disks?

I am sorry about that.

/\/\ito

 

[Crashman]

Actually, I've only had two hard drives damaged from overclocking, one was replaced, the other was it's replacement. They were old 10GB WD drives.

Other than that odd drive model, I've only encountered data corruption when I've overclocked the PCI bus too far.

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[bob_dn]

I experienced a data corruption problem yesterday after changing memory ratio from 1:1 to 5:4 and the CPU/AGP/PCI FSB ratio from fixed to 6:2:1 then raising the FSB from 880MHz incrementally to 920MHz. Not that high compared to some of the OC's I've been seeing.

Got a message to run chkdsk due to an inconsistency in a drive. Ran chkdsk - "Deleting corrupt file segment 47952" - restart - NAV lost a .dll file and my scanner software went haywire -had to uninstall and reinstall both. Also lost a drive again on RAID0 but enterd the RAID utility and drive was found - easily fixed - no damage to drives.

Needless to say I went back to my old settings - at least for now.

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