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nyteskyy   12-15-2000 at 03:56:00 PM

I have a 20gb Western Digital HDD, but am experiencing some rather disconcerting problems. I have a 700 classic athlon and 64mb of cheap ram (will upgrade soon). For awhile I oc'd my system through FSB achieving 110FSB, but my RAM PC133 RAM couldn't take the increased frequency, so I run it at 100. Initially I noticed that drive was getting really hot, so I bought a HDD cooler form coolerguys.com. When before it tooke maybe 50 secs to boot up it now takes almost 2 mins. When the Win98SE boot screen is up there HDD activity light isn't active for almost a min. Boot up time I can live with, crashes I cannot for it crashes after almost everything. I tried re-formatting and repartitioning using FDISK, but no good, each time I reinstall windows it seems to get slower. No bad sectors are being shown, but I beleive it is a mechanical failure. Any suggestions, or should I just get an IBM? Thanks

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Raistlin   12-15-2000 at 04:20:08 PM
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I wont comment on 133ram not being able to take 110mhz :)
I would see if you could borrow a hdd from someone like an 8-20 gig and try that, you might be having a hdd controller failure or something similar. Not nec. a drive failure

Bored,Certified Tech

although at 100$ for a 20gig you can always get 2 20gigs and a raid card ;)

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nyteskyy   12-15-2000 at 04:32:46 PM
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My PC133 can't take 149mhz, it can run at 133. Geuss I'll just get an IBM.

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Raistlin   12-15-2000 at 07:16:16 PM
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How do you get 149 out of 110?
you are either running it at 100*7 for the processor

or it is an independant clock so changing the 100 to110
would make no difference
i can overclock my processor and it has absolutely no effect on the memory because they are independant clocks
you dont just take 133 X1.1 (which is 146 anyway not 149)

I am unclear where this magical 149 came from please clearify.

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