Can OCing mess up your HD?

[heffe734]

My friend just OC'd his AYHJA and his HD died. Why? I called a younger friend of mine and he said that raising FSB can damage the HD? I've never heard of such a thing...anyone else? Is this true?

 

[V]

I think that a high PCI bus can damage the hard drive. What PCI bus speed was he running at?

 

[Packet]

If you run the PCI bus at to high your HD data will become corrupt before your HD will die.

set the PCI bus back to normal, format, and reinstall everything. Should work ok.

 

[tornado666]

I dunno for sure.. I've heard that a high fsb can corrupt data.. I had a HD die that was only a year old (maxtor 8.4gig) that had been running on a pci bus if around 40mhz.. It REALLY died in that the inside of it broke.. all i got was clicking noises when i tried to boot

 

[AkumaX]

yes it can. i dont know if it was the PCI clock speed or the FSB, but my hd went Whack-O w/ too high o/cing

 

[WildeBeast]

How about the WD40BB, has anyone overclocked with this one? I am looking for 150..., not that much I guess.

 

[dbwillis]

I had a wd30ab and OC my PCI to 39mhz and lost all the info on the drive..my seagate 20gb/7200 drive had no problems at all

 

[WildeBeast]

Hope I do better!

 

[heffe734]

So how can you avoid messing it up...other than not OCing...is there a way to OC high and still keep your HD safe? My friend said to lower the PCI bus...like 33mhz or 66mhz...or something like that...is he talking about the FSB?

 

[dhslammer]

YES - I have done it many times. I have mostly IBM and WD HDs and OCing doesnt seem to care what kind of drive you have. I have noticed DMA66/100 drives are more sensitive than 33.

First thing is get Norton Ghost and make a backup image, that way if you do hose the drive its easy to recover, just format and ghost your ready to rock again. I would have to take off my shoes and socks to count the days i have saved just by using ghost, (hint) A fresh install will usually fit on a CD. Next have 2 HDs, one DMA33 and the other whatever you plan to use after you find a good OC. Use the 33 drive to OC and then ghost to DMA66/100 drive and let 'er rip!

 

[heffe734]

and how do you do this? i heard you have to go into bios or jumpers in your mobo...does anyone know if epox 8k7a allows this?

 

[dhslammer]

It is a BIOS setting but most mobos dont have any adjustments for the bus divider.

 

[heffe734]

i see...if my mobo has it...what should i change the bus settings to?
If it doesn't...how can i get it?

 

[Marine]

I know this isn't a solution many of you are interested in, but early on (ten years back) I started building my systems with a SCSI bus. Yes, sometimes I regret it now that big fast EIDE drives are so affordable and SCSI hasn't kept pace with the pricing. But, the great thing is that in all these years of overclocking and frying parts, I've never lost a single byte of data to a hard drive failure. They just keep on truckin'...of course I use Adaptec hosts.

 

[sandorski]

If you have an Athlon, it's best to overclock using multiplier adjustments only. This way will not put your drives out of spec.