Can O/C Ruin Your Hard Drive?

[kcdrummer]

I did some newbie overclocking on my e6300 with an asus p5b-e and ran it at 2.8ghz by just upping the front side bus. It didn't need any voltage adjustements to go prime95 stable for 10 hrs and everything was running very good.

Then, the last 2 days everything started running really slow, I noticed games booting up taking 4x the normal amount of time. This morning windows took about 2 min to boot and I hear a lot of hard drive churning. My first thought is that my hd is failing?

First question: should I have adjusted something else as well to keep the system peripherals stable?

Second question: does this just sound like a hard drive failing and maybe the o/c didn't do it?

Thank you for any help.

[Gam3Ra]

Yes, OC can kill HDD, IF you don't lock the PCI-Express bus! And can kill PCI mounted hardware, IF you don't lock the PCI bus!
PCI-E shoud be at 101-110Mhz
PCI 33 (33.33)Mhz !
IF you dont lock them, they grow with the FSB!
See the topic "ASUS P5B-Deluxe bios screen for maximum OC", look at the settings!

[JPH1589]

I did some newbie overclocking on my e6300 with an asus p5b-e and ran it at 2.8ghz by just upping the front side bus. It didn't need any voltage adjustements to go prime95 stable for 10 hrs and everything was running very good.

Then, the last 2 days everything started running really slow, I noticed games booting up taking 4x the normal amount of time. This morning windows took about 2 min to boot and I hear a lot of hard drive churning. My first thought is that my hd is failing?

First question: should I have adjusted something else as well to keep the system peripherals stable?

Second question: does this just sound like a hard drive failing and maybe the o/c didn't do it?

Thank you for any help.
I just typed an answer to you on OC Forums.

[The Asgard]

OC won't kill your HD but running the bus out of spec can cause data corruption which in turn will cause corrupt files on the disk. Just lock the buses to 33 and 100 and you wont have any problems.

[Lestat]

while asgard is correct what is odd and highly suspect, is why it worked and then for no reason it is running slow.

if its just running slow then data corruption isnt likely. data corruption will will give errors and blue screens and lockups.

so let us ask, hat have you changed ? what have you installed since you tested it to run correctly ? any new hardware ? any new software ? anti virus ? anything.

first thing to do is to reduce the overclock to 100% stock.
if this still happens at stock then its something else not overclock related.

[ryaan]

how do i lock the pci bus on my ga-965p-s3

i dont see an option for it in bios.

[JPH1589]

how do i lock the pci bus on my ga-965p-s3

i dont see an option for it in bios.
It is already locked. You can only change the PCIE bus.

[kcdrummer]

It is already locked. You can only change the PCIE bus. That is on the Motherboard Intelligent Tweaker page.

I think that is where I messed up. On my old k8n neo4 the bus was locked and I guess with this p5b-e it isn't and floats. I used to actually remember that when overclocking but since it was locked on the older board I thought it would be locked here.

I lowered everything to stock for now and it seems to be responding better. I appreciate everyones quick response as I was freaking a bit earlier when it was slowing down really bad and I heard the hd churning much more than normal.

I think Lestat was on to something as the hd was churning out bad data as one time I booted and it started reporting corrupted files.

I'll keep checking but thank you everyone for your quick help.

[ryaan]

It is already locked. You can only change the PCIE bus. That is on the Motherboard Intelligent Tweaker page.

oh alright, yeah i got that.. just didnt know about the pci

[kcdrummer]

Ok so this is weird. I run 2 weeks great at 2.5 and 2.8 on an e6300 by doing nothing but upping the fsb in the bios. No voltage tweaks, pci locking, nothing.

So then the hard drive starts churning more and the pc is slowing down so I put everything at stock and post this thread. PC still acting a little slow but much better.

I lock the pci bus and pci-e per this threads recommendation, http://www.xtremesystems.org/forums/showthread.php?t=115217

http://www.jpop.com/fcg/1.JPG

and then push the fsb just to get from 1.8 to 2.4 and the pc randomly just shuts down and reboots?

What in the world? It ran fine and never did that before with just upping the fsb. I do the right thing and lock the pci at 33 and the pci-e at 110 and then I get random reboots at even a lower clock rate than before?

Any ideas?

Thanks.

[mnewxcv]

no no no 100mhz pci express bus.

[Lestat]

yes 100-110mhz dont go higher

[nn_step]

only if:
1) System isn't stable
or
2) A component in the memory subsystem isn't stable
or
3) You don't lock the Bus to the IDE/SATA channels

[JPH1589]

only if:
1) System isn't stable
or
2) A component in the memory subsystem isn't stable
or
3) You don't lock the Bus to the IDE/SATA channels
Well, I think we have determined that he can answer your question numbers 1 and 2 with an afirmative. Do you agree?

[Lestat]

only if:
1) System isn't stable
or
2) A component in the memory subsystem isn't stable
or
3) You don't lock the Bus to the IDE/SATA channels


uhm "Only If", what ?

[kcdrummer]

Well, I think we have determined that he can answer your question numbers 1 and 2 with an afirmative. Do you agree?

3) You don't lock the Bus to the IDE/SATA channels

How do I lock the sata/ide channels? I didn't see that in the thread p5b-deluxe bios settings for maximum overclocking? http://www.xtremesystems.org/forums/...d.php?t=115217

[mnewxcv]

umm well if its set to auto, manually set to 100. idk im not familiar with the board.

[uOpt]

Don't forget that on many NForce4 boards only 2 of the 4 SATA channels are locked. At least that's what I have been told.

[kcdrummer]

OC won't kill your HD but running the bus out of spec can cause data corruption which in turn will cause corrupt files on the disk. Just lock the buses to 33 and 100 and you wont have any problems.

Ding... we have a winner. Thanks Asgard.

I turned everything down to stock, ran a few tests and samsung disk test you boot from dos found errors on the surface scan. These only came after I overbussed so it recommended an erase disk and run it again. After that no errors and system was running fine again.

With my MSI board my pci bus was always locked so I got out of the habbit of locking it. I think that was the problem. Reloaded winblows and everything is fine.

Thanks all for your help and advice.