I have an ECS P4M800Pro-M that I am running with a Pentium D 930. The motherboard was free...so that's why I'm running with an ECS
I'm running this thing currently at 3.33ghz (222x15) with a set of PC3200 DDR1 value ram. I want to overclock this cheapo motherboard to the brink of death but (naturally) the overclocking options are limited. When I go above 222mhz it starts having trouble with the hard drive. During POST it will misread the drive ID as random alphanumeric characters, or if POST completes it will give me an error at boot saying NTLDR can't be found. It has already hosed my drive once (requiring a format and reinstall)
How can I fix this corruption problem? I believe this chip should at least be capable of 3.6ghz even if the board is not. I may try seeing if a SATA-to-IDE converter helps, maybe the southbridge SATA is having issues at higher bus speeds?
I'm running this thing currently at 3.33ghz (222x15) with a set of PC3200 DDR1 value ram. I want to overclock this cheapo motherboard to the brink of death but (naturally) the overclocking options are limited. When I go above 222mhz it starts having trouble with the hard drive. During POST it will misread the drive ID as random alphanumeric characters, or if POST completes it will give me an error at boot saying NTLDR can't be found. It has already hosed my drive once (requiring a format and reinstall)
How can I fix this corruption problem? I believe this chip should at least be capable of 3.6ghz even if the board is not. I may try seeing if a SATA-to-IDE converter helps, maybe the southbridge SATA is having issues at higher bus speeds?