HDD failed to detect

[bbcake009]

Hi,

I have a DFI Lanparty X38 T2r and currently I have 5 Hd on the SB, max I can put is 6 and has a voltage setting ranging from 1.50 to 2. something volt...

I did some overclocking last nite and now the board sometimes failed to detect the HD with the volt set to 1.6 something (by the way, 1.6 is what I always used even though I only have 3 HD).

Now, I got it stable to 1.7 something volt all HDD are detected w/ no issues.

Now, here is the question....

The performance of the HD on Vista is 5.7 (CPU 5.8 RAM 5.9) and this is what I always got w/ or w/out voltage increase... I'd like to know what would be the best safe voltage I can use to operate the 5 HDD that I have.

spec:

E8400 @3.6 ghz. 2X2 gig. @ 4-4-4-9 800 mhz

hdd are: all 72000 RPM

Maxtor 6L300S0 sata 1 300gig failed to detect

Samsung HD103UJ sata 2 1000gig has the pagefile

Samsung HD753LJ sata 2 750GIG

Seagate ST320620AS sata 2 320gig default operating system C drive

Seagate STR500320AS sata 2 500gig

by the way, I only partition my C drive to 20gig the rest of the drive was used for back-up and storage....

 

[PV5150]

I'm not familiar with that BIOS but if you run the PCI bus above spec it can lead to data corruption and/or failure to detect HDD's. Most modern motherboard BIOS's allow you to lock the PCI bus at 33MHz, and if you can find this setting it should hopefully get rid of the problem

 

[Rastalovich]

I'm not familiar with that BIOS but if you run the PCI bus above spec it can lead to data corruption and/or failure to detect HDD's. Most modern motherboard BIOS's allow you to lock the PCI bus at 33MHz, and if you can find this setting it should hopefully get rid of the problem

Without strapping the pci bus down can give u all sorts of erroneous readings. Can make a hd look like it's corrupt when often it's not.

Similarly memory will give u funky readings if it's not stable.

 

[PV5150]

Yep sure will. I've never had unstable memory give out this error but I'm not surprised

 

[rrjwilson]

Just throw this out as I get it with my Maxtor. Although it can hold its own with my other hard drives (and there are a lot) I find it very voltage wussy. Try placing it on a spare connector from PSU and you should see it in BIOS and get no further problems.

I however have a 1.2kW PSU so have plenty of spare leads to do this you might not.

 

[bbcake009]

thanks guys but did solve the issue by just reformatting the maxtor. Its running all smooth again.