My mates having harddrive troubles,

and thy seemed to start when we pushed teh fsb from 66 to 75,
it wasnt stable, so we put it back to 66, and ever since the drive has been f***ing up,

does the fsb affect the hard drive at all?

thanx

yes of course it does, its running your whole system bus higher than normal, which is what ur puta uses to communicate with the parts, old drives and parts etc can be dicey when upping the bus some things dont like it, looks like his HDD was one of them

how teh f*** is a hdd affected by a higher fsb?

how do u think everything communicates along the motherboard? and then up the IDE cables to the HDD the speed at which the signals are sent is the bus, the higher the bus the faster the signals go and the hotter stuff gets, generally older equipment cant deal with the quicker signals and doenst cope too well.

If im wrong here someone who knows correct me please :)

the entire bus is running at a faster clock, and since your ide headders connects to parts of the bus it too runs at the faster clock. thus one can only asume more data and information being sent to the hard drive, and probably more than it can handle.

My computer is so slow I think it uses smoke signals to communicate between parts :(

its not more data, the data is just going quicker, too quick for the HDD

well its more data than before over a set amount of time so yeah thats right too scuzz i guess

whoops
theres a lesson for all u overclocking kiddies

Soulfire-Z destroyed one of his hard drives by over clocking his duron...

your pci bus is supposed to be 33mhz, its set in your bios as a fractional multiplier of the fsb, ie if the fsb is 66mhz, the multiplier should be 1/2.
if you're overclocking the fsb to say 100mhz, the multiplier would be 1/3

After reading this it makes me wonder. On the theory you are putting forward about the data that would suggest that an ATA 100 controller will damage a ATA 66 drive as the controller has a higher operating speed that the drive.......and that is just stupid.

Yes putting the FSB up will push more data through faster. But if the drive cant handle that speed then its just gonna not operate as well. I seriously DOUBT it will damage the drive.

Ive run really old drives (ATA 33 drives) on an 133 FSB with no problems at all....go figure.

Of course there is the possibility that Im just not thinking straight ATM so go explain it in simpler terms if ya like for the terminally stupid like me.

hahaha i used to run at 174 fsb
maybe thats why my hd is being gay now :P

My mate fried his HDD coz he ran too high of a FSB speed. HDD was recieveing data like crazy and went boom.

Somethin' like that anyway ;P