Sata Drive Issues

[BIGSKY 316]

Hi all,I have a Dual Core AMD Opteron 185 on an ASUS A8V Deluxe mobo. I just installed a EXOS2 liquid cooling system,So I over clocked to 3Ghz. Everything is fine,90F @ Idle,except I no longer can detect my 2 Maxtor hard drives on my 2 SATA ports(they were working fine before the over clock). I tried reinstalling the asus sata drivers with no luck. I am pulling my hair out on this,Any help on this would be great. Thanks from JD:-)

[Emile 28]

Hi,Control your BIOS are the SATA chips still enabled?

[BIGSKY 316]

Thanks for the reply!:-) I changed the AGP/PCI frequency in the bios, and that did the trick!http://forums.avsim.net/user_files/183586.jpg

[geoffco 0]

I had some related issues with an ASUS A8V board: when overclocking my X2 4800+ (939) above 2.8GHz the SATA drives were not recognised properly - they seemed to run ok but after about four or five restarts there would be significant file corruption. That's even with the AGP/PCI lock engaged! Eventually I changed to an MSI board and now my drives are fine with a 3.0GHz overclock*.Anyway, I see you already got this working so this may not apply (and I hope it doesn't) unless you intend to overclock further. Geoff* Only two of the four SATA ports of my new board can be locked - the other two give serious problems so they are disabled and I have a third storage drive on a PCI SATA board...