overclocking and highpoint controllers

[surferpop]

If you use a 1/4 pci divider on fsb speeds of
say 120 and over do I need to disable the
highpoint controllers on my be6-2?
If so, how?
I tried disabling them in device manager but
my computer would hang at the windows screen.

[This message has been edited by surferpop (edited 10 March 2000).]

[DuRaNgO[MU]]

you would have to make sure your hdd is not plugged into the #3 and 4 ide slots(udma66) then set the hdd up in the bios, but you may not have to do that as I'm running @124 with no prob and can run @133bus as long as I don't do 3d apps
jim

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Abit BE6 with P3 500 @ 5*124=620
14.6 gb Maxtor ata66 and 128mb ram
G400 vanilla 32mb @ 168/210
Sblive with Altec Lansing speaker combo
384k DSL and Realtek nic
Windows 98se with DX7a
3dMark2000 = 2956
Worn out reset button :O)

[bongo]

Durango, whay voltage and other settings r u using to run at 124, extra fans? etc

thnsk

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"the horror....the horror..."

[YoKoMo [1]]

I just got my Soyo 6BA+ IV, and it has the same controller on it. Runnning at 126MHZ the controller runs fine, and under PCI spec of 33MHZ. In all honesty though, I don't "feel" much difference with them being on the ATA66 controllers as much as I thought I would. The only upgrade I made that seems to help things was the Kenwood 72X CD-Rom drive. Now all I need is a better Video Card Matrox... hint hint hint G450. I really don't want to wait for the G800 cause I've had the Max over 6 months which these days is about how long things last

[DuRaNgO[MU]]

bongo,
I'm using 2.1 volts, I have a hole in the side of my case with a "blowing" fan directed to the rear of the Tennmax P3STF fan/heatsink using a duct(quack-quack) I formed out of very thin piece of aluminum flashing and a "sucking" fan in the rear of the case with the same type of deal, along with a fan at the front of the case pulling air in and then getting sucked back out with a slot cooler, cpu runs @ 91f and board @ 75f
hope this helps
jim
MC-1000 arrives tuesday! BWAHAHAHA


[This message has been edited by DuRaNgO[MU] (edited 16 March 2000).]

[Snake-Eyes]

My Abit BE6 is running just fine with the hdd's on the HighPoint DMA66 controllers at 124, too. Seems to be no problem at all.

In fact, I get more problems from the memory and Win2K than I get from any of my other components.

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Ace

[ALBPM]

Are you guys using PIO or UDMA Mode for your hard drives when overclocking????

Paul

[Snake-Eyes]

I don't know about the other brands of motherboards with HighPoint controllers or the add-in card, but with the Abit BE6, the controller BIOS automagically determines the correct mode to use for each device, and displays the selected mode during boot time.

At the moment, both of my drives appear to be detected correctly too. The 15GB is using DMA66 while my old 6.4 is using DMA33. This is with the front side bus set to 124 (1/4). Even with the FSB set to 124 (1/3), it still works fine. BTW- for those without this mobo, the (1/4) and (1/3) are the PCI bus multipliers in use. I leave mine at 1/4, which is just slightly underclocked, to make sure I don't run into any nasty surprises, like hard disk errors (bad sectors and whatnot).

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Ace

[DuRaNgO[MU]]

udma 4

[ALBPM]

I've been using UDMA 4 for my two IBM HDs. I've heard of some using PIO 3 for overclocking but I've had no trouble using UDMA 4.

Paul

[DuRaNgO[MU]]

I've got a Maxtor and have had good luck with it, I had an IBM before this and it also was fine
jim