Did OCing ruin my CDRW Drive???

[Javelin]

I was attempting to overclock a Abit TX5 motherboard with a AMD 233 MMX CPU to a
75 Mhz bus speed, it failed miserably, but on the next reboot when I reset the CPU to normal, my CD-RW Drive begin to act only as a master device on the secondary IDE channel (was the secondary device before), it worked OK for a few hours, then it would just sound like it was spinning 10 times normal speed and the BIOS won't even recognize it. Everything else in the system works OK.

System Configuration:
Abit TX5 Motherboard v1.2 - Latest Award BIOS
AMD K6-233 MMX CPU
1 - 32 Meg SDRAM DIMM Module (100 Mhz)
2 - 16 Meg EDO SIMM Modules
Matrox Mystique 2MB PCI Video Card
Turtle Beach Montego II Quadzilla Sound Card
3COM 3C509B Ethernet Card

Any Thoughts???

[wtp]

did you change any settings for the CD-RW?? I don't think OCing messed that CD-RW up considering you were only at 75MHz bus speed. Going over 100MHz is what you should look out for. So, how long before it starts acting up? And what do you do to make it act up?

[Target]

On a lot of boards after a failed over-clock attempt, simply setting the FSB speeds back to normal and then re-booting doesn't always clear out the confusion and or corruption that the bios encountered during the OC attempt.

Try clearing the CMOS, then set the bios back up normally, including auto detecting the IDE devices.....that should get you back to working normal again.

[Mace]

i noticed once after burning a cd, test and burn, i kept getting errors when trying to read data off that cd. the test went fine, the burning went fine...i was at 112fsb.
when i switched drives back - i was using a friends burner http://sysopt.earthweb.com/forum/smile.gif - the cd read fine. later i put the burner back in my system, and that same cd had no problems. never figured that one out, but i would bet like harddrives, certain cd burners are sensitive to higher bus speeds.

[Javelin]

I tried all these things, nothing matter, even if I plug power in the drive and leave the IDE cable disconnected, it just spins up
to what sounds like 10 times normal speed, with or without a CD in the drive. Looks like I won't try overclocking this machine again.