Well, I think I'm done wasting time! The best (most stable) I've been able to do is 425 x 7 which is near 3ghz. I tried the F7 bios but it worked just the same for me as the F10.
I guess I might have one of the 'off' CPU chips. But it still runs almost 4x faster than the Dell E510 box I...
When I got the board (last week) it had F9, I flashed it to F10.
I just tried the following.
Set the multiplier back to 8.
Set the FSB to 400 (then 401).
Set the PCI to 100 (but it always seems to go back to auto)
Set manual voltages to:
vDimm +0.3 (2.1)
PCI +0.1 then +0.2
FSB +0.1 then +0.2...
I ordered the following last week from NewEgg + slapped it together:
Gigabyte DS3, e6400, XMS2 PC-6400 2gb, Leadtek px6200td, seagate sata2 250gb, windows xp64.
So during my default install of Windows the system powered off at least twice. Eventually I got that installed. Ran memtest86 on the...