Having some problems OC'ing new Opteron 170

[Sirelothar]

I recently purchased an entirely new system. The specs are..

DFI nF4-DAGF Socket 939 NVIDIA nForce4 ATX AMD Motherboard

AMD Opteron 170 Denmark 1000MHz HT Socket 939 Dual Core Processor Model OSA170DAA6CD

Patriot 2GB (2 x 1GB) 184-Pin DDR SDRAM DDR 400 (PC 3200) Unbuffered Dual Channel Kit System Memory Model PDC2G3200LLK

eVGA 256-P2-N553-AX Geforce 7600GT 256MB GDDR3 PCI Express x16 Video Card

And a Antec 550psu Neo

Bear with me, I read through the thread that had a nice tutorial in this forum on how to OC AMD processors *This is my first AMD proc, btw* and I not sure what I am doing wrong.

The bios I have is the Phoenix-Award Workstation Bios.

What the problem is, is that everytime I try to overclock past the default of 2000ghz I either get a bsod or this "Nvidia raid ide rom bios" comes up and just stays up forever after "trying to find an array". I use 2 Western Digital harddrives, one is 250gig and the other is 60gig. What I have tried is setting the multiplier to 10x and cpu frequency to 270. Also ive done cpu freq at 420 and the multi by 5 and so on, switching back and fourth but I always got the same result.. eigther the bsod would show up or the nvidia thing, which I have no idea what it is or what activates it because when I switch back to the default speeds the errors never pop up at all . My goal is at least a 2.5ghz out of this Opteron.

Any help is appreciated.

 

[onlynark]

gahhh what. You are setting the cpu freq to 270? to 420? what does that mean?

What you need to do is set the ht reference clock up by 5 mhz. Keep doing that until you reach instability. Set the htt multi to 3x and keep the cpu multi at 10x. Make sure the mem is set on a divider. Thats just the basic.s