pc hell, opteron 146

[00fil00]

after months of my opteron being stable at 2.8, my keyboard broke and i had to remove the cmos battery to get it detected again. now all my overclocking is reset and i cant get it back! what am i forgetting? i set to x10 multi, ldt to x3 ddr volt to 2.6 - 2.8, limit memory to 166. what else is there? im sure ive done the same as before but now i cant get it past even 2.2 before it stops posting. this sounds like ldt but ive done that - unless my bios is not posting correct values. im tempted to think that because in 1 option i press the + to raise v core and it actually loweres it! i thought removing the battery would set bios back to normal? any advice?

a8n32
opteron 146
zalman cooler
ocz pc4000

 

[00fil00]

ok since last post ive found out its not the chip, it can still get to 2800 but i have to limit my ram to 100! so its something about my ram. does this help further?

 

[Jason711]

by 100 do you mean 200? if so, nothing to heart ache over, just set the latency as low as possible and be happy with 2.8ghz.