Can't boot with any attempt to overclock. Even in small increments. (intel d975xbx2 and 6600)

I was trying to overclock to 3 GHz (which I hear is quite doable) because my CPU was bottlenecking my gtx 260 core 216.

This was my first attempt at overclocking but I did a little research before I started. From what I read the best thing to do is to raise the front side bus. I did not see an option specifically titled front side bus.

Here's what I did do.


When into the performance tab then into processor overrides

Set the override host clock frequency setting to manual

Then I raised the host clock frequency to 334 MHz which with the multiplier of nine gave me 3 GHz.

When I tried to boot the computer would get through a few initial screens such as a screen where you are prompted to press f2 to enter the BIOS and of the screen where you see hardware configurations such as a raid stripe.

Then I get a message that says something similar to the POST test has failed this could be due to recent changes made in the BIOS under the performance tab press Y. to enter the BIOS eight and to cancel and try to boot with previous settings.

As soon as I change the host clock frequency back to 266 MHz which is the default setting everything boots fine.

I have read about something called a watchdog setting that you need to change before you can begin overclocking, however the watchdog maintenance tab and my BIOS does not have a maintenance tab so I figured that I did not have the watchdog setting.

Any help would be greatly appreciated.

 

Google is your friend. Found an article with the exact same motherboard, exact same chip.

Link

 

I found the same article, now i am just looking for the bios jumper switch. even with the maual its prooving hard to get into maintance mode.

Thanks man

 

find and disable c1e or any other energy efficiency stuff in the bios. your overclock is failing probably due to voltage. give it a bit more voltage. try setting your cpu vcore to 1.4 and see if that helps, if that doesnt keep going up bit by bit until you can boot. once you boot, download prime95 and run that for at least 2 hours to make sure that your overclock is stable.