Trouble overclocking a 3000+ on a Gigabyte K8N-Pro SLi

[Frugal1ty]

With multiplier at something low (5x~6x) and memory ruing at 1:2 HTT tops out at 210~220. I get a bolded warning message before the HD detect talking about HTT increase then the machine fails to post, looping through that screen before the hard drive detection. Once every twenty or thirty loops the machine will start with the overclock, if the BIOS doesn't revert back to its defaults first.

Gigabyte KN8 Pro-SLi with latest BIOS
AMD A64 3000+ Venice
OCZ Value RAM (512x2)

have started my computer right now with a ~2.4GHz overclock on a 300MHz HHT 8x CPU mult, 1.33 mem divider, 1.5v vcore, HTT multi 3x. It booted after bunch of loops, and it's been testing stable under Prime95 for the last couple hours. But I don't want to go through all that everytime i try to boot my computer. Does anyone have any suggestions?. . . I have looked at other forums ann i see people having very similar problems, they seem to think it may be a PCI-e bus locking problem. . .

 

[Frugal1ty]

wow. well i can see no one wants to touch this

just as well, i ended up having to do an in-windows overclock with clockgen, with that i can run 2.6 GHz stable @ 28°c idle and 39°c load (stock cooling too). it's obviously a decent board, but it won't let me get over 212 HTT booting up. . . what the heck kinda verclock is that ! ?

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[Stumps]

hmmm not sure about that one...never ever had that problem before...you could possibly have a dodgy board maybe?
I'm not quite sure about overclocking with a Gigabyte NF4 board, but I have a GA-K8NS PRO with a 3000+ venice...it overclocks no problems to 2.67ghz(266x10 HTTx3(1600mhz) 1.5v) and can run prime95 stable for inexcess of 50+ hours...but I am using watercooling.

I was able to get my A64 upto 2.5ghz with the default 4x multiplier on the HTT(2000mhz)..I only ever use Gigabyte boards in my systems and have never seen a problem like this....I have 8 different systems.

very very unusaul problem

 

[Frugal1ty]

Originally posted by: Stumps


very very unusaul problem

normally i would agree, that this is unusual. . . but i have searched the forums of the internet and there are a lot of people who are having this problem. it does make me wary about gigabyte hardware for the future, but for right now this board is fine. . . after three days of struggling, seven windows installations, a fried hard drive, corrupted windows boot sector, and countless reboots, it's running overclocked and stable. . . gigabyte just needs to work out it's issues with the bios << and i agree with that face