Overclocking noob, need help

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My brother has a E6300 running at 1.8 ghz so I decided would give it a small overclock as he only has stock cooling. He has an oem pc so I didn't even expect to be able to overclock it but in the bios I seen an option to change cpu voltage. It lied, all I could change was the fsb. So I changed it by 1 to start with and tested with cpu-z and it was showing. My first ever overclock:)

I decided to be more adventurous and change it so that it was 2.4ghz so I changed it from a default of 267 to 343. Turned on the pc and got keyboard failure and it wouldn't boot. I pooed myself for the next 30 minutes then reset the cmos. It wouldn't boot with the jumper in the second and third pins so I tried the first two again and success!

Is it safe to say I should never attempt this again or could someone give me some advice. What would have caused it not to boot. Was it the 230w psu which is now replaced by a 400w corsair or the awful ecs motherboard?
 
It's definitely an e6300 and I have 2gb ddr2 ram and it's 533mhz. It's a stock cooler so I'm aiming for a small overclock.

Stock clocks are 1.8ghz, multi of 7, fsb of 266.
 
Go into the bios and frequency/voltage control seems like a good place to start. The only options are auto detect pci clk, spread spectrum and cpu clock. Doesn't seem too encouraging.
 
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If I was to attemp this again, should I increase the fsb in smaller increments such as 266 to 275 etc? I've been reading a few guides and people have been saying to lock PCI / PCI-E busses at 33 / 100 respectively to avoid damage. I don't have the option to do this in bios.


Edit: Should I run prime95 then post the pictures of cpu-z?
 
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Thank tou very much Emphacy. I upped the fsb to 300. I don't have any options to change voltages or ram timings etc so I guess this is as far as I can go.

Here's the cpu-z of the overclock.



Temps are about 43C at idle at 56 at load. I'm just running prime to see if it is stable.
 
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