Problems overclocking a 3000+

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I'm currently encountering some problems overclocking my 939 Athlon 3000+.

Firstly I'm using:

Sapphire Pure Advantage Mobo: PC-A9RD580Adv
AMD Athlon64 3000+ (Winchester core) w/Artic freezer pro
Sapphire ATI X1800XT 256mb w/Artic Cooling Accelero X2 (dual screen setup)
2x512mb PC3200 DDR Ram (Just cheap stuff)
1x 80GB Seagate (8mb cache) Sata Drive
1x160GB Maxtor (16mb cache) Sata Drive
2x NEC DVD_RW ND-3540A
Tangan 480watt PSU

I've had my system running stable with the following overclock and it's been tested crunching prime numbers for over 8hours with no problems at all.

overclocked1.JPG


However I didn't notice that when I turn the PC off it would refuse to boot up unless you press the start button followed by the reset button. I tend to leave my PC on 24/7 with occasional resets so I didn't notice this for a while.

Anyway after reseting my bios back to defaults and testing if my PC will properly boot after each individual incremental increase I've found I'm fine until I try to go over a 220mhz FSB: (see image in link for all stats)

http://www.saigoyume.com/images/Misc/overclocked2.JPG

Any one have any idea why this is happening?
Do I require a better PSU? (I want a modular one sometime soon mind)

Also I'm baffled as to why when ever I try to increase my CPU voltage the multiplier resets itself to x4 even if i manually set it to x9.

Any help would be much appreciated.
 
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