What the heck- MSI Neo2 Plat AGP OC Problem fixed

[iCe-BLaZeD]

Hi guys

.... after god knows how long of having this neo2 platinum along with a opteron 165 I had wondered why the hell it would become unbootable after about 250FSB ... recently I purchased some mushkin PC4000 redline memory from an awesome fella from OcUK MM, and naturally I went about finding the cause to the problems on my motherboard,... I can't believe how many times I've read this "issue" and passed it by but it turned out that it was SATA ports 1/2 not being "locked" somehow... using ports 3/4 solved all OC issues

Can anyone tell me why 2 SATA ports would be unlocked, and why the board could previously only reach 255(ish) FSB until problems appeared but now reaches 310-315 (still working on the max, not even really pushed it yet)... I'm now running 2.8Ghz from my opty but how simple this problem was to solve has just bugged me

Thanks
Petros,

 

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There was a question about this on http://www.xtremesystems.org/forums/index.php? (can't find it)
This board was based on the Nforce 3 chipset, and I think it was one of the limitations.
I know people where asking same question on that forum and the tech guy from DFI had more or less said that.

Not many board these days get the following that MSI board had.

 

[iCe-BLaZeD]

There was a question about this on http://www.xtremesystems.org/forums/index.php? (can't find it)
This board was based on the Nforce 3 chipset, and I think it was one of the limitations.
I know people where asking same question on that forum and the tech guy from DFI had more or less said that.

Not many board these days get the following that MSI board had.

aye its the NForce 3 Ultra (250?) chipset iirc, Im just frustrated that I overlooked an issue I had read about for so long and it was the cause of not being able to clock properly