richc7,
ya, if you dont give your system a voltage tweak here and there when your overclocking, it will start doing exactly what your describing. they get real flaky when you start getting into overclocking territory and you dont do the appropriate tweaks to match the overclock. clear your cmos, boot to the bios, setup your other system settings in the bios then start overclocking the fsb in 15 to 40 point incrememnts until she gets flakey and tweak the voltage by one notch up and then go back to your fsb overclocking again. i would unlink it from the RAM though so thats not part of the problem. you can go back and overclock that seperatly later if you want to. as long as your running around a 800mhz on your memory, you should be able to OC the fsb to at least 1600 easily. just make sure you have adequate cooling and a psu that can hack the voltage increase. you gotta remember that overclocking creates more heat, which in turn creates more internal resistance for the chip, so you have to dissapate the heat or your gonna be stopped dead in your tracks at a certain point which in your case may be the overclock you reached when the board died. thats why alot of overclockers go to water cooling cause its a direct cooling solution, unlike air, which flows over ALL the components to relieve heat. overclocking is definetly a art, of sorts!!??!? anyway, hope this helped you out and let me know what happens. -------------------------------- ACID ----------------------------------