Pushing my FSB higher... help!

[Keiron]

My system fails to boot @ anything greater then 215FSB, and I'm pretty confident it's ram related. I've read over the ram-posts, but honestly I can't make sense of them. Everything (becides the CPU) is @ defualt voltage. I do not know what kind of chips I have, and I'de prefer not to unmount my heatsink (AS5+bracket takes ages to mount right).
http://img12.paintedover.com/uploads/12/timingers.jpg
Here are my timings and etc. Please let me know any method you guys can think of to push my system a little faster.

[flapperhead]

loosen up ur timings and run 3/2. if the cpu and fsb go faster then its the ram

[Sentential]

In addition flash a BIOS that has a built-in L12 mod. The later versions of the BIOS I have in my vault <via link in my sig> should have this patch.

That should get you in the clear past 215

[Keiron]

What is the prefered BIOS for my mobo, if using all the onboard features (IEEE, USB 2.0, SATA, Lan, Soundstorm)?

[PhoenixMDM]

http://www.ocforums.com/showthread.php?t=324662

that should be of some help.

[<<Spider>>]

I've tried both the modded D26 bios with built in L12 (Merlyn's Taipan bios) and the modded D26 bios with hard L12 mod (Tictac's MantaRay XT). Both works well for getting higher FSB and both are known to be able to hit 270FSB with good fast RAM (PC4000 or PC4200). From testing them both, the Manta Ray XT with L12 mod is more stable, more easier to use (everything you need to OC is on one page), and have a auto setting for your RAM timming as you increase the FSB to insure you have the correct timing. The auto RAM setting (called "Optimal") takes the RAM timing guessing work out so that you have the best timing and stability for the FSB. This will make your system more stable without messing around. Maybe this is why it seems like it's more stable.

[boostdfd3s]

I plan on getting a XP-M 2600+ soon and OC'ing my nf7-s v2.0 rig as well.

Spider, so you recommend doing the L12 mod with the wire trick instead of using a bios with the soft L12 built in? Also i will be running mushkin pc3200 BH-5 with as much voltage that the board will allow without volt modding. Which bios is for me?

(sorry to thread hijack) :)
-Zach

[<<Spider>>]

RAM voltage is not necessary. The Manta Ray bios will allow you to change your RAM voltage (up to 3.0V) and I would not recommend putting more voltage than what is allowed on the Manta Ray bios. Putting more than 3.0V on RAM can fry your RAM at high load. Even with heat spreader. I have mine PC3200 Crucial at 2.7V. My CPU votage at 1.65V. I can get better performance (over 2.7 GHz) if I up the votage on both the CPU and RAM but i don't like my CPU to be above 40C. Some people are OK with it but I like mine below 40C.