6163 pro v2 / 6905 v2.3 PIII 800eb HELP

My system is (or was) as follows
MS-6163 Pro v2, 500 Celeron on MS-6905 v2.3, 320Mb Ram (2x128 pc133, 1x64 pc100), TNT2 m64 32Mb, 13Gb + 40Gb Segate HDD's, Diamond Data 36x CD-rom, Iomega 650i CDRW, Lucent Win modem, Aztec 2320 sound card. It has never played up in the last 3 years, but I decided to bite the bullet and get a newer/faster CPU.
Ok here's the problem, when I installed the 800eb & removed the 64m pc100 SDRAM (after flashing the new MS-6163 Pro W6163IMJ3A0 BIOS Release) and set it to 133 x 6 the system will boot but crashes/locks up loading Windoze ME.
I figured out I had a dodgy SDRAM and removed it, system ran fine at 800Mhz yesterday, yet today it started crashing iexplorer every few minuets (not the system). Upon rebooting it started behaving the same as yesterday. Seemed like a ram problem again.
Setting the CPU to 8 x 100 (hoping to alleviate ram problem) results in the CPU booting up as a 600e. It runs fine and stable although I find no real world increase in performance over my trusty old 500 Celery. I want to get it to run at 800Mhz.
The system is now as I type:
CPU PIII 800eb running at 600Mhz (100 x 6, even if set to 100 x 8 in BIOS) which boots as a PIII 600e.
BIOS 10/11/2000-i440BX-W977-2A69KM4KC-00
RAM AMD 128mb 16x(8Mx8) SDRAM PC133U-333-542 (CL3 up to 133Mhz)
I can't find any reference to the 6905 v2.3 anywhere, mine is identical to the v2 BUT J3 has only 3 pins on my board not 4 as in the documentation for v2.
As for the 6163 should I leave SW2 & SW3 set to auto or set the CPU bus to 100.
Any help would be most greatfully accepted as the 800EB set me back AU$165 and there is no point running it at 600.
Thanks in advance
OH! Almost forgot, the sound card no longer works. Weird??

Hi guys,
I assumed as much reguarding the 800eb multiplier and after some fiddling last night managed to coaxs it to run at 744Mhz (6x124) and so far appears to be running ok with the AGP at 83Mhz. I'll see how in goes over the next few days.
The only reason I bought the 800eb is that it was listed here
Supported CPU's
and even after flashing the new BIOS it only allowed up to 8.5 multiplier which to me ruled out anything over 850 if retaining 100Mhz FSB.
I'm still curious though as to the J3 difference between the ver2 of the MS-6905 Master (4 pins) and mine the ver2.3 (3 pins)

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