Cannot OC NF980-G65 from on-board switch

I have built a system:
Win7 64-bit Professional
NF980-G65 mobo
AMD Phenom II X4 965 BE CPU
8G OCZ DDR3 1600 BE memory
Whenever is try to over-clock via the OC switch on the mobo, my PC hangs in POST. Re-booting takes the BIOS back to its default configuration. Is there anything in the BIOS I should be setting so I can try to OC or has anyone had the experience that the AMD 965 can't be overclocked? Maybe this is related to the fact that I can't get SLI to function on the mobo either (see post in AMD64 nVidia boards section)?

Maybe your RAM limits you ,use a slower speed for the ram and try again.Though the BIOS should provide you enough options to do the HTT overclocking from there directly.
When that switch rises the HTT that value will force a higher speed for the RAM ,more than it can probably suport.Using some other RAM devider will lforce the RAM float under it s limit.The CPU itself can limit you too or the Northbridge speed.Decrease the NB multiplier as well if the ram trick doesnt work.
Good Luck!

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I completed a succesful benchmark with Vantage with the onboard video.
It ran 2 1HR prime95 sessions, 1 with onboard and 1 with a card in the slot (Standard VGA adapter), the system and PSU are stable
Everything was stripped from the case and run at my workstation, with only 1 HDD, 1 stick of RAM, BIOS defaults. It runs beautifully, until the machine reboots after video driver install.
I handle the board VERY gently, but it does a lot of "crackling" like something is loose or not set properly onto the board. As stated, I have another NF980-G65 in my other system and it runs all of the hardware fine and seems to be much more solidly built.
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Thanks for your help guys. Still no go.
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HPET [Disabled]
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What are your complete system specs? Need the complete picture. What ram and timings? Tried 1 dimm in slot closest to cpu?
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After increasing the Vcore voltage VID and NB Voltage in the BIOS and save settings for the PC was switched off
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The board I tried a different CPU does not work
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I don't know if there are beeps for faulty memory on this motherboard. Please try memory, too.
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