MSI 975x PowerUp Edition and Intel Core 2 Duo E4300 overclocking

As subject says, BIOS ver. 7.40, board rev.2.1, CPU works on other boards up to high 3GHz+ and on this one not even a megahertz over standard 200...
Memory is not a subject, A-DATA Extreme, known to work up to 1GHz, cooling by TT Big Typhoon an PSU by Antec, case CM Wave Master...
No matter what I do, I can't OC the CPU!
Any clues?
Wait for BIOS release?
Or grab the hammer and smash the thing apart...

Guys, thanks a lot for your effort...
Now, where I am now!
7.1B6 works for me only a day, then suddenly rebooting machine caused full stop...no move, no sign of being alive! Hard reset few times kicks in, but not as for the first few hours.
Flashed v7.4B3 which recognized my CPU, thank god and locks me back in the 200MHz FSB range... so all this for nothing!
I did manage somehow to raise to 225MHz, but that's it!
That device is still there unrecognized and still poking my eye out. No Realtek (1.61 by the way) solved UAA HD device, not this one. That is some mystery! I played with BIOS, turning on and off, that's where I come across reboot problem, but no avail!
As I am IT pro, I know you are amazed where all this comes from me, and also need to run WinXP X64, I did believe however that I will go across mapping issues, hope you got some experience. At the moment I am still on W32 partition and still fighting my fight with that nasty board!
I did used AMD systems in the past and I know that timings are all about that platform, but also Intel required decent timings otherwise you experience that wool effect on your desktop alone!
Using Ryan VM prepared copy of WinXP, which worked flawlessly anywhere, using all my knowledge I am close to give up. Nice looking board but that's where everything stops!
When I mentioned that magic speed of 333MHz, I am talking about my b/f machine where only difference seems to be motherboard, and he opted for Gigabyte 965P DS3P, and as you know, this one doesn't come with another 8X PCIE which I will need. Also there's no active cooling on anything, and there same, very same CPU I got worked at 400*9, with very same RAM without a hiccup!!!! For about a month and a half! No reboot prob, no prob recognizing CPU, no unknown devices and so...
I know solution would be to get rid of this board ASAP, but then I should turn to new set of problems however and probably new set of friends across the globe! All the drivers are reinstalled gazillion times, and being a new driver freak, yes I do used all the latest!
What a tough nut! I believe if MSI read this sooner or latter they will point out that even Intel on their own motherboard support overclocking as this is part of their global plan widespreading their technology. You must know that only OC helped AMD raise, and now very same story work for Intel as well!
Guys, help me! 

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