MSI K9 V2 SLI

Hi everyone, I'm new here and i need some advices/information, so i hope you can help me.
I have MSI K9 V2 SLI mainboard and yesterday i received a brand new unused Amd Phenom II x4 940 processor. According to msi, this one with the bios update should be working with my mainboard. The thing is, it's not working perfectly. When the clocks are setup to auto i recieve BSoD while booting win7 of all kinds (from page fault in non page area to usbport.sys error, every time it's different error), however when i underclock the cpu to 200Mhz with 13.5 multiplier = 2.7 Ghz (also working with 14 and 14.5 multiplier, but it's less stable) it seems that the system is pretty stable. When i start a game (for example bioshock 2/starctraft 2) it crashes after while. Can somebody tell me what should be the proper clock settings for this CPU on this mainboard or post at least some links where to find this information? Also can someone confirm me, that the HT(SB) link frequency is max. 1000 MHz for this MB. I keep in mind that the mainboard is a bit older and perhaps it's not fully supporting this CPU, but i really would like to have it as much stable as possible. Thank you in advance.
P.s. English is not my native language, so if something's is not understandable, I'd like to apologize in advance.

Quote from: Svet on 23-October-10, 00:32:06
reduce memory freq. to 667 and use 2T command rate
do memory check with >>Memtest86<<
Re-test if no errors are reported
Hey, so i did following:
###setup###
###CPU
CPU fsb rewquency = 200 Mhz
CPU ratio = x13.5
SB to CPU frequency = 1000 Mhz
###DDR2
Memory clock = 667
MCT timing mode = auto
DRAM timing mode = auto
DCT unganged mode = enabled
i've run the Memtest86 with following results:
Wall Time Cached RsvdMem MemMap Cache Ecc Test Pass Error
3:50:49 8191M 264k e820 on off Std 2 1
Tst Pass Failing Address Good Bad Err-Bits Count Chan
7 1 000ab3ed2a4 -2739,9 MB 9873f03b 9a73f03b 02000000 1 -
It was the default test.

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