Bababooey: do you have any USB devices connected? You'll get one short beep for every USB device connected at startup, so I'd be willing to guess you have two. I went through that same concern at one point when I got one long and one short, especially after seeing that table earlier in the thread.

bluspikez: I'll try upping vCore first, but will keep NB in mind. When I was running at stock, upping NB even a little caused my computer to crash often with blue screens. With my current overclock, I've certainly tried upping NB, but it never had an effect that I could notice, so I put it back to 1.25, which was the minimum I needed for pretty clear stability. I continued having booting problems despite having higher NB volts.

loonym: I know what it's like to be irritated by newbies on message boards. Really sorry about being such a pain. Regarding doing the stuff quickly, I typically try something new every time my computer displays a problem that indicates current settings aren't working. Since this overclock, that's been far less often, so there are only so many tests I can run, and I'm still really new to this, so exactly what tests to run isn't obvious to me. If you ever need help with math, algorithms, arcade hardware, or hacking assembly in classic games, that's definitely more up my alley.