aaand there it is! much obliged
weird thing though, I set my bios back up the same way I had it before, but in windows it said everything (cpu, ram, nb, hypertransport) was running consistently about .4% higher than what was set. amd overdrive also confirmed that it was running faster than the target speed. I reset the bios to default, which seemed to fix it, but I have yet to try to oc it again