Sounds weird maby, but if you wanna know about setting the frontside bus in order to sort out the ram clock speed, we surely need more info. What motherboard are you using? intel or celeron cpu?, things like that.
Actually come to think of it, we might implement a signature consisting of the systemspecs in question as mandatory rule.
I know it sounds rough, me saying this, but i have learned that when question about things like this a good signature about the used system is a big help. kinda like the dxfile thing they had at Ascaron going for troubleshooting software.
Here is an example of mine:
AsusA7V880-KT880
Bios 09-24-2004
AMD Sepron 2600+ 1.83 Ghz
512 mb Kingston ddr 200mgz - 512 mb nanya pc 3200, 200 mgz, 256 pc 3200, 200 mgz (according to cpu-z)
80 Gig Maxtor hdd, 120 Gig maxtor hdd
Dvd rewriter, dvd rom
Radeon 9600 Pro 256 mb
Chaintech 7.1 channel pci soundcard
ATX 400 Watt powersupply
Windows xp Home sp2
It is good practise for your students Spock:D
Just my 2 $cents
How to make a Direct-X Filenew system:
Gigabite p35 DS3R
Award software international, F11, 01-04-2008
Intel E8200 "wolfsdale" intel core duo
OCZ ddr2 pc2-6400 Gold kit, 4 gig.
maxtor hdd, 80 gig, ide
Peak Radeon HD 3850 512 mb pcie
Liteon dvd rom, ide
Fortron BlueStorm 500w
Windows xp pro sp2