This is a brief guide detailing the overclocking procedure for the Asus A7n266-vm Motherboard.
hmmm lets see is this a difficult thing to do or not ? I'd have to say that if you get it right first time then its a fairly simple operation.
The goal is to remove a small piece of wire that bridges 2 points on the board and rejoin it as in the A7N266-c/e series of boards.
You can either solder the wire out or you can cut it, i would recommend soldering it out if you have a decent solder iron and a steady hand.
Once the mod is done, the once grayed over FSB and multiplier settings in the Bios will be free to change. Although the multiplier settings have been opened they have no effect on the board whatsoever, or so it seems. You will have FSB settings from 100-115 in steps of 2MHZ and then 133-188 in various steps. It looks like ATi graphics cards are unusable for overclocking this board as the overclock defaults to 100FSB when used.
Equipment
Fine headed solder iron
Solder
possibly a craft/stanley knife if you want the cut the wire, instead of soldering it out.
Step 1
Take your board and place it on a worktop , preferably on top the anti-staic bag that came with it.
Step 2
Locate the 2 blue coated plastic (memory/frequency) jumpers just beside one end of the AGP slot, see figure 1.
Take the 2 jumpers off the board, and locate the small wire strip connecting 2 points on the board, right next to the Mem/cpu jumper pins. fig 2.
Step 3
From the back side of the board heat up the wire point nearest the back end of the board and push the wire out. You obviously need to be careful to avoid getting any solder on adjacent traces. Theres not much room to work with.
Step 3a
If you dont like this method you can cut the wire from the front side of the board using some kind of fine wire cutter or other. There are 2 fine traces under the wire, so you need to watch so as not to damage them, if they do get damaged you could possible repair them with something like conductive paint, etc..
Step 4
Rejoin the wire between points as shown on fig 3. Thats it!
Figure 1: Arrow points to jumper pin location.
Figure 2: shows location of CPU/ram jumper. If cutting the wire you need to be careful not to damage the adjacent Capacitor. Yellow arrow points to 'wire'.
Figure 3: Wire must be reconnected between these 2 points
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