Overclocking a 1.2 TBird

[Stupendous Man]

I have a Asus A7M266 running a Thunderbird 1.2 Ghz 266. I have no overclocking ability, the board won't boot in jumper free mode only when hard set but can only hard set FSB 133. Anyone know anyway around this. Is it just a Asus issue with the board and chip or is there a way to enable the Athlon so I can overclock it?

[Oni]

Stupendous Man (Apr 19, 2001 05:32 a.m.):
I have a Asus A7M266 running a Thunderbird 1.2 Ghz 266. I have no overclocking ability, the board won't boot in jumper free mode only when hard set but can only hard set FSB 133. Anyone know anyway around this. Is it just a Asus issue with the board and chip or is there a way to enable the Athlon so I can overclock it?

The A7M's are funny. I don't think that you can change the multiplier on the board, the switches have been removed I think. As for it not booting in JumperFree, thats not exactly new to Asus boards either. You might wanna get the latest BIOS revision from http://www.asus.com.tw . That might solve your problem. Hope that helped! :)

[Da Whip]

Here are reviews and overclocking guides for the Asus A7M266;
http://www.xbitlabs.com/mainboards/asus-a7m266.html

http://www.overclockersonline.com/index.php?page=articles&num=57

http://www.iamnotageek.com/cgi-bin/reviews.cgi?name=a7m266&p=1

http://www.iamnotageek.com/cgi-bin/reviews.cgi?name=a7m266&p=1

http://www.morningstar.co.nz/ASUSA7M266.html

http://www.socketa.com/reviews/asus/a7m266/

These should answer your questions.

[Stupendous Man]

I wish this did help but it seems as I'm the only one to run into the A7M266 Board that won't post in jumperfree mode, The only way it will post is in hardset mode set to 1.2 ghz speed 10X multiplier so it seems I have a very odd and very non overclockable board :(