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Now for your mobo and the bios settings. I walk you through this, though it is listed in your user manual. You mobo has a VIA KT400 chipset which is a good overclocker, but not as good as a nforce chipset, however it is a good chip set. Your mobo also has an overclocking function in it's bios.
First SW 1 (swithc one) located on you mob, that switch must be set to 100 (on or default) if you are using a fsb of 200. Since you are using an Athlon 2600, that switch should be set to auto.
When you boot to bios you should see this on your screen
bios boot screen 1 On your mob you need to hit the Ctrl-F1 key to bring up the advanced bios settings.
Go down to the Frequency/voltage control and hit enter.That is where you modify the dram speed settings, voltages. First the spread spectrum should be disabled. Play with each of those settings until you can tweak the best oc. if the system hangs, just use the clear cmos pin.
Also use gigabytes Easytune software ocing program that is on the distro cd of the mobo.
Try all that and let us know what happens
Hooah!
edit Here is a link to a review of this board and the how-to bios ocing for it
7VAXP review