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Reviving and Volt Modding an Abit AW9D-Max Motherboard

Howto by geoffrey @ 2007-01-24

The overclock ability of PC hardware is known for more then a decade now. As the market seemed to ask for more user friendly ways to overclock, manufacturers came up with ideas like dipswitches, softmodding through BIOS, asynchronous bus functions, etc. Though the risk stays the same, and once you run out of luck you might find yourself paying another $200 for replacement parts. Today we take a look on how we revived our motherboard after a failed BIOS flash, followed by supercharging it for extreme performance.

Voltage read-out points

Voltage read-out points

Voltage can be read on multiple points on the board. On the previous pages you can see which points the people at XS used. The owner of this AW9D-Max informed me that the board is going inside a case, which doesn't allow much movement or easy accessibility. So to still allow voltage read-out I came up with this:

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All four voltages that can be altered are easy to read out this time. Connect one side of your multimeter to ground and the other side to one of the four readout connections from above. The FSB voltage can be read at the following place on your main board:

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The other 3 points we searched on the backside of the board.

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Dimm voltage can be read out on the left side of the mainboard:

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CPU core voltage is located at the center top of the board. Also notice the solder lines abit added on the backside of the CPU area to enhance the PCB cooling.

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MCH voltage has been showed on the previous page with the MCH booster mod, here is a close up:

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