Unlocking and Ocing my 1600xp so weird

KometeKomete Member
edited December 2003 in Hardware
Hello all, Good to see so many names I've known for a long time from Icrontic here.

On to my 1600xp. I just bough a A7n8x from a good bud of mine that should be at my house in a day or 2 yay! So I got a little excited and decided to unlock my cpu.

Got me some crazy clue and the pincil I used to unlock my old duron and athlons back in the day when 1ghz ment something. Filled it, made my lines, and relized Holy crap I don't have any thermal grease:banghead:

Started thinking :scratch: and just scraped the little bit of thermal grease that was on the side of the core with my exacto knife and use that.

Installed it and turned it on. right at the boot screen it reported my 1600xp as a 1800xp! :thumbsup: Went as far as i coud go on this mobo and ended up with a 2100xp.

****But for some reason now my 1600xp is locked at 12x multiplyer*** SO durring the day times when it gets warm in my house the system gets too hot and crashes. The only thing I can do is bring my fsb down to 100.***

**** the other problem I'm having is when I go into my bios to change the multiplyer and reboot it just hangs. I turn off my psu restart and the mulitpler is again all the way up***

Any ideas what could be causing this? Since I'll be installing my new mobo in a day or so I'm going to try to redo the bridges but I'm wondering why it's locked at 12x.

Comments

  • GHoosdumGHoosdum Icrontian
    edited December 2003
    That's a strange phenomenon you're describing - the only thing I can think of is that your unlocking trick wore out, ie the conductive line was broken somehow.

    SVC has a bunch of Arctic Silver products with free shipping. I just bought a tube of Ceramique for $4 shipped to me...
  • GargGarg Purveyor of Lincoln Nightmares Icrontian
    edited December 2003
    By pencil, do you mean a lead pencil? If so, try doing it with defogger repair kit. I'm 4 for 4 on unlocks with that stuff, works great.
  • KometeKomete Member
    edited December 2003
    Well Ghoosdom I'm glad it's just not me lol... my bud who is sending me his mobo is sending some arctic silver 2 with it.

    It's possible Gargoyle but I remeber running my duron for ever a year with no problems. It didn't have pits though. When I do the mobo change out i'm going to try the pincil one more time if it's a no go then I'll look for the defogger kit for when I change HSF to the silent boost.

    BTW I made a mistake on my 1st post it's stuck at 12.5 mutiplyer. Good thing is she will do 1837 rock solid at night when the room is cool. Temps are high as hell. 63-65c under load 57-60c idle. I'm hoping to get 2ghz out of this thing with good cooling and the new mobo and a succesful unlocking lol. Oh and some thremal compound hehe...

    Heres the steping if anyone can tell me if it's any good

    AX1600DMT3C
    AGOI02138PIW
    Y8054481393
    1999
  • muddocktormuddocktor
    edited December 2003
    Komete, with the XP procs, you will definitely have to use the silver conductive ink or a defogger kit to unlock that proc; the pencil trick won't work on the XP procs. The graphite in the pencil doesn't have a low enough resistance for the XP procs to unlock correctly. I use the silver conductive trace pen ink myself for unlocking; the pen cost about $15 or so but holds enough conductive paint to unlock literally hundreds of procs. I use a plastic toothpick to apply the paint to the traces.
  • KometeKomete Member
    edited December 2003
    Makes since to me :) Might have to call around and see what works out to be the best deal.
  • KometeKomete Member
    edited December 2003
    Well looks like I will be going to auto zone today for the defrogger kit. WHen I installed my new mother board I said I'll try the pincil one more time and Now Im stuck at a 6.5 multiplyer lmao....

    I'm running 6.5x216= 1404mghz

    I'll post back tonight if I get it going :)
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