Never mind the bridge nuber on the pic below, you see the black dots? well, those are the real contacts, not the shiny ones you see on the surface. Use a razor blade to scrape the top coat but be careful though, don't go too deep.
yeah, Equito was right, gentle "polishing" of the green area between the big two gold dots with a razor blade, revealed two more gold dots which I then connected over the bridge using elcetrically conductive paint.
Bingo! One Barton up & running fully unlocked
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Mt_GoatHead Cheezy KnobPflugerville (north of Austin)Icrontian
edited December 2003
Jimborae
Way to go! Now you need to put the petal to the metal and see how far it'll go.
You shouldn't need that much voltage to run stable. I can bench and fold 24/7 @2.2GHz (166x13 or 200x11) with default voltages and I can bench and fold 24/7 @2.5GHz (166x15) with 1.85v
btw: there is no such thing as cache locked and multi unlocked. They're either totally unlocked (old chips), multi locked and cache unlocked (like mine) or totally locked (newest chips).
I'm afraid I was wrong which means very bad news for Larry...
TBH, I'm very proud of my abilities to connect bridges and my success rate is 99.9% so when the first chip failed to show full cache I immediately went to work on the second one and sure enough, I cannot unlock it.
I can unlock the FSB but not the cache... :banghead:
Thank you so Much Guys , I have my 2400+ Thorton @ 2600 Barton thanks to you, i tried before , but it failed coz i didnt scratch the layer off. i felt the difference straight away from the extra cache . i saw someone say i they changed the CPu fsb speed from 266 to 333 , is this right and will i notice any improvements from doing this.? How Do i Do this.
Hmmm fraid I can't help you there as I'm not familiar with board, but as your memory is only rated to run at 266 you could run into problems. It depends how well it'll overclock, if your board allows it. My old 2100ddr ram would run 333 so yours may as well but then again it may not.
That depends on your board. It may be an option in the bios or a jumper/dip switches on the board, I'd suggest you look at the manual and see what it says. or wait for somebody who's familiar with this board.
If you are raising the fsb on the processor though you may have to change the multiplier to keep overall speed of the chip similar to what it already is for the time being. However as stated earlier in this thread you may have a thorton that is multiplier locked & therefore you may not be able to change it. Therefore you'll have start increasing the cpu voltage to see if it'll run on its current multiplier at 166fsb.
Basically your gonna have to learn how to overclock a cpu (assuming you dont know already). Also do a google on this board and read some of the reviews where they have tried o/cing it. It would appear that its a bit more complecated than other boards. Dip switches & odd options etc.
ok, cool. what i wanted was to know what bridges to modify to unlock the multiplyer.
ok , i think i figured out about Fsb my board has a Dip Switch for fsb but the one for 166 is not my board, i think i could solder a wire to enable the 166 fsb for the processor, i seen it somewhere.
I would suggest that you use your mboard to attain 166 rather than modding the cpu. Its easier to put right if it goes wrong especially if you're new to this and unsure what you're doing.
I know you said it doesn't have a dip switch for 166 but I'd suggest you look again cos all the reviews I've quickly read all mention it.
MediaMan has a done a review on your board. Maybe be could help.
Well there you go S-M does it again.
But to quote another review :
"Now like most motherboards - The bios isn't perfect. There were a few things I found wrong with it that annoyed me to no end. One was the fact that you can only set the CPU Frequency to a maximum of 165MHz. When I saw this I was immediately disappointed. Another thing that I was not pleased about was the fact that you can only adjust the CPU Core Voltage by a percentage of the original. You have the option of +5%, +7.5%, and +10%. ......"
Whats being referred to here is when a 266fsb cpu is in the board, you can put a 166 or 200fsb cpu in and then higher fsb's are available but there is a dip switch you have to flip, for these types of cpu, near the pci slots.
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Didn't know the black dots where the real contacts.
yeah, Equito was right, gentle "polishing" of the green area between the big two gold dots with a razor blade, revealed two more gold dots which I then connected over the bridge using elcetrically conductive paint.
Bingo! One Barton up & running fully unlocked
Way to go! Now you need to put the petal to the metal and see how far it'll go.
I'm afraid I was wrong which means very bad news for Larry...
TBH, I'm very proud of my abilities to connect bridges and my success rate is 99.9% so when the first chip failed to show full cache I immediately went to work on the second one and sure enough, I cannot unlock it.
I can unlock the FSB but not the cache... :banghead:
What was the stepping on those chips?
Glad to see that this worked for you also
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If you are raising the fsb on the processor though you may have to change the multiplier to keep overall speed of the chip similar to what it already is for the time being. However as stated earlier in this thread you may have a thorton that is multiplier locked & therefore you may not be able to change it. Therefore you'll have start increasing the cpu voltage to see if it'll run on its current multiplier at 166fsb.
Basically your gonna have to learn how to overclock a cpu (assuming you dont know already). Also do a google on this board and read some of the reviews where they have tried o/cing it. It would appear that its a bit more complecated than other boards. Dip switches & odd options etc.
ok , i think i figured out about Fsb my board has a Dip Switch for fsb but the one for 166 is not my board, i think i could solder a wire to enable the 166 fsb for the processor, i seen it somewhere.
I know you said it doesn't have a dip switch for 166 but I'd suggest you look again cos all the reviews I've quickly read all mention it.
Well there you go S-M does it again.
But to quote another review :
"Now like most motherboards - The bios isn't perfect. There were a few things I found wrong with it that annoyed me to no end. One was the fact that you can only set the CPU Frequency to a maximum of 165MHz. When I saw this I was immediately disappointed. Another thing that I was not pleased about was the fact that you can only adjust the CPU Core Voltage by a percentage of the original. You have the option of +5%, +7.5%, and +10%. ......"
Whats being referred to here is when a 266fsb cpu is in the board, you can put a 166 or 200fsb cpu in and then higher fsb's are available but there is a dip switch you have to flip, for these types of cpu, near the pci slots.
I want to Mod The Cpu Coz i Dont want the ram speed going up as well.
i will push the ram as Far as it will go after , until i get some better ram.
i have no trouble moddin, i just done the cache mod.
or ill av to solder a wire on in place of the missing switch.