Are the L1 traces on the XP tied to pins on the processor?

[DARRIN]

If so all I should have to do is ohm them out with my meter and solder jumper wires onto the back of my motherboard to unlock it. Any input?

 

[Scooter]

I'm no expert by any means,... But I would guess the answer would be no. Now that I guessed, I'd like to hear a more intelligent reponse then what I gave. 🙂

 

[Moonbeam]

I don't know how much more intelligent this is, but I don't see any knots tying them to anything.

 

[FishTankX]

go to www.tomshardware.com

They have a guide for unlocking AthlonXP's. They aren't in any way connected with the pins... not to my knowledge anyways. but you should just be able to fill in the void with super glue and flatten it out and then babboom babaam use a conductive pen to close the gap. Unlocked!

 

[DARRIN]

I would rather do the mod to the motherboard for a couple of reasons if it is possible.

1. harder to sell modified chip.
2. If I change chips I'll have to modify the new chip. If I did it to the board I could just pop in a new one and not have to do anything to unlock it.



I'm pretty sure the the rest of the traces (L3, etc. ) are connected to pins or else how would the golden socket devices work?

 

[CTho9305]

i dont think this would work, even though I think the bridges are somewhat related to pins. I imagine the circuit looks something like this:

mobo - pin - bridge - PLL input - pin - mobo.

if you do it ont he pin side, you jump over the PLL, which would probably result in it reading an open bridge, or just not working.

 

[Jen]

this article may help you
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also on unlocking the processor i have seen people use hobby paint or crayons to fill in the pits. then go across with something conductive like silver conductive grease. this is very dangerous so care must be taken.


Jen

 

[DARRIN]

Hmm.

I would take mine out and ohm it out with my meter but I'm not sure if the voltage produced by the meter would damage my chip.