Athlon Unlockers, help!

[Chronic321]

While my board is at RMA I decided to keep myself busy. I tried to unlock my t-bred, while doing so I covered the L3 label with conductive ink, thus it is connected to the 5th L3 bridge. Does this label do anything? Will it mess up my unlock? Thanks

 

[johncar]

Originally posted by: Chronic321
While my board is at RMA I decided to keep myself busy. I tried to unlock my t-bred, while doing so I covered the L3 label with conductive ink, thus it is connected to the 5th L3 bridge. Does this label do anything? Will it mess up my unlock? Thanks

Closing the 5th L3 connects it to ground thru an ~1K resistor. Labels are reported to be at ground level, so the only thing you've done is shorted out the 1K current limiting resistor. Should have no effect unless that circuit develops a short circuit from some voltage source, not very likely. But you could try to scrape the offending material off the label if concerned.

http://www.beachlink.com/candjac/index.htm link to various articles for details, circuit diagrams et al.
John C.

 

[johncar]

HOLD IT PLEASE!!!
Just reread your post and realized there may be a big mistake!!

The 5th L3 that needs to be closed is the 5th from the Left, but the L3 label is closest to the 5th from the right...we do not see how you could possibly even accidently connect the rightmost L3 bridge to the L3 label all the way over at the left.

So we're afraid you may have connected the 5th from the right instead, which is "very wrong". Hope we misinterpreted something, but thought we should try to alert you just in case our fears are justified.
John C.