Duron locking question

[BrianD]

Just bought an Iwill KK266 MB and a Duron 800 to upgrade my box. I've read the articles on unlocking the L1 bridges and went to look. To my surprise there was a surface mount device soldered in the L1 position. COOL! Must have got one of the unlocked versions.
The system is up and running fine, except that at any multiplier setting I use, the post screen reports it as 800 (@ 100 FSB). FSB changes correctly.
The question is: is the Iwill board working correctly, or has AMD started putting dummy devices on L1 to keep people from OCing?
Is anyone else seeing surface mount devices at the L1 position?

 

[rmblam]

"a surface mount device soldered in the L1 position"

What the hell is that? Take a picture and link it if you can.

Did you set the jumper on the board to use the 133 fsb? RTFM.

 

[shiznut123]

It is a metal thingy connecting the L1 bridges. Do they look like metal?

 

[BrianD]

A surface mount device is a method of installing a device onto a board /chip without having to drill holes and inserting leads into the holes and soldering. The board and device have corresponding solder pads. The device is placed on the board with a little solder paste and run through an IR oven to solder the device to the board/chip. Much cheaper assembly method that does not sacrifice quality.
Look at Anand's OC article where it shows the L1 bridges. See the rectangular 'thingy' stuck on the chip carrier below it. That is an example of a surface mount device. You can see a good example on page 27 of the manual. (If you don't have a manual, IWill has the manual on-line at support.iwill.net)

rmblam: both FSB jumper and setting is set at 100. I am trying to change multiplier, how does fsb jumper effect that?

 

[hovenas]

Could you get a pic going, would be interesting to see it ALIVE