Hard Modding OC? Success Failiures?

[Mykex]

I hope I have the lingo right that "hard mod" refers to modifing the CPU rather than using dipswitches on K7s. I just got a little bump up on my Tbird750 to 800 is was going for 950 and screwed up. Ground a connection into oblivion that was very important DOUGHT! Here is the odd part after reilizing my mistake I thought I had but one option 1gig,so I went for it. After 4 or 5 reinsert retrace and repray it booted but not at 1gig but 800? This should mean problems with L6/L4 and I think I might try for 850 or a 1gig the 900/950 are right out with the missing 3rd L6....but I need to hear of more great success stories.

Has there been many others actually doing this or am I one of very few lunatics? If so how did you all do ...... deaths/great OC/problems or like me got a totaly different speed than what they were looking for.

 

[johncar]

Mykex,
http://members.nbci.com/candjac/index.htm Duron OC article has lots of reference info, pics, pinouts, circuit diagrams, etc that you may need to solve your problem. Yes, others have oc'd sucessfully using "hard mod".

And here's a tip re the L6 bridge you seem to have destroyed...sounds like it's "open". The FID FSB Multiplier ID L6 bridges are like jumpers to ground, so to close an L6 bridge that you can't close with conductive ink, you can close by connecting a fine wire from the lump of solder on the respective L6 pin socket to a ground pin socket. All the info you need to do this is in the article.

Or you may be able to make a fine wire u-shaped jumper and insert from the open socket/cpu side, as long as it goes to an adjacent Gd socket and does not short/connect to any other pin...you get the idea...just jumper the affected L6 pin to ground. But here you may have to go to the chip's datasheet to see if there is an adjacent ground...no big issue.
John C.