how do i know if my duron is un-locked?

[Cable]

please anyone help me out.

 

[SmackdownHotel]

Look at the four L1 bridges on the top right side of your CPU. They are extremely small, you may need a magnifying glass to see them properly. If you see the bridges as two golden dots connected by a thin golden line, then you have an UNlocked CPU. But if there is a small gap in between the golden dots, then your CPU is locked but can easily be unlocked via pencil or conductive pen.

 

[SmackdownHotel]

Look at the four L1 bridges on the top right side of your CPU. They are extremely small, you may need a magnifying glass to see them properly. If you see the bridges as two golden dots connected by a thin golden line, then you have an UNlocked CPU. But if there is a small gap in between the golden dots, then your CPU is locked but can easily be unlocked via pencil or conductive pen.

 

[Cable]

ok so how will i know if i unlocked it correctly or not? i did that pencil trick because my friend said to do it. so my cpu was not unlocked, but im guessing it is now because i did the pencil trick. i may be wrong still. now how do i go about testing this sucker out and making sure it is unlocked?

 

[SmackdownHotel]

Well, it depends on your motherboard. If you have an Abit KT7, you can go into the BIOS and change the multiplier, reboot, and if works, then you're all set. I think with the Asus A7V you have to change some dipswitches that are physically located on the motherboard. I don't know, I'm not too familiar with that board.

 

[SilverBack]

The only way to know for sure is if you have either a KT7 or A7V motherboard, as these are the only Socket A boards available so far with the features to change the multiplier if your cpu is unlocked. I have both of these boards. All you would have to do is change the cpu multiplier by 50 MHz to see if it works. So if you have a 600 MHz cpu just change the multiplier to 6.5 and see if it boots. If it doesn't the pencil trick didn't work for you. ( Both of mine it did , it wasn't hard at all and I would think it would be hard to screw up )

 

[Cable]

i have a a7v, and it booted at 1.80 volts, but it didn't boot at 1.85 volts. so what is that telling me? and even if i change the multiplier it still doesn't overclock the chip.

 

[SmackdownHotel]

Dude, don't worry about the voltage. Change the multiplier. For instance, if you have a 700mhz Tbird or Duron, your multiplier is at 7. Change it to 7.5 and if it boots up at 750mhz, then it worked. If it doens't boot at 750mzh or doesn't boot at all, go and redo the pencil trick. Make sure you do NOT cross any of the bridges.

 

[Cable]

i dont even see where the multiplier is in the bios? im using a a7v, and i only see a core voltage

 

[SilverBack]

Ryan,
Here is a page that shows where the dipswitches are to change the multiplier on the A7V.
The Kt7 does it in the bios the A7V doesn't.
There is also a chart here that shows what order to put the switches in.
A picture and a chart for the multiplier switches.
In that picture you will see two switch blocks, the only one you are concerned with is the one on the right with 6 switches. It's upside down in that photo, but you can see where the numbers are that corelate with the chart