my athlon thunderbird wont unlock!!!

[AMDgood IntelBAD]

i've tried everything that i know of, i tried connecting the bridges. i tried stick a wire in the scoket, and i tried connectign the pins with a pencil. it just wont unlock! could it be my chipset, dont laugh its an old computer its my mom's, via kt133? should i try setting the multiplier manually by connecting the proper pins?

 

[imported_whatever]

why don't you just OC the FSB instead?

 

[HDTVMan]

Im surprised it works. I had 2 motherboards that wouldnt recognize the Tbird and especially the Barton in an older motherboard.

I do recall the multiplier getting set real low on one.

Check the motherboard specs on the manufacturers website.

 

[Maluno]

What motherboard are you using? I'm running that same processor, but my bios is phoenix branded and it doesn't allow ocing.

 

[AMDgood IntelBAD]

its a gateway thats rather old, msi ms-6330 American Megatrends bios. i cant change it much through fsb, only to like 111, then it reboots itself. but it just wont unlock!!!!!!!!!! i even put it in my ecs kt-600a, it lets me change the multi on my modded sempron. stupid processor. would ram cause reboot when changing fsb? i've got a stick of pc133 and pc83(lol). would the 83 cause this reboot because it cant handle anything over 111?

 

[AMDgood IntelBAD]

anyone have any idea?

 

[Vegitto]

There was a guide somewhere... Connect the proper pins in a connect-the-dot fashion, and suddenly, you'd have a multiplier of 22. Not that it'd work .

 

[HDTVMan]

Motherboard from companies like gateway, Dell, HP are usually pretty limited. You might be better off getting a new motherboard to go with the chip. There are plenty of cheap nforce motherboards out there to choose from under 40.00. Be sure to get one that you can recycle the ram you have. Also Check out archived motherboard reviews.

 

[aka1nas]

He's running a kt133. Thats PC-133 SD-RAM not DDR.

What multiplier were you trying to set for? Some older boards can't go past 12x or so.

 

[HDTVMan]

Originally posted by: aka1nas
He's running a kt133. Thats PC-133 SD-RAM not DDR.

What multiplier were you trying to set for? Some older boards can't go past 12x or so.

Yea thats why I think he could find a better motherboard for super cheap.

 

[The Godfather]

the multiplier is locked, i put it in my ecs kt600-a that has allowed my sempron to set its multiplier to 11.5, and ran it at 2.3Ghz. and the multiplier was still locked not matter what pins i connected, might play around with bridges some more which i've already tried to unlock i'll set them to be on a certain multiplier, like maybe 11.5 and if its unstable i'll just take it out i guess, its absurd that i have to do all this when those people at amd just could've been nice and not chopped up my processor with there fancy cutting lasers!!!

edit- this is amdgood intelbad i was on my friends username

 

[AMDgood IntelBAD]

well that processor is permanently locked, maybe some one with a laser and conductive lacquer could maybe get it faster. amd has disappointed me, but i think gateway did something, with they're supid cow boxs.

 

[imported_Starman]

Useless factoid: I have a system that's running an Athlon XP 1800+ Thoroughbred on an MSI Turbo2 VIA KT133A