Weird KT7A-RAID and Athlon XP Multiplier Unlocking!!

[Wolfcastle]

I have a KT7A-RAID v1.1 and Athlon XP 1800+.

I spent a couple of hours nervously putting epoxy and conductive pen on my Athlon XP 1800+, and I thought it worked when it booted. To be on the safe side for testing purposes, I put it down to 1700+ and it posted as such.

Then I figured I was home free and decided to up it to 1900 to see what happened. It only posted at 1700. I tried both with the 64 BIOS's 1700 setting and the user-defined settings, and they still posted at the speed of 1700 (1466Mhz). WCPUID confirms this as well as the Sandra benchmarking.

When I lowered it to 1500, BIOS wouldn't even post, so I had to clear my CMOS to post again. I put it at 1600, and it also wouldn't post.

So now I have an "unlocked" XP that only allows 1700 and 1800.

Is this because of the motherboard, or did I do something wrong in the unlocking process???

 

[Wind]

Most probably a shoddy unlocking job...check again the work.

 

[Wolfcastle]

Yeah, I think I didn't do it right. But I looked at it again and can't seem to find out what the problem is. Would anybody be able to venture a guess as to which connections are bad according to the symptoms I described in the first post of this thread?

 

[bomax]

Strange, I have similar problems, I can go up to 11.5x but no more, even if I reduce the FSB to 100Mhz. I have verified the contacts and they are all good, with <3Ohms resistance. The only possibility is if we didn't fill in all the pits somehow.

Ideas anyone???

 

[Another]

I thought XPs could only be used with the 1.3 revision of the KT7A... I own a KT7A-Raid v1.0. Would it be safe to buy an Athlon XP and try it?

 

[Wind]

<< I thought XPs could only be used with the 1.3 revision of the KT7A... I own a KT7A-Raid v1.0. Would it be safe to buy an Athlon XP and try it? >>


Best thing is check the manufacturer w/site. If they said can...then can.