unlocking my XP 1800+ in a few minutes

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Originally posted by retrofade
well this didn't go quite according to plan. I've got it all done, but if I try to just use the standard failsafe setup on my mobo, it recognizes the proccy as a 1700+, when its really an 1800+. In order for it to run at 1800+ speeds, I have to OC the FSB and change the multiplier down to either 10 or 10.5, can't remember which at the moment. None of the bridges are touching each other...not even close. The mobo also beeps twice before it brings up the AGP display, used to only beep once, and then it beeps again right before it brings up the startup for the computer. Does anyone have any suggestions for me. I'd greatly appriciate them.

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He He..exactly the way my first unlock went with nail polish to fill the trench. The next 1900+ I tried I used superglue (the one that ZhaoYun posted the pic of) and it worked flawlessly. I sealed the lock with nail polish afterwards so that nothing would scrape the bridge connects off ;)

I think I might have figured out what went wrong...I may have sealed off a couple of the "gold dots" for the bridge...so it wouldn't have connected, as some were sealed and others weren't. Gonna try it again from work in about 20 minutes.

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Originally posted by retrofade
I think I might have figured out what went wrong...I may have sealed off a couple of the "gold dots" for the bridge...so it wouldn't have connected, as some were sealed and others weren't. Gonna try it again from work in about 20 minutes.

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Make sure to cover those "gold dots" with tape as well so that they aren't covered with the nail polish, before connecting the L1 bridges. :)

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Originally posted by retrofade
I think I might have figured out what went wrong...I may have sealed off a couple of the "gold dots" for the bridge...so it wouldn't have connected, as some were sealed and others weren't. Gonna try it again from work in about 20 minutes.

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Here's what I did after filling the trenches.
I took the fine side of an emory board and very lightly sanded the bridge contacts before painting the bridges...it'll clean off any junk you accidentally got on them ;)

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Originally posted by KJY9


Here's what I did after filling the trenches.
I took the fine side of an emory board and very lightly sanded the bridge contacts before painting the bridges...it'll clean off any junk you accidentally got on them ;)

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unfortunately, I don't have an emory board here at work...best I could do would be the pencil erasers I brought with me

well...I've got it unlocked now, but the PC only posts for a cold boot. Any suggestions?

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Originally posted by retrofade
well...I've got it unlocked now, but the PC only posts for a cold boot. Any suggestions?

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Take that nail polish out of the trenches and use Superglue.
Make certain you remove it ALL.
That's the only thing I can think of? ;)

allright, I'm about to try this for the fourth time now. Gonna remove all the nail polish from the previous attempt, and I'm using superglue this time. So we'll see what happens.

hmm superglue....the artic silver of unlocking xp's.....

right, and why were you using nailpolish? and what the heck do you have nailpolish for????? (please say you just went out and bought it or borrowed it from your girlfriend....):rolleyes: :)

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Originally posted by adamff7
hmm superglue....the artic silver of unlocking xp's.....

right, and why were you using nailpolish? and what the heck do you have nailpolish for????? (please say you just went out and bought it or borrowed it from your girlfriend....):rolleyes: :)

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if you'll look back earlier in the thread, you'll see that nail polish was reccomended for sealing the gaps. But it didn't work for me, so off to superglue. Just put the glue on it, waiting for it to dry now.

Oh, actually I had this nail polish just laying around my house...:p, no not really...I went out and bought it last night, and I'm giving it to my fiancee now that I'm through with it.

What's the problem with nailpolish? is it conductive or doesn't just fill the gaps good?

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Originally posted by All Business
Why did AMD make it so hard to overclock their CPUs?

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They didn't. Duron's and Tbirds were like cake to unlock. Now Palominos are much more difficult per se. However it can at least be done. Ever heard of a guy unlocking a Intel cpu; let alone multiple average Joe overclockers.

The good news might be the Tbred. The pics I've seen online seem to suggest the Palomino trenches aren't there????

well...still didn't work. I have no idea what I'm doing wrong. I had the glue on there in between the dots, w/o covering them. I didn't have any of the bridges connected. I wonder if its something that I have to change on my motherboard itself. But what happens, is that it'll post the first time with the fail-safe defaults...100 MHz FSB, etc. But as soon as I change the FSB to 133, or change the multiplier, it refuses to post. This is getting rather agrivating...I'm about ready to just remove all the stuff and forget about even trying this. :mad:

I know this is probably dumb to say, but....

Make sure that "Speed Error Hold" or whatever it may be called on your particular board is turned OFF.

Sometimes those "Fail Safe" defaults include a setting that says..."Don't BOOT if CPU speed is detected incorrectly"

Don't give up Retrofade.

Sorry I don't have any sugestions seeing that I never unlocked an XP.

And every thing I've read about it has been said here.