Unlocking the locked Bartons

[Patrick00011]

I found a link to this website, that tells you how to do it... I'm not sure if everyone has already figured it out, or if anyone has posted this yet. Here ya go anyways:

http://www.ocworkbench.com/2004/guid...rtonwk43-1.htm

[AutomaticErik]

Well its about damn time someone figured out how to do it.

[xelaeel]

Ahh the good old pencil trick.

[Skeelo]

Has anybody done this yet...call me crazy but I don't really feel like poking at my 2600 mobile with a pencil.

[Chuck232]

The whole point is to make the mobo think that the proc is a mobile. As you can see, the mobiles are already locked, so there's no need for this mod on them. Only the "superlocked" AXPs.

[Skeelo]

Uh there is a need to mod I can't get the multiplier past 12.5...

[slavik]

about time?!

sorry, but this is really old ... REALLY old (from last year, about a week or 2 after AMD started locking the chips)

[AutomaticErik]

This is from January of this year chief.

[Skeelo]

Ok yea so back to the topic, how can I do this without risking killing my cpu? Do any kits exist?

[Chuck232]

If all you need is the higher multipliers and the multiplier is already unlocked, this is not gonna help. (I don't think) All you actually have to do is the pin wire mod. Much less risky.

[Skeelo]

Pin wire mod?!

[Molochi]

Thr pin/wire/pcb mod are three diff variations on the same trick. The version that is the least permanent is the wire mod and what I used to get my duron to run on a 16xFSB multiplier. What you use is very fine wire (typicaly from an extra ata100 ribbon). You cut the wire into ~1cm segments, bend them so they lay flat on the socket with the "tails" in the appropriate holes in the socket. This shorts the pins just as if the bridges were not cut.

Some caveats to this method are...

1)You have to remove the cpu to make muti changes
2)You may have to reame out the holes in the plastic socket alittle to get the cpu pins to fit with the wire in there. I did.
3)Some native multipliers may preclude specific other multipliers.
You can figure it out by studying which pins create which mutiplier.

The plusses to this technique are

1) No resoldering to change multis.
2) As permanent as you could want.
3) allows high muliplier on lower FSB (some people still need this)
4) it works to change voltage, mobile, or any other bridge setting.

You should visit this page http://www.ocinside.de/index_e.html to play with their java pinmod applet. It lets you see the mod all three ways.

And of course google around for some pinmod guides. There are many.