XP uNLocking Made Easy

[Jeff7]

Just wondering, why must the pits be filled in? Is there a conductor in there?

 

[rebuilder]

It may have just been a bad processor but I may have ruined my XP by using a crayon.
Mine ran fine for about a month then all of a sudden just died. Tried cleaning and redoing the bridges but still dead. Anyone else heard of the crayon method ruining the chip?

Is it possible that some crayons may have some conductance?

After I pulled the processor the pits no longer were filled with crayon. Melted?

 

[GRL]

The easiest way of unlocking an XP without damaging it and even without loosing guarantee seems to come from asia:

Look at

oc.com.tw

They are using conducting rubbers, which can be found in mobile phones (eg. NOKIA 3210) and can be bought seperately for less than 2 dollars. No hassle with glue or conducting pens any longer!! No insulating necessary!! This method was also tried with success by quite a number of people at:

http://www.planet3dnow.de/vbulletin/showthread.php3?s=&threadid=37667

You don´t need german to understand the pictures . You only need to carefully adjust the hight of the rubber with some additional tape, in order to apply enough pressure from the heatsink (but be careful that you still cool your CPU...).

Haven´t tried this by myself, but seems to be a very good and easy method!!

 

[DivideBYZero]

That looks like the way to go. Got to be the easiest way ever, so simple too!

You should be able to get these out of any cheap calculator too BTW, used to interface with the LCD screen and bound to cost less than $2!!!

 

[Assimilator1]

Nice idea GRL ,thanks for the heads up

Now where the heck do I find that conductive rubber?
(I'm in the UK btw)

 

[GRL]

<< Now where the heck do I find that conductive rubber? >>



Ups,

can´t tell you that, sorry. With google I found the catalog of http://ucables.com at http://ucables.com/ucables-catalog-products.pdf, they sell the "conductive rubber" for the Nokia 3210 for 2 Euros each. But shipping is quite expensive....

People in germany reported, that you can unlock up to 8 XP´s with one rubber by cutting the rubber into even smaller pieces.

As DivideBYZero pointed out, it´s used to connect the display of the mobile or calculator to the electronics. So you should perhaps get it at any good-sorted mobile-phone-repair shop around. In Germany there are also quite a few online-shops selling it, too. Some are even shipping it in an envelope, so shipping costs are down a lot. All people used the rubbers from the NOKIA 3210 mobile phone so far, I don´t know if other rubbers work as well.

As I pointed out, I haven´t tried this unlocking by myself, I only read this in a newsgroup, but it seems to work quite well.

 

[DS1MCSE]

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Good info. Thanks!

 

[Y23KC]

I had a problem after I thought I had success when I had mine at 10.5x166. It ran at that speed for about a week, then the multilplier went to 10 by itself and then no .5 multipliers worked. I got scared and redid mine with superglue like on Tom's Hardware but used rear window defogger repair kit instead of the silver lacquer. I took a twisty tie that come in garbage bags and used that to spread the rear defogger. So far, so good with the unlock. Just running mine at 10x166 for a whopping 66mhz overclock until my new Soltek mobo and water cooler comes in. Then I'm going for 180x10 for 1800mhz! I already tested my Samsung PC2700 512mb stick up to 190 on fastest settings after setting my vmem to 2.7 but the PCI bus is way out of whack and my Soundblaster Live has a fit. The new Soltek with VIA333 chip is *SUPPOSED* to have a 1/5 divider if the jumper is set for 166mhz. I hope so!

 

[Jeff7]

My questions got missed again.


Just wondering, why must the pits be filled in? Is there a conductor in there?

 

[mste456]

yeah the pits are conductive. if u joined the 2 bridges via the pits u stand the possibility of shorting the L1's

 

[ChrisADuffy]

clocker, what are the voltage gains/ranges after connecting the L11 bridges? Any links on this subject? Thanks.

 

[Freak2]

thanx - it worked by my friend!!!

 

[Grendel99]

So has anyone actually tried the wax method? Did you do it Freak2? How long did it take you? Did you get a FULL range of mulitpliers?

 

[Y23KC]

<< So has anyone actually tried the wax method? Did you do it Freak2? How long did it take you? Did you get a FULL range of mulitpliers? >>


I did it and it worked for about 2 weeks before the .5 multipliers disappeared. I had a full range but then it quit working. I used the superglue and redid the defogger repair kit and now it works so far...

 

[ChrisADuffy]

I also used the defogger trick and it is working good on my 1600+.

 

[mste456]

i found a uk site that sells unlocked cpu's. they only cost like 10 quid more than the normal chip

 

[Assimilator1]

Is that OcUK? ,if not could you PM me the link?

 

[mste456]

na overclockers.co.uk don't. the site u want is www.over-clock.co.uk.
anyone know where i can get my hands on some distilled water?

 

[Assimilator1]

You can get distilled water from any motor factors shop ,its used to top up car batteries.

 

[Jeff7]

Just unlocked mine partially using Tom's guide and my own technique.
I used the tape masking method and superglue to fill in the pits. Then after trying various methods with actually connecting the bridges (Tom's tape-mask thingy didn't work at all). I used a conductive pen to do this, however, even the fine tip is way too big for this. The other problem with the stuff is that it starts to dry in about 5 seconds. So I just finally unscrewed the tip, oozed out some about the diameter (not volume) of a pea, and used a pin to actually make the connection. Works great now.

 

[Assimilator1]

Nothing like reviving an old thread

I have finally have been able to choose the multipliers on my XP ! ,the problem turned out to be a jumper on my m/brd ,my unlocking of the XP was perfectly ok.
A pecularity of the Asus A7V266-E (& others) ,with an unlocked XP you need to change the Palo_jumper to Duron/Athlon to be able to choose the multipliers! ,otherwise you are stuck at default!

I've now got my XP1500 running at 10.5x152 ,1.6GHz ,I'm gonna try higher multipliers but I think I'm near its limit anyway ,I needed to up the vcore to 1.775 to run it stably