XP 2600 Barton, which Bridge

[Mickequipe]

G'day,

I'vegot a Abit KD7a Motherboard which doesn't lock down my AGP and PCI speeds when I increase my FSB, the highest ratio for CPU/PCI/AGP is 5:2:1 so I figured the only way to make this rig snappier would be to raise the multiplier.

The other day I ulocked my L5 #2 bridge with some powdered graphite and CPUZ Identified the chip as a mobile , Unfortunatly the motherboard didn't recognise this and my multipler stayed locked at 11.5.

Now, i've looked around and from what I can find the deal is I need to bridge the L3 to unlock the multiplier, but I've seen conflicting info here. Some say this unlocks multipiers below 11.5 and some say this unlocks multipliers upto 13. Also the bridge that they say to join up appears as if it is already joined.

Now I know this is old hat to most, and I appologise for that, but I have to ask if I bridge this connection, (marked in red in the attatchment) will I be able to raise th multiplier above 11.5?

Thanks for your time, this is my last hope before I go out and spend serios $$$ on a socket 939!!!

Mick

 

[Dav0s]

well really, your multiplier should be unocked from 11.5 downwards anyway, so if you cannot select a multi of 9 for example, then it seems your mobo may not let you change the multiplier.

have a look in your mobo manual and see if it allows you to change this option in bios. (not just look at it, change it)

 

[NickS]

use the wire trick .

 

[FarFarAway]

use the wire trick .

A little more information please Nick

 

[NickS]

Fien..hold on.

Here, use this.

 

[Mickequipe]

here's the link .

Is this the right way Nick? I looked at this and wasn't too sure... thanks for your input !f you Could let me know if this is the right way, then I'll give it a crack

After that I'll post back with results... hopefully should be able to get about 2.2g/hz out of her, considering I can't lock the AGP/PCI slots!!

Thanks agian, if you could let me know whether this is the best guide that would be good!!!

 

[NickS]

yep

 

[Mickequipe]

?????

Finally got round to doing the wire mod. used some wire out of an old IDE cable I had lying around.

Followed the instructions in the link above, Setup in my bios to run 166FSBx13Multi...no joy?!

The pic of the wire mod is attached, when this didn't work, I tried to tighten the loop up a bit more...It broke !!!!

No problems I thought, just do it again...

Did it again, tightened it up, banged it on the desk a few times to make sure it was tight enough:crazy:....All Good, tighten a bit more...Sweet!!

! We're gonna rock'n'roll this time I thought.... reinstalled

Still no joy!!!, WTF???

Check the wire again, right spot according to Tom's, making good contact, as good as it can get without snapping a pin or soldering it

Still no good.

So what can I do???

:damn: :eh: :banghead:

 

[NickS]

Maybe your motherboard doesn't have Multi adjustments?

It's not exactly a performance board, KT400 chipset :S.

Try a bios update maybe?

 

[Mickequipe]

Do you reckon I should use less smilies???

Should I give up???

:nopitty;

 

[FragTek]

See if you can find a used better mobo for cheap on ebay... Might be the problem as Nick pointed out.

 

[bloodthirst]

yeah personally i wouldnt bother i would just upgrade

 

[FarFarAway]

yeah personally i wouldnt bother i would just upgrade

Crap - get a decent motherboard and slam a nice OC on it

An Nforce 2 motherboard would be better for ya

 

[Mickequipe]

Yeah that's would I've been thinking. the question is which one!!!

Abit NF7-S

Asus A7N8X

Gigabyte ???

or an Epox??? or whatever I can get cheap?

With the mods I've done to the chip, any NForce 2 board will let me run 200FSB X 13multi with PC 3200 Ram, yeah?

I'm just trying to max this thing out on the cheap so I can decide weather to upgrade now, or wait untill these new AMD socket formats come out and get a PCI express graphics card. Thats gonna mean big dollars to me!

Cheers guys, thanks heaps!!! :beerchug:

 

[FarFarAway]

The Abit is a good board I heard. Failing that MSI do a nice NF2 board: if you don't get a DOA

 

[bloodthirst]

ABIT all the way, they are even better than the DFI nf2 i here, abit all the way

 

[FragTek]

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The Abit nf2 boards are nice. I usually recommend epox boards due to the great price and mad overclockability but I haven't had any personal experience with the epox nf2 boards so I can't really tell u how they perform.