Can anyone remember the full extent of the multiplier lock on the SocketA XP’s.
Rumbling away in the back of my mind is that the lock was introduced 2003 week 39, but was it just the bridges being hidden or were the wired pin mods locked out as well?
The reason I ask is that I have a pair of bridge and pin-modded XP2500’s (to MP2600’s) and I’ve finally had the time today to nail down the rigs recent poor D2OL performance down to one of them failing - so, I’m on the lookout for a replacement…
PS - before anyone starts with XP-M comments, I know which ones of those are a suitable replacement and I’m not looking for a massive overclock - this is a duallie running primarily as a server.
If you look at the pick above Locate the L5 bridge links
you have 4… | ¦ ¦ ¦
The 3rd link from the left controls if the Processor acts as an Mobile or not
So if you were carefull… scraped abit of laqure away to reveal a bit of both sides of the
link… then made a rejoin… it would convert it to an X-PM
So it would be | ¦ | ¦
If you wanted it as an MP it would be | ¦ | |
***Note there are also other issue and you would maybe need to cut L6 bridges
that defines the upper limit of the Mobile multipliers (stuff to do with on the fly
multiplier adjustment under mobile conditions).
Will try my hand on fleabay first before I take you up on that - I’ve got around 10 days before I get access to the rig again so there’s no massive rush at present.
What board are you using Mojo? The Asus doesn’t need them to be modded and I’ve a feeling the Gigabyte board has detection turned off as well.