Athlon XP Unlocking

Zarathustra · Aug 11, 2002, 02:51 AM

Hey guys who's unlocked their Athlon XP? I need a nice and easy way to unlock mine. I tried filling the trenches with superglue but eventually the glue got underneath the tape and got on half the L1 bridges

I heard that you can fill the trenches with just a crayon! I got a defogger repair kit, so I'll use that to connect the bridges. Oh yeah how do you get rid of excess superglue....I tried acetone (nail polish remover) and that didn't work

Jaxon · Aug 11, 2002, 05:14 AM

I unlocked a duron with nothing more than a pencil and a magnifying glass. Just be careful not to cross the bridges.

shuki · Aug 11, 2002, 05:50 AM

the pencil trick won't work on xp's. the bridges need to be filled.

I unlocked my xp1600 on the second try. First try I had some multipliers but not all. And I had the same problem as you as first with getting the super glue under the edge of the tape. Had to clean it all off and start over many, many times heh. But acetone and a q-tip cleaned mine up every time. The acetone will remove the super glue. The second time around I made sure the edge of the tape was firmly pressed down and used a needle to apply the super glue (stuck the needle in the tube or placed a bit of glue on needle then applied to L1 bridge) Once filled I shaved (gently shaved, really, be careful here with the razor part...) the mounds off. I masked, filled, shaved and then repeated this same process 3 times. Each time waiting 2-3 minutes before removing the tape and using a blow dryer to speed the curing process. Wide open now with full multi options. Good Luck Z!

Vaporizer · Aug 11, 2002, 08:01 AM

I used clear nail polish to fill the gaps, much easier to remove then super glue.

SpiderMAN-PL · Oct 26, 2002, 06:49 PM

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Originally posted by Vaporizer
I used clear nail polish to fill the gaps, much easier to remove then super glue.

My way to unlock my Athlon was simple.
In the laser cuts on L1 bridges you must put thermal grease - cheapy silicon compound, and next step was L1 bridges connecting (painting) with GLUKON (you can buy this in auto parts shops - this is for repairing back car window heating) and that's it!

Here you have link
http://www.ocaddiction.com/articles/howto/xp_unlock/

dipstick · Oct 27, 2002, 07:38 PM

I recommend getting this kit http://www.highspeedpc.com/Merchant2...tegory_Code=OC for only $11.99 and following the very easy instructions inlcuded. No way you can mess up with this and it's easily cleaned up if you need to rma the cpu or something.

skastel · Oct 29, 2002, 10:11 AM

The best guide I've found so far is this one from Tom's Hardware Guide.
Here's the link

RIV@NVX · Oct 29, 2002, 03:26 PM

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Originally posted by skastel
The best guide I've found so far is this one from Tom's Hardware Guide.
Here's the link

Yeah, there is movie included too. They really did nice work with the whole thing. Once I get all that stuff, I will do the unlock too.

Zarathustra, which XP do you have? AGOGA? AGOIA? AROIA?

JavaFox · Oct 29, 2002, 04:51 PM

Fill in the gaps with a crayon, close the L1s with conductive ink.

reno · Oct 29, 2002, 09:15 PM

1) Beat with hammer

2) Solder the entire thing

3) Laugh at yourself for following my directions and wasting your processor.

Oct 30, 2002, 02:55 AM

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Originally posted by JavaFox
Fill in the gaps with a crayon, close the L1s with conductive ink.

Isnt crayon made outa wax ??
What happens in really high temps ??

BTW my XP2100+ is the brown one......any difference with the newer green ??

Smoothdrive · Oct 30, 2002, 03:23 AM

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Originally posted by reno
1) Beat with hammer

2) Solder the entire thing

3) Laugh at yourself for following my directions and wasting your processor.

Ok done that..now what do i do

reno · Oct 30, 2002, 10:18 AM

Steps 4-6 are just repeating steps 1-3....on your face! hehe

Hey, I did this unlocking stuff on that old duron of mine...whoa, it runs at like 850mhz now...sweet

JavaFox · Oct 30, 2002, 12:48 PM

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Originally posted by GREEKRAGE
Isnt crayon made outa wax ??
What happens in really high temps ??

BTW my XP2100+ is the brown one......any difference with the newer green ??

The L1s don't get hot. The only difference between the green and the brown chips is age. The green ones are newer. As such, they might have come from better batches (read: AGOIA, AGOGA, etc), but there is nothing intrinsically better about green CPUs.