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The Quest for unlocking

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SputNick7

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I was woundering if anyone know how to unlock the faithfull P4 canterwoods or any of the northwood's I have abought 4 extras have up for some try's. I don't want anyone say dumbass stuff like you take a hammer and crack it open click a switch and tape it back together. I have 2.4e,2.8c,old 1.9 and 2.2 for trys.

Mobo: Aopen AXC4-Max
CPU: P42.8e Oced 3.65
Ram:Corsairs XMS-4000pro 2x512
Video: Sapphire 98pro ultma ocd 405core/375mem for Doom3
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Optical Drives: Lite-on DVDbunner only 4x / 52x CD-R bunner Short ones for looks
 
I wish and I figured it out 17x200 for the p4 3.4 16x200 for the 3.2 15 for the 3.00 and 14 for the 2.8 etc except for the older models.
 
SputNick7 said:
but what make the eng so different there has got to be away
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the locking is done on the die of the cpu. there is no magic jumper or capacitor mod to unlock them, the are hard-locked within the cpu itself during manufacturing. engineering samples are just that, samples. they are given to motherboard makers and other companies for testing purposes only.
 
man that suck's oh well. And you don't want my chips there all how do i say it overclocked to hell and volt modded
 
Sorry to be an OT noob, but can you go through the advantages of unlocking on one of these chips?

Isn't 17 for a 3.4 what you'd expect?

Sorry - my main box with all my old notes and all is in pieces in my office... been 2 years since I looked at the OC stuff for P4s...

Pin
 
2dFx said:
On a side note, can P2's be unlocked?
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No. Nothing above a P133(I believe, it maybe be the P100 or the P166) can have it's multiplier changed. They were stock unlocked before this.
 
2dFx said:
On a side note, can P2's be unlocked?
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Sort of, P2's and P3's were unlocked and remarked but it is not at all easy, it involves soldering a PCB with a separarate circuit/chip on it.. The details of how never got out.

http://arstechnica.com/cpu/1q99/clocklock-1.html

Some 350mhz and 400mhz P2's were actually unlocked from the factory if you tricked them with a high/low 66mhz FSB report. (thus this setting on ABIT motherboards' BIOSs of that era) The reason for this was that Intel made some 350 and 400mhz CPU's that could run on a 66mhz FSB, so if they detected the slower bus it would be unlocked so that it could run at it's full speed, but if they detected a 100mhz FSB they would be locked... The ABIT boards let you set in the BIOS a register that would "lie" to the CPU and tell it was running a 66mhs FSB no matter what FSB you were actually running.

==>Lazn
 
Celeron .25 w/128L2 slot 1 and P2 66fsb would do this I believe...

P2 300 (I think .35, hot bastard, 66MHz bus) had unlocked multi's, so did my P2 450, lower multi's could be unlocked. didn't help, my best board would only run 115MHz fsb stable...
 
100MHz on those slow chips was like 25%... that aint bad bubba.

Like my old K6 2 450. 570 stable. K6 III+ mobile ran 600 stable, maxed out my board.
 
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