Unlocking a week 39 or later AMD CPU (2)
Eversor 31 Dec 2003

The first step is to pick the cpu and look for L5 bridges, once found the 3^rd L5 bridge from the left is the one to paint. But first, and you most surelly have a locked cpu with amd new packaging, you have to proceed to link , this article will explain the trick that has to be done to successfully mod the bridge.

I simply scratched the bridge in both sides to show the un-cut section of the bridge and painted with a pencil, ended up filling the hole with graphite in the process, but it didn't had any problem. If you use conductive paint, there were previous cases of users killing their CPUs as they filled the bridge pit with it and short circuited the CPU. I won't be responsible for this mod.

Once you have done that, it will enable your cpu to use PowerNow! Multipliers, and change them on the fly using the software - CPU MSR. You may get it here , also there's an article that explains how to use CPU MSR and changing all cpu to AthlonMP.

The PowerNow! Support will depend if your board supports or not FID_Command changing, if it doesn't, most nForce 2 don't seem to work, you shall need to edit registers with WPCREDIT.

If your mod with nForce2 is successful please post it in the forum a picture of your nForce2 PCR configuration, so a solution can be found for all nForce2.

SiS and VIA chipsets are supporting this without any problems, especially SiS´s ones, VIA´s may require register editing which is described by Petr in his CPU MSR page. The first mod I've done was on a K7S8X-E+.

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