unlocking, your kidding right?

[hippopotumus]

you have got to be kidding me. my L1 bridges must be defective. they are about the size of the period at the end if this sentence. ya..thats it. theres NO WAY i'm gonna be able to connect them with the defogger paint. it took me 10 mins just to get the gaps filled with crayon correctly!

[Bon3thugz43v3r]

Nope, u got to connect those ba$tards and yes it takes forever, use a steady hand.:mad:

[ChillPhatCat]

That's funny I used plumbers caulk to fill my pits :p

[Akumu X]

it isn't that hard man...
lots of us did it...and me w/o any manifying glass.
It's worth it.

[hippopotumus]

i have a bad magnifying glass..unsteady hand...maybe i'll finish by tonight...ug i've had to restart 5 times already..took a break for lunch

[hippopotumus]

bah i'm an idiot..i finally did it, i took the chip outa the socket! omg it was so ez then.

[Gravity Man]

Congrats on your first unlock. I'm still too much of a wuss to unlock mine. :p

[sirtoby]

I ordered a tbred to get out of the whole unlocking deal.. ;)

[hippopotumus]

ok..i unlocked it so i thought. it boots up. but when i change the multipliers via the board, (gigabyte 7vax), it won't post. well i only tried 10.5x, maybe its just that one, but iunno. since it boots, i'm assuming i didn't mess up the unlocking. it's also 15C cooler w/ my new heatsink and some as3 so its not blowing up or anything. i thought i read that people w/ this problem needed to reset cmos..do i need to do that after unlocking?

[Deathknight]

You may need to clear cmos after unlocking. Its also possible that you did not get it unlocked. If the chip you have is a green and not a brown then there is a clear coating over the bridges that must be removed. Otherwise you will not get good contact.

[hippopotumus]

hmm..i'm not sure what color my chip was. i didn't see any coating, i'll play round and reset cmos

[bubba gump]

resetting the cmos is recommended once you remove/install a new chip.

do that and make sure ur at the newewst bios upgrade also.

those 2 things might help, good luck.

[DaveSauce]

Originally posted by Gravity Man
Congrats on your first unlock. I'm still too much of a wuss to unlock mine. :p

I'm just too lazy....:D

[PhobMX]

Originally posted by Deathknight
You may need to clear cmos after unlocking. Its also possible that you did not get it unlocked. If the chip you have is a green and not a brown then there is a clear coating over the bridges that must be removed. Otherwise you will not get good contact.

mine is an agoia y 0213 brownie, you mean i dont have to scrape the bridges with an exacto knife??

[Oni]

Originally posted by hippopotumus
bah i'm an idiot..i finally did it, i took the chip outa the socket! omg it was so ez then.

LOL!! You were trying to unlock it while it was still in the socket!?

Teh FUNNAY!! :D

I'm glad you finally got it unlocked, however. They can be a real pain in the ass :)