L1 bridges

[FizzledFiend]

ok I am still very new to this and have many questions so i will post 1 a day to keep from flooding LOL. Today i want to know how do i know for sure my L1 cache bridges are closed. I have been able to adjust the CPU multiplier the front side buss and every freaking thing else inside of the Soft Menue III BIOS even before I did the pencile trick. Does this mean it was already unlocked? I used a Pentech #2 pencile and blackend the crap out of the bridges stuck the chip back and and cleard the BIOS. The chip was detected as a 500 UGH I bought an 800 so I set it to the default settings for an 800 loaded windows and ran it like that for an hour or so al is good. went to tweak had this baby up to 930 MHz before i started crashing Temps were always good never busted out of 36 C. ..........sorry rabbit trailed! How do I know if these bridges are closed and what does this alow me to do now if they are closed?

ABIT KT7A RAID
Duron 800@863 (had a MW4 tourney match tonight didn't need to crash)
SBLive
a vid card ;) (don't want to tell UGH!)
256 mb pc100 RAM
and the usual suspects
FOP38 Glob WIN
holes and fans all over the place

P.S. I have this huge squirl cage of a fan sitting here looking to mount it on the inside to blow out LOL!

P.S.S.
HOOT I see you have the same MOBO and have fallowed some of your post, any way to get some personal attention or heck anybody with this MOBO want to do a 1 on 1 and teach the newbie some tricks?
Thanks in advance!
OH! temps run 30 C idle 35 C after 2 hours of heavy gameing with crap vid card!
ya can contact me via e-mail for now at foxroshak@hotmail.com or on MSn messenger at some addy for passport

[Rob Cork]

Closing the L1 bridges ought to allow you to change the multiplier, nothing more, so if you could change the multiplier before using a pencil then they must have been closed. It's quite easy to tell the difference between a cut bridge and an uncut bridge, as the cut ones have a black line across like this (sorry for the poor pic :) ):