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11-16-01, 11:04 AM
I tought of this before when I tried an alternative way to unlock my Duron. Maybe it sounds a bit wacky but I know it worked for me for a while. Read on!
You need a little piece of tape and some conductive silver paint. In the centre of the tape you cover a little square with silver paint. About the same size of all the L1 bridges together. Now, when the paint is dry you just put the tape on top of the L1 bridges so all contacts touch the little square of silver paint.
OK, now I hear you scream: Shortcut!!! Yeah, but now comes the tricky part (really, there will always be at least one). With a scalpel or razor you make some cuts between all the separate bridges, removing the tape between them. What remains are some very, very small strips of tape with a conductive centrepart right on top of the contacts.
I guess it’s kinda like the trace tapes, but this one is almost for free.
It is no harder to perform than most other methods I’ve read about and I know it works. I’ve tried it with a duron (no gaps between the contacts) but I used probably the wrong tape. It came off a few days later (maybe because of the heat?) and since there was no real need at that time I left is as it was and unlocked the chip the usual way. But now with the AMD’s XP you need to bridge the gaps between the contacts and that’s easily done with little fragments of tape. I can’t try it because I don’t have an XP, but when I’ll get one I know what to trie first :)
You need a little piece of tape and some conductive silver paint. In the centre of the tape you cover a little square with silver paint. About the same size of all the L1 bridges together. Now, when the paint is dry you just put the tape on top of the L1 bridges so all contacts touch the little square of silver paint.
OK, now I hear you scream: Shortcut!!! Yeah, but now comes the tricky part (really, there will always be at least one). With a scalpel or razor you make some cuts between all the separate bridges, removing the tape between them. What remains are some very, very small strips of tape with a conductive centrepart right on top of the contacts.
I guess it’s kinda like the trace tapes, but this one is almost for free.
It is no harder to perform than most other methods I’ve read about and I know it works. I’ve tried it with a duron (no gaps between the contacts) but I used probably the wrong tape. It came off a few days later (maybe because of the heat?) and since there was no real need at that time I left is as it was and unlocked the chip the usual way. But now with the AMD’s XP you need to bridge the gaps between the contacts and that’s easily done with little fragments of tape. I can’t try it because I don’t have an XP, but when I’ll get one I know what to trie first :)