How can i determine if.....

[SoLDneR]

My barton 2500+ is locked or not,its because i saw my serial :AQZFA 0342 TPMW,some say its unlocked and some locked.Its not install yet.Is there a way to determine PHYSICLY if its lock or not ???

Thanks

 

[JaY_III]

its a week 42
and that stepping both comes in locked and unlocked flavour.
With only 1 way to tell what one. Test it.
Sorry but thats the only way to find out

 

[Mr.Rotory]

Wish you all the best.........

 

[Andy71600]

well... now people have found a way to unlock them. So if you end up buying it and it is locked, you still have hope.

 

[Mr.Rotory]

You can how? Link?

 

[TheTick]

How can you unlock them? I am also interested in a link.

 

[TheTick]

any link? or just some bull?

 

[c627627]

http://www.ocforums.com/showthread.php?s=&threadid=244237 end of thread

Doesn't appear to work with nForce2 mobos yet.

Basically, the method involves heavy modding of the locked chips.

AMD Mobile CPUs have this 'PowerNow' feature which allows voltage and multiplier changes in order to preserve battery life.

Besides modding the desktop CPU into a mobile CPU, you need to have motherboard/chipset/BIOS support for PowerNow which not all boards do.

You also need to boot into Windows with your locked multiplier and the FSB with which you can boot into Windows but you cannot change the FSB inside Windows.

So with this method, remembering that MHz Speed = [FSB] x multiplier,

FSB can be changed only before you boot into Windows but
multiplier can only be changed after you boot into Windows.

...with limited success so far.

 

[L337 M33P]

I can change my FSB in Windows on an nForce2 Chipset...

http://www.cpuid.com/

Other utilities exist such as SoftFSB for other chipsets which people use to overclock Dells.

 

[c627627]

Yeah but the people who can change the multis inside Windows can't change FSB inside Windows, it appears.

You can't change the multis inside Windows with your NForce2 like they can on the other hand too.