Mutipliers locked? - Tech Support Forums

iNeb · February 21st, 2003, 07:31 PM

I got a Epox 8RDA+ and a XP2100 Tbred B from new egg, but whenever i change the mutipliers to anything but default and save it clocks me at XP1500

But i can up the FSB all the way up to 250 FSB if i wanted to.... (Not that crazy)

jp22382 · February 21st, 2003, 08:05 PM

what is the multiplier locked at? just adjust the fsb so that:

(fsb)x(multiplier)=1.73ghz

xp 2100+ runs at 1.73ghz

then it will show up correctly in windows

i believe if you make the fsb 133 it will be correct

iNeb · February 21st, 2003, 08:10 PM

I just want to know if it is locked...

On some of the bridges it had black surroundings

jp22382 · February 21st, 2003, 08:17 PM

yeah im pretty positive the xp chips are locked, there are techniques floating around the web on how to unlock them

iNeb · February 21st, 2003, 08:37 PM

But i heard the TbredB XP2100 comes factory unlocked

EndobioticChaos · February 21st, 2003, 09:00 PM

I know at least some of them come factory unlocked. If you don't mind pulling the CPU, take it and look at the L1 bridges. If those have the little laser cuts it's locked. If the L1 bridges are NOT cut, then it's most likely unlocked, even though the bridges aren't connected.

That's the way my 1700+ came, and it's unlocked.

iNeb · February 21st, 2003, 09:02 PM

I believe they had no lines between them.. And the major bridges had black surroundings..

Removing my heatsink is my worst nightmare. Mostly the fact i don't know how to clean it off, ect..

Plus, i don't care about mutipliers, since i can just up the FSB, right? And i won't be overclocking it over this 2.1Ghz i got it at, even though i could handle it...

EndobioticChaos · February 21st, 2003, 09:05 PM

One other question... what multiplier do you have it set at, and what multipliers were you trying that put it down to 1500+ speed?

Edit: The reason I ask this is because I can set the multiplier for my 1700+ anywhere from 5 to 12.5, but if I go up to 13 it drops my CPU to 11x 100 for 1100MHz, regardless of the FSB speed I have set. 11 is the default multipler for my CPU by the way. So my guess is, you're trying to set a multiplier that's out of it's range, and so it drops it back to the default multiplier (which I'm pretty sure is 13) and drops the FSB to 100, thus giving you the 1500+ speed. I don't know what the actual MHz is of the 1500+ so I can't say for sure.

iNeb · February 21st, 2003, 09:09 PM

I have it on default, and i was trying anything above 13 (default)

14 x 166 ect, any time even if i set it to 25, still goes down to 1500

EndobioticChaos · February 21st, 2003, 09:12 PM

Yep. Try a multiplier lower than 13 and see what you get. My guess is those will work just fine.