Wire mod

"Tony Low" wrote in message
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Hi all,
Last night, I decided to do the wire mod on my TBred B 2100+. After
removing the CPU, I noticed that it is not as easy as I thought it was.
Are
you guys super human?!?!? I didnt really pay much attention to those pins
on
the CPU until now; they are SO SMALL and grouped very close to each
other!!!
How did you guys manage to wire those small pins with wire, taken from a
drive cable (not to mention how small and thin the wire itself is).. 8-(
I guessed I am going to get a tweezer and a table magnifying glass in
order
to do the mod. Beside this, are there any other good suggestions? Thanks.

Tony



when you say 'wire those small pins' do you actually mean the pins or the
socket ?

i used a pair of snipe-nosed pliers and a erm... thats all. didnt need a mag
glass :-)
i bent small (about 5-6mm) lengths of single strand wire almost in half then
they simply drop into the holes. except my pc was stood upright when i did
it which made it a bit trickier.

have fun and most of all - GOOD LUCK

Hi Chris,
Yeah, I was talking about exactly wiring those pins on the CPU... I
think I will try your method instead. I was just wondering who would really
go through the method of wiring those pins.

"CHRIS 159" wrote in message
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when you say 'wire those small pins' do you actually mean the pins or the
socket ?

i used a pair of snipe-nosed pliers and a erm... thats all. didnt need a
mag
glass :-)
i bent small (about 5-6mm) lengths of single strand wire almost in half
then
they simply drop into the holes. except my pc was stood upright when i did
it which made it a bit trickier.

have fun and most of all - GOOD LUCK

On Wed, 09 Jul 2003 10:04:24 -0400, Tony Low wrote:

Hi all,
Last night, I decided to do the wire mod on my TBred B 2100+. After
removing the CPU, I noticed that it is not as easy as I thought it was.
Are you guys super human?!?!? I didnt really pay much attention to those
pins on the CPU until now; they are SO SMALL and grouped very close to
each other!!! How did you guys manage to wire those small pins with wire,
taken from a drive cable (not to mention how small and thin the wire
itself is).. 8-( I guessed I am going to get a tweezer and a table
magnifying glass in order to do the mod. Beside this, are there any other
good suggestions? Thanks.

Well, there's always raising the FSB. Board I just got doesn't support
multiplier or vcore adjustments, but it does support FSB settings by 1 up
248MHz. default 13x166-200 sounds fine to me. For vcore I guess there's no
choice though. If the MB wasn't already mounted in the case I'd probably
solder in a dip switch for this, but for now I'm just going to drop in one
wire and raise it to 1.80v. Just waiting on some ram for it now.

--
Abit KT7-Raid (KT133) Tbred B core CPU @2400MHz (24x100FSB)
http://mysite.verizon.net/res0exft/cpu.html

"Tony Low" wrote in message ...
Hi all,
Last night, I decided to do the wire mod on my TBred B 2100+. After
removing the CPU, I noticed that it is not as easy as I thought it was. Are
you guys super human?!?!? I didnt really pay much attention to those pins on
the CPU until now; they are SO SMALL and grouped very close to each other!!!
How did you guys manage to wire those small pins with wire, taken from a
drive cable (not to mention how small and thin the wire itself is).. 8-(
I guessed I am going to get a tweezer and a table magnifying glass in order
to do the mod. Beside this, are there any other good suggestions? Thanks.

Tony

Forget wrapping the pins. Put the wire in the socket, much easier. I
used one strand of speaker wire. Is your aim to run a multiplier over
13x?

http://www.beachlink.com/candjac/Workarounds.htm

"Tony Low" wrote in message ...
Hi all,
Last night, I decided to do the wire mod on my TBred B 2100+. After
removing the CPU, I noticed that it is not as easy as I thought it was. Are
you guys super human?!?!? I didnt really pay much attention to those pins on
the CPU until now; they are SO SMALL and grouped very close to each other!!!
How did you guys manage to wire those small pins with wire, taken from a
drive cable (not to mention how small and thin the wire itself is).. 8-(
I guessed I am going to get a tweezer and a table magnifying glass in order
to do the mod. Beside this, are there any other good suggestions? Thanks.

Tony
I agree that dropping a wire in the socket is about the easiest mod
but I needed a magnifying glass. Too hard to count pin positions
without it

You'll need patience if you want to remove the wire. It's hard to grab
even with needle nose pliers once the wire settles into the holes.

"phsstpok" wrote in message
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"Tony Low" wrote in message
...
Hi all,
Last night, I decided to do the wire mod on my TBred B 2100+. After
removing the CPU, I noticed that it is not as easy as I thought it was.
Are
you guys super human?!?!? I didnt really pay much attention to those
pins on
the CPU until now; they are SO SMALL and grouped very close to each
other!!!
How did you guys manage to wire those small pins with wire, taken from a
drive cable (not to mention how small and thin the wire itself is).. 8-(
I guessed I am going to get a tweezer and a table magnifying glass in
order
to do the mod. Beside this, are there any other good suggestions?
Thanks.

Tony
I agree that dropping a wire in the socket is about the easiest mod
but I needed a magnifying glass. Too hard to count pin positions
without it

You'll need patience if you want to remove the wire. It's hard to grab
even with needle nose pliers once the wire settles into the holes.
I use a piece of clear tape. Press down on top of wire or wires and pull up
gently to remove.

I am afraid I have another question about this mod. I have read and re-read
the instruction on the wire mod's web page but getting pretty confusion now
regarding about the vcore mod. Here is my question, by using the wire mod,
is it still necessary to do the modification on the L11 bridges? This is
what I try to avoid.
I tried the mod last night, using the method of dropping wire into the holes
in the socket, and that's easy... Have no problem getting the multipler I
wanted but vcore is still stuck at 1.7v although I set it at 1.8v using the
wire mod. So, I assume I still need to cut those L11 bridges in order to use
the wire mod for vcore, right? Thanks again for the input.

"CHRIS 159" wrote in message
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"phsstpok" wrote in message
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"Tony Low" wrote in message
...
Hi all,
Last night, I decided to do the wire mod on my TBred B 2100+.
After
removing the CPU, I noticed that it is not as easy as I thought it
was.
Are
you guys super human?!?!? I didnt really pay much attention to those
pins on
the CPU until now; they are SO SMALL and grouped very close to each
other!!!
How did you guys manage to wire those small pins with wire, taken from
a
drive cable (not to mention how small and thin the wire itself is)..
8-(
I guessed I am going to get a tweezer and a table magnifying glass in
order
to do the mod. Beside this, are there any other good suggestions?
Thanks.

Tony
I agree that dropping a wire in the socket is about the easiest mod
but I needed a magnifying glass. Too hard to count pin positions
without it

thats easy - take note that theres a 'would be' hole. a postion on the
socket that could have a hole but doesnt. most of the wires go very close
to
that so theres less counting to do

Thanks for the tip, that's easy...
"Lee" wrote in message
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"Tony Low" wrote in message
...
Hi all,
Last night, I decided to do the wire mod on my TBred B 2100+. After
removing the CPU, I noticed that it is not as easy as I thought it was.
Are
you guys super human?!?!? I didnt really pay much attention to those
pins on
the CPU until now; they are SO SMALL and grouped very close to each
other!!!
How did you guys manage to wire those small pins with wire, taken from a
drive cable (not to mention how small and thin the wire itself is).. 8-(
I guessed I am going to get a tweezer and a table magnifying glass in
order
to do the mod. Beside this, are there any other good suggestions?
Thanks.

Tony

Forget wrapping the pins. Put the wire in the socket, much easier. I
used one strand of speaker wire. Is your aim to run a multiplier over
13x?

http://www.beachlink.com/candjac/Workarounds.htm

"Tony Low" wrote in message
.. .
Hi all,
Last night, I decided to do the wire mod on my TBred B 2100+. After
removing the CPU, I noticed that it is not as easy as I thought it was.
Are
you guys super human?!?!? I didnt really pay much attention to those pins
on
the CPU until now; they are SO SMALL and grouped very close to each
other!!!
How did you guys manage to wire those small pins with wire, taken from a
drive cable (not to mention how small and thin the wire itself is).. 8-(
I guessed I am going to get a tweezer and a table magnifying glass in
order
to do the mod. Beside this, are there any other good suggestions? Thanks.

Tony



I placed the wire in the Socket, was a LOT easier to do and does the same
job.
Bonus is, you can swap out CPU's easy and don't have to re-mod the newer CPU
and the CPU doesn't have to be touched at all. Just make sure the wire
strand (any thin strand from a 12v power cable etc)
is long enough that it stays in the socket and that the wire path is
straight between the holes. Just handle the wire with some alligator pliers,
should be easy to shape it and place into the socket with, place one end in
firmly first to the socket hole, then do the other,
then check that it is straight between the holes.. *8)


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