Pin Modding E1200

[wonderlust]

Ok, A friend bought an E1200 some time ago and is running it on an Asus P5KPL-VM (G31) motherboard. He has 2Gb of the Patriot 4.4.4.12 Ram but the board has no ram voltage options so I left it running at spd settings.

The overclocking/voltage options on this board are very limited but I manage to get it prime95 stable @ 2Ghz (1.6Ghz default), FSB is 250 Ram is at 834. pushing the chip any further fails prime 95 as the ram is at it's maximum with out the required voltage boost.

He purchased a conductive pen (£10) and we did a BSEL Pin mod to take the default FSB from 200 to 266. we replaced the chip into his board, no boot. Tried a Cmos reset just in case, problem persisted :(. To make sure the pin mod was working I striped down my PVR system and swapped out my E2160 for the pin modded E1200, it booted at 2.13Ghz, a quick run of Prime95 proved that it was stable. Pin modded my E2160 and tried it in my board, booted at 2.4Ghz :D tried it in the P5kPL-VM no boot.

So it looks like the P5KPL-VM will not work with Pin modded chips. Unless anyone has an idea of something we may have missed?

[chatters]

You guys are nuts... pin modding chips :P

[wonderlust]

it's so easy it was silly not to :D

[marsey99]

ul on the other board :( im surprised it didnt work tbh.

[wonderlust]

sorry?

[marsey99]

its unlucky the mod didnt work on the matx asus board, i an surprised it didnt work as i was led to belive it was the best way around a non oc friendly mobo.

[wonderlust]

me too, seems strange my matx board works, I am wondering if there is a fault with his board and 266fsb. Might have to strip out my q6600 and see if that works in his board with no mods etc as it's a 266 chip.

[marsey99]

could be, maybe a bios flash might help it?

[wonderlust]

hmm had thought about it, will see if he wishes to keep trying

[Mul.]

Sometimes the BSEL mod doesn't work depending on motherboard. Pot luck really.

Was worth a shot anyway as it would've helped you if the motherboard doesn't automatically switch to a higher NB FSB Strap like most, although it's no use on a CPU with a stupidly low FSB wall for example.


You guys are nuts... pin modding chips

Nothing crazy about it. Easy to do, the ink is removable and it actually does wonders for those that want to overclock but can't because they have a prebuilt Dell machine or similar.

[wonderlust]

I was more surprised that a "quality" brand board would not allow it. I assume the board is comparing the Processor ID to to the FSB and as they don't match refuses to boot.

The other thing is that 1 Asus board will accept the mod, but another will not.