Posts by Moses2000

Quote: Originally Posted by Mr. K6 Ok, and you said that grounding VID0 and VID1 (E2 - E3 and F1 - F2), which would give you 1.388v, and it still wouldn't boot? Crap, that might mean you have a shitty chip. Try...

Quote: Originally Posted by Mr. K6 Try booting with it without the pin-mod (so that it's at 1.8GHz) just so that it's stable so that you can make sure that your Windows install wasn't corrupted by a bad...

Ok. I removed the Vid mods, and just left in the one between pins C15 and C16 (is this OK?). Bios shows the CPU running at 2.4Ghz, but I still can't boot. Windows says: Windows could not start because the following file is...

Thanks Mr. K6. I will have another go tonight Australian time and post the results (my wife and kids keep getting in the road of all of my 9300's parts...) Cheers.

OK. I have just bought a used 1.8GHz dothan 745 on eBay and tried pin modding it. I first grounded vid0 and vid1 - bios recognised the CPU as 2.4GHz, but could not boot (Windows errors). So the next time I just grounded vid2 (being the...

I know these chips are not new, but eBay has a bunch of used chips listed as item 6839843070 for US $119.88.