L3 or whatever # Bridge Repair
Try this method if you have access to good electronics repair eqpt.: Get a 12" length of 22 or 20 awg stranded wire like the kind that comes with your car stereo installation kit, strip the insulation back about 4" and unlay the twist in the wire so that you have all the strands separated. Using a high powered illuminated magnifier and some Wal-Mart reading glasses (magnifier lenses) and some scotch transparent tape, position and tape the wire strands one at a time across the L3 bridges you want to close. If you're capable of soldering the strands to the circular pads on either side of the bridge, fine, just be careful of the fiberglas core mounting wafer (the green pcb that holds the core... It ... any sucess, would seem a lost cause now, good job didn't pay for the processor i guess.
Put this one down to education, less speed and more care.
Thanks for all assistance.
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Joe.
... valid, and some would try and use multipliers over 20x.
I assume restoring this undesired track cut will be more difficult than cutting them in the first place, I also assume that I've not totally knackered the CPU since I can get this BIOS message in the first place.
Yep, closing them is a pita, but it can be done. Do you have a vom to check which are open and which are closed? Here's some that wouldn't