Wire Trick Mutiplier Mod To Fool ECS L7VTA?

[RQS]

Happy Joe gave a link in another post that led me to this great site:
http://www.ocinside.de/go_e.html?/html/workshop/pinmod/amd_pinmod.html (Thanks, Happy!) I think this is the solution to my problem but want to run it by you guys. Wouldn't this work on even a low-end motherboard? (I want to make it "see" an XP-Mobile as having a 13.5 or 14 multiplier.)

I'd like to upgrade my wife's two year old PC which has the ECS L7VTA V1.1 (VIA KT400) motherboard. Not a great board because it won't allow multiplier changes in the BIOS and doesn't support a 400MHz FSB. It does have limited vcore adjustment, though.

She has the PC set up just the way she wants it so it will cause grief if I swap the motherboard but I can upgrade her XP 2400 T-Bred B.

The fastest CPU this board officially supports is the 13x166 XP 3000+ Barton (the FSB 333 one not 400) and I even had a chance to test one in the system. It worked great but is a pretty expensive upgrade, $150 when the XP-Mobiles are half the price.

I also tried an XP-M 2200+ in the system and it booted up at 6x166 or 1GHz. Worked fine but of course is half the speed of the existing XP 2400+. I'm hoping the "wire trick pin mod will solve this problem.

What gauge wire have you guys tried? I was thinking one strand from 22 gauge lamp cord/speaker wire.

Thanks for any ideas!

[Happy Joe]

A lot of people take apart a ribbon cable and just use one of the fine wires out of one of the conductors, I tried it once using one of the fine wires out of a multistranded 24gauge wire. I dont think the gauge makes much differance as long as the wire and the processor pin will fit in the same hole without using too much force.
The wire mod should work even on the cheap boards as long as they support the 13x version of the 3000xp processor. It may even work on some that don't but this could be more a matter of luck than any thing else.
Enjoy!