X800 PRo Laser cut

[SNIPoR]

I have Sapphire X800pro AGP...after a long search about enabling the 16 pipeline i found that my card got laser cut.....so is it possible to connect thos two points to enabling the rest 4 pipes??

[nkcd]

I don't think it's that simple. You have to take into consideration of the thickness and the impedance of the traces. I'm too very very interest about this as I just found out that my x800pro also have laser cut. Will bring the card into the company next week and examine the cut trace. :)

[cirthix]

try shorting it, use the tape, then superglue, then conductive paint method, just like on socket A chips.

[Special_K]

there is a thread in XS somewhere that talks about this with the x800XL (not sure if it is that model) but apparently, what you do, is repair one cut, flash the bios, to get 12 pipes, then repair the other cuts, flash to a different bios and get 16 pipes working


*EDIT* there are two threads in the news about similar stuff

http://www.xtremesystems.org/forums/showthread.php?t=71234

http://www.xtremesystems.org/forums/showthread.php?t=74635

hope either of these is useful

[nkcd]

I did do the attempt with 2mil traces - closest to the 1mil trace that the card has. Doesn't seem like to be working. I think there must be other areas that distinguish the regular pro from the vivo pro than just a simple cut trace (at least for a different core (GA....5/6/9 cards)