Well. I took off my HSF and it was a total mess. Thermal compound all over the place. I spent hours cleaning my CPU. I put it back in cause I don't have this stuff to connect the L1 bridges. A pencil won't work cause there are small gaps between the L1 things. I give up. Maybe I will buy some of that conductive shit later.
but really i used a pencil to unlock a duron, but maybe it's enough different from xp? and btw. i had to really rub the pen quite hard and several times against the cpu before it started working and unlocked the lock.
I hate those gaps. I could use a pencil if I didn't have them. I will have to buy some of that conductive stuff. It's called Conductive Grease right? I only have to figure out how they call it over here. Maybe I will try welding it.