I vaguely recall that when my friend did the original mod way back in the day he said he used his xecuter 2 chip or config magic to prepare the hard drive. My original xbox was being modded with a xecuter 3 ce chip. He said it was easier to do it this way because once the chip was in he could then s...

Sorry bout that. As you can see from the pic the chip labeled with the word "smooth" is the culprit. What is its significance? Ive seen quite a few other smoked pcbs and they cleared had a blown diode bit this osnt the case here.

This is the 3rd time to try and upload this photo.

I have no idea what a mast head amp is. The only thing I have done recently is attempt to power it on my pc. No sound, no spinn. My pc does not recognize it either. The latter maybe because of the fatx partition though. I have an found an exact match from a pcb vendor for $39.99US. Im uploading a pi...

my bad, I didn't see there was a spot for modding question lower in the forum. Can someone move this topic there?

Hey guys, new member here with a fairly hard problem. First though a little about me. Ive been modding xbox1's since 2003. My very first xbox1 was modded by a friend of mine I had him put and Xecuter 3 CE in along with a Seagate 160Gb drive. For years this was my only machine but then one day ethern...