It's not my cup of tea, but can you please post a high res picture of the motherboard? You know, just to determine which one you have. Might be other workarounds that you can use. The pros will reply to this thread eventually

Here's a good mod, get another Xbox. Two machines will let you "play" with one and work on the other. Two machines will allow you to play LAN games between the two machines also. With two machines you can also fault find problems a lot easier. Two machines is twice as good as one machine ...

Today I finally had the chance to swap the hard drive. I have used the HexEn boot DVD to format the new HDD, and it was really easy to do. According to other posts across the board I think the best possible FTP speed is (obviously) via wired connection with a regular home network (router) and using ...

You might like this video. The first wave of it was created in Hungary at least the GPU heatsink has a fan on it. On the other hand... poor people. What a boring job.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iWQb7LGH71s

It's time for a small update. For now I decided to go with the original Controller S and a second replica purchased from a chinese website (still waiting for it). I also managed to get a 160GB Western Digital HDD (basically for free), it's WD1600AAJB to be specific. This should give me more than eno...

If it's TSOPed, flash the bios to start the game executable from the 2nd or 3rd place. If anything goes wrong, delete the game file or boot up with a recovery disk and make the necessary changes. This way your BIOS will always boot up the game if it's executable exists in the "boot sequence&quo...

budbandito720 wrote:Also the receiver's have the memory card slots so you wont be able to use them if inside xbox

I don't think I'm going to use any memory cards for the xbox, ever

How did you bridge the "solder-points"? Did you soldered them or used other easier things like pointed out in the beginning? My friend works at someplace they deal with micro electronics and stuff like that all day long, so he has a quite nice equipment at home and he did the soldering wi...

How did you bridge the "solder-points"? Did you soldered them or used other easier things like pointed out in the beginning? My friend works at someplace they deal with micro electronics and stuff like that all day long, so he has a quite nice equipment at home and he did the soldering wi...

I really want to use some sort of wireless controller with it, at least one. I was thinking of something that I can build inside the case sacrificing the first controller port somehow. I've seen this Logitech wireless controller for Xbox on ebay, but it's nearly impossible to get one in Europe, so m...

I also decided to remove the "metal grill" in front of the fan, set the speed to 34% and the CPU is at steady 52 Celsius now after 15 mins of gaming, and the board is a bit lower. With maximum speed is's extremely efficient, but really noisy so decided to go with a bit warmer but qiueter ...

I also decided to remove the "metal grill" in front of the fan, set the speed to 34% and the CPU is at steady 52 Celsius now after 15 mins of gaming, and the board is a bit lower. With maximum speed is's extremely efficient, but really noisy so decided to go with a bit warmer but qiueter X...

Just wanted to add a post about cleaning up the CPU and the GPU. With the new thermal paste the CPU is around 55 Celsius, and the board is a bit below. I played FlatOut 2 for about 15 minutes so... I guess it's okay. Will post some results later about this. One thing for sure, Microsoft used bubble ...

Wow, kudos Asbo! Thanks for this little package you provided. A bit of FTP-ing and backing up EEPROM and stuff my Xbox is now running with the new BIOS on board, yay! Right now I'm trying to apply new thermal paste but the old one is a bitch, it's like bubble gum (even smells like it). Managed to ge...

One thing to take into consideration is how the bios is setup before you flash it and add your hard drive. You do have to plan this part out depending on how big the hard drive is that you select. Hey Nex, I don't have any bigger size IDE hard drive right at this point. I've got to find one first, ...

I was kinda proactive today and went a bit further. A friend of mine lent a hand in the soldering process and connected the tiny pads on the board for me (see attachment: I forgot to make pics, so it's the previous image though, but I marked the changes he made). He also checked the connection betwe...

I also removed the Aerogel cap and that sucker started to leak. Not much, but the traces are there. Guess I defused the bomb, huh?

would you be able to take a high res shot of the lcp area to see if it has had the tsop points joined? Sure. According to this guide ( http://www.biline.ca/xbox_solder.htm#two ), I am absolutely 100% positive these pads are untouched. Still not sure which board I have, but obviously 1.2, 1.3, 1.4 o...

Thanks for the input folks. Tomorrow I'm gonna take a closer look at the board again to see which chip it has. Didn't know where or what to check, honestly. At least now I have a clue where to start

Nobody commented on my clock cap though, but I bet I should remove it asap.

Sure thing, solder is much more reliable than a piece of tape but as far as I know I need to "create" jumpers just for only a couple minutes to flash the TSOP chip. I have no intention of upgrading it over and over again so from my understanding if the chip is flashed with a new modded BIO...