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by GeekVarietyCustoms
Sat Aug 08, 2015 12:40 am
Forum: XBOX Modding
Topic: Running Xbox Without DVD Drive
Replies: 20
Views: 56787

Re: Running Xbox Without DVD Drive

Fantastic! Thanks for the heads up on that. I really appreciate the information. I haven't done the teardown but I would image that using a 1tb laptop drive would give me enough room to put the pcb and the hdd on the left side where the optical drive formerly was. Excellent news thanks again. The w...
by GeekVarietyCustoms
Mon Aug 03, 2015 12:27 am
Forum: XBOX Modding
Topic: Running Xbox Without DVD Drive
Replies: 20
Views: 56787

Re: Running Xbox Without DVD Drive

Well good luck on the DVD cable hack, I could never get it to work. Would have been nice but really, all it would have saved me was not needing to mod a bios to run without a DVDrive. When I did my 1st 1TB slim, I found the non DVDrives bioses don't work anyway resulting in very weird problems revo...
by GeekVarietyCustoms
Sun Aug 02, 2015 8:59 pm
Forum: XBOX Modding
Topic: Running Xbox Without DVD Drive
Replies: 20
Views: 56787

Re: Running Xbox Without DVD Drive

Well good luck on the DVD cable hack, I could never get it to work. Would have been nice but really, all it would have saved me was not needing to mod a bios to run without a DVDrive. When I did my 1st 1TB slim, I found the non DVDrives bioses don't work anyway resulting in very weird problems revo...
by GeekVarietyCustoms
Sun Aug 02, 2015 7:16 pm
Forum: XBOX Modding
Topic: Running Xbox Without DVD Drive
Replies: 20
Views: 56787

Re: Running Xbox Without DVD Drive

Alright cool, I decided to try the DVD PCB extraction and it works flawlessly! The drive is a Samsung SDG-605. For anyone who reads this in the future, this is what you must do: 1. Unplug all ribbon cables and wires from the main DVD drive PCB. 2. Remove the board by pushing the release tabs/unscre...