AZImmortal, thanks for the reply man. I actually did try it without the cd drive being connected and I actually got an error 11, never got the error 12 code. As for borrowing your solderless modchip, it may be of interest to me as I don't have the slightest idea on soldering anything and am not real...

Thanks Whufclee for clearing all the confusion up. Blightly I believe the hard drive was wiped out therefore the exploits aren't there anymore and without a dashboard I can't look to find out. I believe I waited to long to try to recover it and now the games will not play at all. Neuro I am going to...

Hey Guys, I don't know if this is the right place for this but I am bummed. I recently got my hands on a very mint original xbox and found out about the modding world. I decided to give the softmod a try and ended up screwing things up pretty badly. The system is trashed, I haven't been able to do a...