Cheers, its currently hard set to hidef. I have switches but was toying with adding vga also so not added them yet. I was going to have just a vga connector and use it for both component and vga and just boot a vga bios to switch but decided against it. Not sure of the best vga route to go yet or if...

Added component video and spdif (optical + coax)

To answer my own question you must add <navigatevirtualkeyboard>true</navigatevirtualkeyboard> to advancedsettings.xml Eg: <advancedsettings> <navigatevirtualkeyboard>true</navigatevirtualkeyboard> </advancedsettings> If you have other settings in there make this one the first setting. I had it as t...

Cheers, I appreciate your time spent on your project and shareing with us. I know how time gets eaten away with these things. It seems like 10 mins have gone and its been about 2 hours lol and there's a moaning female somewhere (although there's always the facebook argument to fall back on )

That is awsome work mate, a massive pat on the back

Cheers yeah, 1ghz would be good or 1.4ghz :) I'd try do myself but getting the time to do anything these days is a nightmare so may give N64 freak a nudge at somepoint, as that that won't be 10min project lol. I considered an SSD but wanted 1TB to clone my 1TB 3.5", i'm really happy with the to...

The subject sounds an odd request but... I have a Tendraw USB Infrared remote that allows remote power on of the xbox :) which is a bonus. The other bonus is it works on the xbox usb 1.1. It acts as a usb keyboard and I can reprogram any key to do anything a normal keyboard does (most keys are alrea...

Cheers, yeah, I install the chips myself I have a few boards already done with 128mb and a stock of chips.

Hi mate, cheers, yeah its a Toshiba TS-T633, great drive, I first tried a LiteOn DL-8ATSH and it was crap! lol

Yeah, hope you find something mate, It's not so bad now i'm using a VFD (no backlight like LCD) but would still prefer it to stay on. And with an LCD it looks crap with a bright blue background and no text

Hi mate, check out my thread on making the xbox sleeker. I used a toshiba/samsung slot load sata dvd drive. As with any pc drive you really need to get bring/modify the correct signals from the drive to interface with the yellow dvd drive cable. I first tried with a liteon slot loader but it was imp...

Looking at the top pic it looks like you've added some pretty beefy caps in there haha

Hey nice one mate, you beat me to it. Very nice install. Which converter did you get? I still have a bid on one that ends tomorrow.
What is the quality like compared to straight component?

Another, a bit crap with stupidly bright flash.

Cheers guys.
Yeah I'm in the UK.

Couple more pics

Cheers guys, obviously this ones not the finished product. I will do more day light pics of internals when I neaten cables etc

Work in progress... 128mb Ram VFD (SmartXX v2 chip) SATA 1TB 2.5" HD SATA Slot load DVD writer with custom circuit for yellow cable signals :-) Remote power on/off Built in DVD dongle remote (using port 4) USB ports 4sec boot time :-) Super quiet. Super small. Super gorgeous Todo... component/s...

I use to love playing far cry instincts on it. It helped me get rid of the first wife that's got to be worth more than a head shot!