Laptop Drive in Original Xbox Problem
Posted: Tue Oct 21, 2014 3:23 pm
Hey guys
So I am working on my own original Xbox laptop, and I have hit a snag. I planned on using an optical drive from a laptop, because I saw that people had done this before. I first saw someone do this in this video (with a Toshiba SD-R2512)
The creator of the video states in the description which particular optical drive he used, so I made sure to get the same one. I was aware that I would need an adapter to go from the 40 pin ide connection to the 50 pin pata optical drive connection, so I made sure to purchase that. Naively, I thought it would be as easy as plugging the power cable and ide connector into the adapter and the optical drive would work. When I try to turn on the Xbox with the optical drive attached I just get a red green, red green light error (the Xbox doesn't shut down just flashes red then green). My guess is that I need to find certain signals on the pcb's inside the drive, specifically the tray open/closed and disc in/out, signals then connect them to the yellow wires from the dvd power connector at the back of the motherboard, but I am not absolutely sure. I found a good tutorial on doing this here
http://www.command-tab.com/2005/04/12/d ... dded-xbox/
But the tutorial is talking about a desktop size optical drive, not a laptop size one. I don't know how I could have the laptop optical drive apart and use a logic probe while ejecting and closing the drive to find the signals. It just doesn't seem like a possible thing to do, since the laptop optical is so small and you don't have access to the pcb's while the tray is closed. If anybody else knows anything more than I do about this please let me know. I have already tried messaging the two people that I know of that have successfully pulled this off, but no reply yet.
So I am working on my own original Xbox laptop, and I have hit a snag. I planned on using an optical drive from a laptop, because I saw that people had done this before. I first saw someone do this in this video (with a Toshiba SD-R2512)
The creator of the video states in the description which particular optical drive he used, so I made sure to get the same one. I was aware that I would need an adapter to go from the 40 pin ide connection to the 50 pin pata optical drive connection, so I made sure to purchase that. Naively, I thought it would be as easy as plugging the power cable and ide connector into the adapter and the optical drive would work. When I try to turn on the Xbox with the optical drive attached I just get a red green, red green light error (the Xbox doesn't shut down just flashes red then green). My guess is that I need to find certain signals on the pcb's inside the drive, specifically the tray open/closed and disc in/out, signals then connect them to the yellow wires from the dvd power connector at the back of the motherboard, but I am not absolutely sure. I found a good tutorial on doing this here
http://www.command-tab.com/2005/04/12/d ... dded-xbox/
But the tutorial is talking about a desktop size optical drive, not a laptop size one. I don't know how I could have the laptop optical drive apart and use a logic probe while ejecting and closing the drive to find the signals. It just doesn't seem like a possible thing to do, since the laptop optical is so small and you don't have access to the pcb's while the tray is closed. If anybody else knows anything more than I do about this please let me know. I have already tried messaging the two people that I know of that have successfully pulled this off, but no reply yet.