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  2. ngine
    Should I remove any of the capacitors? They look pretty good to me.
  3. ngine
    There is indeed a mod chip in there. No idea which one it is. It does says X2 on it. The wiring looks very flimsy. Like I mentioned earlier: it currently has a Xecuter 2 bios. Any idea which settings I can use with OGXBOX Installer to flash it to a suitable bios?
  4. fuinho77 started following Prehistoricman
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  6. Bowlsnapper
    That's WEIRD. Thank you for posting in case somebody else has this odd issue.
  7. c.link86
    i mean you just break off the 2 transistors right? that's the easy part
  8. c.link86
    just curious anyone known to sell a premodded 1.6 av cable? might be useful for those who solidering skills suck
  9. GcMcM
    I installed Nichicon caps but still had 3 boot frag. Reinstalled old CPU caps and it booted. I decided to go ahead and recap the whole board. Unfortunately, still 3 boot frag after full recap. I again put the old CPU caps back in and it booted. I decided to try replacing CPU caps one by one and ended up figuring out that moving to one of the open cap locations allowed it to boot. My CPU caps are installed as shown below and it now boots, which is fortunate because I managed to damage one of the vias in testing with the all the soldering and desoldering. I'm not really sure why, but at least it boots now.
  10. Rylos
    This is a thread for flashing the xyclops on a 1.6 board, not using a modchip. You'll need to start your own thread.
  11. FrostyMaGee
    That’ll definitely make it easier for those users that don’t have the experience, equipment, etc to do the trace work. I can see a decent group of people who would absolutely find that useful if they were a relative neophyte to the og Xbox scene. I’ve always thought it’s better to do the things to gain the experience and get my hands in the devices but I know not every user feels that way nor has the inclination, time, equipment, etc to do so. This would definitely be a great route for them to use. Good work as always!
  12. Harcroft
    This is a little project I worked on from October 2024 to January 2025 with help from Skye and HoneySoakedSegull. Original idea by Siktah (he had been nagging me about this for a year). Before anyone comments or asks, yes this just transfers the solder skill requirement from the repair person to the board assembler/merchant. This isn't something everyone needs, and I think it's rather pointless, as I just do my own trace repairs. That being said; not everyone has precision soldering equipment, not everyone has fantastic magnification to do their solder work, and not everyone has the effort for traditional front panel trace fixes. Without further ado I present Hugin and Munin trace fix cards and the D0-ET board. Siktah and I entered these as an exhibition entry into Xbox-Scene Modfest 2024: https://www.xbox-scene.info/articles/xbox-scene-modfest-2024-celebrating-homebrew-innovation-and-the-modding-scene-for-xbox-xbox-360-xbox-one-and-xbox-series-x-r54/ The boards are to be used in pairs, 1x Hugin (A) board and 1x Munin (B) board per repair. all 1.0 and 1.1 boards use one set of boards, all 1.2-1.6 boards use a different set. They require a 25cm ish 0.5mm pitch, 4-pin flex cable to jump between the two boards, and you only enable the trace repairs you require on the Munin (B) board. The flex connector must be folded 90 degrees one time to for the contacts to like up correctly. The red front panel LED is the least likely trace to fail, but it also doesn't have nearby "friendly" test points either. So a wire going from the RED pad on the B board to an alternate test point on the motherboard will be required. Unfortunately some boards don't have an easy to solder test point for the Red LED, so it may be easiest to solder right to the SMC. I am currently writing up install instructions and gathering fresh board images for every board rev. Here are some early "quick and dirty" images for 1.4 and 1.6: I made the FPC connectors quite large to support a huge variety of connectors, though I do include documentation on the bottom of each PCB for the needed resistors and a compatible FPC connector. You can also use top only, bottom only, or top+bottom FPC connectors as long as you use a "reverse direction" flex cable with one set of contacts on the top, and one set of contacts on the bottom if you use top or bottom only FPC connectors. As an added bonus, EqUiNoX repeatedly requested a simple, multifunction D0 board. So alongside Hugin and Munin I designed D0-ET as part of this set. Aside from protecting your D0 point from accidental damage from pulling on a wire the D0-ET (pronounced duet) has 3 possible functions: grounding out the D0 point directly giving a larger pad to solder to, to connect to a modchip with a simple D0 pad like an OpenXenium, ModXo boards, or an X2 / X3 wire harness giving a JST-SH 1.0mm 2-pin connector to connect directly to a modchip like Xenium Ice, Xenium Gold, or various ModXo boards An earlier (less well fitting) revision of this board can be seen installed on the 1.4 motherboard picture above. I am finally learning more about git and specifically github with the release of the Skeleton Key branded USB adapters (based of xbox7887's USB adapter, with support, permission and an overly permissive license). https://github.com/OGXHarcroft/Xbox-Skeleton-Key-USB-Adapter The gerbers for all 5 of these boards are already on the Xbox-Scene discord in the Modfest channel as of roughly 6 months ago and some sellers have already started selling them. Hugin and Munin FP Trace Fix boards are also coming soon to a github near you!
  13. Bowlsnapper
    @ToxicMedz (TruHexen) Wanted to see if he could come up with a casing/mount for the front panel PCB for the chips. He did, and it came out AMAZING. That way it's not just a PCB Double sided taped to the underside of the front panel. Next up is the X-Array PCB!
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  15. ngine
    Thanks you for the reply! I know it has been opened up before, because the stickers have been cut open and there is a sticker on the bottom of an old timey modding service. I have to open it up eventually anyway, so I'll have a look and keep you posted.
  16. Bagman
    @Dizz Gaming ... I wouldnt mind getting some off you if you have some spare !
  17. Ourmuse
    I've modded this board with an Aladdin chip and I have no sound. Any ideas? I thank you for your excellent work Prehistoricman.
  18. Ironeagle49
    This post is the best! thank you all for your contributions.
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  20. Bowlsnapper
    Flashing Cerb won't brick you unless you interrupt power. It is important to determine what you have inside. Have you ever opened it up before? If not, no better time than the present! But you should know this so that you can flash in whichever way you need to.
  21. ngine started following Using OGXbox Installer 2021
  22. ngine
    Hey guys, So I bought a cheap Xbox and it shows "xecuter 2" on startup. I used a burned copy of OGXbox Installer 2021 to change and update the dashboard, which worked great. I happen to have a 2TB SATA lying around and I want to install it. But from what I could gather this would require me to flash my bios. Since xecuter 2 is limited in terms of how big your HDD can be. I have no clue wheter I have an actual chip or a TSOP (Bios Checker shows "TSOP?"). But if I choose 2.5 Flash Cerbios, shouldn't it work either way? Since Cerbios is supposed to work with both chips and TSOP. I never tried such heavy modifications to any of my consoles before, so this will be a learning experience for me either way. Any tips, things to keep in mind ect.? Can I actually brick my console if I choose a wrong setting or something? Cheers!
  23. ngine
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  24. Bowlsnapper
    I guess it's why they had the resistors there to prevent direct access from the AV port, which I assume they used for development and then added the resistors for retail production. I think that just nobody had really looked into it yet and Pre-Historic Man finally did.
  25. Rylos
    Have to wonder if they realized the debug stuff was open and that it could be flashed fairly trivially (not to discount what prehistoricman has done).
  26. Bowlsnapper
    Any Idea what the difference between the two might be yet, or still probing? Wonder why they used two...
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  28. Prehistoricman
    No luck, still working on it.
  29. MadMartigan
    Absolutely. What are you looking for? Spare parts are mostly gone, but I accept orders for full consoles. DM me if interested.
  30. Mbenj24
    I just restored the latest V1.6 with the Samsung ram that I've ever seen, 2005-07-06, 1098021-52805 serial #. Has anyone else seen a later date V1.6?
  31. rikoos
    Strange.....Anyways it works now without the tags.
  32. mariobournes@yahoo.com
    Anything left?
  33. mariobournes@yahoo.com
    Still available?
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