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Hi all, I built an xbox mini a few years ago and designed a case based loosely on ghostavels well known xbox mini. I had it laser cut from plexiglass and it turned out ok, but could be better. I'm looking into possibly designing in CAD and making the cases but want to see if there's enough interest for it to be a worthwhile venture. I've attached some pictures of my original, any feedback or suggestions would be great. Currently it uses the breakaway part of the controller cables for controller ports, I have only used 2 on mine but 2 more can be added obviously. I also added internal wifi hence an extra cutout on the back to loop a small cat5 to an internally mounted wifi pcb, this could be omitted or the wifi pcb could be directly soldered to the ethernet port (I wanted to retain the port). There is also a small window for internal IR dongle, again this can be omitted. The 3 smaller "holes" are for hdd act LED, Power LED and network activity. Again optional. You would need to do the pico psu mod and have some aftermarket cooling for cpu etc (I used Iceberq 4 pro's) Face plates could be any colour, same for the side/back pieces. Also doesn't have to have the xbmc logo engraved Thanks

Now it will be easier for future upgrades to that XBox because you've got the "latest" version of the Xenium OS and you have a BIOS on the modchip to support many terabytes of drive space.

Ok, I used the 'evoxm8.137'.bin, then re-formatted from scratch with Hexen! Halelujah, it finally worked! (pity I forgot to back up my game saves on the memory card, but I'm just relieved the nitemare is finally over and I can quit bugging all you guys!) Thanx to all of you for all the brilliant advice!

Found this over on Xbox-HQ. This is for updating the firmware. Using Flash Fxp you are going to transfer the file you downloaded (recovery.bin) to your "E" folder. Once transferred you will boot to the xenium os and from the menu select "Recovery Mode" once selected it will automatically find the file and update itself, also it will turn it self off. There has been reports of xbox's freezing up and people waiting up to 10min or so before shutting them off, I would give it at least 5min if it happens to freeze, mine did not freeze and it only took about 2 min. tops. When your machine turns off simply turn it back on and you should be updated with v1.1, if not simply try again. One thing you will want to do is turn the instant boot feature on. "Configuration" > "Settings Menu" > "InstantBoot" just press "A" and it will change it to ON. I would turn "Quick Start" off in my experience when leaving Quick Start on and instantboot on the xbox fragged.

yes they are for the firmware, go to https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1cjyjBbca9SXrSdevbAkP2r1GdW49GSE5 (thanks to xbmcmodsforxbox) download a bios (evox m8) load it to your c partition and see if you can flash it using the xenium flash menu.

yea im glad everyone loves the google drive

some other thoughts regarding RAM: N64F said he soldered 8 Hynix RAM chips to a Xbox motherboard (other than 1.6 rev obviously), does it mean that there is posibility to install some other chips other than the stock ones which came in Xbox-es? maybe the MCPX rom just checks the RAM chip's speed only? HY5DU283222AQ family datasheet will try to buy HY5DU283222AQ from here Sure N64Freak, it's very interesting, please do.

REPORT: I have 2 boards, ONE which was used for the overclocks, and TWO which was not touched until now, both with 1ghz CPU. Board ONE was clocking to NVCLK 315mhz, FSB 158mhz, so I decided to overclock board TWO, but it was stuck at NVCLK 270mhz, FSB 140mhz, anything higher just froze the Xbox. The first thought was, the need to replace capacitors, so all the caps from board ONE were desoldered and put on board TWO. Even after this, board TWO was showing the same exact problems, no changes. Then desoldered the additional RAM chips from board ONE and soldered to board TWO - same thing, same problems, can't clock higher. The last attempt will be to desolder the remaining 4 stock RAM chips from board ONE and solder them in place of stock RAM chips on board TWO, so all the RAM chips which were on board ONE - will be planted to board TWO. other notes: - same PSU used for both motherboards - additional cooling powered by outside source (not from Xbox motherboard) - only SMD capacitors were not replaced, most of them are near the video and network connectors, and only one near the MCPX chip - both boards are 1.0 rev - was overclocking only FSB and only NVCLK, both ways the top speeds were same as if they both were overclocked simultaneously expectations: - to place all the RAM chips from board ONE to TWO and see if the RAM chips are the reason of this issue any thoughts? ps. Can anyone try the overclock on a stock Xbox with 733mhz CPU?

Mine is the NTSC version, can't remember the title id but it shouldn't be the hatian friendly version.

With the overclocking tool, I managed to get 280mhz on the gpu and 158.3mhz fsb which is 1660mhz on the cpu (I did both overclocks at the same time). I couldn't push any higher on the cpu and I know the gpu at 290, the xbox freezes up on boot. My xbox is a v1.1 with the x3cp mod with the 1.4ghz cpu replacement and the 128mb ram upgrade. So far the only thing I tested was Goldeneye on N64 emulator and the game so far at the start, there is almost no performance hit with 720p with the overclocks. I'll test some more stuff if anybody wants to know the performance of any other emulators or whatever. Maybe I'll test my other 1.4ghz xbox which is a v1.4 with that different gpu and see what I'd get.