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Depends on the BIOS. Generally one of mine boots the flubber at 480i then it reloads the end X box logo as the bios is read for force 480p then loads XBMC in progressive too. The patches are different and game specific really on the XBE launch like the original fixes for the 1.6 that you could apply for Panther Dragoon etc. Just get your order in, build your PCB up and test it out first and get some rest in the mean time yeah. Leave it for now while the stuff comes in.

Not a dig here obviously, but man, your OCD is making matters too complicated for yourself. Really. The EMI shielding film is really good. Various thickness available no doubt. I will tell you now the adhesive on mine never undoes itself, super sticky, even bent. I use it for heat protection too when using hot air on top of kapton and it's a sod to get off actually! The diode was tongue in cheek for the moaners, you only have to google "EMI shield ground?" to see the faff. The digital signal will not need a ground for the shield on it. 100% on that. So tell them no. Any defect to the digital signal will only be digital deviation (jitter) and it's not getting re-clocked with a crystal etc so, honestly not much you can do. I would say there's more degradation to the signal and reflection by leaving the video chip on the m/board. So summing up, you can order some shielded (no ground) if you wish to see any perceived improvement. Me I'd just use the tape on them. Copper 3M would be super fancy. Probably removing the chip would do more if it doesn't cause a frag etc.

I believe modern vintage gamer (MVG) has done a video on the 'how to' for programming and making a retail xbox into a Dev machine etc. Shows what you will need on the PC etc and is quite a good video overall for starters.

Good news at last after accident. Best of luck with the modding, gets addictive

Ohhh lordy.... you did not just ask that question lol The army of cinema/HIFI purists have stood up and marching your way haha. People argue about this to infinity. Common arguments; 1) If you don't ground it you'll gradually induce voltage in the shield. 2) Ground one end only for a drain path so to speak, grounding both can induce ground loops etc blah blah. 3) No, ground both ends so the RF can tunnel away... Me, personally, I don't ground them no. The shielding on the Lexicon (£6K+ processors) worked great, solved the issue. No ground. Generally Hi Fi etc won't ground, some do, some don't. The Lexicon used a Medical Grade switching power supply (noisy) had ground, so obviously didn't want to induce that from the chassis. If the masses that want it grounded, I dunno, run one end through a diode to ground to please them. This is an Xbox though Me I'd just shield it.

As Nemesis said, I would not fret at this point mate. Highly likely, we would hope, that one of the teams will kindly help with this if they can. There is something else I had in mind that I can't mention here currently, but it looks like Nemesis is already on that path looking at his HDMI board pcb. Hopefully the hardware performs well enough in the outset. I haven't assembled any because I have had a retinal bleed in my eye for the past year and having regular injections into the eye. Have another coming soon, ugh. So obviously looking into a scope and soldering isn't viable in that state. If I manage to do some HDMI boards I would happily donate a few to the team for development so everyone can get this.

The Cromwell is the basis. As NeMesis has said and is referring to, is that it can be very difficult getting a Bios to work both with all the board versions, the Xbox kernel, the Xenium and other chip OS as well, especially where video output and scaling is concerned. For example on a V1.0 using Xenium OS it had the bug of fragging when trying to boot Xblast from the Xenium chip. This would not happen on the other board versions. Same as the 1.6 line problem which was solved of course. These are the difficulties. Yes there are people who can code and do this, some are probably watching. I'll tell you now, more often than not, despite what you offer, or how polite you may be asking, it's unfortunate but they generally can't be arsed. It's lucky there's the Cerbios team and I would say, if the HDMI board (I have a few to assemble) can work well, then hopefully that team might offer a patch for it, which would be very generous on their part. Going opensource, in my view would encourage this.

You could just use the thick self adhesive EMI foil tapes quite easily mate on that to save yourself some money to test the difference. 3M also do two versions and a copper one as well. My older iMac was full of it inside the back of the case in true apple fashion! I've used it before successfully on a cinema processor (lexicon) that was getting some interference from a vacuum display frequency and others. I still have a large roll I use occasionally in projects for things.

Smartxx V3 manual showing connections. The connectors are the same Molex ones as per Xecuter 3. The plugs for the wires etc are also on Digikey etc or aliexpress. The bigger double row one is the double JST for the LCD, again like the X3.

Yes, removing all the shielding including the bottom can induce video problems from interference etc. There are older threads regarding this. Some boards are worse than others for being affected IIRC too. I have a V1.0 board that will not output any video over component once removed from the shielding base. Once it's back in the case, bingo the video goes back to normal. The other boards I have do not do this that I've tested so far, bit of an oddball board.

Obviously.

Yeah it was a dead link on the manufacturers site from the pic I found. If I find anything good in future for it I will let you know, since I'll only install the ones I make myself.

I've been looking for you and the company that made that appears to have stopped making it, plus I can't find a small pitch one either. I know it would be great to have something attach to the encoder so buyers could easily install it. I know it's no good being easy for you, me and others who do this kind of work and smaller, it would help a lot of Xbox fans out if there was something easy.

They gave me some daft quote for the ribbon flex at 30 off - so told em to stuff it and thought since I'd not built the HDMI boards I'd just use ribbon cable at mega fine pitch for a challenge lol So not done anything with that yet.

Was just the idea, don't know where to get them etc. Guess the best option would be to start with the pin spacing sizes... prolly .67 or half mill or sommet is it? Not looked yet myself at the encoder though soldered to them several times, not measured them or looked at the chip pdf yet. Might find an IC socket with same pitch and cut the socket up to correct lengths, soldered to a pcb and size to press on with a clamp. Might work. Pcb would have to be deadly accurate.

something like this on an internal cutout on a small pcb...

For clamping .... get your mind out the gutter lol

Hmmm nice screw hole there on 1.0 to 1.4 as well.

NeMesis, There are those pcb's with those stubby springs on the edge or face I've seen in various equipment PCB's .... the ones not unlike the small sim card springs for example. Dunno what pitch they go down to, have to ask the fab houses on that if they do it. If you had a pcb that fitted over the entire top of the video encoder, cut out in the middle with corresponding pins on sides (some for location fitting) and then a small pressure clamp over it then something like that might work as a solder-less fitment maybe. Other than that it's those spider springs which are pretty terrible really. Can't imagine 20+ row of those being reliable.

Correct. When you launch an XBE from the dash, the kernel in memory does a soft reboot, so reads the bios again. I bought the stuff ages ago before the the proverbial hit the fan so to speak with the IC market.

No, as per the BOM in the github. But I have several X3's and have also disassembled an X3CE to interchange the parts to move further with it. He has released an update to the code but I haven't recompiled the newer release 1.1 as of yet as I left the Xbox stuff for a while, so didn't bother yet. On 1.0 r3dux code I got it to boot to dash, but the code was incomplete for the XBE call back to bios function as it stood.

I have a batch of the XboxHDMI pcb's and the components I've had for a good while but not got around to doing them yet due to other reasons. I was spending so much time making openxeniums etc as well then made the Xecuter 3 r3dux clone (detailed on here). Doing some company work at the mo, but will maybe get back into this shortly.... I stopped making/selling and left the Xbox stuff for a while.

Yeah I was wanting to pick up a small CRT just for that nice retro look. The problem I found was that the RGB out from the xbox (for most UK crt tv's) is 480i, won't do the 480p on rgb. So that means you have to use the (much better) component video out from the Xbox (480p/720p) where applicable (game dependant), which then means for a CRT you are looking at the JVC and SONY range of PVM etc.... this = ££££'s So, gave up looking at those silly prices. You might find one where you are located cheaper, luck of the draw, but getting harder to find one without burn. There's a reddit crt group for gaming. Lots of pics on there of peoples setups for eye candy.

I concur. For the motherboard to boot up and give you an error screen means the problem is most likely as sweetdarkdestiny describes. Install a new hard drive and boot the installer up as he said.

Thanks for verifying that. Appreciated.