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I have completely taken apart a 1.0 system and removed the clock capacitor, cleaned the CPU, GPU and both heat sinks and reinstalled them with good quality thermal paste. I intend on TSOPing this system. I know it has to be soft modded first. I’d like to solder the two points on the board to unlock write capability of the EEPROM while the system is apart. Is it okay to do this , then put the system back together, do the Softmod and finally the TSOP flash? Or do I have to put the system back together and do the Softmod before I solder the points on the board? Thanks for your help.

I have softmodded a v1.1 XBOX with a Sharp TSOP using Softmod Deluxe v5.11 and have experienced a few issues: When sending files to the XBOX via Filezilla, the system frequently freezes and sometimes restarts. This happes especially with large files. The lights around the eject button behave differently than stock. When I make changes in settings they don't seem to work. For instance, even when I set it to do so, the light around the eject button will not flash when the drive is busy. Also, even when I set the light to be green, it is green when I first turn the system on, then changes to orange while the softmod is booting then turns back to green again. When I make changes to settings in the settings menu of the UnleashX dash, they don't carry over to the settings menu in the softmod menu. I find I have to make setting changes in two places. Have you guys experienced this? Is this normal for this softmod? Which softmod do you guys prefer between NDURE and Softmod Deluxe? If I want to switch to NDURE, do I select the remove softmod option in Softmod Deluxe, then install NDURE? Or can I install NDURE over Softmod Deluxe without removing it first. (I've decided to just leave this XBOX softmodded since it has the Sharp TSOP chip which is more involved in TSOPing than the others.) Thank you very much for all of your help and advice.

I pulled the board again and found the problem. The clock capacitor strikes again. It damaged the traces controlling the lights around the eject button. The only one not damaged is the red light trace. Unfortunately repairing this is beyond my experience / ability at this time. So I'm just going to set it to use the red light for everything in UnleashX settings since it's the only light still working. Just wanted to share what was causing the problem incase anyone else runs into this. KaosEngineer had mentioned this as a possibility in one of his earlier posts and it turns out he was right.

Hi Guys. I'm new to modding the XBOX. Just soft modded a V1.1 XBOX and using Softmod Installer Deluxe v5.11. Everything seems to have gone fine but now the light around the eject button is solid orange and the eject button doesn't blink when the dvd drive is reading a disk. From what I have read, this seems to be normal after modding and I have also read about where to go into settings to adjust the lights. But what I have not been able to do is figure out how to get it back to looking stock. In other words, I just want the light to be solid green when booting up and while running, and have it flash green when the system is busy. I have tried setting it this way in settings but it doesn't seem to work. I'm not sure what I'm missing. Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated.

Thank you so much for all the information you shared KaosEngineer. It has been quite helpful. Unfortunately I haven't been able to fix the problem yet. I ran the Test LED you mentioned and the only lights that function are red; neither orange nor green worked. I'm probably going to have to pull the motherboard again and see if I can find any traces that look bad. Although I have done this twice and have not found anything just by visual inspection. My motherboard version is a 1.0 by the way. I don't know if anyone else experiencing this same problem has had any luck figuring it out, but please post if you have. Thanks.

Does L6 on the sister controller board have anything to do with the lights? I just noticed the component there is missing.

Thank you for replying and your advice. I pulled the front panel board and didn't find any loose wires or solder connections. Next I pulled a front panel board from another working XBOX that I have and tried it in the XBOX I'm working on and the result was the same; no green lights. So I'm guessing maybe it's a problem with the motherboard. I'm going to pull the motherboard and look at the solder joints under the port that the front panel plugs in to. Is there anything else you can think of that might be the problem?

My XBOX turns on and works but the green light around the eject button does not come on. The system is a 1.0 version and has been successfully Tsoped. A red light comes on around the eject button when booting with the Helen 2017 disk, but I don’t ever get a green light under normal operation. Any idea what would cause this or how I can fix it? Thanks.