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  1. 11 hours ago, bulkchart32 said:

    can u try some that have heavier damage but u know they have previously worked? the new laser i used would read a disk that was in really good shape but not any that had a decent amount of scratches. the reason i ask is because if u have good success then, i'm gonna try another laser swap.

    Unfortunately I dont have any with heavy damage I can confirm worked previous.

    I do have one game that has heavy scratches that came with the last xbox I picked up but I have no idea if it works as I never tested it.

    Its fifa so I am shocked I never binned it already tbh lol

    Personally I would say if it works leave it be and just play games from the HDD.

    I only wanted the DVD drive working so I didnt have to swap drives when using slayers disk :)

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  2. Well I managed to get it done this morning with some help from my Wife :)

    Operation laser change was a glowing success and I now have a fully working DVD drive again so I now have 2 out of 3 working :)

    We also managed to repair a Xbox controller that had the broken cable fault, It was touch and go as I had to cut the connections to the board further back than I would of liked and ended up having to chop the cable past the ferrite core to get to the good cable but again 100% success so I am feeling pretty happy with myself LOL

    EhuaPW5.jpg

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  3. Well the laser arrived yesterday, It is indeed brand new.

    No idea if it will work but I will attempt a repair this weekend.

    the Laser replacement itself is a easy task for me, Soldering the 2 shorting blobs off is more of a challenge so that is where I will need the most luck!

    My soldering skills are poor to say the least....

  4. Well I went down a slightly different path in the end.

    You may recall I have another xbox with a knackered laser which is a philips drive.

    Anyway when I was looking for thompson lasers I stumbled across a brand new laser for the philips.

    its from a company called zedlabs which I have brought loads of stuff from in the past so I ordered one.

    Its not arrived yet but I will update if I get it going.

    Zedlabs do a pretty reasonable 3rd party controller for the xbox to if anyone needs some, They also do drive belts etc.

     

     

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  5. I may as well tag a Q on the end here 😛

    i have aquired another broken xbox FOC (They breed so fast! I have gone from 0 to 4 in 2 months!)

    it was a easy fix to get it running again but it has a non functional Thomson DVD drive in it.

    I might try the pot adjustment just to try and get a little life in it to read a mod disc but if not I was wondering does anyone know somewhere in the UK I could buy a laser assembly or 2?

  6. On 8/30/2020 at 8:50 PM, Benur75 said:

    Hello,

    please take some time to clean the board, the clocxk capacitor has already leaked. Use IPA, first remove the board from case, to properly clean it.

    bye

    Dont worry I gave it a pretty good clean with IPA.
    The machine in general was absolutely filthy (pic did not do it justice) Thankfully the acid leakage was minimal but the dust was stuck to the board pretty good!

    I also replaced the thermal paste for the CPU/GPU.

  7. I copied the indbios.cfg over last night but it does not seem to make any difference to the system booting.

    So I have opened it up just to have a look what in in there and noted the following 3 lines:

     

    DASH1=\Device\Harddisk0\Partition2\evoxdash.xbe
    DASH2=\Device\Harddisk0\Partition2\nexgen.xbe
    DASH3=\Device\Harddisk0\Partition2\avalaunch.xbe

     

    Obv I dont dash 2 or 3, But I was wondering if I should change dash 1 to be partition 1 instead of 2? C drive is partition 1 correct?

    Could I delete dash 2 and 3 to save confusion? Or maybe even set dash 2 to the default MS dash?

  8. 8 minutes ago, SS_Dave said:

    Press the Back button to select the different folders

    All my builds now have XBMC4Gamers as the only Dash and I set it to auto load the user that you create.

    You put the 4Gamers on E: drive in place of XBMC so E:xbmc

    You put the Games in F:Games or G:Games

    Apps in E:, F:, G: Apps folder

    Emulators in F:, G: Emulators folder

    Homebrew in F:, G: Homebrew folder

    And XBMC4Gamers will find all you stuff

    Then edit the ind-bios.cfg file on the C drive to change the default dash.

    DASH1=\Device\Harddisk0\Partition1\xbmc\default.xbe

    Now you Xbox will load directly to XBMC4Gamers.

     


    Cheers

    SS Dave


    Soft modding is like masturbating, It gets the job done but it's nothing like the real thing.

    I had a look on my c.

    I dont actually have a indbios config file at all.

    is there a default one I could copy over?

    I assume the config file specifies which bios/dash to load?

    If I power on with a tap it trys to load the normal MS dash (which obv fails) but if I hold power for 2 secs it loads the indbios and loads evo x dash.

  9. 17 minutes ago, SS_Dave said:

    I like the look of this better

     

    Games Menu

    IMG_20200905_044650.jpg.497bf091f10ffe985cc40e170b29ece4.jpg

    Emulators Menu

    IMG_20200905_045323.jpg.e8c239060ee3a6416e0640f0d13f99eb.jpg

     

    There is also a Apps, Homebrew menus.

     


    Cheers

    SS Dave


    Soft modding is like masturbating, It gets the job done but it's nothing like the real thing.

     

    That was part of the problem, I couldnt find the emulators or apps menu 😛

     

  10. 4 minutes ago, SS_Dave said:

    Using file explorer can you locate the evolution X folder?

    What do you mean?

     


    Cheers

    SS Dave


    Soft modding is like masturbating, It gets the job done but it's nothing like the real thing.

     

    I just preferred the more simplified layout of the others.

    I found it harder to find what I was looking for on XBMC4gamers.

  11. 14 minutes ago, SS_Dave said:

    You will have the iND5004 BIOS then.

    There is heaps of skins for the evox dash but have you looked into the XBMC4Gamers?

     


    Cheers

    SS Dave


    Soft modding is like masturbating, It gets the job done but it's nothing like the real thing.

    I did, but I just couldnt get on with it.

  12. 5 minutes ago, SS_Dave said:

    I was just thinking as there is 2 Ind BIOS's a 5004, 5003, the 5003 has some bugs in it.

    and possibly the config file need to be set to launch the UnleashX dash.

     


    Cheers

    SS Dave


    Soft modding is like masturbating, It gets the job done but it's nothing like the real thing.


    Not sure, But it was the Ind Bios you recommended to install when I first got it so I assume you advised the 5004 at the time heh.
    Are there any nice skins for Slayers Evo X 2.6 dash coz by heck its ugly LMAO.
    Also is there a way I can edit the contents of the Menu to get rid of the stuff I dont need on there? Trainers, Run from DVD etc?

  13. 3 minutes ago, SS_Dave said:

    I was just thinking as there is 2 Ind BIOS's a 5004, 5003, the 5003 has some bugs in it.

    and possibly the config file need to be set to launch the UnleashX dash.

     


    Cheers

    SS Dave


    Soft modding is like masturbating, It gets the job done but it's nothing like the real thing.


    Not sure, But it was the Ind Bios you recommended to install when I first got it so I assume you advised the 5004 at the time heh.
    Are there any nice skins for Slayers Evo X 2.6 dash coz by heck its ugly LMAO.

  14. 1 minute ago, SS_Dave said:

    You could try something like HDD raw as that would make a ISO file that could be use to make a new exact copy of what you have now.

    What BIOS are you using on the Xbox?

     

     


    Cheers

    SS Dave


    Soft modding is like masturbating, It gets the job done but it's nothing like the real thing.

    Well I swapped out the SD reader into my other xbox as the DVD drive in the SD one is knackered.
    Not sure what bios thats running on though, The usual xbox is running ind bios though.

  15. Well i got it running again, it was defo a dash issue.

    I used the slayer disk to install the Evo X dash as default and it works fine now, Interestingly though if I try to install unleash X which is what I was using before it goes to a black screen after the start up sequence :s

    Dunno what thats about so went back to Evo X.

    Now I have the SD card running again I was wondering is there a way to make a backup of the Image using my laptop so if it ever goes weird or corrupted on me again I can just restore the image?

    Cheers guys.

  16. 1 hour ago, SS_Dave said:

    There is a rebuild option on slayers.

     

    Cheers

    SS Dave


    Soft modding is like masturbating, It gets the job done but it's nothing like the real thing.

    Thanks Dave will check that out :)

    no idea how its happened unless the SD card has failed but for a brand new samsung I would hope not!

  17. 13 minutes ago, SS_Dave said:

    The drive has failed completely or for some reason the boot files from C drive are missing. Also check all the power and IDE connectors are plugged in fully

    Yes Slayers is what I would use, when you go to load the install disk have it in the DVD drive and power cycle the Xbox.

     


    Cheers

    SS Dave


    Soft modding is like masturbating, It gets the job done but it's nothing like the real thing.

    Is there a option to repair or is it a start from scratch jobby?

  18. 5 hours ago, SS_Dave said:

    As far as I am aware the iND config file should be on C drive and the X2 config is on E: drive.

     

    If the Xbox is locked on the IND bios white screen for more than 180 seconds then the hard drive has a problem and try using a install disk to repair the hard drive.

     


    Cheers

    SS Dave


    Soft modding is like masturbating, It gets the job done but it's nothing like the real thing.

    So its likely a drive issue then,

    how do I repair the drive with the slayers disk?

    Prob wont have time today but plenty of time over the weekend :)

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