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Cheers Dave. I figured it would not be as easy as it should be. As I am learning I am finding that seems to be the case with the consoles lol

Just a theoretical pondering as I could not find any info on it. I know you can null a HDD key on a soft mod’d xbox so I was wondering if it was possible to null and lock a hdd using a tsopd xbox then transfer it into the soft mod’d xbox? Cheers

Thank You

Cheers, Just to confirm its the cap I have highlighted correct?

G'day guys, Just a quick one, Today I aquired a Crystal XBOX, I was under the impression they were all 1.6 but after I soft mod'd its ID'ing it as a 1.4? From what I have read this may mean its actually a 1.5 as it was manufactured in 2004. So I know I need to pull the clock cap (which appears dead anyway) But I have opened her up and thankfully no damage to the board that I can see but its a different cap layout to the ones I have pulled before. Or is this actually a 1.6 and I can leave it be? So can you confirm its this cap I need to pull out? As you can see the board is totally filthy so tomorrow I intend on pulling the cap and giving it a good blow out Cheers.

I went through this whole temp question myself a few weeks ago after reading on a website that it should idle at 30 degrees and play games no higher than 50. What I found was mine idled at 50 and went up to about 58 while playing a game. I changed the thermal paste and a few other things but when I dug deeper I found that most people seem to report higher temps more consistent with what I was getting, I found when it got to around 58 it would cool down by a few degrees and then slowly climb back to 58 rinse and repeat. That was according to unleash X anyway.... What I also found is once I fitted a digital temp monitor taking a reading direct from the heat sink it was about 10 degrees less than the dash was reporting.

Ahhh ok thank you!

Cheers, Well I downloaded the KIxxx 1.3 set Kaos mentioned. But for some reason I can not get the KI roms to FTP over! The KI2 roms transfered over no prob and plays fine on the emu. But KI fails every time, For some reason it makes a folder with the same name as the rom file but will not transfer the actual rom and tells me there is a file already there with the same name. Even though the folder is empty!! I presume thats due to it making a folder itself by the same name but I dunno. Anyone have any idea WTF that is all about?

Thanks

I already have KI-XXX just not sure how to add the roms/chds to it heh. Not tried XBMC emulation station yet but it does look pretty.

Howdy people After a friend of mine saw all my hard work on my recently acquired xbox he asked if I could mod his and turn it into a emulation machine. I of course jumped at the chance to play with this system some more and try some emulation on it that I had heard so much about! I got Mameox, Genesis and SNES emus working great on it then I discovered you can get KI working on it to (which does not seem to load in mame) Being one of my fave fighters I would really love to get this going but I cant seem to find any instructions or tutorials for its use! Anybody used this or know how to get it running? This is more about me than my friend at this point as I dont think he is bothered about KI but I would love it on my machine Cheers

Hewwo fellow Brit.

Nah that was trying to do a new install from the dvd! I was like WTF is this? I aint set no password!

Cheers, I will give that a go if I ever bother to try using it again! What a pointless feature!

I was going to try the hexen installer..... Couldn't seem to get past the password screen so went to slayer disc and installed everything in under 10 mins as a total noob.

Awesome thanks

Does he have a stock or make them?

As above really, After trying a Pound HDMI converter and finding it lacking I was looking for a OG box component lead to get the most out of these little gems. But the only ones I can see on Ebay are the £5 jobies which may or may not be shielded but prob not.... such as these: https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/273917043356 So anyone know where I can get one? Ime fine with 3rd party stuff and dont mind paying upto £20-30 but I aint paying the asking prices of the originals lol

Cheers, I am happy with how the mod came out, Wasnt sure how well it was going to work but the Cage lid does a reasonable job of reflecting the light and the White Vinyl I used on the Jewel defuses the light well. Thats cool! I do have some temp monitors on way but not so much of a worry now I have changed the thermal paste I hope. The paste change on this one went much smoother than the last!

All finished now I think, I have done the thermal paste change on the CF machine and finished installing my RGB LED's into the lid. Happy with how this turned out, Thanks all https://imgur.com/M62fXR8 https://imgur.com/jv6pHqz

Gladit aint just mine then! ile send the bugger back and stick to SCART I think.

Bit of a shame I didnt jump in this thread sooner. I got one of the pound HDMI cables through the post today and it just cuts in and out like its constantly loosing and re-finding signal Will try it in the other box and on the other TV tomorrow but I wont hold my breath.

Ahhh I thought it was odd to have a mobo temp LOL I have not noticed my "mobo" reading exceed 45 since the thermal paste change, which is cooler than before as I think the max I noticed before was 52? When I tested the exhaust with my thermal camera I was getting the same 38 read out pretty much consistently for several hours so I think its running as efficiently as it can now Just spent a hour playing Halo, Was nice to actually just play instead of monitoring and experimenting lol. Would of played longer but ya know... Life... heh Coming back to your heat sink Dave what did you paint it with out of interest? I am quite intrigued by this colour changing black magic LOL Did you just spray it black with regular paint or use some sort of special heat resistant paint? I think I am basically done mod wise with this Xbox now and will hopefully be good for another 20 years unless the caps need doing at some point

I have no idea what my GPU is running at, It doesnt show in any of the dashes I have tried. My HDD is running a nice cool 32 though surprise surprise lol

Thankfully not in Alaska but it does get pretty cool here in the UK over winter LOL. Just wet and humid atm and to be fair its been pretty hot today. This one is stock v1.1 so no additional cooling on this one and the Only other thing I have changed on it is the HDD which I have swapped for a SD card adapter, My DVD drive is also shot in this one so thats been unplugged so no heat generation off that either The other console I plan to change the paste on is a stock 1.0 which obv has the additional CPU fan. That one is fitted with a CF card adapter but has a working DVD drive. I have ordered a pair of LCD temp monitors from ebay, but they are coming from china so may be a while waiting for them..... Thats a very funky looking slim! Bit beyond my skill level though, I suck at soldering lol