greentea

I have ordered some other things like GBA case, fans, and LCD from china (aliexp) and most of it came 4-5 weeks. So its not as bad. Almost back to normal I think. I did ebay for these chips and I just haven't used ebay since I was a teenager (same time frame).

Thanks for the advice. Glad to hear I'll be able to format the drives. Now it's just the waiting game on getting the modchips. China of course.

Hey Guys, big fan of modchips that started back on the original Xbox days. A friend of mine did my system and been doing every console since. I actually bought 2 more original xboxes over a decade ago thinking i was going to do more with them. Not until now i decided to get to work on them again. First main issue is both of them are missing the HDDs. So I'm wondering would I be able to plug in an IDE (250gb) drive and boot to an older Hexen after I install the modchip to format it? Or can I even boot the system without a HDD to atleast see something? Didn't want to take any risks over it, already waiting 10 years.