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Would you mind sharing your model of the motherboard? I'm going to have a go at designing a new case, and it'd save a lot of measuring. Cheers.

For some bizarre reason, I assumed 'GPU temperature' was referring to the GPU temperature... What a strange thing to call it. In that case I have no idea what difference it made to the actual GPU temperature, but the GPU cooler was much cooler. I think I'm going to have to try this again, with temperature probes attached to the coolers, as I'm starting to question my own sanity now, because it should definitely have made a noticeable difference.

The port was definitely enabled. I pulled it from a DVD drive I forgot I had installed until I had to burn a BIOS file. (mad how DVDs are resigned to history!) I'll get round to sorting it. I haven't done a reinstall of Windows for a few years. It's probably well overdue.

I was doing HDD swaps on the OG, and noticed the GPU cooler was getting quite hot, so I decided to draw up and print a shroud to keep the chips cool while I worked on the boxes,and came up with this: It made quite a difference to the temperatures, especially the GPU. It was only a temporary measure, to cool the GPU while I had the box apart, and when I tried to fit the drives back in, neither would fit, so I decided to have a go at making a shroud that would fit with the drives installed... Nightmare! Those things are really close to everything. I printed a few designs, to try to get one to fit perfectly, and I finally managed a couple of designs that allowed both drives to fit perfectly, but it meant losing the ramp to the GPU cooler. This was the first one: This one meant there was a little bit of cutting involved on the DVD cradle, so I designed another, which I won't post, because neither of them worked worth a shite. The one in the picture dropped the CPU temp by about 1 degree at idle, while the GPU temp stayed the same. The gpu cooling would have been much better if I didn't have to lose the ramp in order to fit the DVD drive, so I'll probably make one for my DVD drive-less box, but what an absolute waste of time! Although the original one did work well

Cheers Dave. It seems the issue was with my PC. I installed Fatxplorer on another one and it's working fine. I'll get round to looking into the problem this PC is having... eventually.

I'm sad that you banned them, because I'd like to have had the chance to respond, but I'm glad that one of you knows the difference between you're and your

It was. I've tried attaching the (unlocked) drives from 3 chipped boxes now, and none are recognised by Fatxplorer. It may be because it's a beta version I'm using. I'll try another version and see how it goes.

That's another story. I got a copy of Fatxplorer and installed it, and it's not recognising the FATX formatted drives. It's telling me there are none attached, so I'm stuck with FTP until I can look into the problem.

I've just removed 4 chips from an old board, to test my hot air thing, and I'm going to have a bash at fitting them to a 1.2, but my eyes have seen better days, so wish me luck!

I came across some relatively cheap OLED SPI 20x4 displays... which should work straight from the Open Xenium (is that possible?), and ordered a couple But let's talk about finding an old but unused Xecuter 2.6 in a box in a cupboard. It has the switches but no wires for the switches, so you hard wire it, and it boots to the FlashBIOS! So you spend approximately 6 - 8 hours finding a DVD burner, hooking it up to your PC (you know you're getting old when you realise your DVD burner is 10 years old!), finding a blank DVD-R disc that doesn't look like it was used as a coaster for the past 15 years, loading a dummy file and a BIOS file, and finally getting it to flash. Then you go to reboot the box, but the box has other ideas, along the lines of "Yeah, I don't think so!". So you spend far too long wondering if you flashed the wrong BIOS, before you realise that your E, F and G partitions are now, for some unknown reason, EMPTY! So I've just spent the last way-too-long watching progress bars, but It's finally back to where it was, albeit with a mod chip I only wanted to install to see if it worked. Which leads me to my next gripe... FTP clients! Filezilla... baggashite! "Too many connections" skipping files, disconnecting. Cyberduck... even worse CuteFTP... not as bad but slower than an old xbox. I went through a load of FTP clients before I remembered the one I'd installed many moons ago... WinSCP. So I downloaded and installed the newest version, and not a single failed transfer in over 1TB... and it was free! \ So if you're looking for an FTP client that actually works, instead of one that makes you want to exterminate kittens... Edit to add: I just found an old DuoX2 that I think I must have replaced with the Xecuter 3 that I have in my 'used' box. I doubt I'll be using it again, so it'll probably be going for free in the not-too-distant, if anyone wants it and wants to cover the postage from Ireland.

I certainly will once it's finished, but it'll be a while. This was only a prototype, and there are a few bits I'm not 100% happy with, so I have to make a few alterations, as I'm a bit OCD about things being right. The buttons arrived for it today. I ordered them with RGB LEDs but they've sent green ones, so I have to play the waiting game until new ones arrive from China. The jewel LEDs are working now. The patterns are selectable from the 'eject' button. I just need to create some decent patterns.

Run bodge wires from an unfucked point.

Cheers for the reply, Dave. It wasn't factory sealed, which is why I thought ...fcuk it. I only paid 50 quid for them when the 360 was released, so I really don't care, and just before I read your post, I ordered an OpenXentium on ebay, so I guess I've answered my own question. I might even remove the X3 chips from the two chipped boxes, and replace them with the Xentium chips, as it seems the X3s are selling for silly money (one has a Xapt3r). I also just discovered I have an Xecuter 2.6. Wish I'd found that before ordering the Xentium. I'm not really bothered what chip it has, so long as it works.

I recently came across a four OG Xboxes in a cupboard. One of them was literally brand new... until yesterday For some strange reason, I decided to softmod the box and install a larger HDD, so I now have a softmodded 1.6 xbox with a 2TB drive, with 8 hours of uptime from new. I don't know what I was thinking when I did it, but the empty bottle of Hennessey probably explains it. Anyway, I've done it. It's no longer a spanking new old xbox. It's not a softmodded xbox, with 8 hours of use, so... is it worth fitting a chip, or should I just go and hang my head in shame? (yeah, WTF was I thinking!) Your thoughts? (expletives welcomed, accepted and appreciated).

First prototype printed. I'm going to change the design slightly to incorporate bank select switches but I'm quite happy with how it turned out. The smaller LCD isn't doing much at the moment. It's just displaying the running pattern for the Neopixel LED ring I put in the jewel, but it'll eventually display some other info, when the sensors arrive.

I used it as an excuse to buy a bigger printer. Only a 300mm one but it'll work diagonally.

I recently got into 3D printing, and went down the rabbit hole of designing my own stuff, which has been a massive learning curve. So, a bit of back story... I recently came across four OG boxes in a cupboard. Two had been chipped with the X3, one is softmodded and one has never been opened. They hadn't seen the light of day for the guts of 15 years, so I dusted them off and powered up the two chipped boxes, and they're both working fine. I'd fitted 200GB drives into them (biggest drives available at the time) and used one of them for a couple of years before a house move dictated its retirement. The second chipped box was never used. I bought it for my nephew and niece to play on when they visited but they were more interested in fishing and playing with the dog. Anyway, I digress... Fast forward to a few weeks ago, and I decided to have a mess with the chipped boxes. I've fitted 2TB drives, and I went looking for an X3CP faceplate, as these were a 'must have' thing, back in the day, but it seems they are no longer available, and if you can find one, they cost silly money. I also went looking for an LCD to complement the X3 chip, but I hit the same wall, although I did have a couple of HUGE 20x4 LCDs lying around, which were far too big to fit into the front panel of the xbox, but I wired them up with connectors to fit the X3, and they're working just fine, so I decided to have a go at designing a front panel to fit them into the Xbox. These are the LCD displays. I'm also adding a smaller LCD for an Arduino, which will monitor temperatures and control some LEDs I'm planning on fitting. This is where I'm at with the front panel. It's still a work in progress, as I'm planning to add switches to replace the bank dip switches for the X3, but I'm still searching for something suitable. The power and (ex) eject buttons are being replaced with RGB ring buttons, which will be controlled by the Arduino. Good lord... I'm 52 years old. You'd think I'd have grown out of this by now! Edit: I've no idea what happened with that link in the post. It wasn't supposed to be there and I have no idea how to remove it.

Top marks for your commitment and a job well done. I recently got into 3D printing, and went down the rabbit hole of designing my own stuff. I'm currently designing a custom faceplate for an OG box project, and to say the learning curve is steep would be a massive understatement. Well done.