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  1. 1.6 CPU Caps Soldering pads destroyed

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    Posted · Edited by tjd2

    On 3/17/2021 at 9:30 PM, Paolo said:

    It's not my fault. I received the xbox in this conditions! 

    oh sorry then

    thru-hole pads are simple to bodge tho. i bodged pads on duke, which had cracked traces near the analog sticks and it works fine to this day

  4. What Modchip Is this?

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    On 12/30/2020 at 9:51 PM, xDarkMaster said:

    Thanks for the quick reply. I have another question. The other Xbox I got for spare parts has this modchip. Is it an Aladdin Xt? Is there a way to boot this other Xbox without its original HDD(the guy who sold it to me didn't include it). And btw do you think it's a 1.6 xbox? 

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    You have got a rare aladdin 4064! This Aladdin XT uses a different CPLD (LC4064 instead of LC4032) and DOES support a LCD screen!

    The chinese clones are always only with lc4032 and they don't support lcd.

    Your aladdin xt is therefore pretty interesting.

  5. Xbox 1.0 FRAGing even after modchip install

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    On 12/31/2020 at 1:06 AM, KaosEngineer said:

    Some major component checked at startup has failed: CPU, GPU, hard drive, or DVD drive. Most likely the hard drive has died or a cable is not connected well.  Disconnect all of the cables from the DVD drive and hard drive and the IDE cable at the motherboard.  Reconnect them all, power on and see if anything has changed.  

    Edit: Measure the voltage levels present on the hard drive's Molex power connector:

    • Yellow = +12Vdc
    • Red = 5Vdc
    • Black = ground reference (0Vdc)

    I am testing this xbox w/o hdd and dvd drive connected. PSU voltages are well and i tried it already with different psu. Sadly it seems, that this xbox is not going to be easy fix. i am envious of people, who have "bricked" xboxes, that are just non-ejecting dvd drive, fucked softmod, faulty hdd or bricked tsop

  6. Aladdin Xblast With a Nand-X

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    On 6/17/2020 at 5:42 AM, lilkuz2005 said:

    hey guys, i read somewhere that its possible to flash an aladdin modchip with xblast using a nand-x, i have all the parts for this but i need a pinout for the nand-x to the aladdin to flash the CPLD, can anyone help me out with this? i tried to use my old flashcatusb but i couldn't get the chip to show up.

    I am probably late, but you can flash CPLD with those cheap FT232R boards from aliexpress. You need to use OpenOCD or Openschemes SVF player (works only with svf files tho, no xsvf)

  7. Xbox 1.0 FRAGing even after modchip install

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    On 12/27/2020 at 12:11 PM, KaosEngineer said:

    If it was already FRAG'ing before the modchip install, it's hard to say what the problem is.

    Do you know what version the console is?  Edit: Went back to look - v1.0

    I believe the most common cause of fragging is a dead hard drive.

    Is there a number displayed in the upper left-hand corner of the Your console needs service screen?

    Edit: A v1.0 will not show the number to aid in determining the cause of the frag.

    However with a modchip installed, the modified BIOS should have an error number displayed on its error screen.

    The xbox does the Triple-reboot frag. nothing ever gets displayed on screen and xbox just reboots. EEPROM dump was fine when i tried dumping it

  8. Xbox 1.0 FRAGing even after modchip install

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    Posted · Edited by tjd2

    19 hours ago, SS_Dave said:

    Is it Red/Green flash or some other colors like Red/Orange or Green/Orange or possibly Green then Red flashing.

     

    Cheers

    SS Dave


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

    It always reboots three times and on the third reboot it flashes red and green

    On 12/24/2020 at 12:59 PM, KaosEngineer said:

    FRAG'ing with a modchip installed is generally a bad connection from the modchip to the LPC debug port.

    If you disconnect the D0 ground connection, does it boot the stock BIOS or FRAG as well?

    the xbox did not work before in the first place. i thought it was tsop corruption

  10. Xbox 1.0 FRAGing even after modchip install

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    Posted · Edited by tjd2

    5 hours ago, KaosEngineer said:

    Where's the modchip?  I don't see it connected to the LPC Debug port.

     

    Double check all of the soldering to the pins installed in the LPC Debug port header location.

    The modchip is a normal aladdin xt clone from ebay, that worked normally in my 1.6. I even tried flashing indbios into it. I have checked the soldering and i can say there is definitely good continuity. Only non-clean thing there is the flux residue. I'll check again if i haven't burnt the trace at the point, where it connects to the via tho.

     

    EDIT: Fuck the 1.0's filled holes. I can upgrade RAM, but i can't solder pinheader to 1.0 xbox :D

    Next time i'll install it probably with wires or something

  11. Xbox 1.0 FRAGing even after modchip install

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    So i have got an xbox revision 1.0 for parts. Inside the motherboard was pretty much immaculate with non-leaked clock cap. Sadly the xbox just FRAGged. I did lots of troubleshooting including dumping the eeprom with raspberry pi, testing it with different psu or trying the TSOP bank split trick for coma console.

    I thought, that the TSOP must be faulty so i ordered aladdin xt. However the holes on 1.0 are filled with solder and hard to clean up. In the end, i soldered each leg of the pinheader individually. It looks ugly, but there are at least pretty wet solder joints and modchips do fit in it. Sadly it still frags.

    Images:

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    I have:

    1. Grounded the bottom d0 point

    2. Grounded BT on the aladdin

    3. Tested the aladdin in my 1.6 and then reflashing it with indbios

    4.  Replaced a R7D4 resistor i accidentally desoldered

    I also remember, there was possibly a short at Q7R1 part. I fixed it, but two pins next to each other are still shorted according to multimeter. The two pins are those closest to the Q in the Q7R1 marking (left down side on the bottom side picture)

  13. A new method for unlocking and relocking Seagate HDD over the drives COM port

    in Softmods

    Posted · Edited by tjd2

    Interesting, but unfortunately EEPROM dumping of xbox is still going to be easier.

    You will get only password of the actual HDD, which is calculated also from its serial number. Different HDDs will have different code. This will not get you the HDKey itself (which is used in generating of the actual hdd password.

    This should however be good for data recovery for example from broken debug kits.

  21. deadish xbox fan spins but no light

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    Posted · Edited by tjd2

    I'm pretty sure the blown caps make CPU and GPU's power supply unstable, which probably makes it crash very quickly.

    After replacing the caps, if it still doesn't power on, there is very common 1.6 xbox problem with small transistor near Xyclops (search for it on google)

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