phrunt
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Thanks, I just did the inplace upgrade on mine and worked perfectly. Appreciated.
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Clearing up 80-wire IDE cable requirement with SATA adapters
phrunt replied to test23523's topic in General Xbox Discussion
I use ASUS cables -
Clearing up 80-wire IDE cable requirement with SATA adapters
phrunt replied to test23523's topic in General Xbox Discussion
that pin32 is not connected on either cable, some cables do have it filled in, probably more to stop people forcing the cable back the front than anything Either way, there is no negatives to using an 80 wire cable, only positives, so I see no reason for not using one. Keep in mind they're both 40 pin, 40 wires one one, the same data wires on the other with another 40 as shielding wires between the data wires to allow for higher transfer speeds without crosstalk. Xbox has the cable backwards so that the shortest length is at the DVD drive, and the longer length makes it to the hard drive further away. -
Clearing up 80-wire IDE cable requirement with SATA adapters
phrunt replied to test23523's topic in General Xbox Discussion
80 wire cables meet the specifications for automatic cable select, 40 wire cables do not. A lot of SATA adapters require this. They also have cool colour coded connectors which the old 40 wire cables don't have which is a nifty feature but we ignore this on Xbox Blue: The blue connector attaches to the host (motherboard or controller). Gray: The gray connector is in the middle of the cable, and goes to any slave (device 1) drive if present on the channel. Black: The black connector is at the opposite end from the host connector and goes to the master drive (device 0), or a single drive if only one is used. The main difference is the extra 40 wires are just tied to ground to prevent cross wire electromagnetic interference allowing higher speeds reliably, yes you can force a 40-wire cable to do the higher speeds but corruption is possible. -
I don't know if this is of any use to anyone or if different to the one already posted in this thread but I found an old HDD i hadn't used since 2015 and it had a wide icons pack on it, shared here https://drive.google.com/file/d/10rBQK5jhdig52MvmIld-m4COy6PxXA6o/view?usp=sharing
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I guess in the worst-case scenario you could just use one of these, you'll loose the speed control but at least the fan will work.
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Messed up TSOP flash EvoX splash screen than black screen
phrunt replied to SplinterCell's topic in TSOP Flashing
@nikeymikeyhas the stock hard drives required files somewhere that you can just copy over to the new drive with FatxplorerX to get you going again, I'm sure he'll give you a link. -
Messed up TSOP flash EvoX splash screen than black screen
phrunt replied to SplinterCell's topic in TSOP Flashing
I would just forget about the old stock drive, so old it's going to be unreliable anyway, now you're TSOP worked just setup a new drive with FatXplorerX, may as well upgrade to a SATA drive while you're at it and use a IDE to SATA adapter to get you going like the Startech. -
Yea, I was at the point of giving up and writing off the xbox's motherboard so I had nothing to lose Fortunately I won.
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Some Nvidia GTX video cards around the time of the Xbox when faulty used to have corruption problems at some resolutions when they developed a fault, especially the 6600 GT but carried right through to the 8800 GTX, In lower resolution they'd work fine, crank that resolution up and run something like 3D Mark and you would get the corruption. We used to fix them by reflowing the solder on the GPU. Your problem sounds a fair bit like that. That's what inspired me to reflow the solder on a Focus chip on an Xbox I had that would just go black while playing games, sometimes flicking but more often than not black. Pressing on the chip would make the signal come back, a reflow solved it completely, worked ever since.
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Yea Spear of Destiny was a Wolf 3D offshoot, similar game, but really cool.
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Does anyone know where I can get Spear of Destiny 1 and 2? I actually own the original Floppy disks for this game which I've backed up to hard drive so I don't need the WADs just the homebrew port to run them. An old favourite game of mine. Thanks in advance.
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oh wow, I guess any electronics can fail at some point, pretty weird and unlucky though. At least you got to the bottom of the random freezing.
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I have that problem with one of mine, but it's a Samsung DVD drive. It only works if the Samsung is unplugged. The Chineseium works fine in the same situation.
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Outstanding, you're a champion, what an awesome mod chip. I'm blown away.
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