hawkquawks

I have seen people use bios batteries to replace the cap but i have never tried this myself, generally speaking the cap only holds power to keep the correct time for a short period of time, several hours, normally for transporting to a lan party, or a power cut, it was never intended for long term storage. I am not sure whether using a bios battery will extend this time, it should do, considering i have turned computers on weeks after being disconnected and the bios time was maintained. TBH for what it's worth if you're running a recent soft mod, just remove the old one, clean the board and reassemble, it might be worth inspecting the other caps and giving the console a good service while at it IE thermal paste ETC, the soft mod will update the time on boot via the internet, replacing it seems too trivial.

I know this thread is a little old now, but hopefully the tip will come in useful, when I softmod and upgrade my HDD I always keep the original hdd for redundancy use in the event i don't null the HDD. if you're still running the original HDD, I would seriously consider upgrading it to something allot newer. YouTube provides loads of videos showing you how to clone a HDD. The last of these consoles to come of the production line was in 2005 making the newest of these 16 years old with the majority being much older near 20 years old. the average hdd life span is 5 years, meaning the original consoles hdds are very much on borrowed time. 1 out of 3 OG xboxs i receive had dead hard drives.

Hi saw this forum and felt like it's worth joining. I have been into modding these consoles for many years as a hobby. I currently own 5 OG xbox's My main xbox is the xbox crystal modded with the 1.5 board replaces with a version 1.1 board, 1tb hdd, and blue leds for the controller ports. it's also running rocky5s Xbmc4gamers. my other consoles are mostly experimental, with one of them being being made for the US market, but some how in the UK, manufactured November 2001 and converted to a 240v PSU, possibly making it one of the oldest still working xboxs here in the UK, also converted to pal. I hope to learn allot from this forum and perhaps share my knowledge also.