Dinozzy

Hey, I just solder the D0 alternative point as well and I'm still getting error 9. Not sure if I have seen the Evox logo on the boot screen before, but it isn't showing up now at the very least. With the HDD disconnected, I'm getting error 7 instead of 8, although I assume that both has similar/same root cause of the HDD not being reached by the system. As for the modchip, it does look a little suspect from the back, with one of the soldered holes not properly filled in? i.e. the solder wasn't filled in through the hole and i could see the hole itself. I tried to add fresh solder to it, but I don't think that had really work. Perhaps resoldering the entire chip would be better, but I'll need to get the pin to do it over the weekend. Hopefully I won't botch that up. I'll update again once I have done that.

Thank you both. I'm new to soldering so I'm not exactly sure if my soldering works. I'm pretty sure my solder joints are really sloppy. However, I have soldered on the D0 point to the wire as instructed. If my soldering wasn't good enough for it to be effective, please let me know. I'm still getting a error 9 despite my efforts.

I got myself an OG xbox a couple months back. This is my first time having one, and I made sure that it was working properly before storing it away for a thorough cleaning in the future. So I set some time to strip down the xbox this weekend and got to cleaning every component. Dusted the motherboard and fan, reapplied thermal paste, scrubbed the rust from the shield, wiped the disk drive/hard dive and their plastic mount and cleaned up the case. Upon reassembly, I was disappointed to see an error code 05 appearing on the screen. A quick google session informed me that the hard drive is not "locked". However, prior to the cleaning session I had verified the xbox was still working, and that I have not swapped the hard drive at all for a replacement. Taking out the hard drive and disk drive, I tested to see if the connection was loose and discovered a new error 09. The following are the steps I have done to try to resolve the error: Steps Outcome Plugged out IDE cable for hard drive Error change to 07 Plugged out IDE cable for disk drive No change from 09 Swapped IDE connection from disk drive to hard drive No change from 09 Reseat all IDE connections No change from 09 The hard drive is spinning with no clicking sound, and the disk drive can still eject disk when the button is pushed. Being new to the xbox scene, I'm unsure if the modchip has an issue to play with the error. This is an image of it: https://imgur.com/a/CGQ1C3s From an image search, it appears to look like an aftermarket variant of Aladdin, but I'm not too sure of which version. There's a blue wire soldered to a connection on the motherboard, but the end tip is now freely dangling above it. I'm unsure if this wire has been connected before I cleaned the mobo and the disconnection is the reason for the error. Any help will be appreciated. The motherboard has a focus video chip I believe, so its revision 1.4 I believe. And the error screen displayed is pretty much this. The back of the mobo and the spot where I believe the wire has been detached from are here.