ChaoticAnarchyX

Funny you say that, I was wondering if I might have damaged the RAM chip underneath with too much heat (had it cranked to 600F with a Temu heatgun.) I want to see what I damaged to it to reverse what I did and get it back to working order (she's my 1st, you know how that is) and still try an upgrade it not on this Xbox one of my other 2.

I've used filezilla to transfer files on Debian and Mint to my Xbox's.

I found it and flashed it to my x2 lite..... I failed. I tried starting with the open spot next to the CPU\GPU. I made sure that there was no bridging between the pins (went over the spots a couple times with the solder wick to make sure.) The chip i was trying to put on wouldn't register with Xblast so I took it back off. I had 1 of the tiny little tan resistors somehow managed to stand itself up on one side of its pads I put that back on checked the remaining ones in the vicinity of the spot i was working on. Everything seemed tight, nothing looked burnt or anything, put it all back together fired it up and it was working. Go to fire it up about 30 minutes ago and it is unstable fragg city. I'm getting start up and shut down twice and then red/orange flashing. then I can use my dip switch to kick it back to the TSOP with Cerbios and it will hang. Then if I shutdown and startup it might do the start up and shut down routine flash of lights or get the same show Cerbios dog and hang. I compared the board to my donor board which is also a 1.0 and it did have some transistors on it that I didn't have populated on the board I tried the upgrade with which I thought was odd because I remember only two spots to the left of that open spot had transistors. But the donor board had a few more on it. I think I'm gonna set this aside and try buying new chips as opposed to using ones I got off the donor. Im wondering if I possibly damaged the chips when I took them off. I have 1 more OG that I might try it on next pending new RAM chips.

What did you do to flash the xblast to your TSOP?? I've got a 1.0 and 1.1 that use the hyanix that I want to upgrade. I looked around the OGxbox installer 2021 1.5.3 version and I couldn't find or at least locate the way to flash it. I have the time and chips to do this but I hesitate over not having Xblast on the TSOP like everyone says to.

Does this opens up possibilities to do this on regular boards 1.0 - 1.5 as well??

Gotta say I'm very impressed. I would have DOA'd it after seeing what it was pulled from. Always glad to see a system boot up after a hardcore rescue like that. And a lil sense of jealousy, I look over at my dead 1.0 board that's in immaculate and pristine condition that doesn't fire up and see this only to shake my head..... Keep us up to date with that bad boy cause it looks like with a little more chasing you could tack down that video glitching and stitch it up like new.

Is there anyway to flash this from a memory stick / Hard drive and not a DVD? I've been poking around the forums and haven't seen anyone really mention using this method. I also just installed an xecuter 2.2.lite and was wondering if i should bother with flashing this BIOS onto it as well or just to the stock BIOS.

I'm getting nothing off the blue wire, and getting 3.31 volts off the brown wire from the PSU plugwires. And have continuity on both cyan and violet fuse to PIC traces.

Im getting 0.70 volts off both sides of the PIC.... I moved my ground probe to different screws to see if it would change and it did not. Something tells me not good....

I am assuming that Im supposed to be taking the reading for the PIC with ground on the left side of the 2nd fuse above R3G4 and the point on the left side and 5th terminal down on the PIC??

Do I want the xbox plugged into the wall when i measure the ohm's? If so I am getting pulls. Not the 10k like the pictures. If im doing the right points to measure I'm getting 3.17 ohms from the power terminal that the wiring harness connects to on the motherboard to the right side of the fuse above the R3G4, and 3.11 ohm's from the right side of the fuse on the right of R3G3..

Hello everyone, I've have been sitting on an Xbox rev 1.0 mobo that had an Xcuter 2.6? (I removed it and am holding on it.) The board doesn't power on at all. A little back story on it. My wife was gifted this on a facebook forum and didn't know what the working state of it was. The reason the poster choose us was the poster said something about this would be great for someone that tinkers and gets consoles working again. They said the console worked the last time they tried it a year ago (I'm skeptical about that.) So when the wife came in with it insted of being smart about it and trying to power it up, my giddy nerdy "whats inside" got to me and I tore into it. I knew instantly that someone was in it before me as the footpads were removed and one missing. Pressing on discovered it had a Thompson drive, a 120 gig HD, and an Xcuter chip and the wires to the 3 switches they snaked through the front by Controller port 1. I never removed any of the wires, the wiring harness was soldered into the ports on the motherboard that you would normally solder them to. Everything looked fine as there was really little to no dust on anything (wife tells me the part of town she picked it up from was definetly upper scale neighborhood.) All caps look very healthy, no bulges, no rust tops. I put everything back together, pluged it in and.... nothing.... at all. So i sat on it for a few days, and in that time found a friend that just so happend to be sitting on a rev 1.0 that he was gonna try to mod back in the early days. It was missing the top cover, came with another thompson drive and its original 10 Gig HD, nothing else. I was able to swap out the board, removed both boards clock caps, cleaned up both boards (91 Isopropyl is my friend and nothing less) and horse hair vacuumed. Cleaned the power supplys, checked everything using info and referance pics from this site. I tested both power supplys and DVD drives and all work very well. One power supply is Delta and the other Foxlink. I tried the power switches of both cases and they both work no prob. Fast foward a little, I now have one beautifuly hacked Xbox and one thats sticking me in the eye mocking me to figure out. So my ultimate question to you restoration Guru's is: where should I start to get an idea whats plaguing this board from firing up? Bad/borked BIOS? All traces are clean visably, nothing looks cut into. I am not sure whats the best starting point to diagnose this as a legit DOA mobo, or can it be brought back using the right tools..

I am still totally 100% satisfied with the two i've already bought, but wouldn't mind being able to fully unlock my Xbox's potential My second one is on my 22inch insignia and that is a rev 1.2 and no sound issues of any kind. I'll keep my eyes peeled for when the next release come out and scoop one up.

Yes sir, On a Pioneer 50 inch plasma.

If anyone has issues with Xbox2HDMI producing no sound, I found a work around to get it back, though it won't have the Dolby Surround or DTS. Simply fire up the Xbox and load into the Xbox stock dashboard. Go to settings and then Audio settings. Change the output to stereo and turn off the Dolby Surround and DTS, then back out all the way to the normal 4 options on the stock dashboard. Restart amd you should now have sound. I have a feeling its something to do with flashed BIOS's not sending something from the surround out the rightway...

Just got mine in yesterday and I gotta say is: Holy frickin beautiful picture!! I have the original HD composite cords and the games looked very good by that alone, but this little bad ass really brings out the picture! I can report NO sound issues at all, sound is fully working. I tested it on a 22 inch insignia and a 41 inch Panasonic plasma and both pictures are pristine. No jagged lines or edges like people have reported with other HD cables. I ordered another one for my 2nd Xbox. Anyone on the fence about these can jump off and scoop one up knowing this probably hands down BEST replacement for your AV cables for the OGXbox.

Someone get Luis Rossman on the line and ask him how much to swap out the laser Diode??...

I would go with OGXboxinstaller2021 This Disc saved my bacon. Grab that and read up on the section on formatting drives. If you still get a wonkey dashboard after (it did happen to me) grab a movie or a game with the most recent update to update the dashboard and install it. And you should be good after that

Just ordered one myself, I'll post more when it arrives

Second that! This installer saved me from the ravages that hexen leave behind, totally clean installs and plenty of options for levels from Noob to Pro.

Dave I'm sure you've heard this before but..... YOU DA MAN Took your advice and went the long way with it. I reflashed stock bios, went through "re-softmodding" it reflashed a fresh unleashed x with no DVD option. Once I was able to boot back to a dashboard i put a 200 gig drive that I had inthe other Xbox you guys helped me with (that one I put a 120 SSD in, and is now super fast loading everything,) and was able to boot right off that drive with no issues (saves time putting game on it too ) Thanks for pointing me in the right direction brother \m/

Hey everyone, You've been helpful in the past and turn to you again. I got my hands on a mobo 1.2 and cleaned it up (Clock cap puked on some of the stuff inside but I was able to clean it all off with some 91% isolpropyl) looks like I was able to TSOP the points right. I was able to flash the EvoX 256kb no dvd bios but now it just gets stuck on the boot screen with the traditionally green Xbox Logo now blue. Did I overlook something when flashing the bios or not install the right kb size bios?? Im using the OGXbox installer 1.5.3

I dunno if it's just me, but some of your caps (C3F6, C3F10, R3F2 if im readung the board right) look bad on the tops. Anyone else see this as well??

Good to know now, I still have some hope, if Diablo and Decent and earlier 95ish games work Im sure someone with the drive and know how could get something for LoK:Soul Reaver working.... Hey I can dream right ;^)

I tried uploading a snapshot I took with my phone but it wont let me take one under 2 mb's.... I would love to find a way to make that PC Game option work. I imagine it could theoreticly play something like Soul Reaver based in just the cpu/gpu and the ram alone would be more then the minimum requirements under windows 98.. I used the OGxbox 1.5.3 installer disc with the unleashX dashbord option if that helps.