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I'm looking on Ebay right now and they're selling for $300-$500. Good job on that find!! I've seen a lot of stuff online (old ps2s, xboxes, gamecubes) that no one cleans. It's like they dig it out of some dusty crawlspace and list it as is. The fact that you could get it for $170 and make it look mint is pretty damn cool. I probably don't need to tell you but careful with those controllers. I had to order 5 of them before I could find one that was in decent shape. Most have worn joysticks (can't even aim because there's no grip), sticky buttons, or just general damage. People list them on Ebay as "tested, working, very good" and you get it and it's like "wtf dude?". I sent 4 back. Ended up paying $35 for the good one. You need some mint controllers to go with that mint box. Keep that thing forever my man.

That's good to know, thanks. I bet that Halo Edition is real nice, congrats!

Jesus, for 50 Euro maybe I'll have it shipped from there. I'll try hardmod and maybe I can find a cheap on at a thrift store here, non-modded, for like $20-30. The only thing I haven't tried is a new xbox, which is probably what I should have done in the beginning. I just figured the components failed or something; who knows. I'll report back in a month or so.

It is. I'll tell you what. In the near future I'm going to buy a hardmodded xbox off ebay and report back. Maybe a month or two, depending on price. I hate failing at things and I'm at wits end with this thing. Maybe if I buy it pre-configured that someone else setup I won't have issues.

SSD had no effect. Honestly I don't have the patience anymore. Hours upon hours diagnosing and testing. More money spent. More sanity lost. Reverted to factory default xbox. No softmod. Green boot screen. Playing Halo 2 like a charm. Even threw the old IDE HDD in there. If it goes, it goes, but at least I'm playing the system now rather than messing with it. Take care everyone. Thanks for trying.

I found a link for reference on another site. I posted this last year. https://www.emuxtras.net/forum/viewtopic.php?f=187&t=7441 NOTE: The Seagate 2TB is no longer in the XBox. I have this instead: Western Digital Internal 2TB HDD 3.5” SATA/64MB Cache 7200 RPM(WD2003FYYS) The WD is a CMR drive. I'm wondering if, since the drive is full, seeking is the problem. I'm going to order a cheap $240GB SSD for like $20 on amazon and test it out, since this should remove physical delay with the HDD arm moving.

Thanks for the replies! I'm glad I checked back; new interest. I have the 80pin, 40 wire Chimeric Systems cable that I specifically ordered from this site (although I don't see it listed anymore): https://chimericsystems.com/ I have a startech SATA adapter (the good, red one I spend like $25 on). ** I noticed problems got less when I changed from the 2TB Seagate SMR HDD to a Western Digital HDD (can't remember the model number, and don't want to take apart xbox again. The SMR was DEFINITELY an issue, although fixing this didn't completely fix it. I ended up throwing the 2TB Seagate drive into my PC to use as a generic HDD but it was so slow, and I was past the return window, that I ended up just throwing it out. I will never buy an SMR drive ever again, even for regular use. They are that bad. I was thinking maybe two things were the problem: 1) Some sort of power issue? If I'm using a 3.5" drive will that cause the system to allocate more power to that device and underpower the GPU/CPU? 2) Seek times between reading/writing data (rather than reading off the Disc and caching the drive, it has to read from the drive as well as cache during gameplay). With 2TB filled to the max maybe the seek times are longer because the arm has to move all over the place to read and write data? The only thing I haven't tried is using an xbox that isn't 1.6 or buying a hardmodded one. Maybe in the near future I'll buy a 1.0 with an aladdin chip and try that out. I successfully modded a PS2 and run games flawlessly off the HDD, so I know this type of thing is possible on other systems. Maybe I just have to buy a pre-built system that already works and then never mess with it again. I see hardmodded 1.0s on ebay all the time. If I had bought that in the beginning I would have actually saved money, since I ended up buying everything twice trying to diagnose possible component failure. I'm just pissed because I spent all this money and it still isn't acceptable, and I don't want to just write it off but don't want to end up spending more money to accomplish nothing.

It's been a year now and I thought I would return and see if anyone replied or had similar issues. The system is still unusable. I ended up filling the 2TB HDD with games, emulators, ROMs, videos, and other things just to test it out. Games still lag and chop, videos don't play right, ROMs played from emulators on the system play slowly and are unplayable, making the overall system a massive disappointment. The only thing I haven't tried is buying a new OG Xbox and doing this all over again, but the time and money sink just aren't worth it unless I can get a cheap-ass one for $20 on craigslist or Ebay. I spent a few hundred dollars on this thing and it has let me down. I ended up throwing this thing in my closet, forgetting about it, and buying a PS3, PS2, PS1, N64, Sega Genesis, XBox 360, and XBox Series X and have been having a blast with all of these systems. Some are modded and some aren't. I would like the OG Xbox to work properly so I can play some Halo CE and Halo 2 like the old days, but the frustration isn't worth my sanity and I now have other systems that kick so much ass. The original videos I posted on my other threads are no longer viewable (the hosting site must have deleted them) and I do not have them on my HDD any longer, so new people to the thread can't see what the problem was. Oh well. I don't give up on things often but when I do it's because nothing seems to work and it's not worth the time + effort to continue. It's not worth re-filming and re-posting.

Just an update. Replaced the mobo and nothing changed. Voltages were normal on old one, but thought I would try anyway. I have so far tried the following: Replaced 80 pin cable Replaced SATA/IDE adapter Replaced HDD Replaced TV/monitor Replaced HDMI cable and tried component to TV Replaced motherboard I'm out of ideas. I have zero patience for this anymore. The nostalgia trip is officially over because games run like dogshit. I have grown frustrated and am throwing this thing in the closet and will be buying only current electronics with support from now on. No more internet tutorials for me; they straight up lied about how cool this thing is and how easy it is to setup. Thanks to everyone that tried to help me.

Set to Master. I need to buy a multimeter to test the voltages. In the process of moving and lost my last one. Will repost in a few days when it arrives from Amazon.

Yes, the 8/10GB one. Seagate ST310014ACE https://www.ebay.com/p/69768248 I think I know what the problem is. The StarTech adapter has a power adapter built into it. I was getting random reboots during just sitting on dash earlier. When I went back to IDE I wasn't getting that problem at all. I'm wondering if it has something to do with the power output of the adapter that powers the drive. When I put my new Seagate 2TB drive into a usb/SATA adapter to xfer files from the PC (much faster than FTP), I had zero problems. Speed was okay, transferred 2TB over the course of about 10 hours. When I put the adapter on the drive it's almost as if it's not getting enough power and it's slowing the transfer rate, which is why the IDE drive has zero problems at all playing games from it. I tried a new adapter, but didn't have much luck. Trying the third and final SATA/IDE adapter before I call it quits... just trying to figure out what one to buy next. Probably one without a power supply and will power the SATA drive manually. Thanks for all your help thus far.

I just tried my 2nd 80 wire, 40 pin cable and nothing changed. I spent so much money on this system (mint condition box, the adapters, the games, the hdd, the cables) it's pissing me off that it isn't playable. Please see updated post for reference:

I'm getting horrible lag spikes that makes the system unplayable. I bought Mechwarrior. It plays fine off the disc. Zero problems. When I load it onto the HDD it is unplayable. It's the same with any game I load onto the HDD. Here is an example of the booting sequence into Mechwarrior, both with and without lag. Lagging boot: https://streamable.com/yohvt8 Normal boot: https://streamable.com/71a6ne The lag goes on throughout the game, particularly when heavy combat is involved. Halo is even worse. You can see from just the boot logo that the FPS is like 10. Why does this happen? I even noticed that when shutting the system completely off and powering it back on, the green xbox animation will lag at times. Watch the very end where it begins to stutter. Sometimes, however, it doesn't stutter at all. Lagging: https://streamable.com/vdoktf Normal: https://streamable.com/5220rt I read that the green Xbox animation at the very beginning is algorithmically driven (not off HDD or ROM), so if it is lagging what does that say about the xbox? Is it a cpu/gpu thing? After spending a few hundred $ getting this system up and running I couldn't be any more disappointed. Current specs:Xbox 1.62TB Seagate Barracuda: https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B07H2RR55Q/ref=ppx_yo_dt_b_asin_title_o09_s00?ie=UTF8&psc=1 StarTech IDE/SATA adapter: https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00EOJNGC2/ref=ppx_yo_dt_b_asin_title_o09_s00?ie=UTF8&psc=1 24" 40-pin 80-Wire Ribbon Cable: https://www.ebay.com/itm/274553744014 Things I've tried: New 40 pin cable New HDD New SATA/IDE Adapter Putting old IDE HDD back in via 40 pin able (works with much less lag, but still noticeable) I'm at a loss and any/all help would be most welcome. Thank you, -R

Please see new post with better explanation:

Got it working... I had to patch the games and I finally found the right script. It was a problem with 480p on version 1.6. Still dealing with major lag though. I can't figure this out. Makes me motion sick it's so bad.