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@SS_Dave thank you so much for the quick response. I will indeed test the soldering elsewhere before I feel up to the task I've been playing around with xboxhdm23usb - that was rather a trial by fire! I couldn't get the script to work thinking there was a problem with the adaptor, turns out the script was hardcoded to only display the first 5 devices, my adaptor was 6 and the drive 7! i modified all the scripts. However, I don't think I could unlock the drive. I was getting some mixed messages, and when I finally got the virtualmachine to load, nothing was mounted so I'm guessing it was not unlocked. Learned a lot about that programme though! Buying another adaptor as the enclosure could see the drive, but I don't think it was unlocked suvvessfull, My other sabrent one would see the adaptor but not see the IDE drive (which was odd). Windows wouldn't even see it, so perhaps an issue with the adadptor. I'll see what happens with that adaptor. Question, I was thinking if the issue is the bios which it likely is- why did it become corrupt? Is this a result of the soft mod? I've never had that happened to a pc before, is there something special abot the XBOX bios which can be wiped?

Hi, hope you can all help, I've done my research, searching and have the same issue as in the other thread, but creating a new thread so that his issue doesn't get complicated. I've had my NTSC box since day one purchase, softmodded when that first became available, upgraded the harddrive. All was working fine when I used the xbox last year. Plugging it in today and I get solid green light, no video, no audio, no flubber, and no eject DVD. What I've done so far. Bought another PAL XBOX from ebay (just in case I can't fix the other one) - it's a 1.6. Swapped what I thought was the faulty DVD drive to the new xbox, it works fine. Tried the red, yellow, white cable and SCART (no image) Tried the HD component box (no image) I've inspected the board, I don't think anything as leaked, here are some pictures. Pics: I don't think any cap has blown leaked. https://1drv.ms/u/s!Aoee44V6bKCWkKo9bdQ6KcH5zzHPEg https://1drv.ms/u/s!Aoee44V6bKCWkKo-Vg7utgm8-U14tQ Questions: Is the fix at this point, to try to do the coma fix as above I'm a soldering noob, so going to need to practice that first! Is there a way of getting anything off the old harddrive? I've kept eeprom etc or do I have to try the above first as can't swap the harddrive to the new xbxox. Do I need to check the underside of the motherboard? I've not done this yet. Any help, much appreciated, thank you.